Skoll World Forum 2020

Speakers

• Gemma Mortensen

  Delegate

  Founder and co-creator, New Constellations, Crisis Action

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

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• Sarah Shimakazi

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• Vanessa Wai

  Delegate

  Director, Community, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Zainab Kabba

  Delegate

  Associate Director for Programmes, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  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 programme development and research in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last few years, her work has focused on leadership education and developing research insights for practice. Her own ethnographic research on knowledge and power in relation to identity formation in faith-based communities provides a unique vantage point to understanding narratives of systems change in the social impact space. She is currently interested in transmedial approaches to education and examining narratives of change that gain currency in the world.

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• William M. Abrams

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  President, Trickle Up

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

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• Vishal Talreja

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  Cofounder & Trustee, Dream A Dream

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

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• Vanessa Smye

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  Director of Development, The Elders

  Vanessa has worked with influential philanthropists for over ten years and has worked in international development since 2015. She joined The Elders in April 2019. Vanessa has previously worked for a UK charity where she was responsible for major partnerships, had a key role in the launch of one of the UK's first social investment bonds and led a project to launch an insurance product to cover the needs of disabled people. Moving into international development, Vanessa worked with philanthropists all over the world to advise them on their philanthropy strategies and raise funds for research and impactful projects across the globe. Vanessa is a firm believer that influencing decision makers and working in collaboration is essential to solving some our most intractable problems. In her current role, Vanessa works with The Elders' Advisory Council and donors to secure funds for The Elders' work on peace, justice and human rights.

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• Vandre Brilhante

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  President, Cieds

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

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• Tim Cormode

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  CEO, Power To Give Foundation

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

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• Thane Kreiner

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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 Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) programs, Miller Center has worked with over 800 social enterprises in 65 countries, which have collectively impacted the lives of over 259 million people worldwide and raised more than $580 million in capital to scale their impact. Thane co-leads Miller Center’s Global Social Benefit Fellowship, which engages high-potential undergraduates in interdisciplinary action research projects that help social enterprises scale their impact. Before joining Miller Center in 2010, Thane was Founder, President, and CEO of Second Genome (previously Phylotech), a microbiome analysis company; Founder, President, and CEO of Presage Biosciences, Inc., focused on bringing better cancer drugs to market; and start-up President and CEO of iPierian (formerly iZumi Bio, Inc.), a regenerative medicine venture acquired in 2014 by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to his endeavors as a “parallel entrepreneur”, Thane spent 14 years in senior leadership roles at Affymetrix, Inc., the DNA chip industry pioneer acquired by Thermo Fisher in 2016. Thane earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1994; his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1988; and his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin in 1983.

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• Teresa Chahine

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  Marcelo Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management

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• Tara Loyd

  Delegate

  Executive Director, PIVOT

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

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• Steven Drummond

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  Executive Producer, National Public Radio

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

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• Shiv Kumar

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  Founder, Catalyst Group, Swasti

  A Social Investor, Shiv Kumar has 30 years of experience solving complex social problems in India and internationally. A post-graduate in management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) co-founded the Catalyst Group of institutions, consisting of nine entities that further the health and wealth of marginalised communities. He has incubated and supported community organisations and social enterprises. And has equally succeeded and failed. He travels extensively in India and 30 other countries for work. He plays roles as required - Advisor, technical support provider, institution builder, mentor, team leader, facilitator and coach. He is passionate about communities, collaboratives, institutions, human behaviour, partnerships, technology, governance, and being a foodie, techie and cyclist. He is the Chief Integrator of three Collabs - The Community Action Collab, the Green Health Alliance and the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Alliance-working with 500 partners.

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• Rasha Khawaja

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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 started her career at Condé Nast Publications and went on to work at Christie’s. These experiences heightened her entrepreneurial drive and after spotting a gap in the market for a way to help creatives get their businesses out in front of influential business luminaries, Toucan was born. Rasha’s passion for innovation and nurturing new talent and business continues through her role as a member of the UKBAA, and being an active member of the advisory board of Innovation RCA and the development and strategy board of the ZSL. Rasha also sits on the board of the Oxford Business School as well as the Oxford Global Leadership Council and is a Founding Ambassador on the Prince's Trust #WomenSupportingWomen Council, also working closely with both Save The Children and the International Rescue Committee. Outside of the world of Toucan, Rasha is a devoted mother and an adventurous traveller who one day hopes to conquer Kilimanjaro and to walk The Great Wall of China. Rasha is dedicated to a number of charities and sits on the board of her family’s charity, ‘The Saïd Foundation’. Toucan Ventures were proud to win ‘One to Watch – Best Entrant to the Angel Ecosystem’ at the 2016 Angel Investment Awards as well as being nominated for the Employer of the Year - Women in Finance Awards 2018 and were nominated in 2019 by UKBAA as the 'Best High Growth Female Founder' @toucan & www.thetoucanproject.com

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• Sarah Hewitt

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  Executive Assistant to Peter Drobac, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Onyeka Obiocha

  Delegate

  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 support members of the Yale and Greater New Haven communities dedicated to creating social change. Outside of Yale, Ony’s work spans community development, social entrepreneurship, and civic consulting. He recently moved from President and Co-Founder of A Happy Life, a social enterprise dedicated to creating a happier world for all, to launching Breakfast Lunch & Dinner, a design studio that aims to build social cohesion through economic and cultural development. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors Ony consulted for Special Olympics International and launched a microcosignment program in South Africa.

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• Nicole Caddow

  Delegate

  Grants Manager, Skoll Foundation

  Nicole joined the Skoll Foundation in 2019 and serves as Grants Manager. In this role, she supports the goals of the grants management team that advances the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking operations, systems, and policies. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Nicole held multiple positions at Ministry with Community - a daytime shelter in Kalamazoo, Michigan - that provides resources to underserved individuals and empowers people to make positive life changes. She also spent a year working in hostels throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, exploring and learning as she traveled. Nicole earned her Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College, where she double majored in Psychology, and Anthropology and Sociology (AnSo). Outside of work, Nicole enjoys crafting, trying new food, and catching local art and music shows.

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• Mirella Domenich

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  CEO, Instituto Dara

  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 could know their rights and act upon them to create change at their schools. Inspired by her work on reporting elections in Africa for global news media channels, she co-founded Minibus Media, a participatory journalism initiative for local citizens to produce and share their own news. The first group of independent young journalists in Angola has been created thanks to her work, which continues today. As an intrapreneur, Mirella has worked for the main media outlets in Brazil and for several citizen organizations, including Conservation International, Oxfam, Red Cross, Omunga, and Ashoka Fellow organization Redes da Maré. More recently, she led the Brazil branch of Ashoka Fellow organization streetfootballworld. Mirella holds an MA in International Relations and Development Studies, an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Management and an MBA in Human Resources Development. She is the co-author of the book “Hip Hop – A periferia grita” (Hip Hop – the ghettos rap at you) and is a member of the Civil Society Advisory Group for UN Women in Brazil. From 2017 to 2018, she worked for Ashoka Brazil, leading the team in the country. Since March 2019, she is the CEO of Instituto Dara, the NGO number 1 in terms of social impact in Latin America and 21st in the world.

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• Sam Mayer

  Delegate

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

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

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• Rosemary OMahony

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  Chair of the Board, CAMFED

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

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• Mark Reading

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  Head of Foundation, Atlassian Foundation

  Hi 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 successful career at PwC, providing valuation and strategy advice.

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• Martina Ivesic

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  Executive Administrative Assistant to the CEO, Skoll Foundation

  As Executive Administrative Assistant to Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Martina provides high-level tactical and administrative support to both the CEO and other executive office staff. Her role is multi-faceted, including planning and coordinating a wide variety of on and off-site meetings and events, managing executive office calendars, optimizing executive file organization, preparing communications reports, and maintaining contact with Skoll constituents. Prior to her Executive Administrative Assistant role, she provided similar support to the Public Engagement and Global Partnerships teams. Prior to joining Skoll, she worked closely with Account Executives developing and implementing strategic marketing concepts. In her spare time, Martina enjoys exploring the outdoors, traveling, and baking.

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• Mara Lee Durrell

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  CEO, OneVoice Movement

  Mara serves as the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and its signature initiative, the OneVoice Movement. Mara first joined OneVoice as its International Organizing Director, based in the Middle East. In that position she focused on professionalizing and expanding its grassroots work, incorporating best practices and focusing on training and empowering local staff. She previously served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and before that was Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s (CA-06) Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director. A campaign veteran, Mara has served in leadership positions on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD).

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• Liz Jarman

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  CEO, Living Goods

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

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• Lily Kanter

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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 Microsoft in late 2000 to start a family and focus her time and energy on philanthropic causes. She was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in July 2000 as part of the cover story “The New Philanthropists”. In 2002 Lily opened a baby-oriented home furnishings business. Mill Valley Baby & Kids where she met Serena Dugan in 2004 and together they launched Serena & Lily. Lily acquired Mixed Bag Designs in 2017, a company in the school fundraising space. This company created the back end infrastructure for Boon Supply Co. that launched in Spring 2018. Mixed Bag Designs in combination with Boon Supply has given back $100 million to schools and non-profits with the 40% plus giveback on every product sold. The creation of Boon Supply is combining Lily’s passion for design, technology and charitable causes.

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• Kim Woodward

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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 Deposit and Trust in Boston, Massachusetts and then at Monchik-Weber and Goldman Sachs in New York, New York. She subsequently served as a volunteer leader and a board member of community organizations committed to the education, health and well-being of women and children. For the past 20+ years, Kim has worked as a major and principal gifts fundraiser, making her avocation her vocation and successfully advancing the missions of Asia Society, Mount Sinai Medical Center, the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Save the Children, and MSI.

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• Rick Parnell

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  CEO, Foundation for Climate Restoration

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

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• Sybill Kern

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  Board member, Peter Möhrle Foundation

  Peter Möhrle Stiftung

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• Joaquin Viquez

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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 work in biogas technology. He has published several dozens of technical publications and presentations on international ground. Has worked as founder of Viogaz, a leading biogas company in Costa Rica, co-founder and former president of the Costa Rican Biogas Association, visiting faculty for EARTH University as well as consultant and high level positions for SNV, USAID, GIZ and Green Empowerment. He is currently a Founder Analyst for Deep Science Ventures working on venture creation on biomass conversion in Costa Rica.

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• Indu Balachandran

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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 sectors for 15 years. Her work in the Indigenous sector was recognised by the UTS Human Rights Award for Reconciliation. Indu has a background in finance and economics, and in gender and microenterprise development. Previously, she managed the Indigenous Social Enterprise Fund at Social Ventures Australia. She is influenced by community-led, human-centred design that creates enduring value. Indu is a musician in the Indian Carnatic tradition and a cultural producer active on various committees. Indu has produced a multilingual documentary, 'Her Inner Song', exploring gender and Carnatic music which has enjoyed national and global screenings and reviews.

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• Harriet Goss

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  Events and Administrative Apprentice, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  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, Harriet completed her A Levels in Psychology, English Language and Literature and Photography. She is loving her Apprenticeship so far and is very proud to represent Oxford University as an Apprentice Ambassador.

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• Heather Anderson

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  Chief Executive Officer, Global Health Corps

  As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact measurement activities in her roles as Senior Vice President of Programs and Chief Impact Officer. Prior to joining GHC, Heather was Vice President at Global Health Strategies, an international advocacy and communications consulting firm. She managed a portfolio of public and private sector clients, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Women Deliver and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Heather previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Planned Parenthood Global in Washington D.C. Additionally, she spent time in Ethiopia establishing a youth program for EngenderHealth. Before joining the global health community, Heather spent six years at Accenture, a management consulting firm. She holds a Mas

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• Gary Officer

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  President & CEO, Center for Workforce Inclusion

  Mr. Officer is a highly respected social entrepreneur with various C-suite positions across non-profit organizations. He served as the President and CEO at Rebuilding Together, growing operating income sevenfold while creating award-winning partnerships with blue-chip brands. He also served as Executive Director at the National Credit Union Foundation, growing the community investment fund from $14M to $370M and providing grants, loans, and secondary capital to credit unions. Mr. Officer holds degrees from Manchester Metropolitan University and the London School of Economics and completed the Advanced Management and Leadership Program at Oxford University.

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• Gary Linnen

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  Chief Executive Officer, PeerForward

  Gary Z. Linnen is the CEO of PeerForward following its original co-founders. Mr. Linnen has steered PeerForward’s programs for more than a decade, cultivating deep experience in youth development, program innovation, and organizational leadership. He has contributed to virtually every function of the organization, from designing and facilitating workshops for educators and students to fostering school, community, and funder partnerships and engaging program alumni. Mr. Linnen shaped PeerForward’s current model, which elevates PeerForward’s unique method of structuring and leveraging peer influence to achieve meaningful schoolwide outcomes. Independent research has found that the model has proven to result in up to 26% higher financial aid applications in partner schools than in similar schools without the program. His lifetime commitment to creating pathways to higher education for students in under-resourced communities also drives his participation as a member of the governing board

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• Francesco Piazzesi

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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 writing his PhD dissertation on “Sustainable Housing Microfinance Mortgage”, realized that community building and home ownership requires other components, such as social capital, financial literacy and credit instruments, in 1997 Piazzesi transformed Adobe Home Aid, a non-profit into a social business named Echale a Tu Casa. Echale´s social impact has reach 200 thousand families. The program provides social inclusion, technology and technical training, financial education, jobs creation, economic spill over and community development. At the end of 2019 Echale started to build -in south east Mexico- the first rural community that fulfils 16 of the 17 and 3D printed homes. The Echale program has received Katerva Sustainability Award, World Housing Award, National Housing Award, Clinton Global and Schwab foundation recognition and B Corp “Best for the World”

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• Faith Mwangi-Powell

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  Chief Executive Officer, Girls Not Brides

  As Chief Executive Officer at Girls Not Brides, Faith is responsible for the implementation of the Girls Not Brides Partnership Strategy, to fulfil Girls Not Brides' mission: a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men, and can achieve their full potential. Before joining Girls Not Brides, Faith served as Global Director for The Girl Generation, an initiative working to galvanize the Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation/cutting. Faith is a public health expert with more than 20 years’ experience in leading, managing and implementing complex public health programmes in Africa. Her experience includes working as the founding Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association and supporting palliative care global advocacy and services development in over 20 African countries. Faith holds a Master’s degree in Population Policies and Programmes and a Doctorate in Women’s Economic Development and Fertility Behaviour.

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• Diana Wangari

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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 scale from 3 African Countries to 6 African countries.

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• Kathara Green

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  Chief of Staff and Managing Director , Skoll Foundation

  As Chief of Staff and Managing Director, Kathara Green helps the Executive Office operate at its highest level, all in service of the Skoll Foundation vision and mission. Before stepping into this role, Kathara curated programming for the Skoll World Forum and other events, as well as supported strategic partnerships. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Kathara worked for Net Impact, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, the State Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Women for Women International. Kathara graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she focused on international development and gender. When she's not working, she loves to travel, cook, and create.

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• Daniela Cazan

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  Digital Marketing Assistant, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Digital Marketing Apprentice for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, assistant to the Senior Marketing and Communications Officer.

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• Chris Marquis

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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 Movement is Remaking Capitalism One Company at a Time. Prior to joining Cornell, he taught at Harvard Business School for 10 years, where he developed an award-winning course on Social Entrepreneurship. Chris’ teaching and research focuses on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how organizations can be designed to maximize both business and social value. He has authored over 20 peer reviewed academic articles and over 50 published business cases on these topics. His research has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association, and he has been recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute. Chris received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan, following a BA in History from Notre Dame and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Before his academic career, Marquis worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase.

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• Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld

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  Executive Director, MiracleFeet

  Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld is the CEO and co-founder of MiracleFeet, a non-profit that treats children born with clubfoot in low-income countries. In launching MiracleFeet, Chesca saw the opportunity to bring the low-cost, non-surgical solution for this leading cause of physical disability to global scale. Working with local partners, MiracleFeet has helped over 50,000 children in 29 countries access the high quality treatment they need to live active, productive lives. A common birth defect, clubfoot affects one in every 800 children worldwide. Left untreated in many under-resourced countries, it is a major cause of disability, stigma, pain, and poverty. And yet, over 95 percent of cases can be completely treated for less than $500 a child. Chesca grew up in Africa and Asia before becoming a Morehead Cain scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later earning an MBA from Stanford University. Chesca’s background in investment banking, consulting, humanitarian aid, technology start-ups, and academia helped propel her into a successful social entrepreneur. A mother of three, Chesca and her husband, an anthropologist, reside in Chapel Hill, NC.

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• Pankaj Sharma

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

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

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• CAROLINA GARCíA JAYARAM

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  Founding CEO, Elevate Prize Foundation

  Carolina García Jayaram is the Founding CEO of The Elevate Prize Foundation, a global purpose-driven nonprofit that serves to amplify social impact and empower passionate problem solvers, leaders, and innovators. García Jayaram has over two decades of experience in leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to enriching and shaping social impact, philanthropy, and culture. She is a devoted advocate for the democratization of philanthropy, increasing the visibility of change-makers on mainstream platforms to deepen their impact and the creation of pathways for everyone to take action and ignite social change. Currently, García Jayaram serves as a Member of Fast Company’s Social Impact Council; as a founding Ambassador for Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace, and Security; on the Advisory Committee for the University of Miami School of Law’s LLM Program in Sports, Arts + Entertainment Law; and as a Board member of Stanford University’s Digital Cities Projects Center.

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• Anjali Sarker

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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. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, and a New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She holds an MBA from Said Business School, University of Oxford and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Sciences from LSE.

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• Sandy Clark

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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 international Skoll award winning NGO, Landesa, and directing Grameen Foundation’s philanthropy initiatives. Now with over three decades working for local and international NGOs, my vast experience and networks has allowed me to continue this passion by expanding Days for Girls’ program reach and mission. An organization that has reached over 2 million women and girls with mensural products and health education. When not talking about periods, I also serve as a trustee for a girls school in Humla, Nepal, and read Sesame Street books to my grandchildren. Days for Girls is a two-time Girl Effect Champion, a Global Giving Girl Fund winner, 2015 recipient of the SEED award for gender equity and entrepreneurship, and a Huffington Post ‘Next Ten’ organization poised to change the world in the next decade. Visit our website at daysforgirls.org to learn more or contact me about ways to partner.

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• Amy Coughenour Betancourt

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  CEO, Cadasta

  Amy is a transformational social sector leader who has led Cadasta as CEO since June 2018, which advances land and resource rights globally, working with over 110 organizations that have collectively documented the rights of over 6.5 million tenure-insecure people across 49 countries, covering 25 million hectares of Indigenous, community, and customary land. Amy is a frequent global speaker and writer on the use of geospatial technology to achieve development outcomes for people and the climate. Amy was the COO of International Programs at the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA CLUSA); Deputy Executive Director of the Pan American Development Foundation; and Deputy Director and Fellow of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Amy serves on the Executive Board of How Women Lead’s Washington Capital Area and Manna Food Center; and was previously on the Board of Interaction, the largest U.S. coalition of humanitarian and development NGOs.

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• Zeryn Sarpangal

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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 the business side, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Achaogen, a public biopharmaceutical company focused on the unmet need of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. She also has prior experience as the Vice President of Finance & Operations at Identified, an HR data analytics company, an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, and a healthcare investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Molecular & Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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• Sam Morgan

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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 online auction website Trade Me which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006. Jasmine Social Investments fund high-performing social ventures and outstanding social entrepreneurs who are solving a basic need of the very poor. Our mission is to find extraordinary organisations and fund them. We provide advice and connections. We visit the ventures we fund and really get to know them. We actively advocate for those we fund and share our diligence efforts with like-minded funders.

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• Zach Slobig

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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 his career in journalism, he served both with City Year and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. He is a product of California’s public higher education system: Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley, BA in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude from UCLA, and he got his start at mighty little Santa Monica College. Zach is drawn to stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. He has written documentary news features and story-edited independent documentaries that have screened internationally. In 2009 he co-wrote 180˚ South, a feature film about a Pan-American adventure and the quest for conservation from California to Patagonia. Shortly after, he and his wife traced a similar path down the entire Pacific coastline in a pickup truck loaded with camping gear and surfboards. They now live with their young daughter in the westernmost sandy fringes of San Francisco.

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• Nisha Ligon

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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 science, and a passion for education. She has produced content for the BBC, the Guardian, online learning platforms, and an award winning documentary, Twiga Stars. She was formerly Head of Content at FuseSchool. She has an MSc. from Imperial College London and a B.S. from Yale. At Ubongo, she’s lead visionary, strategist, executive producer/ screenwriter, fundraiser and does whatever else it takes to get Ubongo's products made, tested and released to kids!

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• Yoni Ish-Hurwitz

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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 Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York between 2010-2014. He was a human rights officer with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council. In a different role, he supported the development of UN Women’s engagement on human rights in Geneva. He was a founding member of “Hoshen”, an NGO for the promotion of openness towards LGBTI people. He holds an M.A. in international affairs from New York University and a B.A. in business management from Tel Aviv University.

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• Yufenyuy Kevin Ngwayi

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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 rural communities in Africa through capacity building and advocacy for environmentally friendly and culturally oriented development policies. Its focus on women, youths, Climate Change, orphans and ethnic communities who are the most hit by poverty in Africa. I have contributed immensely to see that A.D.A realized its goals. For instance, members of A.D.A and I, have organized conferences, seminars, training programs, field work, workshops and door to door sensitization to drill the masses on how to conserve the environment, empower youth and women through basic skills like Welding, Much room cultivation, pic rearing amongst others in order make poverty history in Africa. Added to that, I have equally participated in a host of international and National conferences, seminars and trainings like the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul Turkey March 2009,UN ECOSOC Regular session at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York City U.SA January/February 2010 and 2011 respectively, UN-HABITAT Project Management course in Yaounde, Cameroon March 2010 and Dakar, Senegal, March 2011 respectively and the First African Urban Youths Assembly in Abuja Nigeria in July 2011, 22-10 To 22-10 2012: Participant POST RIO-POST 2015 Engagement. Organized by Stake holder forum, United Nations Environmental Program, United Nation’s Economic and Social Council at Pace University, New York U.S.A and human right research program in Morocco February 2015. February 2015, UNESCO Youth Peace workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, February 2017. A.D.A is equally of the a member of YESPEACE network that was created during this workshop by UNESC. T. All these programs has greatly enhanced my skills.

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• Yolande Baker

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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 experience is in advising governments on the development of comprehensive child protection systems. And in the NGO sector she focused on the development and implementation of evidence- based community programs. She has a strong interest in creating enabling environments for programming to happen and grow. In more recent years she has focused on supporting teams to deliver strategic national plans of action to prevent violence against children. She lives in Cape Town with her husband and two sons.

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• Yawa Hansen-Quao

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

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• Yasmin Waljee

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  Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

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

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• Wingee Sampaio

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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 women and social impact businesses. She currently also serves on the investment committee of Next Wave Ventures, a social impact venture capital fund investing in social impact early stage businesses. She co-authored “Impact with Wings: Stories to Inspire and Mobilized Women Angel Investors and Entrepreneur.” Her chapter, “Angel Investing as Self Empowerment,” aims to inspire women to use their wealth to create an impact. Wingee has had a distinguished career in the capital markets for 15 years at State Street Global Advisor, Barclays Global Investors, and Goldman Sachs & Co.

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• Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

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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 the world, from the UN Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to addressing the General Assembly at the UN in New York. He has worked locally to get pesticides out of parks & coal ash contained, as well as initiating moratoriums on fracking in his home state of Colorado. He is currently a plaintiff in a youth-led lawsuit against the federal government for the government's inaction around the climate crisis and its failure to protect their essential public trust resources. Xiuhtezcatl has traveled around the world educating his generation about the climate and environmental crisis, and has launched Earth Guardians youth crews in 60+ countries. His work has been featured on PBS, Showtime, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Upworthy, The Guardian, Vogue, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, CNN, MSNBC, HBO, VICE, and more. In 2013, Xiuhtezcatl received the United States Community Service Award from President Obama, and was the youngest of 24 national change-makers chosen to serve on the President's youth council. Xiuhtezcatl ‘s book “We Rise” was published by Rodale in 2017, and has just finished writing his second book “Imaginary Boarders” to be published and released by Penguin in the spring of 2020. Xiuhtezcatl is stirring his generation with his music and released his first EP, “Broken” and album, “Break Free” in 2018. He will be releasing this second album “Voice Runners” before the end of 2019. He is the co-Founder of a company called NOW which is mobilizing humanity to reverse the climate crisis through planting a trillion trees and scaling on the ground carbon drawdown technologies. He is the 2015 recipient of the Peace First Prize, the 2015 Nickelodeon Halo Award, 2016 Captain Planet Award, Sweden’s 2016 Children's Climate Prize , 2017 Univision Premio’s Ajente de Cambio Award, 2018 My Climate Hero, 2018 Shorty Award, Huffington Post Top 10 Movers and Shakers, Grist Top 50 Fixers, TIME Next Generation Leaders, MTV Emma Award and the 2019 Senckenberg Award.

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• William Orum

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  Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

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

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• William Gondokusumo

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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 launch in 2015, Campaign.com has worked on numerous social campaigns with local and international organizations including the US Embassy (Indonesia), WWF, Search For Common Ground and the UN. He believes in the importance of collaborations, and works continuously to bring tangible change for everyone About Campaign.com Campaign.com is a social action platform that connects organizers, supporters and sponsors who care about social issues. Campaign.com believes that everyone has their own role and responsibility to make this world a better place. As of 31 January 2021, more than 142,000 social actions haven been taken in the Campaign #ForChange application supporting 234 campaign organizers and raising 1.2 billion Indonesian Rupiah. The Campaign #ForChange app was also awarded Best App for Good 2021 by Google Play Indonesia. With full collaboration as one of their core values, anyone interested in partnering with Campaign.com can reach out at partnership@campaign.com.

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• Will Straw

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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 Organization. Will is is Vice Chair of the 'Vision for the Commonwealth' coalition which includes charities such as Sightsavers, Fred Hollows Foundation and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. This coalition has recently launched a 'Glasses in Classes' campaign to get sight tests, affordable glasses and other treatments to all school children. The coalition is advocating further progress from the Commonwealth, which has shown leadership on this issue, when they meet in Rwanda in June. Will supports a number of other campaigns and charities through his work as Strategy Director of Inc. London, a boutique consultancy which provides senior counsel on all elements of strategy, marketing and communications. Previously, Will was Executive Director of Britain Stronger in Europe during the EU referendum campaign. He has worked previously for HM Treasury, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Center for American Policy in Washington DC gathering expertise in strategy, policy and advocacy. Will has degrees from Oxford University and Columbia University where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

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• Walter Sweet

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  Sr Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  Walter oversees Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' advisory and management practice. He also leads client engagements with foundations supporting health, community development, education and entrepreneurship. As part of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' impact investing practice, he advises investors on portfolios to generate both social and financial returns. He has been interviewed by national publications including The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times and regularly serves on panels of philanthropic experts. To help Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors achieve its strategic and operating goals, Walter develops and oversees implementation of all processes for grantmaking programs and reporting to clients. Previously, Walter served as a program officer at the New York Community Trust, the nation’s largest community foundation, where he conducted special project grantmaking and monitored and evaluated programmatic activities. Walter holds a B.A. in American History from Columbia University and is a board member of the Business Outreach Center Network, which aims to help minority entrepreneurs access resources to launch their businesses. He is the proud parent of two children.

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• Wade Zamechek

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  Director, African Leadership Academy

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

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• Vu Dinh

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  Associate Director – Portfolio & Investments, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Vladyslav Greziev

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  TEDxKyiv Organizer, TEDx

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

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• Vladas Lasas

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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, Pixevia.com, Orbex.Space and other technology companies. Vladas Lasas is co-founder of Techstars London startup accelerator. He is very active as a catalyst of sustainable social impact initiatives, mostly focused on climate change, education and healthcare. He is co-founder of the Carbon War Room, the global non-profit initiative by entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change. He was one of the first TED Patrons (2007-2017), personally supporting and sponsoring TEDx initiative. His numerous involvements and initiatives all have as a common goal to bring together resources from a number of fields and disciplines, across established boundaries, in order to find ways to make the world a better place. He is co-founder of TEDxVilnius, Chairman of the Board of Lithuanian Business Angels Network and Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement Lithuania. He is Honorary Doctor of Kaunas University of Technology. In 2012 Vladas Lašas received Oslo Business for Peace Award.

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• Victoria Penson

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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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• Victoria Nyanjura

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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 and international platforms. She is a candidate for a Masters in Global Affairs with a concentration in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Kyambogo University and a Post Graduate Diploma from Uganda Management Institute. Victoria is the founder of Women in Action for Women, a Ugandan organization that improves the life of women and youth through vocational skills training, business skills enhancement, and supports community governance structures. She recently completed an internship with Generations for Peace based in Washington, D.C. Victoria is the 2019 recipient of Amnesty International’s Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights, which recognizes the outstanding achievement of women doing effective work, often at great personal risk, to protect the dignity, liberties and lives of women and children in crisis regions where abuse of human rights is widespread. She is a founding member of the Leadership Council for the Global Survivor Network, an international group of survivor leaders who desire and pursue safe communities through justice systems that protect the most vulnerable. She shares this about her desire to see the Global Survivor Network grow: “Survivors across the globe will have the opportunity to share their experiences and learn from each other. This will give a strong voice for advocacy towards policy reforms, designing of strategies that address the challenges that survivors go through, and the need to put an end to this. This approach is sustainable since we will be able to meet and push for one agenda instead of having divided attention. At the end of the day survivors will gain visibility and the perpetrators will find it hard to continue their criminal acts since the silence will be no more.” Victoria enjoys going to the gym, interacting with family members, meeting women groups, telling stories and spending time with friends.

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• Veronica Colondam

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  Founder & CEO, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB)

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

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• Vanessa Kerry

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health

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

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• Topher Wilkins

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  CEO, Opportunity Collaboration

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

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• Nageeb Sumar

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  Vice President, Philanthropic Strategies, Fidelity Charitable

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

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• Tom Loper

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  Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives, Aspen Institute

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

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• Nada Majdalani

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  Palestinian Director, EcoPeace Middle East

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

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• Tom Fry

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  Venture Advisor, Individual

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

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• Tifany Boyles

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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 to ignite the potential in 1 million women globally. She also owns a consulting firm where she advises on sustainable, philanthropic impact. Tifany has previously worked with corporate foundations, such as Western Union Foundation, and multi-lateral NGOs, such as UNICEF, to foster an environment in which women and children can achieve equality and overcome injustice. Tifany holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University and a Master’s degree in Philanthropic Studies, concentrating on impact investing for gender equity, from the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is also certified in Women’s International Health and Human Rights through Stanford’s Center on Social Innovation.

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• Thomas Feeny

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

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

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• Randy Belcher

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

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

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• Tarek Alsaleh

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  Founder, RealtimeAid

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

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• Tara Sabre Collier

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  Consultant, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Mubuso Zamchiya

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  Managing Director, The Luminos Fund

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

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• Tamsin Jones

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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 record of building new and innovative initiatives, Tamsin advises corporate leaders, investors and policy makers with a focus on turning a transformative idea into reality. She is currently helping to launch Capital Connect, the largest ever matching of gender lens funds with potential investors from around the world. Tamsin has co-founded an innovation hub for ventures in Cape Town and the leading solution to bring more exceptional female talent into boardrooms across Africa through the creation of most extensive network of board-ready women on the continent. She has been senior advisor to the leading innovator in last mile cellular and internet connectivity and the UK Government development finance institution, CDC Group, where she contributed to the launch and expansion of The Africa List. Earlier in her career, Tamsin contributed to the establishment of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation in Cape Town as Deputy Director, expanded care services to pregnant women living with HIV in southern Africa, served as political and policy advisor to the Premier of South Australia and helped drive the London 2012 Olympic Games’ jobs and enterprise legacy strategy on behalf of major corporates in the City of London and Canary Wharf. Tamsin is a proud trustee of TheFlipFlopi, an organisation determined to end single use plastic in Africa. She holds an MBA from the Said Business School of the University of Oxford with a merit scholarship awarded by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Mona Mourshed

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  President and CEO, Generation: You Employed

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

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• Suzanty Sitorus

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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 efforts to deepen and expand civil society and diplomacy strategy in South East Asia to accelerate clean energy uptake. Suzanty has over 20-year experience in climate finance, clean energy, land-use, biodiversity conservation and philanthropy. In her most recent role prior to joining ECF, she led a climate finance think tank which provides advisory to key government agencies and development financing institution. Previously, she spent six-year stint in the National Council on Climate Change of Indonesia serving as the lead of climate finance negotiator for the UNFCCC processes. As a senior figure in the non-profit and philanthropy community in Indonesia, Suzanty sits in the Board of Indonesia Philanthropy Association and previously chaired the Executive Board of the Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation. Suzanty earned a PhD from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

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• Susanna Krueger

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  CEO, Save the Children (Germany)

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• Susan Griffiths

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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 empowerment, safeguarding, health rights, and violence against women and girls. SDDirect has a 20-year track record of providing high quality services that include technical advice and support, research, development assistance programme design, delivery and management, monitoring and evaluation for a range of clients including leading international development agencies, iNGOs and foundations. Sue leads the SDDirect team to deliver excellent and innovative social development consultancy and research with inclusion and social justice at its heart. Sue joined SDDirect in October 2020, having previously been Executive Director of Global Partners Governance, a specialist provider of international support to political institutions. Sue led work on inclusive governance and institutional development through design, implementation and monitoring of programmes as well as strategic analysis for donor agencies and analytical consultancy work for other organisations. She was technical lead for programming in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, working in a range of institutions and policy areas, with a personal focus on supporting women’s political involvement and leadership. Sue has a deep belief in the impact of political systems and the quality of representation on development, social justice and equality. Her career began in the UK House of Commons, where she was a senior official for 9 years, leading the secretariat to several select committees and providing specialist technical and support and procedural advice to legislative and oversight processes in a variety of roles. Sue has a PhD in French literature, a degree in French and Arabic and an MBA.

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• Stuart Davidson

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  Chairman, Sonen Capital

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

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• Stephanie Kimou

  Speaker

  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 extensive in-country experience in francophone Africa, particularly with building and advising advocacy strategies, infusing meaningful youth engagement into development agendas, and building relationships and partnerships with governmental agencies and iNGOs for sustainable and locally rooted development solutions.

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• Stephanie Koopmann

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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 non-profit partners who have a proven success record. Opportunities to mitigate climate change and protect the natural environment at program sites provide a compass for the Foundation’s geographic engagements. The foundation builds on local knowhow, resources & procurement practces, with the goal of leaving children and their families happier and more empowered after philanthropy ends. For 25 years Stephanie has been working side by side with global leaders and funders from Education, Health-Care, Nature Conservation, Child Welfare, Basic Research, Gender Equality, Culture, Arts, Religion, International Development, Policies, Integration, Human Rights and Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Stefan Kappeler

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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 measurable impact. As a member of elea’s leadership team, Stefan is responsible for elea’s investment process and serves as a board member of some of elea’s portfolio companies in Kenya, the United States, and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining elea, he worked at Infosys, a business process outsourcing giant, in India, and Esri, the global market leader of geographic information systems (GIS), in Africa and Europe. For Esri, he established a business in Rwanda and significantly contributed to the adoption and countrywide roll-out of GIS. Stefan holds a Master of Science from the University of Zurich and a Master of Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen.

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• Phil Collis

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  Managing Director Creative Services, Skoll Foundation

  As Managing Director of Creative Services, Phil Collis is responsible for any creative / multimedia products for the Foundation, and oversees in-house films, website properties, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. In addition, Phil also manages the online strategy and media initiatives for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Staci Alexander

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  Director, Thought Leadership, AARP

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

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• Mina Lopezlugo

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  Founder & Executive Director, Pro Bono Venture

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

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• Stacey Faella

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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, food systems, large landscape conservation, gender equality, media reform, and civil society. In addition to advancing the foundation’s programs through both grants and impact investments, Stacey works with others in the sector to foster collaboration in philanthropy and support grantee capacity building efforts. She originally joined the foundation in September 2011. Stacey has experience working on foundation and nonprofit communications, strategy, evaluation, and impact investing. She has managed a growing Program Related Investment portfolio at the Woodcock Foundation, developed and honed strategies for a variety of foundation programs and projects, and led or supported strategic planning processes with several organizations. She has engaged in communications research on behalf of various causes and frequently works with grantees to improve their communications capacity. Stacey serves on the boards of Spark Microgrants and Confluence Philanthropy. She previously served on the Board of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, where she was also founding chair of the Young People’s Network.

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• Sonja Betschart

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  Co-Founder and CEO, WeRobotics

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

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• Solomon Makuza

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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 peri-urban areas so that families and communities facing malnutrition have the knowledge, resources, and support to meet their nutritional needs. Solomon has more than a decade of experience in development work. Prior to joining GHI, he led impactful development programs at Partners in Health and AVSI International respectively. Solomon holds a BSc in Environmental Health Sciences and a Masters in Public Health. He is also an East Africa Acumen fellow, Aspen Health Scholar, Skoll World Forum fellow and an African Visionary fellow.

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• Sofia Breitholtz

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  CEO, Reach for Change

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

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• Shubhendu Sharma

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  Founder, Afforestt

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

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• Simran Dhaliwal

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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 Analyst (CFA) charterholder and was earning-to-give. Simran read philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, where she first came across the concept of using evidence and reason to do the most good at a Giving What We Can talk.

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• Sheila Wolfson

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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 travels to developing countries with teams at ReSurge International, a non-profit medical organization on whose board she has served and whose mission is to provide reconstructive surgical care to those in need and to build surgical capacity in developing countries. Due to her professional background and interest in children with special needs, she has volunteered at and supported Lucile Packard Children's Hospital for thirty years. She is a member of Legacy Venture, a community of investors who seek to maximize the impact of their philanthropy. Currently, main areas of her philanthropic focus include addressing barriers to economic opportunities for low income individuals, which encompasses early childhood education, social justice, job training, stable housing and healthcare of first time moms and their infants.

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• Shawna Hamilton

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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 their goals in optimizing money, centering values, and living their philanthropic intent. The Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services team serves as a thought partner to advisors and their exceptional client families on wealth transitions, family governance, family office strategies, and philanthropy. Shawna joined UBS in 2021 from Pacific Foundation Services where she was a Senior Program Officer and Philanthropy Advisor. Before that, Shawna had two roles within Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The first was in fundraising, the second was guiding a global Habitat for Humanity grant program and providing advisory support to Cisco Systems' employees worldwide. Prior to her service in philanthropy, Shawna lived in New York, spending time at a hedge fund and co-launching an Ethiopia-based education nonprofit. As a native of Santa Barbara, California, Shawna’s family spans across the West. She is an active volunteer to several community organizations and lives in San Francisco. Education Shawna received a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from The New School, and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from California State University Northridge.

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• Annah Mason

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  Writer & Editor, Skoll Foundation

  As part of the Public Engagement, Communications, and Creative Services team, Annah writes content and communications that drive visibility, resources, and support for Skoll Awardees and grantee partners. She previously managed social enterprises for women to develop their personal and professional skills in Los Angeles and East Africa. Her work is driven by a passion for cultivating spaces where people can explore personal and social transformation. Annah studied journalism at Geneseo State University and is an avid supporter of media literacy programs. She also gets outdoors as much as possible to camp and hike the wild deserts surrounding her home in northern New Mexico.

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• Shawn Holden Cheung

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  CEO, Raising The Village

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

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• Sharath Jeevan

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  Founder & CEO, Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results

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

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• Sesso Gbeleou

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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 services for vulnerable populations.

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• Patricia C. Márquez

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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 world—including countries affected by violent conflict—in peacebuilding and social innovation. Under her tenure as dean, the institution has tripled the number of graduate students and launched two new master programs (Master of Arts in Social Innovation and Master of Science in Conflict Management and Resolution) and a dual-degree with the School of Law. Before becoming dean, Dr. Márquez launched the Center for Peace and Commerce (a joint venture between the Kroc School and the School of Business), the Social Innovation Challenge (now the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge) and the USD Changemaker Hub. Patricia has a BA from Bowdoin College (magna cum laude), and received her MA and PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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• Sean Mayberry

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  Founder & Executive Director, StrongMinds

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

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• Scott Onder

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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 impact venture capital arm of Mercy Corps, which invests in high-impact startups developing climate tech and inclusive fintech solutions in frontier markets. Through Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), Scott has invested in 50+ seed and early-stage ventures in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. In addition to capital, MCV provides strategic support, pilots, and partnership opportunities to help ventures scale. Scott is an early investor in Wasoko, Pula, Goldfinch, and Ejara and serves on the boards of multiple portfolio companies. He is also an active angel investor and advisor in crypto startups. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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• Scott Kauffmann

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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 (Praxis Journal), and a series of sector-based monographs (Praxis Playbooks) — in addition to organizational marketing and communications. He serves as the Program Director for the Praxis Business Accelerator program; and coaches over thirty founders each year to refine and integrate their vocational purpose with their venture thesis, and to articulate these in pitches and other content. Just prior to joining Praxis, he led onQ (now Rali), a software startup focused on interactive content and learning. Scott began his career with eighteen years at Accenture in technology, change management, global program management, and innovation. He then coached and consulted with nonprofit & business leaders, and went on to work with dozens of entrepreneurs as VP of Content and Strategy for Redeemer City to City, a leadership development agency for church planters in global cities, where he also served as Tim Keller’s lead editor and content architect. He lives with his family in Manhattan.

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• Scott Goodstein

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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 changed the world in which we live. In 2009, Goodstein founded Revolution Messaging, which would grow to become America’s leading progressive digital agency. With Revolution Messaging, he created infrastructure and new technology for different types of grassroots movements. His tech firm specialized in revolutionizing mobile and digital communications for rapid response. Under his leadership, the company was awarded Digital Agency of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants and Best Global Presidential Campaign by the European Association of Political Consultants, both in 2016. Prior to launching his own firm, Goodstein was External Online Director for Obama for America, creating the 2008 campaign’s groundbreaking social networking, mobile and lifestyle marketing strategies; this was widely seen as the biggest, most effective grassroots organizing campaign of modern history, and a watershed moment for the use of digital technology in politics. His ability to take on uniquely challenging projects has seen him assist national efforts on international campaigns, including several in Brazil, Canada, France, Iraq, Mexico, and Uruguay. Goodstein has also been a featured panelist at South By Southwest, PopTech, Brookings Institute, the Milken Institute, and Personal Democracy Forum. He has given presentations at Columbia University, American University, George Washington University, and Georgetown University. More info at http://ScottGoodstein.com or http://CatalystCampaigns.com

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• Scott Edwards

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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 the Latin America and Caribbean Director in the Oceans Program. Scott managed sustainable fisheries programs in Mexico, Cuba and Belize, and was instrumental in launching EDF’s Mexico office in La Paz, Baja California. During the last two years of his tenure at EDF, Scott managed a global community-based fisheries management initiative to address overfishing in hundreds of communities in places like Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines. Prior to EDF, Scott was the Senior Director at the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). At NPCA, Scott created an international program to provide protected area managers with private sector business tools to improve their capacity for revenue generation and cost effectiveness. In addition, Scott managed multi-year projects writing business plans for the US National Park Service and the US Forest Service. He served as a technical advisor to the United Nations Development Program on the $25 million project to enhance financial sustainability for protected area systems in six countries, and has led numerous workshops in developing countries on business planning and conservation finance. He has extensive experience working in Belize, Jamaica, Madagascar, France, and several countries of the former Soviet Union. Scott also held the position of labor market analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France for six years. Scott holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and an M.B.A. from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He enjoys travel, playing ultimate frisbee, cycling, surfing and spending time with his wife and two young children.

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• Sarrah Nomanbhoy

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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 assistance through a reliable and empathetic chatbot available across messenger platforms. Previously, she launched a seed accelerator for tech startups in Sri Lanka. Passionate about driving social innovation across sectors, Sarrah has worked at Grameen Bank, the Global Fund for Women, Stanford's Center for Social Innovation, Sri Lanka's Health Ministry, and Brandix. Sarrah has a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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• SaraJoy Pond

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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 role I never plan to leave. Since building one of the world’s first impact-focused crowdfunding platforms, which nurtured an active online community of 10,000+ donors to raise more than $700,000 for social impact projects around the globe, I've facilitated evaluations, presented research, and launched community development programs on four continents and worked as a user experience designer, creative director, data scientist, usability specialist, curriculum consultant, professional evaluator, and university instructor. I am intensely fond of my road bike, symphonic cello, and stracciatella gelato and I detest bad line-breaks, bean soup, and writing my own bio. Oh, and I’m going to change the world.

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• Sarah Marchal Murray

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  Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer, Kiva

  Sarah 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 impact investment. She has served in a variety of executive roles in the global development space, including with the END Fund, Center for Global Development, WaterAid America, and Community Counselling Services. Early in her career she was a political media consultant and served in the PeaceCorps. Sarah graduated from Villanova University and earned her Master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and studied nonprofit management at the School of Business.

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• Sara Scherr

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

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

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• Denise Chilow

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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 community designing, creating and directing innovative programs and events that enlighten, educate, and bring the Legacy community together. She helps develop the overall community while nurturing one-on-one relationships with members. She works with members to refine Legacy’s community strategy to provide effective ways to engage, connect and collaborate for a greater philanthropic impact. Prior to Legacy, Denise served as Vice President of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer at Woodford Capital Management for eight years. Denise pursues broad and active philanthropic interests. She traveled to India on a Unitus Partner Expedition to observe and promote the power of microfinance. She also visited Patagonia to volunteer as part of the Conservacion Patagonica project at the future site of the Patagonia National Park in Chile. She traveled to the Lewa and Loisaba Wilderness Conservancies in Kenya, both affiliated with The Nature Conservancy, to observe how tourism positively impacts the lives of the neighboring tribal communities. Denise is a native of Highland Park, IL, holds a B.S. in Business from Indiana University, Bloomington, and spent her junior year studying at Lancaster University in the UK.

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• Sapphira Goradia

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  Executive Director, Goradia Foundation

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

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• Sanjay Rajan

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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 an orthogonal thinker who draws from various perspectives to achieve new insights and find self-expression intensely rewarding. Ideas excite me, and trying new things does not inhibit me. I craft realistic possibilities that enable scaling of products and services in the market, having had taken some of them from zero to $100M. An infinite learner -- a student of life for life, I am inquisitive, looking to connect the dots to define a future that bodes well for all of us -- the planet and its denizens. I hold a global executive MBA from London and Columbia Business Schools and a Masters in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University. This pedigree, I believe, is based on the old world and is fundamentally flawed; it does not matter as it is essential to relate at a personal level to anyone anywhere across cultural and language barriers. Strength-based leadership traits: Empathy • Ideation • Futuristic • Adaptability • Connectedness DISC profile: Influencer

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• Sangeetha Ramanathan

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  Director, Contracts and Legal Affairs, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Elyssa Lewis

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  Sr Analyst, Portfolio and Investments, Skoll Foundation

  As a Sr. Analyst on the Portfolio & Investments team, Elyssa helps identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, and support the work and impact of portfolio partners, particularly in the areas of effective governance, inclusive economies, and promoting healthy and equitable information ecosystems. With a background in learning and evaluation, she is passionate about building authentic relationships with social innovators, learning together about what it takes to advance equity, racial justice, and long-term social change. In her spare time, you can often find her in the kitchen cooking up a storm or out on one of the Bay Area’s fabulous hiking trails.

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• Sami AlHussayen

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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 workes and SMEA vice governor, and Elm VP fro R@I, also wokes as a consultant for national and international entities. Main current Focus is on Digital transformation, Entrepreneurship and innovation.

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• Nina Gené

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  CEO, Jasmine Social Investments

  Nina leads Jasmine’s investment strategy and diligence process, guiding the team to identify and support the next generation of great social entrepreneurs. She collaborates closely with a global network of funders, sharing our learnings and approaches.

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• Andrea Dhamer

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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 supply chains and markets to generate new, sustainable sources of income. Andrea has more than a decade of experience mobilizing resources and leveraging partnerships, with significant expertise in business development, philanthropy, and working with foreign and U.S. governments. Prior to joining Heifer, Andrea served as the Deputy Director, Office of Business Liaison at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington D.C., where she represented business priorities across a broad scope of areas including international trade, telecommunications, patents and trademarks, minority businesses and data. She previously served for eight years in various leadership roles at the Institute of International Education in New York City. With a nuanced understanding of international programs, she has worked both directly on grantee programs as well as leading efforts to drive broader organizational business development for corporations, foundations and foreign governments. Having lived and worked around the world, including in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Ms. Dhamer is fluent in both English and Spanish and understands firsthand how a global perspective is essential to an earnest conversation about impactful, scalable solutions. She holds a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in International Organizations from the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as a BA in International Studies and Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. Andrea is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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• Sabrina Mahtani

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  Senior Policy Advisor - Access to Justice, The Elders

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• Ryan Schlief

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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 technology for change. As its Executive Director, the International Accountability Project (accountabilityproject.org) works to ensure all people can shape the decisions that affect their homes, environment and communities. IAP asks, “What if development were designed and lived by the same people?” IAP uses innovative technology and direct community mobilization tactics to promote community-led development and reinforce community-led participation in decisions that affect their lives and livelihood. IAP produces training materials for local community organizers to mobilize participation around development and trends analyses to better understand the larger scope of development. Ryan is an elected member of the ESCR-Net Board of Directors – a global network of more than 250 social movements and organizations. Ryan is a founding member of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development - is a global coalition of 100 social movements, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups working together to ensure that development is community-led and that it respects, protects, and fulfills human rights.

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• Ruben Vardanyan

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  Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, RVVZ Foundation

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

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• Marnie Rickards

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  Operations Director, DAK Foundation

  Marnie Rickards is the Operations Director for DAK Foundation, which supports practical solutions for healthcare delivery in low resource settings. Marnie oversees the Biomedical and Equipment programs, partnering with locally embedded health networks across Asia and Africa to help increase their efficiency and quality of service. Oxygen ecosystem strengthening has been one focus of this program since 2016. DAK Foundation also supports programs in high-volume SICS cataract surgeries, family planning using LARCs and Community Health Worker inititiaves. Marnie joined the board of Partners For Equity in 2021, an Australian NGO founded to provide aid to communities in poverty, mostly in developing countries and mostly through local, community-based organisations. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation (USA). She is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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• Rose Goslinga

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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 and livestock insurance cover to 1.7 million smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia through partnerships with governments, input providers and credit lenders. Its founders' work in agriculture insurance has been recognized by several international awards, including the Financial Times/IFC Award for Sustainable Finance, InsureTech 3.0, and the Singapore Fintech Festival.

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• Rohit Menezes

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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 nonprofits, and justice-oriented philanthropists. Rohit has co-authored several Bridgespan publications including, “When Peers Work Together to Drive Social Change," "Why Indian Nonprofits Are Experts at Scaling Up," and "Giving Back to India." From 2015 to 2017, Rohit served as the founding partner and Office Head of Bridgespan’s office in Mumbai, India. Prior to Bridgespan, Rohit worked as a management consultant (at The Boston Consulting Group); a telecommunications entrepreneur and executive; and a crisis communications advisor. He has a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Williams College and an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Rohit currently serves on the Board of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and teenage daughter.q

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• Rodrigo Isasi

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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 entrepreneurs in a more direct way, funding or joining as an active advisor.

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• Rebekah Lin

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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 than 250 partners to raise awareness of and funds for more than 50 lesser-known charities in Singapore. In total, they’ve raised almost $5 million and heaps of awareness via their different initiatives. The Social Co. will be focusing on bridging the gap between youth and our senior generation for the next three years via dialogues, research, and events. In February 2018, Rebekah hosted and interviewed several practitioners and experts in the healthcare space in a documentary on the state of healthcare in Singapore, screened on Channel News Asia. Rebekah was on the committee of the Yellow Ribbon Fund from 2011-2015 and has served for 2 years as a main committee member for Community Chest. She has been running her family foundation, Jia Foundation since 2013. She was selected to be a Leader of Tomorrow at the 2015 St. Gallen Symposium and was also selected as 1 of 18 Young Societal Leaders by the SMU Institute for Societal Leadership and Temasek Connects for the Singapore Summit in 2017. In 2019, she was selected to be a fellow for the Arts For Good Fellowship program organized by the Singapore International Foundation. Rebekah graduated from Nanyang Technological University with an honours degree in Business Administration and has completed an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London and an MSc in Gerontology from King's College London.

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• Debbie Santos

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  Vice President, Finance, Skoll Foundation

  Debbie Santos is the Vice President, Finance at the Skoll Foundation where she has primary responsibility for the Foundation’s financial matters and oversees the grants management, legal, accounting and finance functions. Debbie has spent most of her career helping organizations optimize across finance and operations to advance their mission. In her spare time, Debbie enjoys spending time with family, listening to audio books, and hunting for her next favorite podcast.

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• Mark Chilongu

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  Executive Director, Africa Directions

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

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• Rebecca Van Bergen

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  Founder and Executive Director, Nest

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

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• Rebecca Firth

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  Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

  Rebecca, Executive Director of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), leads a global effort for humanitarian action and community growth via open mapping. HOT envisions a world where mapping tackles community needs, ensures map accessibility and contributions for all, and promotes open data for impact. Rebecca is a 2020 Audacious Project winner, and TED speaker. Formerly the Interim Executive Director and Senior Director of Strategy & Program, Rebecca steered HOT's Community, Partnerships, and Communications initiatives. Under her guidance, HOT expanded globally, establishing four Regional Open Mapping Hubs. She enhanced HOT's capacity by providing sustained support and microgrants for OpenStreetMap communities, fostering OSM adoption among NGOs, and promoting HOT's mission to new volunteers and partners. Rebecca has 12+ years experience in innovation, holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, and has lived and worked in Borneo, Japan, Colombia, Peru & the UK.

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• Rebecca Harrison

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  Co-Founder & CEO, African Management Institute

  Rebecca Harrison is the Co-Founder and CEO of the African Management Institute (AMI), a tech-enabled social enterprise that enables ambitious businesses across Africa to thrive through practical tools and training. Under Rebecca’s leadership, AMI has trained 50k+ people in 35+ African countries. AMI has secured several rounds of investment from African and international impact investors and worked with clients such as Mastercard Foundation, UKAID, USAID, Uber, UNDP, Equity Bank and many others. AMI has been featured by international media including CNN Marketplace Africa, Financial Times and Euronews, and is a Wharton Reimagine innovation prize finalist. Rebecca served on the Aspen Institute’s Network of Development Entrepreneurs’ Global Executive Committee and speaks regularly at global conferences on entrepreneurship, skills development and the future of work. Previously, she worked as a foreign correspondent and manager for Reuters News Agency.

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• Raphael Mayer

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  Co-Founder of Simbiose Social, Simbiose

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

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• Rangan Srikhanta

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  Skoll Scholar, Saïd Business School

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

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• David Nussbaum

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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 Value Reporting Foundation where I chair the Finance & Compensation Committee; a Board member of the International Budget Partnership; a member of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group of the Church of England; a member of the Advisory Council of Blueprint for Better Business; and an independent Councillor on my local Parish Council. I was for five years the Chief Executive of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders – mainly former Presidents and UN Secretary Generals – founded by Nelson Mandela working together for peace and human rights, until October 2021. Prior to that I was Chief Executive of WWF-UK from 2007 and chaired WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative. My previous roles include serving as Chief Executive of the global anti-corruption organisation Transparency International based in Berlin; as Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam, where I also headed up Oxfam’s operations in India for a period; and as Finance Director of the European packaging business Field Group plc, through its management buyout and subsequent successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange. I originally qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC, moving into venture capital with 3i, and then into manufacturing. I have previously served as non-executive Chair of Traidcraft plc, non-executive Director of Low Carbon Accelerator, Vice-Chair of Shared Interest, Chair of Transparency International UK, Deputy Chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council, and on the Marks & Spencer plc Executive Advisory Board on Sustainability. I have two degrees in theology, one in finance, and an honorary doctorate.

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• Randy Newcomb

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  Senior Advisor, The Omidyar Group

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

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• Raffi Krikorian

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  Managing Director, Emerson Collective

  Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technical Officer of Engineering at Emerson Collective, where he focuses on using technology and data to accelerate solutions that promote social good. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Raffi served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Before moving to the political sector, he was the Engineering Director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet. He also designed the backend infrastructure at Twitter, where he served as Vice President of Platform Engineering. Today, Raffi’s work at Emerson Collective leverages innovative technology to help rethink complex societal systems and improve the lives of individuals and communities.

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• Ra'ed Othman

  Delegate

  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: +970227460088 www.maannet.org PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  Founder and General Director of the Ma’an Media Network 2004 - present Chief Executive Officer of Ma’an Media Network, www.maannet.org, a leading Non-Profit media network founded in 2003 and operating from its headquarters in Bethlehem and sub-offices in Ramallah and Gaza City. Original media productions for TV and radio programming from traditional to new media, News coverage, Public relations services, and an online news agency, providing round-the-clock coverage. Social media coverage focusing on youth empowerment with innovative tools to engage youth including the first reality show produced in Palestine. Promoting teamwork and leadership among Ma'an staff, motivating employees and overseeing staff development efforts, resolving any internal conflicts, making decisions and setting strategy, ensuring that all staff members have clear job responsibilities and effective supervision, setting performance standards, and overseeing hiring and performance evaluations. Together with senior managers, responsible for the development and implementation of targeted strategies for quality control, program services, finances, fundraising, and human resources. Leads Ma’an Media Network’s external relations, serving as a spokesperson for the organization and promoting its mission and values to current and potential employees, donors, funding partners, regulators, volunteers, clients and other constituents. In partnership with the Ma'an Board of Directors, recommends priorities and develops strategic plans for organizational, financial, and program development.  Manage full financial accountability to the Ma’an executive board  Direct and design media and youth Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Libya  Media training and facilitator on professional journalism and safety in a conflict zone.  Oversee management of governmental grants: USAID, DFID, EU, Dutch  Complex public relations management of programs with donors and beneficiaries  Executive Producer of the main television programs on Ma’an  Financial supervision of the program and its implications  Coordinating with the Presidency, the Government and all supporting bodies in regard to all nonprofit implantation.  Fundraiser to supplement project financing.  Universalization and transfer of the idea of the region and promote it globally.  Innovative and Producer of Reality TV Program “The President” 2013- present • The idea of the program and the activities carried out by the participants • Producer of the main television program • Supervisor and designer of all exercises carried out by participants • Supervising the committee of wise men who lead the program • Supervising the voting and selecting the winners • Coordinating with the Presidency, the Government and all bodies. • Universalization and transfer of the idea and promote it global.  General Manager of MIX (Maan Satellite Chanel) 2012- 2014 • General supervisor of the production of weekly and weekly programs • General supervisor of news produced by the space editor. • Financial supervision of all expenses and income. • Appointing and supervising media and administrative cadres  Director of the Shams independent television network 2001-2004 Shams network included six television stations.  General Director of Bethlehem TV Station 1998-2002  Transmission Engineer 1997-1998: local TV stations and Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) Board Member of the Arab Union for Economic Media. 2007 to Present  The Union is based in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It includes media organizations from all Arab countries and is now in the establishment stage. It has obtained Jordan's approval for hosting and the specialized committee at the League of Arab States. Foundation Filisteen Kheir 2012 to present  To raise awareness of social issues in Palestine and provide opportunities for connection between different Palestinian communities Education/Qualifications: 1997 Bachelor Degree in Electronics /Minor in Communications and TV Engineering College, Al-Quds University/Abu Dis, Palestine Many other education and training courses in media and other related issues. Languages: Arabic, English and Hebrew Hobbies: Reading, travelling, driving, cinema and football. References: John Marks Search for Common Ground Advisor Tel: + 31638503841: Email: jmarks@sfcg.org Nibal Thawabteh Director of Media Development Center Tel: +972-2-298-2989 Email: nthawabteh@birzeit.edu

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• Radhika Malpani

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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 with their travel planning needs. An alumnus of UC, Berkeley, Radhika worked at Google since 2000 and before that at some leading technology firms like Hewlett Packard Labs and Siemens. Radhika has always been interested in the application of technology for social impact, (especially for global health, education and conservation), and recently left Google to focus full-time on helping mission oriented startups scale. She sits on the boards of Nexleaf Analytics, Simprints, and Educate!, advises several startup CEOs including Dost Education, TalkingPoints, Skyven Technologies, Frances Solar, is a technical advisor to CIFF, a mentor with Unreasonable Group, and works closely with GAVI and Google.org Headshot attached. Attachments area

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• Rachel Flynn

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  Director, Funder Alliances, Skoll Foundation

  In her role at the Skoll Foundation, Rachel supports strategic engagements with aligned funders in order to direct additional support and resources to Skoll’s social entrepreneurs. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Rachel launched and led key efforts at Omidyar Network to amplify the impact of the firm’s portfolio and partner network. She also has extensive experience in international development, managing health and emergency response programs in East Africa and Haiti. Rachel graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and earned an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She is a San Francisco native, a former college tour guide, a hobbyist baker, and a recovering camp counselor. She speaks a bit of French, Swahili, and Hebrew and is fluent in toddler.

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• Rachel Karam

  Delegate

  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 Advogados, in Curitiba, Brazil, works in the formatting M&A, impact businesses and investments. Coordinator of the B Legal Group, of Sistema B Brazil. Representative of Sistema B Brazil in the National Strategy for Impact Investment and Business (ENIMPACTO) of the Ministry of Finance, leading the working group dedicated to promote a favourable normative environment.

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• Rachel Muncrief

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  Acting Executive Director, The International Council on Clean Transportation

  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 organization’s operations. Rachel was previously the Program Director overseeing ICCT's Heavy Duty Vehicle and Compliance and Enforcement programs. Rachel came to the ICCT from the University of Houston, where her research focused on NOx and PM emissions reduction for diesel applications as well as full-scale vehicle and engine testing of heavy-duty vehicle technologies and fuels. Rachel holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus in catalysis and reactor engineering from Tulane University, an MBA from The University of Houston, and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Miami.

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• Puja Marwaha

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  Chief Executive, Child Rights and You

  Puja believes that children are the very foundation of every nation’s growth and development aspirations. It was this belief that fuelled her passion for children’s rights and inspired her to become a full fledged part of the social sector in 1994. A post-graduate in Human Resources from XISS Ranchi, Puja has worked with Citicorp in her previous avatar and joined CRY to set up the HR function. She went on to become the Chief Executive in 2010 and, over the past 25 years, has helped build a solid organizational framework for CRY which reflects the values of justice and equity for all children. Awarded the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize in 2018 for social innovation, she currently also serves on the board for VANI (Voluntary Action Network India) in an endeavor to strengthen public mobilization for social causes.

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• Preethi Herman

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

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

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• Poorvi Chitalkar

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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 training, Poorvi holds an LL.B from Symbiosis University (India) and an LL.M from the University of Toronto. Prior to the Global Centre for Pluralism, she worked at the International Development Research Centre, the Ombudsman of Ontario and practiced Law at the Bombay High Court, India.

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• Prakash Tyagi

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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. GRAVIS is a recognized NGO working in the Thar Desert region in the spheres of water security, health-care, agriculture and education with a strong focus on gender equality. It covers a population of over 1.5 million and has facilitated the formation of over 3500 Community Based Organizations (CBOs). With his global health expertise, Dr Tyagi has contributed to various international forums and has written extensively on major global health issues and priorities. He is an active development practitioner and public health professional and has contributed significantly in the fields of maternal and child health, geriatrics, HIV, TB and occupational health through his writing, research and field work.

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• Phillip Atiba Solomon (f.k.a. Goff)

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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 pioneering scientific experiments that exposed how our minds learn to associate Blackness and crime implicitly—often with deadly consequences.This research led Dr. Goff to co-found the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), a university research center now supported by the 501(c)(3) Policing Equity organization. Created at UCLA, where Dr. Goff took tenure, the Center grew to be the world’s largest research and action think tank on race and policing. CPE also hosts the world’s largest collection of police behavioral data in the National Science Foundation-funded National Justice Database.This database now serves as a tool to reduce burdensome and inequitable policing through scientific analyses.

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• Philip Radford

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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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• Peter Yao

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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 wealth using a social enterprise model, and practises trust-based philanthropy, funding impactful partners to help build a world where not one person lives in extreme poverty. Thankyou’s products are stocked by major retailers in Australia, with every product contributing to helping end global poverty. To date, Thankyou has raised over $17 million to impact the lives of people across 22 countries. As Chief Impact Officer at Thankyou and a Director of the Thankyou Charitable Trust, Pete is primarily responsible for the strategy and subsequently grant-making implementation of this entity. This involves analysing theories, organisations and approaches that are effective in tackling extreme poverty. Pete works to ensure Thankyou’s funding amplifies impactful change-makers, who are working towards systemic and sustainable outcomes for vulnerable and low-income communities. Thankyou's partners think critically about changing systems, are impact-driven, have a clear and sustainable endgame, powered by teams that are high in character and competence. Pete is also involved in establishing our Responsible Business Goals and supports our team in minimising the negative impacts of operating a social enterprise model in the fast-moving-consumable-goods industry.

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• Perry Boyle

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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 the strategic direction, governance, and support fundraising of The BOMA Project, which works at the nexus of four of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: ending poverty, eradicating hunger, combatting gender inequality, and mitigating the effects of climate change.

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• Peggy Walenda Mativo

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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, who receive valuable training and experience, and schools, which benefit from support in such areas as grading, tutoring, and language instruction. Peggy is a 2014 YouthActionNet Laureate Global Fellow and was named one of Kenya’s Top 40 Under 40 Women by Business Daily in 2015. A graduate of Harvard University, she was recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 by Spark International and received the Clinton Global Initiative University Commitment of the Year Award in 2012. She served on the International Youth Foundation Board from 2016.

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• Lydia Darley

  Delegate

  Events Coordinator, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Pauline Wanja Kamau

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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 Kenyan High School & Universities. In 2017, She steered the Association of Alumni Communities in Kenya launch in partnership with the Education Ministry. In 2018, under her leadership Future First convened the First Local Industry gathering of alumni professionals from local Universities. In 2019, she was part of the technical team that drafted the Mentorship Policy that institutionalised an annual alumni mentorship day in the Kenyan School calendar. Before Joining Future First, she designed and implemented youth programs for ActionAid International, MS Denmark, the World Bank Institute, World Youth Alliance, and the British Council's Global change makers. She is an Acumen Fellow, African Visionary Fellow and served on the boards of CIVICUS and a recipient of a Nelson Mandela- Graca Machel Innovation Award. She has a law degree from Moi University and is currently pursuing an MBA from the University of London.

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• Paul Lynch

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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 change for the social impact sector. The manifestation of this work lives in Cage Free Productions, a storytelling agency he founded to uphold social justice, human rights, and sustainability. Throughout the years, Paul struck the delicate balance between working in a studio agency setting, the halls of academia, and in some of the harshest disaster and/or war-torn areas of the world. Paul’s unique perspective pairs his journeys and expertise in strategic storytelling with a MA in Global & International Studies from UC Santa Barbara. He works to amplify the impact of change-makers, and together, build the Vision of the Movement. Your vision. Our vision. The vision of a Cage Free World.

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• Paul Katz

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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, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Trust For Historic Preservation, Rotary International, ELMA Philanthropies, and WHO Foundation. These campaigns have been supported by hundreds of influencers, including Kevin Bacon, Ziggy Marley, Angélique Kidjo, John Legend, Lupita Nyong'o, Mark Ruffalo, the late Desmond Tutu, and Usher. With multiple Grammy nominations, Paul's career started in the music industry executive at Jive Records working with artists diverse as A Tribe Called Quest, and Britney Spears, as well as his music consultation for Oscar-winning films, including 12 Years A Slave, American Factory, and Green Book. Paul's campaign work has been featured in the media worldwide.

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• Patrick Higdon

  Delegate

  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 Executive Director of World Connect International, UK. In this role he contributes to growing the charity's network, brand, impact, and resources in the United Kingdom.

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• Patricia Funegra

  Delegate

  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. Excellent relationships builder, collaborator, and fundraiser. Extensive background as a leader in strategic planning, business development, marketing, and financial oversight. A passionate public speaker with the ability to connect to and inspire a diverse population.

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• Lola Omolola

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  Founder, Female In

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

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• Pam Foster

  Delegate

  Chief Operating Officer, Co-Impact

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• Pachaiyammal Arul

  Delegate

  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 Mission, a pilot project to increase access to government programs for survivors of bonded labour. Over the last two years, Pachaiyammal has personally led eight rescue operations as an RBLA leader, bringing freedom to over 100 people. Each operation begins with Pachaiyammal sharing her own story as a woman who was once bonded in a rock quarry to people who are likewise trapped in this form of modern slavery, then presenting documentation and mobilizing government officials to intervene. She has helped enroll children into school, advocated for various identification cards that entitle the holder to a range of government benefits, and petitioned local officials for a new road and toilet in her village, as well as new houses for herself and several other families. Pachaiyammal is a founding member of the Leadership Council for the Global Survivor Network, an international group of survivor leaders who desire and pursue safe communities through justice systems that protect the most vulnerable. Pachaiyammal says, “I am passionate to work for my community and love to represent bonded labour survivors at this global space. I will be able to bring to the table the ground realities that my people face in their freedom journey, and I am also looking forward to learning more from the others.”

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• Owen Barder

  Delegate

  Chief Executive Officer, Precision Agriculture for Development

  A former UK civil servant, think tanker and non-profit entrepeneur.

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• Osayi Alile Oruene

  Speaker

  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 Administration from Rutgers University, New Jersey prepared her to be a catalyst for change as she has revolutionized the nonprofit sector in Nigeria and beyond. She possesses Executive Certifications from LBS (Nigeria), IMD, Cranfield, Harvard University and YALE. She is also a member of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria, CIBN (Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria) Mentoring Advisory Committee, Lagos Business School Nigeria Non-profit Senior Management Fellow, ANDE Executive Committee, Council Member, LCCI (Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry) , Member TheBoardroom Africa, Executive Member of the Access Women Network and Trustee, Alaghodaro (Edo State) Economic Summit.

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• Oliver Percovich

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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 passionate about the power of sport to bring about social change.

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• Olawale Adebiyi

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  Chief Executive Officer, WeCyclers

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

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• Nicole Wilett

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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 deputy director for program advocacy and communications, leading global strategies on gender equality and family planning. Prior to this, Wilett was senior vice president for Africa at the Albright Stonebridge Group and a senior professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She served twice as director for African affairs at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration, and was senior advisor and chief of staff at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa as part of her long tenure at the U.S. Department of State. Wilett has an MPA from Indiana University, where she also concentrated in African studies, and a BA from Syracuse University.

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• Nicole Kamaleson

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  Founding Partner, Fusion Search Partners

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

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• Neville Crawley

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  CEO, Kiva

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

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• Nedgine Paul Deroly

  Speaker

  CEO, Anseye Pou Ayiti

  Originally from Haiti and Co-Founder/CEO of Anseye Pou Ayiti, Nedgine Paul Deroly 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, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, WorldTeach, and Partners In Health has allowed her to develop and implement various leadership programs as well as the creation of a school principal residency program. She has conducted extensive research about the historical, cultural, and socioeconomic factors contributing to Haiti's education system. Nedgine earned a B.A. in History from Yale College and an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was named among the top global social innovators by Echoing Green, among the Forbes Magazine "30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs", and among the inaugural Obama Foundation Fellowship for her work leading Anseye Pou Ayiti – a movement to equip a new generation of Haitian civic leaders for educational justice in Haiti.

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• Nathaniel Heller

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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 execute high-impact philanthropic programs; running programs in high-need geographies; and distilling successes, failures, and insights to inform future philanthropic giving. Prior to joining the firm, Nathaniel served as an Executive Vice President at Results for Development (R4D), where he oversaw many of the organization’s technical teams aimed at strengthening health, education, and nutrition systems in low-income countries. He originally joined R4D as a managing director, leading the organization’s work on citizen engagement and governance reform in countries. In both roles, Nathaniel spent significant time on strategy and work plan formulation, partnership development, thought leadership, and resource mobilization across the international development philanthropic spectrum. Earlier in his career, Nathaniel co-founded and led Global Integrity, an international non-governmental anti-corruption organization working in more than 100 countries to strengthen government transparency and accountability safeguards. From 2017 to 2019, he co-chaired the Open Government Partnership (a multi-stakeholder partnership spanning governments and civil society) and was the catalyst behind the establishment of the OpenGov Hub, the world’s first thematic co-working space focused on open government issues. He began his career working at a non-profit investigative journalism organization (the Center for Public Integrity) and at the US Department of State. Nathaniel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and completed his graduate work at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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• Naveen Namboothri

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  Director, Dakshin Foundation

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

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• Natalie Cargill

  Delegate

  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 Longview Philanthropy, she was a barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers (London Chambers of the Year 2018), and has worked with the United Nations Human Rights Council. Natalie has presented on philanthropy at the University of Cambridge and King's College London, as well as at Web Summit, the world’s largest technology conference, on the BBC and to several private family office groups. She holds a double first-class degree from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the highest score across all humanities subjects at Lincoln College.

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• Nancy McGuire Choi

  Delegate

  Unknown, Individual

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

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• Musimbi Kanyoro

  Delegate

  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 CEO of the Global Fund for Women a post from which she retired to provide volunteer leadership on Boards.

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• Morten Siersted

  Delegate

  Non-Executive Director, FAST Standard Organisation and F1F9

  To follow by email to registration@skoll.org

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• Morgan Lance

  Delegate

  Chief Executive Officer, OneSky

  Morgan has spent the last two decades helping NGOs with education projects in Asia, Africa and South America raise funds and tell their stories. She is honored to serve as OneSky’s first CEO following their founder, Skoll Awardee, Jenny Bowen, and to share Jenny’s passion for making high quality care and early education available to children living in low-resourced communities in Asia.

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• Laura Giadorou-Koch

  Delegate

  Chief Engagement Officer, DOLIUM

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

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• Yonatan Neril

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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 environmental issues, and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. He has spoken internationally on religion and the environment, including at the UN Environment Assembly, the Fez Climate Conscience Summit, the Parliament of World Religions, and the Pontifical Urban University. He co-organized twelve interfaith environmental conferences in Jerusalem, New York City, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. As part of ICSD's Faith Inspired Renewable Energy Project in Africa, he has been involved in facilitating the development of commercial scale solar fields on church lands in Africa. He is the lead author and general editor of two books on Jewish environmental ethics including Uplifting People and Planet: 18 Essential Jewish Teachings on the Environment. Yonatan also co-authored three ICSD reports on faith and ecology courses in seminary education in Israel, North America, and Rome. He is currently working on publishing the first-ever ecological commentary on the Hebrew Bible. He is a member of the United Nations Environment Program's Faith-based Advisory Council, and of the Pontifical Universities' Alliance for Laudato Si' Advisory Council. He was a Dorot Fellow, PresenTense Fellow, and Haas Koshland Award recipient. He lives with his wife, Shana and their two children in Jerusalem. He enjoys hiking and being in nature.

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• Monica Oguttu

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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 communities.. Monica is a Renowned Registered Nurse/Midwife/Public Health specialist and an Alumni of Harvard school of Government. She garnered her leadership skills at Kenyatta National Teaching and Referral Hospital where she managed a busy maternity unit for 15years. She is known for her ability to promote collaboration between government officials, private and public sector providers and communities to work together for results. Her top priorities are Advocacy for quality health services, task shifting/sharing, Innovative Business models and community engagement towards social accountability. She has been a member of various Technical Working Groups and boards e.g. WHO Technical Working Group for Task shifting/Sharing, Kisumu County Health Taskforce, FIGO PPH TWG and Board member of IPPF/SAAF and IPAS among others Awards and recognitions: Margaret Sanger Award by PPFA (2004 and 2006); Africa SRHR Champion in 2013 by IPAS for outstanding dedication and devotion to women’s health & rights; by KOGs in 2015 as Sexual reproductive health rights County Advocate Champion; Appointed by Kisumu Governor in 2017 to Chair the County Health Taskforce; a recipient of the Joan B. Dunlop Award by IWHC; Abortion service provider Champion: at The unfinished Revolution 111 conference at Rhodes University South Africa. Currently serving in Lake Region Economic Bloc as an eminent member of the COVID-19 Advisory Committee, Health Advisory Council Kisumu County and Advisory Board Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) Innovators– Duke Global Health, USA. She made KMET a proud winner of the 2nd Quality Healthcare Kenyan Award (QHKA) on 7th April 2021 (World Health Day) due to her resilience in driving quality agenda d

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• Monica Nyiraguhabwa

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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 reproductive health education, and skills development. Recognized as a beacon for girls' education advocacy in Uganda, Monica has earned prestigious titles such as Obama Africa Leader, Perennial Fellow, Cordes Fellow, Skoll Fellow, and African Visionary Fellow. Monica's leadership has propelled GUIU to international acclaim, notably as part of Michelle Obama's Girls Opportunity Alliance and a featured organization on NBC's The Today Show with Jenna Bush Hager. Monica's dedication to the cause knows no bounds, envisioning a future where Girl Up Initiative Uganda extends its reach to impact every girl in Uganda and beyond.

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• Molly McNairy

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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 Africa to build health systems and scale antiretroviral therapy to rural populations in India, Lesotho and Malawi. I then received a Masters in Health Policy and Finance at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar. From 2009-2014, I worked with Columbia Mailman School of Health and ICAP to implement PEPFAR-funded programs in HIV, tuberculosis and chronic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. I then joined Cornell's Center for Global Health where my work focuses on designing and evaluating novel and pragmatic models of health care delivery for HIV and cardiovascular disease using a multi-pronged approach of community-based care, behavioral economics, and mobile technology. The goal of my work is to improve access to clinical care and health outcomes among the world's poorest populations, particularly adolescents and slum communities. Our work has been funded by NIH, Gates Foundation, CDC, MAC AIDS Foundation, Resolve to Save Lives Foundation, among others. I also am a faculty attending physician at Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital and teach medical students and residents at Cornell Medical School. I am passionate about mentorship and leadership training and co-founded the Women in Global Health Research Initiative (https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/) and direct our Global Health Research Fellowship.

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• Molade Adeniyi

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  CEO, WAVE

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

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• Moitreyee Sinha

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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, Colombia, and the U.S., and has supported social innovators in over twenty countries through its Accelerator and Learning Platform. Through citiesRISE, Moitreyee brings a unique vision for collective, community-rooted action to the issue of mental health, drawing on her experiences managing both transdisciplinary private sector R&D initiatives and global health philanthropy at General Electric, as well as directing the Beyond Health portfolio at the Global Development Incubator. Her work is also guided by her PhD training in physics and her personal commitment to fostering inner development and spirituality.

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• Mike Masserman

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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 speaks often about the intersection of policy, politics, technology and social impact, and on the importance of authentically leading with values. Michael was most recently the Head of Global Policy & Social Impact at Lyft, where he worked on initiatives related to opening global markets, developing new regulations, transportation equity, civic engagement, sustainability, future of work, and smart cities. Michael was previously the Head of Global Policy & Strategy, as well as the Senior Director for Federal & International Government Relations where, among other things, he built out Lyft's Federal and Strategic Partnerships teams. Prior to Lyft, Michael served as the Presidentially appointed Executive Director for Export Policy, Promotion & Strategy at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In that role, he lead Commerce and government-wide efforts to implement President Obama's National Export Initiative to help U.S. businesses increase exports, expand into new markets, and compete globally. Prior to that role, he served as Director of the Office of Advisory Committees & Industry Engagement within the Department of Commerce, where he collaborated with hundreds of companies to advise the President and various Cabinet Members on the formulation and implementation of trade policies. Michael began his career practicing international corporate law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, where his focus was primarily on domestic and cross-border capital markets and securities transactions. He then moved to Sydney, Australia, where he worked at the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques and specialized in international mergers and acquisitions. Michael took a leave of absence

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• Mike Dennis

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  Head of Brand Partnerships, Freethink

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

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• Vincent Stehle

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Media Impact Funders

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

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• Mike Davis

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  CEO, Global Witness

  Mike Davis became CEO of Global Witness in February 2020. Under his leadership, Global Witness has embarked on a new strategic direction: shifting the balance of power from big polluters profiting most from climate breakdown to the people most adversely affected. Mike has also fostered the development of more agile and collaborative forms of Global Witness’s investigative campaigning model. Prior to becoming CEO, Mike held various other leadership roles at Global Witness. From 2016 to 2020 he was the organisation’s Director of Campaigns, Planning and Evaluation. During this period, Mike initiated a major shift in the organisation’s work towards addressing the climate emergency. From 2013-2016 Mike was Global Witness’s Asia Director, overseeing the organisation’s engagement in China and conducting high impact investigations that exposed systemic corruption in Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar jade business.

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• Michele Pistone

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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 program to train immigrant advocates, VIISTA (Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training for Advocates), to provide legal representation to immigrants in immigration court and before the Department of Homeland Security. Pistone won the highly competitive, national JM Kaplan Innovation Prize in 2019 for her ground-breaking work designing and developing VIISTA. Professor Pistone serves as an expert the Permanent Mission of Holy See to the United Nations and is the former associate editor of the Journal on Migration and Human Security, a publication of the Center for Migration Studies in New York, where she is a Fellow. Professor Pistone has also taught at Georgetown University Law Center, twice as a Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Malta. Professor Pistone is the Founder of the AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education and was awarded the Section’s inaugural Award in 2020. She is the winner of the 2020 Meyer Faculty Award in Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, the Sister Elizabeth Ann Seton Award from St. John’s University, and is an Adjunct Fellow with the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. She is also a Fellow at the Institute for the Advancement of American Legal System’s (IAALS) Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. Pistone founded LegalEDweb, videos on law and law teaching have been viewed more than 1,000,000 times. She is a regular speaker at conferences on teaching, learning, assessment and learning outcomes and has taught hundreds of legal scholars to use technology in their teaching.

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• Michaela Edwards

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  Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

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

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• Michael Zakaras

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  Director, Ashoka US, Ashoka

  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 Power of Communities Everywhere" that profiles 22 Ashoka Fellows and highlights the patterns that contribute to their success, including their roles as catalysts for mass changemaking across society broadly. Michael previously worked for Ashoka in Ireland and Central Europe, and before that in the California wine industry. He writes regularly about social entrepreneurship for Forbes, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy and more.

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• Mercy Akamo

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  Organiser, TEDx

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

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• Mercia Silva

  Delegate

  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 Department and ILO International Labor Organization- Brazil. I was part of the working group assigned to build the Public Procurement Guide from OSCE-ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE, doing many workshops at member states, like Berlin, London, Stockholm, Astana, and Moscow. Besides, since 2014, I am part of Brazil´s National Commission to Eradicate Slavery – CONATRAE. I have worked for more than twenty years as a program coordinator and researcher on programs designed to build and monitor labor rights, sustainability, and environmental issues in national and multinational companies in Brazil, leading dialogue among companies, trade unions and governmental agencies in Brazil and Latin America. In the last six years, I am leading a specific program and working group dialogue with different sectors, such as coffee; cocoa; carnauba wax; beef; pig iron, mining, timber. Debating subjects related to environmental and social sustainability helps me consolidate an international understanding of different sectorial global governance at private, social, labor union, and governmental level, understanding their perspective and power (un)balance. There are many puzzles out there! In 2008, I wrote a handbook about the ILO Conventions (100 and 111) to help the unions negotiate with companies. That handbook published by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - FES, the German Foundation that focuses on Labor Rights all over the world. From 2006 to 2007, at the University of Maryland, I am a Fulbright Scholar at the exchange program “Hubert Humphrey Fellow Program” of the USA State Department, a network of more than 57.000 fellows from 157 countries, most are leaders working in the GOV.

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• Tina Tan-Zane

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  Assistant to Jeff Skoll, Jeff Skoll Group

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• Melissa Blaustein

  Delegate

  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 Sub-Saharan Africa. There, she oversees capacity building and impact investments in the energy space on projects like off-grid solar panels, fertilizers made from biomass and ethanol as a cooking fuel. She is also the founder of the global organization Allied for Startups, a worldwide network of advocacy associations focused on improving the policy environment for startups with over forty members in thirty countries around the world. Her background in sustainability, digital policy and advocacy spans the local, national, and international levels, having held roles at The Obama White House, UN Women, UN Environment, the G20 Research Group, with Fmr. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and on the team of many San Francisco politicians. She is deeply involved with her community of Sausalito where she is Vice Chair of the Sustainability Commission, as well as the founding chair of the Commission’s sub-committee on the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC). She serves on the Chamber of Commerce Board, is a member of the Rotary Club, a Lead Captain at the Sausalito Art Festival and was appointed to former Mayor Joan Cox’s 2018 Blue Ribbon Committee on Housing where she advocated for new approaches to inclusionary and workforce housing. She was recently appointed to the Rutgers University Big Data Program Advisory Board for San Francisco and to the Art Point San Francisco Advisory Council supporting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is also a member of Nexus Global. Blaustein has been a featured speaker at the World Trade Organization, the European Commission, The Atlantic Council, The Bay Area Economic Council, South by Southwest, Mobile World Congress, The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and the Jesse Unruh Institute for Politics at USC. She has been published in the Huffington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, Venture Beat, The Hill, and numerous other outlets. Outside of her work and civic engagement, Blaustein channels her love for protecting our oceans into her efforts as an accomplished, world record holding marathon swimmer. Training at the South End Rowing Club in the San Francisco Bay, in 2017 she became the first woman in 29 years to swim across the strait of Juan de Fuca from Washington to Canada in temperatures as cold as 47 degrees, and in 2018 she successfully crossed the English Channel just two weeks after being pulled from her first attempt two miles short of France. She uses her swims to fundraise for charity and in 2019 will take on the Catalina Channel and Manhattan Island. Blaustein speaks four languages and holds a Masters Degree Cum Laude in Public Affairs with an emphasis on Global Energy and Sustainability from Sciences Po in Paris and an undergraduate degree with honors in American Studies from UC Berkeley.

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• Megan Dunbar

  Delegate

  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 to transitioning leadership and oversight of the programme to a local organization: Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust (PZAT). PZAT partners with the Ministry of Health and Child Care, civil society and research groups, to expand access to health services in Zimbabwe. Dr. Dunbar received her doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, with a focus on global health and evaluation. She has spent over 20 years leading initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. Her skills include the ability to oversee, manage and administer complex organizations and projects in the US and abroad, the capacity to develop and implement research to measure impact and improve programs, and the capability to synthesize evidence to effectively advocate for human-rights based policies at global, national and community levels that ensure equitable access to health services and programs.

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• Kevin Miller

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Ezrah Charitable Trust

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

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• Tiana Epps-Johnson

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Center for Tech and Civic Life

  Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute’s Election Administration Director from 2012 to 2015. She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Tiana is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015). Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.

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• Maya Winkelstein

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  Partner, The 2030 Fund

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

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• Meagan Fallone

  Delegate

  Board Member and Director, Barefoot College International

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

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• Maurits van Pelt

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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 self-sustainable. This has significantly reduced the negative impacts of these non-communicable chronic diseases (NCD), especially for people living in remote or deprived areas. Over 85 percent of ‘premature’ chronic NCD deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Almost 10% of Cambodian adults have diabetes or hypertension. Only 2% is spent on diabetes control as compared to infectious diseases, and yet the out-of-pocket expenses on NCD by the Cambodian population is by far the highest compared to other conditions. The Peer Educator Networks cover over 20,000 diabetes and hypertension patients in about 20% of Cambodia’s districts. In these networks, patients pay less than USD 100 per year for their care. The Ministry of Health has included this approach in its National Strategic Plan for Prevention and Control of NCD 2013-2020 and in its Standard Operating Procedures for Diabetes and Hypertension (2019). MoPoTsyo hope to roll this out to all Cambodian districts, but questions on how a further scale-up can best be done and how governance can best be assured are some of the big challenges they face and wish to address. Maurits van Pelt is Dutch and was born in 1955 in the Netherlands to a country doctor and pharmacist. Maurits studied Dutch law while working in a lawyers’ office in Amsterdam. However, after completing his law degree, he began work with MSF, firstly in Mozambique, Africa (1987) and then Asia. He was Chief of Mission in combined sections of MSF Holland, Belgium & Switzerland from 1989 till 2000. Maurits obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing at LSHTM and LSE (UK) (2001). After MSF missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, he worked in Beijing with DFID on a World Bank Health Systems Strengthening project. In 2003 he returned to Cambodia to work on social health protection and started MoPoTsyo in 2004 with Cambodian friends. Maurits has lived in Cambodia for over 25 years.

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• Mauricio Salazar

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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 empowering in action. My main hats are: SocialColectivo.co and SocialColectivo.org - TEDxBogotá.com My spotlights this 2022: #Entrepreneurship (female) #Hunger-Malnutrition #Climate change

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• Matthew Bonds

  Delegate

  Co-founder and Scientific Director, PIVOT Madagascar

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

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• Tatu Gatere

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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 environment sector, Tatu has focused her career on exploring the intersection of culture and the built environment both locally and internationally, in a variety of socio-economic and cultural contexts linking her Architectural background to participatory design; community engagement & investment; built environment education; and place making to facilitate physical, social and economic development. Tatu’s work with Buildher has been recognized both locally and internationally, she was a speaker at both the 2020 UN World Urban Forum (WUF 10) in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit in London UK. She was awarded a 2020 Honoree for Okay Africa’s 100 Women of Excellence, and was featured on Kayana Kenya's Women to Watch in 2021 series.

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• Kathryn Harrison

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  Associate Principal, Portfolio & Investments, Skoll Foundation

  As Associate Principal on the Portfolio & Investments team, Kathryn conducts diligence and produces profiles on Skoll Awardees, and supports strategic investment opportunities leading to lasting, large-scale social change. Prior to joining Skoll, Kathryn managed private-sector partnerships at Direct Relief, a global health NGO that delivers pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to those affected by poverty and disasters both in the U.S. and around the world. Kathryn earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from the University of Michigan, where she double-majored in English and Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and cycling. Having studied and volunteered in South America during her undergraduate years, she also enjoys finding opportunities to practice her Spanish.

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• Matt Gembecki

  Delegate

  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 collaborative funding projects with Global Impact's sister organization Geneva Global. Matthew has spent the majority of his professional career in philanthropy consulting, working with local, regional, national and global organizations. He has broad experience working with a variety of organizational structures and funding mechanisms, deep knowledge of fundraising at all levels, and a keen understanding of how organizations should be structured to optimize growth. Serving in numerous interim development roles Matthew possesses a track record of raising significant funds for mission driven projects across all donor types. Matthew has a background in International Development.

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• Mary Hedahl

  Delegate

  Chief Development Officer, Fair Trade USA

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

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• Mary-Ann Etiebet

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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 sharing and learning about opportunities to better collaborate to link innovators to investors; adopt standard financial and social impact metrics so we can hold ourselves accountable; and ensure that solutions and data empower end-users - in our case mothers - to drive improved maternal health outcomes and sustainable change in health markets. I will contribute lessons learned and opportunities identified from our innovative financing and digital collaborations.

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• Susan Sherrerd

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  President & Executive Director, Muirfield Foundation

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

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• Mark Cubit

  Delegate

  Trustee, Planet Wheeler Foundation

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

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• Mark Allen

  Delegate

  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 oversight on the initiative’s global programming including MfMs’ digital portfolio. Prior to Merck for Mothers, Mark was the Managing Director for Africa Programs with Malaria No More managing the organization’s investments across six countries. Mark started his professional career in international development at the Touch Foundation – a McKinsey & Co. founded organization focused on building human resource capacity in the health sector in Tanzania. Prior to the Touch Foundation, Mark lived in rural Kenya as a Peace Corps Volunteer focusing on micro-enterprise development with farmers which inspired his shift from an earlier career in management consulting. Mark holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University.

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• Marjorie Paloma

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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 create timely and enduring social change. A society where health is a shared value for all demands leadership and collaboration across multiple sectors—health, education, transportation, housing, urban planning, architecture, and more. And she feels that “businesses have a tremendous role to play in shaping our nation’s health.”

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• Marie-Louise Gourlay

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  Managing Director, Europe, Forward Global

  Marie-Louise Gourlay is TPW's Managing Director, Europe, having joined the team in 2015. Marylou focusses on growing and engaging TPW's community of social investors within the UK & Europe, as well as leading on regional partnerships & investment, designed to mobilise additional resource and impact across the social change space. Previously, Marylou was Head of the CFO's office at the British Council, focussed on programmes relating to global health, security and education, building on her previous experiences of working with grassroots NGOs in Zambia and India, focussed on education, health & livelihoods at community level. Marylou holds a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages from the University of Bath. Based in London.

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• Maria Jammal

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  CEO, Humanity Crew

  Maria is co-founder and CEO of Humanity Crew. A lawyer by profession, Maria is an active member and campaigner for minorities’ rights and women’s rights in her local community. In the past few years, Maria has also become an active refugee mental health advocate and has spoken in many conferences and forums on the importance of mental health support for refugees. Maria’s job in the organization is to overlook all projects and finances, setting the organization’s strategy and direction, monitoring the organization’s values and behavior, building and leading the managerial team, and allocating capital for the organization, amongst many other things.

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• Margeigh Novotny

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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 the world’s people. Prior to joining the WMF, Margeigh lead an a product research and development team at Microsoft, with a focus on the design of intelligent agents that learn and build trust with the users they engage with. Margeigh came to the discipline of user experience design after several years of practice as an architect. She is a co-founder of the collective Fake Art Colony, a group of makers dedicated to the amateur reproduction of modern works of art. She studied architecture and continental philosophy at UC Berkeley, University of Michigan and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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• Marcie Bianco

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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 appearances on issues pertaining to ethics, from feminism to race relations. Her current writing projects include an autofiction about academic affairs and a nonfictional feminist manifesto that elevates freedom over equality.

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• Marcelo Galeano

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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 is reaching more people with their goals. I also owned my company for 10 years before going back to school. I'm also a marketing professor, a skydiver and a chess player.

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• Stefanie Verdorfer

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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, Philanthropic Collaboration at Co-Impact, and Major Gifts Manager at Lumos and The Climate Group. Stefanie is based in England.

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• Marcelo Douek

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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 planning for clients such as Heineken, Nestle, Cadbury, Unilever, Bosch, Citibank among others, I decided to experience a whole new journey in a exercise to put storytelling, people and brands together. The idea came from a believe that every organization (such as traditional business, NGO’s, start ups among others) is a potential storyteller and when they discover the amazing stories they have to tell, they will be more efficient, desirable and profitable. The result of this is the creation of LUKSO Story and Strategy (2009) and Social Docs (2016), two agencies (different focuses and niches) that have the same essence: empower clients and people to create their stories and communicate them through branding platforms. The storytelling techniques have been working for movies, teaching, religion and many others areas. The experience of applying those techniques in the branding and non profit world it’s been awesome. I invite anyone who has interest in those areas to chat, trade experiences and obviously, good stories.

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• Marc Sarosi

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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 his family have a love for Africa and a passion for supporting Social Entrepreneurs doing innovative projects throughout Africa. Marc holds a BS in Geology from UCSB and is a Ben Gurion Fellow.

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• Manuel José Carvajal

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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 management and retired while serving as VP of Innovation. Between 1998 and 2000 he worked at ICESI University as director of the Center for Competitiveness and promoted Destino Colombia a scenario planning exercise for the country. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Carvajal Foundation.

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• Makenson Deroly

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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. His prior roles focused on higher education, curriculum development, and youth engagement.

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• Sierra Gonzalez

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  Former Director, Marketing & Communications, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Sheila Davis

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  Chief Executive Officer, Partners In Health

  Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Partners In Health (PIH), a global health non-profit organization rooted in social justice that brings the benefits of modern medical science to impoverished communities in 11 countries. Dr. Davis has a long history of serving the poor and marginalized, starting with her work with the HIV/AIDS community in the 1980s, both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Davis received her BSN degree from Northeastern University in 1988, her Masters in Nursing degree as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in 1997 and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a concentration in global health in 2008. Both of her graduate degrees are from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions. She was a clinician in the Infectious Diseases clinic at MGH for over 15 years and for the past decade has held multiple cross-site roles at Partners In Health, including Chief of the Ebola Response, Chief of Clinical Operations, and Chief Nursing Officer.

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• Roeland Monasch

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  CEO, Aflatoun International

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

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• Luke Upchurch

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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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• Robin Bruce

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  President, Dovetail Impact Foundation

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

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• Stefanie Merck

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  Principal, Peter Möhrle Foundation

  Since 2016 Board Member of the Merck Family Foundation

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• Lucien Chan

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  Managing Director, Portfolio Impact, The Audacious Project

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

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• Louise van Rhyn

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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. Louise is the designer of the Partners for Possibility (PfP) programme – an innovative nation building and leadership development process for business and school leaders. Business leaders develop their capacity to lead in a complex and unfamiliar environment by becoming a co-learning and co-action partner to a school principal. The focus of their partnership is to lead positive change in an under-resourced school, thereby reducing inequality in education. Through these partnerships previously under-resourced schools mobilise the gifts and contributions available from business and community members around the schools. So far more than 2,800 leaders across South Africa have benefited from the programme and they’ve won many national and international awards. Leaders report that they learn more about leadership from working with a school in an under-resourced community than attending a course at a business school. School leaders are equipped and empowered with the skills and agency to lead change at their schools.

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• Loretta Jhona

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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 Director of Aftercare. Loretta is passionate in equipping and empowering the human trafficking victims to become survivor champions. She was instrumental in developing the Global Survivor Network. She took up different leadership roles at IJM and now serves as the Regional Rehabilitation Specialist for South Asia. In her current role she is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to support India and Bangladesh teams to provide protection and care for bonded labour & sex trafficking survivors. She is an External ICC member of the POSH committee for three of the Government Departments in her state. Loretta has her Masters in Social work and M.Phil in Guidance and Counselling.

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• Liz Wallace Ellers

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  Founder, The globalislocal Fund

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

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• Joke Le Poole

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  Founder/Director, Max Foundation

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

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• Liz Corbishley

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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 opportunities. Liz serves as Chief Strategy & Partnerships Officer with Village Enterprise, a non-profit seeking to end extreme poverty in Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action. Liz provides leadership and oversight for Village Enterprise’s organisational strategy and heads the development and partnerships team. The past five years have seen significant success as Village Enterprise has more than doubled their impact compared to the previous five years, launching 29K businesses and impacting the lives of 557K people living in extreme poverty. Liz has spent the past 12 years living in East Africa, is a keen runner, and moonlights as a professional toddler wrangler.

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• Shannon May

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  Co-Founder, President, NewGlobe Education

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

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• John T. Stephens

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  Executive Director, BOMA Project

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

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• Lisa Issroff

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  Co-founder, Executive Director, Issroff Family Foundation

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• Lindsey Padjen

  Delegate

  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 seeking out opportunities for Peery Foundation to build the leadership and organizational capacity of grantee partners. Her previous experience includes research and evaluation in community-based healthcare delivery in Salt Lake City and San Francisco.

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• Lindsey Powers

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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 entrepreneurs. Lindsey began her career at Starcom Worldwide, the marketing and media arm of the advertising agency, Leo Burnett. There she managed the communications strategies and investments for multiple high-profile consumer brands. After deciding to shift focus to the nonprofit sector, Lindsey worked in development at a number of Chicago-area nonprofits, where she planned and executed fundraising campaigns to magnify the reach and impact of the organizations’ initiatives. Lindsey received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

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• Lindiwe Masizbuko

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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 diversify public sector leadership around the world. A graduate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the United States, Lindiwe was an elected representative in South Africa’s National Assembly until May 2014, when she resigned from active politics in order to return to higher education.  Lindiwe has served as fellow of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University and of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa. She is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, a steering committee member at the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, and an advisory committee member at the UK government technology start-up, Apolitical Group Limited.

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• Linda Kamau

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  Founder & Executive Director, AkiraChix

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

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• Linda Greer

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  Senior Global Fellow, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs

  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 suppliers abroad. Prior to this, Linda directed work on toxic chemical pollution with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the largest environmental groups in North America, for nearly 30 years. Over the course of her career, Linda has focused on innovative environmental government policy approaches to reduce industrial impacts, with emphasis on air and water pollution, as well as voluntary corporate sustainability programs. She has spearheaded the advocacy community’s efforts to improve U.S. toxic chemical legislation, led a large and successful collaborative pollution prevention project with the Dow Chemical Company, and directed NRDC’s participation in a CEO-level multi-stakeholder negotiation on the future of the Superfund hazardous waste cleanup program. Linda’s focus over the past decade has been international. Focusing first on mercury pollution, she was a founder and leader of the NGO’s community’s successful effort to pass the Minamata Convention in the United Nations, a binding international agreement to reduce the use and release of this toxic metal around the globe. Subsequently, Linda created NRDC’s Clean by Design Program, a business-friendly green supply chain initiative that that leverages production efficiency improvements to significantly reduce the energy, water, and chemical use in textile manufacturing while saving money. Linda has served on many expert panels, commissions, and boards, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the Executive Committee of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board and has testified before the U.S. Congress more than a dozen times.

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• Lijo Chacko

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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 Dockyard, Mumbai. He was thereafter Project Coordinator of the simultaneous construction of six Scorpene submarines at the Mazagon Dock Ltd. Lijo is a fellow traveller for various organisations/initiatives in the social space viz. Trustee at India Inclusion Foundation, member of the Band of the LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives to mention a few. An avid outdoorsman, he can roll on skates, control a puck on ice and ski on water as well as snow laden slopes. He has also para-dropped from aircrafts and takes Laser boats for spins. His climb of the Mt Everest has been published in Malayalam (a regional Indian language) by DC Books. He is an alumnus of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management studies, the Yale University and Robert Bosch Foundation. He is also a Fellow at the Institution of Engineers.

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• Leslie Tsai

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  Director of Social Impact, Chandler Foundation

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

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• Rachel Wald

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

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

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• Ruth Mapara

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  Program Manager, The ELMA Foundation

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

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• Leetha Filderman

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  President, PopTech Institute, PopTech

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

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• Laurie Lacob

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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 sectors. Laurie has honed a mission of purposeful philanthropy, providing leadership to regional, national, and global organizations with particular emphasis on issues of health, education, gender equality and social justice.

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• Pippa Hichens

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  Finance Cordinator, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Laura Weidman Powers

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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 Ventures, supporting entrepreneurs and activists wrestling with the biggest challenges facing our democracy. Laura is the co-founder and CEO emerita of Code2040, a nationally-recognized nonprofit that equips Black and Latinx technologists and their allies with the tools, connections, and care they need to advocate for and achieve racial equity in the tech industry. ​ In 2016, Laura was invited to join the Obama Administration for a six month term as senior advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith on issues of diversity and inclusion and equitable access to capital. Laura has taught social entrepreneurship at Stanford and the American University at Rome, and is a frequent speaker on innovation, access, equity, and entrepreneurship. ​ She has received extensive recognition for her work including being named one of 10 Female Executives on the Rise by Fortune, and being named to the Ebony Power 100 list and The Root 100. She received Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinker Award and the Ford Freedom Award. She was the American University of Rome’s first Social Entrepreneur in Residence in 2019, a 2018 Stanford Social Entrepreneur in Residence, a 2016 New America California Fellow, and a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow. From 2014-2016 Laura sat on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) for the US Department of Commerce. ​ Laura has a BA from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford. In fall 2018 she, her husband, and their new baby took 303 days to travel across 11 countries and 48 cities and towns, and then after more than 10 years away Laura finally moved back to her hometown of New York City. More at laurawp.com and threegophers.com.

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• Laura Stachel

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  Executive Director, We Care Solar

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

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• Latanya Mapp Frett

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  President and CEO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  Latanya 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. Previously, Ms Mapp was President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and prior to that, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with regional and country offices in Africa and Latin America. She worked for eight years as a human rights officer for the United Nations Children's Fund and 10 years with the United States Agency for International Development. Ms. Mapp currently serves on the Board of Directors at Oxfam International, Management Sciences for Health, Luminate, and Global Fund for Women UK. She is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and recently published The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now.

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• Laté Lawson-Lartego

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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 and communities. Dr. Lawson-Lartego is a multi-cultural and innovative global leader and people manager. He has a depth of experience as well technical expertise in economic development, social enterprise, financial inclusion, gender equality, agriculture value chains development, food and nutrition security and climate change. In his current role at Oxfam, Dr. Lawson-Lartego works with his team to achieve healthy, inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems for all, especially for marginalized women and men who produce our food. His Theme focuses on three inter-related areas: Corporate Engagement for an inclusive food value chains; Women’s Economic Empowerment and Food & Climate Justice. Before joining Oxfam, Dr. Lawson-Lartego spent a vast majority of his career with CARE International in various capacities in country offices in West Africa, regional and global roles. While with CARE, Dr. Lawson-Lartego and his team pioneered CARE’s first Market Engagement & Value Chain Development strategy and implementation, enabling CARE to impact over 10 million people, especially women, in developing countries. Dr. Lawson-Lartego also instigated the creation of CARE’s social enterprises and supported the spin off of a number of Microfinance Institutions and other Social Enterprises around the world. Dr. Lawson-Lartego also worked for Planet Finance in Paris, France as well as the private sector in Togo. Dr. Lawson-Lartego has two master’s degrees in economics with a major in Management and in Rural Social Development respectively from University of Togo and Reading University in the UK. He also earned a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University. His research interest is centered on the intersection of innovative business solutions to poverty reduction in the food and other economic development spaces.

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• Laila Brenner

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  Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships, Code for America

  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 including education and literacy, access to technology, affordable housing, environmental conservation, performing arts, women’s rights, media reform, and more. In 2010 she received her Masters in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco and founded LB Writing Services. In addition to writing and fundraising, Laila specializes in being a serial hobbyist and mother of two.

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• Krista Donaldson

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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 2020, theorganization kicked off a bold new strategy to significantly increase thepipeline of innovative solutions that close healthcare gaps by 2030. Peter Singer of theEffective Altruism movement calls Equalize Health “one of the world’s bestcharities” because of its cost-effectiveness and exemplary end-to-end processes.EH is based in New Delhi andSan Francisco, with additional offices in Nairobi and Bangkok. Krista has been recognized as a WorldEconomic Forum Technology Pioneer, TED speaker, and a GLG Social Impact Fellow.She was also named one of Fast Company’s “50 Designers Shaping theFuture.” Prior to Equalize Health, she was an Economic Officer at the U.S.Department of State where she managed part of Iraq’s reconstruction portfolio.She also worked at KickStart International (Kenya), and the design firm IDEO(USA). Krista holds a master’s degree in Product Design and a Ph.D. inMechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

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• Konstanze Frischen

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  Global Leadership Group Member, Ashoka, Ashoka

  Social 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 systems change, framework change. Forbes contributor. Background in social anthropology, journalism and ethical banking. Introduced social entrepreneurship in German speaking Europe. Founder Ashoka Germany, co-founder Ashoka Europe, co-founder Globalizer. Board member CASE at Duke. Mother of 2+4.

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• Kondwani Chijota

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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 engagement that creates joint solutions with farming communities to maximise income growth, job creation, and affordable food pipelines for low income communities.

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• Kirsty Smith

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  CEO, CBM UK, CBM Global

  Kirsty Smith is CEO of CBM UK, part of the disability and development federation CBM Global, which aims to improve the quality of life of the world’s poorest people with, or at risk of, disabilities. CBM Global does this through influencing development and humanitarian interventions to be more inclusive, and through working with local diseases and disabled people’s organisations on prevention and treatment of diseases which can lead to impairment, improving access to education and rehabilitation services, and advocating for the rights of people with disabilities to full inclusion in all aspects of life. CBM UK employs 40 staff, has a turnover of over £8m, and is based in Cambridge, UK. Kirsty has over 25 years of experience in the development sector and joined CBM in Sept 2012 after 12 years as CEO of MRDF, an organisational development catalyst agency based in London. Kirsty has played a key role in the formation of the new federal structure of CBM Global and has led change processes in the governance, structure and business model of CBM UK, MRDF and as Chair of the International CBM Federation. Kirsty is an expert in disability inclusion and participatory community development techniques that encourage people who have no voice, to find a voice. She has worked with many mainstream agencies, management consultancies, government stakeholders and civil society organisations to build their capacity in all areas, acting as a catalyst to strengthen their systems and structures in order to increase their impact. This has included the development of the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian response, and the Humanitarian Hands On Tool, a mobile app providing technical guidance on how to make relief services inclusive. As International Development Studies module co-ordinator on the MA Theatre for development course at Southampton University, she taught on a range of areas including gender, monitoring and evaluation, and social accountability.

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• Jessica Vernon

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  CEO, Maisha Meds

  Jessica founded Maisha Meds while a medical student at Stanford School of Medicine. She led the research team for IPA’s Dispensers for Safe Water program as it scaled to support nearly half a million people and developed a cervical cancer screening program for UCSF-FACES. She has worked with McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice and supported the first year of a US digital health company as it raised a $35 million Series A and launched insurance and retail clinic pilots. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in Economics.

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• Kimberly Bardy Langsam

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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 Capital, an online training toolkit for those raising impact capital; Scaling Pathways, a series sharing strategies to address key scaling challenges such as talent, partnerships, and financing; and SEAD, an effort to build the knowledge base around scaling innovations in global health. Kim was previously a Health Development Officer in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID where she worked on PEPFAR’s supply chain management initiatives and worked closely with USAID Missions and multilateral partners. Prior to that, she supported research and programming at the Injury Control Center Uganda in Kampala. Kim has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an ScM from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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• Kim Rubey

  Delegate

  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 impact initiatives including its Open Homes platform, major non-profit partnerships, and volunteer and service oriented programming, and product integrations.

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• Kiki Chmielewski

  Delegate

  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 spent time living internationally as a primary school teacher in Ghana and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, before she earned her Master's Degree in International Development from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies Kiki is the Lead, External Funding & Strategic Partnerships with Flame Tree Initiative. In this role, she is responsible for building relationships and securing funding from individuals, businesses, foundations, and institutions. Kiki also leads on developing mutually beneficial partnerships in Malawi to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth of Flame Tree’s social entrepreneurship programs. She is also responsible for all external marketing and communications, as well as taking a critical role in leading on program strategy and development. Although Kiki grew up in Georgia, she has been enjoying life in Colorado since 2011. When she's not working, you can find her outside trail running, mountain biking, rock climbing, skiing and generally trying to keep up with her husband, Jeff.

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• Ban Ki-Moon

  Speaker

  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. Mr. Ban held office as UN Secretary-General from January 2007 to December 2016, having been unanimously re-elected by the General Assembly for a second mandate. During his tenure he placed the Sustainable Development Goals, tackling climate change, and equality for girls and women at the top of the UN agenda. As a member of The Elders, Ban Ki-moon has held high-level talks with President Macron of France on climate and global security issues; discussed the future of multilateralism, climate action and sustainable development with President Xi of China; visited India to promote Universal Health Coverage and learn from the ‘Mohalla Clinics’ in Delhi; addressed the UN Security Council on conflict resolution; and called publicly for dialogue, restraint and responsible leadership to ease nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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• Jess Fleuti

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  Principal, Skoll Foundation

  As a Principal on the Skoll Foundation's Portfolio & Investments Team, Jess seeks out innovative solutions for Skoll engagement and investment. In particular, she explores solutions that will help advance healthier information ecosystems and reduce the harms of disinformation across Skoll’s strategic priority areas. Previously, Jess led Skoll’s convening programming, including the Skoll World Forum, Skoll’s flagship annual event that spotlights innovations and sparks collaborations in social and environmental impact. Additionally, Jess co-curated Rethinking Possible, a podcast produced in partnership with Aspen Ideas. She also helped launch the Skoll World Forum Fellowship; the TEDxSkoll Conversations series; Skoll Week; and We the Future. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Jess worked at Net Impact, the World Affairs Council, and Council on Foreign Relations, and the California Appellate Project. Jess earned a BA in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She has studied abroad in San Jose, Costa Rica and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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• Ken Weber

  Delegate

  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 system. Ken leads Ripple’s efforts to accelerate and expand financial inclusion and fairness globally. From 2011-2016, Ken served as the founding Executive Director of the Zynga Foundation. Globally, Zynga pioneered the use of digital games for social impact, delivering more than $25M in charitable donations through popular games like FarmVille and Words With Friends. Zynga also helped develop and bring to market breakthrough games in K-12 education and neuroscience. From 2006 to 2011, Ken was Chief Operating Officer of DATA and ONE, a global campaigning and advocacy organization of millions of people from around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Prior to ONE, Ken was founding President and Chief Operating Officer of Network for Good, founded by AOL, Cisco and Yahoo! Since inception, Network for Good has processed more than $2.2B in charitable contributions for more than 100,000 charitable organizations. Ken currently serves on the Budget and Finance Committee of the Annenberg Trust at Sunnylands and is a board member of Period, a nonprofit focused on women’s menstrual health and equity globally. Ken has also served on the boards of the San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA), San Francisco Unified School District's Spark* SF Public Schools and The Lexicon of Sustainability, a nonprofit focused on sustainable food and farming. From 2013-2016, he was a member of the board of Games for Change, serving as chair from 2014-2016. From 1994-1996, Ken attended graduate school at Indiana University’s School of Journalism in Bloomington, Indiana. He holds an Honours B.A. in English Literature from the University of Guelph, near Toronto, Canada.

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• Ken Baker

  Delegate

  Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Glasswing International

  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 Relations at AmeriCares, a large international relief organization. Ken also brings public sector experience to Glasswing, having been contracted with the State Department in over ten countries and having served two terms as a City Councilman in Norwalk, CT. Ken has a BS in International Business from Northeastern University and an MA in International Affairs from American University.

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• Michael Schwall

  Delegate

  Senior Consultant, Bayer Foundation

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

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• Karen Paterson

  Delegate

  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 the organization’s impact-driven initiatives in social entrepreneurship and sustainable development for nine years. In addition to her philanthropic work, Karen had a long career as a senior marketing executive – with large department store companies and global ad agencies, and as CEO of her own advertising agency in San Diego. Karen serves on the boards of Acumen and Global Communities.

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• Kathleen Godley

  Delegate

  Trustee, Godley Family Foundation

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

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• Katherine Lund-Yates

  Delegate

  Fundraising and partnerships manager, Bioregional Development Group

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

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• Katherine Hay

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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 steady state is no longer an option. Kids are changing faster than ever, and technology even faster. We know that if we fall behind or waste time - lives are lost. Canada has the 3rd highest suicide rate in the industrialized world; our Indigenous youth are 6x more likely to die by suicide than non-Indigenous youth. Our young people are in crisis in every province and territory. I am driven to reduce barriers, find new solutions, partnerships and innovations to save lives. I strive to deliver better experiences and outcomes with cost effective e-mental health solutions. The 2018 partnership between Crisis Text Line and Kids Help Phone changed the landscape of mental health in Canada. This remains a point of pride for our team – through innovation and partnership, we are now reaching more youth and saving more lives than ever in our 30 year history. That makes me smile. But, more must be done. I am humbled to have been awarded the prestigious Top 10 Women Leaders in Digital Health in Canada (2019) for our gamechanging work. I am a member of the board of several organizations, including the Ontario Premier’s Office on mental health and addiction, the Children’s First Canada Council of Champions and the National Youth Serving Agencies; and formerly, the National Council of Foundation Executives for the Conference Board of Canada, Imagine Canada, and the Toronto Academic Health Science Network Foundation CEO Roundtable (Chair). I was named one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence for my work advancing the health of women and girls as President & CEO of Women’s College Hospital Foundation. I have worked in academia, founded the Canadian Foundation in Brazil and began my career as an executive in the financial services sector. I am most proud of my two courageous adult children and am in awe of my 10 month old grandson!

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• Michael Gordon

  Delegate

  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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• Kate Cochran

  Delegate

  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. Since 2011, Upaya has accelerated over 75 companies and invested in 29 companies that have created more than 30,000 lasting jobs for the extreme poor in India. Dedicated to proving impact and not just assuming it, Upaya assiduously tracks jobholder income, which shows an average doubling at the household level following a job with an Upaya portfolio company. Previous roles include COO for Vittana, an organization creating student loan markets in developing countries and a range of executive roles at Unitus, a microfinance accelerator. She is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and the intersection of markets and mission. Kate holds a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA

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• Kat Roma Greer

  Delegate

  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 Sketches, and was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for Culture. In 2018, Kat returned from the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency where she continued her research and activations on climate disruption art and the role of artists in this vital issue. Based in Hong Kong, Kat is currently working on responsive, creative programs that encourage artists and community to make a blueprint of a better post-COVID world.

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• Karen Spencer

  Delegate

  Founder & CEO, Whole Child International

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

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• Kara Weiss

  Delegate

  Head of Programs, 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 in Africa. Kara has led CRI to develop a strategic philanthropic strategy which has positioned the foundation as a key catalyst in the community health space and as a pivotal voice in strategic philanthropy. She led CRI to co-found the Risk Pool Fund, an innovative mechanism to address some of the most enduring risks of philanthropy, and is always looking for the next best idea. She is the CRI lead on system-change initiatives, as well as government partnerships, including CRI’s ongoing partnership with Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID. Kara is on the board of Spark MicroGrants, Seed Global Health, the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, CRI Foundation, as well as the allocation committee of the WAM Foundation.

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• Piyush Tewari

  Delegate

  Founder & CEO, SaveLIFE Foundation

  Piyush Tewari is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF), a nonprofit committed to saving lives on roads in India and beyond since 2008. He is best known for getting India a Good Samaritan Law and developing an award-winning model for reducing fatalities on Indian highways. Prior to SLF, Piyush served as the India Director of a US-based private equity fund. He quit the private sector to establish SLF following the traumatic road crash death of a young family member. Previously, Piyush served as Program Manager at the India Brand Equity Fund, an initiative of the Prime Minister of India. He hold a Bachelor’s degree in IT from Delhi University and Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. He is a recipient of The Elevate Prize, the Rolex Award for Enterprise, Ashoka Fellowship, Echoing Green Fellowship, DRKF fellowship, and Rainer Arnhold Fellowship.

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• Julien Ancele

  Delegate

  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 Business School, Julien worked as a strategy and sustainability consultant within Accenture. He spent 8 years designing and shaping strategic initiatives for global players in the fields of consumer goods, natural resources and logistics.

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• Mario Avila

  Delegate

  Founding Director, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures

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

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• Julie Avey

  Delegate

  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 led Massy Motors in Cali; Julie was part of the team that led the first Massy acquisition in Latin America. The transition to Group HR was a natural move as - though not a career HR professional - Julie has always enjoyed leading people to be the best they can be to benefit them personally which creates the environment for abundant business success. Since assuming the role on the Executive Committee of Massy, Julie has led the roll out of Expectations of Massy Leaders, the first Massy Innovation Tournament and other People Initiatives under the banner of OneHR. Julie is currently working with Caribbean Entrepreneur Anya Ayoung Chee on Nudge; social enterprise celebrating Caribbean talent. The purpose of Nudge is to support entrepreneurship, develop platforms and make connections to give MSMEs the greatest chance of succeeding as traditional work is disrupted through technology and economic circumstances. Julie is motivated by the Massy Group’s Purpose, Vision and Values and potential to positively impact the Caribbean region. She is passionate about responsibly dismantling a leadership culture of “command and control” to create the space where creativity flourishes and engaged and empowered employees can thrive in the interests of the individual, business and society. Julie has a BA Commerce from RGU, Aberdeen, is married with 2 children and resides in Trinidad and Tobago.

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• Julian Eaton

  Delegate

  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 services, social inclusion, and realisation of rights for people with mental illnesses and psychosocial disabilities, especially in poor and marginalised communities. He recently returned to London, after living and working in West Africa for 15 happy years, initially in Nigeria, and more recently in Togo.

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• Julia Kim-Davies

  Delegate

  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 Education, Arts and Civil Society, concentrating on the thematic intersections and synergies between the business units. Julia leads on developing new propositions with multilaterals, trusts and foundations as well as with Governments across thematic areas including creative/social entrepreneurship to creative youth development programmes. Julia’s technical specialism is in the field of the arts, creative industries and cultural heritage. Prior to the British Council, she worked as a Senior Programme Officer for the Culture Unit at UNESCO Bangkok, where she was leading on regional programmes in creative education and World Heritage across the Mekong cluster. Originally an architect from London, Julia has resided in South-East Asia for the past eighteen years. The British Council works globally to advance the social entrepreneurship agenda. Our work draws on UK and global experience and is delivered across 29 countries with local and international partners. Together, we provide social entrepreneurs with access to training, mentoring and funding opportunities; promote social enterprise education in schools and universities; convene policy dialogues, and conduct research and organise study tours to share knowledge and best practice in creating an enabling environment for social enterprise. It is a systemic approach designed to help foster a more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous future and build collaboration, opportunities and trust between the UK and other countries.

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• Peter Zahn

  Delegate

  CEO, Futures Unbound

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

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• Juan Navarrete

  Delegate

  VP of Business and Partnerships Development, Fundación Capital

  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 protection public policy in Mexico. My 27-year career as a development economist has always been centered in catering to the needs of vulnerable populations, specializing in financial and productive inclusion, with a strong emphasis on evaluation of both the demand and supply sides (quantitative and qualitative methods), having evaluated a wide array of international development projects (in LATAM, Africa and Southeast Asia). Since my arrival in Fundación Capital (8 years ago), I have devoted my efforts to the construction of private and public multi-stakeholder ecosystems, in the context of productive and financial inclusion via innovation efforts in product design for digital channels.

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• Marcie Cook

  Delegate

  Vice President, Social Enterprise, Population Services International

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

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• Peter Oola

  Delegate

  Program Officer, The ELMA Philanthropies

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

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• Juan Manuel Santos

  Speaker

  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 Colombia (FARC). This broke with his predecessors’ approach of fighting the FARC guerrilla forces with the aim of defeating them militarily, rather than attempting dialogue. As a result of his resolve and dedication to achieve peace and reconciliation in Colombia, President Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. He made steps to ensure a just transition, and to lay the groundwork for eventual unity and reconciliation. He emphasised not only justice for victims, but importantly the desire for truth – inaugurating a historic Truth Commission to investigate the victimisation of civilians during the war. President Santos is an outspoken advocate for the protection of biodiversity. During his presidency he significantly expanded protected areas in Colombia and strengthened the Ministry of the Environment. One of his biggest achievements in this area was the expansion of marine protected areas from 1.2 million hectares in 2010 to 12.8 million in 2018. He joined The Elders in January of 2019, and has already spoken out on the need for Latin American leadership on the climate crisis, met with South Sudanese refugees in Gambela in Ethiopia and has engaged in important intergenerational dialogue on fighting injustice and inequality.

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• Juan Camilo Potes

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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 experience, I have worked with international cooperation and in close coordination with national and local governments, private sector and civil society organizations, towards comprehensive responses for the social and economic re-establishment of vulnerable populations in complex contexts. Also, I have experience as a private sector consultant in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and community engagement and with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

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• Joshua Ross

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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 industry, a truly novel idea – embedding a SAAS tech-social enterprise into a charity structure whereby the shareholders are the world's most disadvantaged children. Humanitix has now had great success across Australia & New Zealand, received multi-year funding from the Atlassian Foundation, and is launching in the US in 2020. Prior to co-founding Humanitix josh started his career at one of Sydney’s leading hedge-funds where he spent 7 years in the investment team, became CFA qualified, was offered partnership, however left the industry to launch his dream social enterprise. He has now dedicated the rest of his life to trying to solving the global education gap, which he believes is at the core of intergenerational poverty. Humanitix Australia is now a scaled self-funding charity generating social impact through indigenous scholarships, literacy programs for young girls, and improved accessibility at live events. Boston Consulting Group estimate it is on track to become the world’s first Social Unicorn, and he is hoping for it to lead the way as a concept for Venture Philanthropy and Social Return on Capital.

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• Josh Goralski

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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 justice and a passion for designing carbon credit models where the communities retain full economic benefit and entrepreneurship. His work has raised nearly $5 million in financial support and is expected to grow the annual budget by 10x in 2024. To date, Unlocking Communities has impacted over 400,000 lives. Josh previously co-founded Goralski and Associates, a consulting firm that helps high-potential social sector organizations grow and scale. He has a decade of experience in the social sector, from analyzing global impact metrics to writing business plans. He is an active member of Old St. Pat's Church, where he is involved in various social justice ministries.

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• Paul Radu

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  Co-founder and Chief of Innovation, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  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 borders. Paul is an Ashoka Global Fellow and has held a number of other fellowships, including the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Knight International Journalism Fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is a board member for the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a member of the jury for the global Sigma Data Journalism Awards, and a member of the Allard Prize advisory board.

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• Joséphine Goube

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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 to the needs of displaced people worldwide since 2015. She is a board member of the Norwegian Refugee Council and an informal expert alongside the European Commission. Nominated as one of the top “30 under 30 Social Entrepreneurs” by Forbes three times in a row since 2016 and awarded the title of “Digital Women” of the year in France, for her work at both Migreat (a former London-based startup that specialized in providing personalised information to migrants applying for visas to Europe) & Techfugees, Joséphine interests lies in understanding how technology can be used to empower displaced people & its limitations.

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• Jude O'Reilley

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  Vice President, Portfolio and Investments, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Jose Rimon

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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 solutions at scale in 100 cities worldwide and has mobilized more $60M local funding from cities in three years. Oying is a Senior Scientist in the faculty of the Department of Population and Family Health. He is also the Founding Director of the School’s Center for Public Health Advocacy. Oying chairs the international steering committee and the core organizing group of the biennial International Conference on Family Planning. An internationally recognized leader in population, reproductive health and family planning, Oying has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial and transformational leadership experience in public health. He has designed, managed, and evaluated more than 300 advocacy, behavior change, service delivery and knowledge management projects in more than 60 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Near East across multiple public health issues. From 2008 to 2012, he was a senior officer in the Global Health Policy and Advocacy group of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation covering the issues of family planning, maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) and nutrition. He was one of the key planners of the seminal 2012 London Summit on Family Planning which raised $2.6B of new funding for family planning. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in 2008, he was co-founder and Senior Deputy Director of the Bloomberg School’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP) transforming it from idea into one of the largest behavioral change organization in the world with an annual budget of $100M. He has also helped establish a number of successful self-sustaining social enterprises in the world, among them, the FriendlyCare Foundation in the Philippines.

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• Jones Thomas

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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 2018, he has maintained a special focus on climate sustainability investments. Mr. Thomas also leads Capricorn’s carbon offset procurement program for meeting the firm’s net zero objectives. Prior to joining Capricorn, Jones was part of Cornell University Endowment’s investment team, and has also worked at Credit Suisse and Deloitte Consulting. Jones holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, and a Masters in Financial Engineering from Cornell University. At Cornell, he was a JN Tata Scholar. Mr. Thomas is also a CFA Charterholder.

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• Jonathan Jennings

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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 and the climate crisis. Guided by communities, we are deconstructing the false boundaries between human wellbeing and ecosystem integrity. Solutions exist. Learn more, get involved, or invest at www.healthinharmony.org. Jonathan holds an MS in Biology and Ecology and an MA in Politics and International Security. He spent 13 years with Doctors Without Borders managing humanitarian programs across the Balkans, Africa and India. In 2013 he became the Deputy Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders Canada. Jonathan became increasingly focused on the drivers of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Recognizing that human well-being and environmental health are fundamentally interdependent, he followed his vision for change, becoming Executive Director of Health In Harmony in 2017.

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• John Boswell

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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 young people take responsibility for their individual and collective growth, achieving sustainable success across every area of life and empowering others to do the same. In my role as Chief Operating Officer, I oversee the day-to-day operations of the US program and serve as one of Zoe’s primary development officers. Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC May 1999 - June 2019 SAS Institute is the world’s largest privately held software company. As Chief Legal Officer, I oversaw the operations of the 345 member Legal Division which included Legal, Global Contract Operations, Enterprise Negotiations and Public Policy. The Legal division operated in 52 count

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• Jim Hu

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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 responsible for developing campaigns to amplify the reach and social impact of its film and episodic content. His areas of oversight include strategic planning, operations, campaign measurement and evaluation and digital. Jim first joined Participant in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development and most recently served as EVP of Audience. He is a digital media veteran with a background in operations and strategy at global digital brands including Instagram, Yahoo! and the Los Angeles Times. He holds a B.S. from Tufts University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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• Jim Fournier

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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 and information technology in San Francisco, which led to the ASN initiative to create a global social network – before Facebook. Jim also funded a key social network patent to keep it in the public domain, resulting in founder’s shares in the Linkedin IPO. In 2005, he saw we need to remove CO2, invested in, and co-founded, the first US biochar company with the emeritus expert on biomass gasification at NREL, represented biochar at the UNIPCC for 3 years and was a finalist for the Branson Prize to remove 1 Gt of CO2 when he sold the company in 2011. By 2008, he saw we could not remove CO2 fast enough to avoid heating feedback and heard about Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB). He raised non-profit support for MCB research and co-authored a paper in the preeminent scientific journal PhilTrans in 2014. Planetwork had also started the ‘user-centric digital identity’ community that pursued an internet data protocol for over a decade. Following the Linkedin IPO, Jim hired the most respected developer and the two had a breakthrough on internet data exchange, filed a patent and formed JLINC.com in April 2015. They had a solution ready for GDPR in May 2018, but EU regulators were slow to move. In Dec 2018 the UNIPCC announced standard carbon accounting, but needed binding agreements. Jim saw that JLINC could automate both and founded Carbon Path as a CA benefit corporation with both environmental and data covenants in April 2019. By 2020, it was clear that scientists, journalists and activists in all realms, not just climate, need interconnected networks, and with the whole society rapidly waking up to the social media crisis, the working beta became Tru.net.

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• Jim Cannon

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  CEO, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

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

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• Jim Chu

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  CEO, dlo Haiti

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

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• Jill Mosebach

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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 Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) in New York City, a role she has held since 2015. TFI is a not-for-profit film organization that amplifies untold stories and creates access to capital, connections, and audiences among marginalized filmmakers and content creators. At TFI, Jill oversees private partnerships, strategic plan implementation, and change interventions. Prior to TFI, Jill managed partnerships and communications for esteemed institutions in the arts, culture, and global health sectors including Helen Keller International and Historic Hudson Valley. In addition to her fundraising background, Jill brings deep knowledge and experience in organizational assessment and diagnosis, strategic planning and implementation, culture change, and leadership development. She is a former New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Baruch College’s Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Jill holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Change Management from The New School and a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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• Jessica Cheng

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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 total of US$7.7 million is awarded to three laureates under the areas – Sustainability, Welfare Betterment and Positive Energy. Jessica oversees the operation and promotion of the prize. Prior to that, Jessica spent a decade in China as a marketing manager servicing global consumer brands. She holds a bachelor degree in theatre from Cornell University, USA.

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• Jesse Roberts

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  Interim Chief Executive Officer, Videre

  Jesse 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 promoting freedom of expression and access to information in conflict-affected and closed societies. He began his career in human rights with Global Witness, and worked in Sri Lanka for the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust during the final stages of the country’s civil war to protect local human rights defenders and support civil society development. Jesse holds a MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.

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• Kofi Appenteng

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  President, Africa-America Institute

  Kofi Appenteng is the President of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), a 66-year-old organization with a mission of promoting enlightened engagement between Africa and America through education, training and dialogue. With more than 15,000 African alumni from more than 50 African countries, AAI has tremendous reach and is a trusted brand. Appenteng has 30 years of domestic and international experience as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and board director. He previously served as senior counsel at Dentons, a global law firm, and is a senior advisor to The Rock Creek Group, a global investment and advisory firm. Throughout his career, Appenteng has been active with numerous civil society organizations. He is currently a member of the board at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and previously served as board chair of the Ford Foundation. Additionally, Appenteng serves on the board of the International Center for Transitional Justice and on the International Advisory Board of IE University. In recognition of his work in business and philanthropy, he was named a “Great American Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation in 2013. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Appenteng began his education in England where he completed his primary and secondary education and then came to the United States to attend college at Wesleyan University. At Wesleyan, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree; was awarded the Butterfield Prize for character, leadership and intellectual commitment; and captained the soccer and athletic teams while earning recognition as a member of the All-American soccer team. He earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University where he was an international fellow. Appenteng then began his career as a corporate lawyer and, in 1994, became the first Black African to become a partner at a major New York City law firm.

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• Jon Shepard

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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 and faster. Jon is seconded from GDI to Emergent, a non-profit set up by the government of Norway, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation to catalyse private sector funding for protection of the earth's irreplaceable tropical forests. Previously, Jon set up and led a global non-profit unit within EY that supported leading social entrepreneurs in low/middle-income countries, helping them build more resilient and scalable businesses.

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• Izadora Mattiello

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  CEO, Phomenta

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

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• Jennifer Oakley

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  Program Partner, Imago Dei Fund

  Jennifer Oakley works to advance the strategic priorities of the Imago Dei Fund locally in Boston, MA and internationally. Directing and managing a portfolio of investments across multiple sectors, she works closely with partners of the fund. In this role, she explores and cultivates promising new ideas and initiatives and works to build the capacity of existing partnerships. Jennifer has a deep desire to serve as a catalyst to bring together talented visionaries and impactful organizations from different sectors and to encourage collaboration among the broader philanthropic community. She is an active member of a number of funder networks, including the Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID), Professionals in Christian Philanthropy and Big Bang Philanthropy. Prior to joining IDF, Jennifer practiced law at firms in Washington, D.C. and Boston.

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• Katie Drasser

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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, she leads a team of experts in health equity, social enterprise and design to encourage more equitable innovation in digital health. Previously, Katie curated health content for the Aspen Ideas Festival and was Managing Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, where she led global leadership programs to address poverty alleviation and human rights. Katie has worked nationally and around the world on initiatives including HIV/AIDS treatment strategies in Romania, private health services delivery in Myanmar, and the scale up of Kenya’s national emergency medical system. She also built a range of start-ups, designing a network of charter schools, and developing Good Capital, a venture fund

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• Noah Nasiali-Kadima

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  Founder & CEO, Africa Farmers Club

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

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• Jedidah Maina

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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 Health (TICAH) in 2007 as the Sexuality Program Officer and is now the Executive Director. Her work has included developing programs, educational materials, and trainings on reproductive health choices and advocating for change in attitudes, laws, policies and programs, and creating safe spaces for honest conversation about sex and sexuality. Before Joining TICAH, Jedidah worked for Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) where she championed for the enactment and the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act. She holds a Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management and a Bachelors of Arts degree (Economics and Sociology) from the University of Nairobi.

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• Jean Paul Warmoes

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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 Europe. Prior to joining KBF, Jean Paul oversaw business development for an ODA consulting firm, and worked in Tokyo, Sydney and Paris. Jean Paul holds a Master’s degree from the Solvay Business School (University of Brussels), and earned degrees in foreign trade and international comparative management. He is fluent in French and Dutch.

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• Jean Bosco Niyonzima

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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 including Save the Children International which he served as the Global Clinical Governance Advisor at the HeadQuarter in London for 3 years. Before joining SCI in London, he worked in challenging countries including South Sudan, Niger, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Liberia and Rwanda with different organizations including Partners In Health, Last Mile Health and International Medical Corps. Jean Bosco is a Rwandan Medical Doctor who graduated from the National University of Rwanda and holds a Master’s of Public Health from the University of Liverpool, UK , a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development and a diploma in the Psychosocial Foundations of Peacebuilding from SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont State, US.

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• Jaya Adapa

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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 & sustainability, girls education, and responsibility. Jaya is a subject matter expert in corporate social responsibility, social good content, digital fundraising, and impact storytelling.

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• Janis Simon

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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 board member of Segal Family Foundation and has been on the board for ten years. For eight years she was the Board Chair of Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project located in Uganda. She is a Rotarian and currently on the board of Soul Foundation in Uganda. In 2015, Janis was certified by the American Academy of Pediatrics in Helping Babies Breathe. For the last four years, she has been teaching Helping Babies Breathe and organizing Helping Mother’s Survive trainings in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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• Janet Kleinbaum

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  Director of Marketing & Communications, The ELMA Philanthropies

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

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• Jeff Dykstra

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  Co-Founder & CEO, Partners in Food Solutions

  Jeff serves as Co-founder & CEO of an award winning global non-profit - Partners in Food Solutions - that brings together leading international food companies, Governments, Private Donors, and more than 1,600 African Food companies to address food security, nutrition and economic development across ten African countries. Jeff has worked for both large, international companies and organizations like Cargill and World Vision as well as scrappy start-up ventures and has lived and worked with his family in both Zambia and Kenya and has had the privilege of spending meaningful time and building relationships in more than 25 countries. In acknowledgement of his leadership and the impact of PFS, he has in recent years been named both an Ashoka Fellow and a Bush Fellow, honors reserved for some of the world’s leading social innovators. As part of his Bush Fellowship, he attended and graduated from Oxford University where he earned a Masters Level Diploma in Organizational Leadership.

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• Jane Kelly

  Delegate

  Head, Enterprise & Livelihoods, Vitol Foundation

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

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• Jane Choi

  Delegate

  Chief Financial Officer, myAgro

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

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• Joanne Kagle

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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 projects include, a nursing center for excellence in Rwanda, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) youth campaign in Navajo Nation and San Francisco, T2D shared medical appts. in Chiapas, Mexico, Type 1 Diabetes training at Bearskin Meadows teen diabetes camp, a mental health initiative (Possible Health, Nepal), and midwife leadership training with IDSP Pakistan (Skoll Entrepreneur Quratulain Bakhteari). Joanne serves on the board of Partners in Health, the UCSF Diabetes Leadership Council, and is a member of Legacy Venture (a philanthropic venture community). She is a former board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Charles Armstrong School for the dyslexic learner.

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• Jamie McGonnigal

  Delegate

  Director of Business Development, Social Capital Markets

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

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• Tim Carlberg

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  Managing Director, Skoll Foundation

  Tim is a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. He is responsible for identifying high-potential social entrepreneurs and applying the Foundation’s assets to help social enterprises create large scale and lasting change to social injustice and inequity around the world. Prior to joining Skoll, Tim spent more than a decade as a management consultant - most recently with Dalberg Advisors where he helped corporate, multilateral, foundation and NGO clients develop effective solutions to the world's most pressing social problems. Tim holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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• Jeffrey Westphal

  Delegate

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

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

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• Jackie Hindawi

  Delegate

  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 sector alongside her husband, Orion Hindawi who runs Tanium, a large cybersecurity technology company. Both Jackie and Orion are excited to use their business expertise and passion to make the world a safer and kinder place. They want to be responsible and informed philanthropists and are looking forward to learning more so they can maximize their impact. They are particularly interested in addressing climate change and those most directly affected by the crisis as they look towards creating a better future for their two young children.

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• Isabelle Hirs

  Delegate

  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 Standards and Information Systems United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva Assistant to the Director

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• Isabelle Georgeaux

  Delegate

  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 -- especially trauma healing, etc. In Europe, the foundation supports like-minded non-profit organisations also focused on helping teens in the care system. Isabelle is also involved in the arts, including working as an independent film producer through her production company Pont Neuf Productions. Isabelle started her career as a senior management consultant and business development executive with a focus on media and communications. She is trilingual and has worked in France, the US and Latin America. She has extensive senior management experience setting up business units. Isabelle is an MBA graduate of INSEAD (France).

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• Innocent Magambi

  Delegate

  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 Ultan

  Delegate

  Director, Skoll Foundation

  Jill is the Director of Event Production at the Skoll Foundation. Jill's work centers on building bridges for the social entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work, she plays a key role in helping connect and celebrate this dynamic community. She focuses much of her time envisioning how to build a meaningful and impactful experience for delegates at the Skoll World Forum and other Skoll convenings, collaborating across the Foundation to create the framework for these events, and finally implementing that vision. Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Jill spent much of her career conceptualizing and producing memorable experiences for clients at special events such as the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Tony Awards, and the Kentucky Derby. In her free time, she can often be found on the local Pickleball courts. She has acquired a new nickname, “Coach Jill,” stemming from her love of teaching the fundamentals of pickleball to novices. At home Jill’s great passion is cooking and baking too, much to her family’s delight.

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• Ingrid Stange

  Delegate

  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 Common Ground Co-founder of Addito, a foundation to secure a safe digital platform for learning Actively involved in promoting young musical talents through Oslo Quartet Series and Queen Sonja International Music Competition Earlier: Head of institutional and UHNWI clients in Wealth Management firm Philanthropy Advisor in Wealth Management firm SEM at McKinsey & Co Educaton: MBA, UC Berkeley MSc, Norwegian School of Economics MSc Economics, MBA

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• Imelda Mahaka

  Delegate

  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 communities affected and infected with HIV. She provides strategic support, thought leadership and oversight of PZAT Programs. Imelda recognises that local leadership is central to forging resilient health and community systems in the response to HIV. As such, she has prioritized partnering with local structures and communities to promote ownership and sustainability of health interventions. A graduate of social work, she studied at the University of Zimbabwe. Imelda serves on AfroCAB as a strong advocate who spent the last two years advocating for robust treatment for people living with HIV, participating in global engagements lobbying for greater community engagement around their health. Earlier in her career, Imelda worked as a social scientist mainly with adolescent girls and young women to reduce HIV incidence while empowering young women with life skills and sexuality education as well as economic livelihoods. Expertise: Health, health delivery, adolescent girls and young women, livelihoods, key populations health interventions, advocacy, policy advocacy

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• Iliane Ogilvie Thompson

  Delegate

  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 sustainability for fashion and other creative industries. Iliane chairs the Advisory Board of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and sits on the Board of Visitors. She is a Governor of Summer Fields School in Oxford and is on the Advisory Board of the Lemon Tree Trust, which works with refugees on gardening projects. Iliane is on the Advisory Board of Nest, a non profit agency that works with 160,000 artisans in 92 countries, supporting and investing in handcrafts for both livelihoods and cultural preservation. She was perviously a trustee for 6 years. Iliane was a trustee of FilmAid International for 9 years, setting up and chairing the UK board in that time and also helping to establish FilmAid Asia. FilmAid works with young people in refugee camps and in slums, teaching them filmmaking and partnering with aid agencies to deliver crucial messaging. Iliane was a trustee of the International Rescue Committee Europe for 6 years, the agency founded by Albert Einstein in 1933 and working with refugees around the world. Iliane started her career in Brand Management at Procter & Gamble. She was a Consultant in Accenture's Strategy practice in London, working with FMCG clients in Holland and France. Iliane joined Yahoo! in Europe as the Internet was beginning to take off. She initially ran Marketing for the UK and was then eCommerce Business Development Director for Yahoo!Europe. Iliane then worked for the Diageo Venture group, as Business Development Director and later ran Strategic Alliances for the global business. Iliane was born in South Africa, is a Dutch national and has lived in several countries. She speaks 5 languages and lives between London and Oxford.

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• Ijeoma Ezeofor

  Delegate

  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 expertise in social behavior and health communication, Ijeoma believes that understanding the people absorbed in complex social problems is the first step toward solving them. She recognizes that collaboration and shared vision drive better outcomes for both individuals and the social sector at-large. Ijeoma’s approach to research and evaluation draws on the same building blocks—empathy, curiosity, and humility—that characterized her previous experience as an individual and group therapist and her worldview overall. Ijeoma’s past work—which has included program development and evaluation research in areas such as freedom of the press, reproductive justice, early childhood education, and public health—leveraged her skills and knowledge in diversity and inclusion, social determinants of health, and mental and behavioral health. At TCC Group, the heart of Ijeoma's work is about helping organizations improve people’s lives at a systemic level. With a keen understanding of theory and years of experience with a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods, Ijeoma helps clients and partners observe, surface, and make meaning of the patterns and connections between their objectives and their ultimate desired impact. She sees her individual contributions as part of a broader effort to weave progress through the entire social fabric.

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• Hunter Goldman

  Delegate

  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 within the Foundation, as well as external partnership development. He Between 2013 and 2017, Hunter served as Senior Program Associate on the Innovation team, where he managed relationships with prospective grantees throughout the grantmaking process, coordinated Foundation work with partners, and conducted research in support of the strategic development and execution of Foundation initiatives. Prior to Rockefeller, he worked for New York City's Economic Development Corporation, steering land-use projects through the public approvals process. Hunter has a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA from NYU.

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• Hugo Morse

  Delegate

  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 is striving to create impact by investing in social entrepreneurship that stretches across the private, public and non-profit sector - enabling social innovation and impactful solutions to some of the complex problems present in todays society.

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• Htet Thiri Shwe

  Delegate

  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, Design Thinking, Finance. MYEO is Myanmar’s human capital accelerator, upskilling youths with 21st-century skills through our online ecosystem, and connecting them to motivated peers and exciting job opportunities. MYEO has +170,000 youths learning community, +34,000 youths trained exclusively online, +33,000 youths trained hybrid, and +70,000 youths using MYEO's learning chatbots. Over 60% trained are young women, 50% are from rural areas including marginalized youths from high conflict areas Htet was 2019 Skoll Forum Fellow, and is a strong advocate of “Community Entrepreneurship” and “Education Equity” with dedication to build technology tools and solutions for the cause.

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• Heather Mason

  Delegate

  CEO, Caspian Agency

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

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• Hisham Nourin

  Delegate

  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 projects that support the Foundation’s contribution to Qatar’s National Vision. Hisham has more than 18 years experience in over 4 continents leading business enhancement initiatives and projects that carried a major strategic impact. Prior to joining Qatar Foundation, Hisham has held various management positions overseeing continuous improvement, transformation and operational positions at several companies internationally. Hisham holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and an Executive MBA from HEC Paris. His professional interests focus on strategy and operating model development that are highly implementable. Hisham is a frequent invited speaker and moderator and is often interviewed by many professional publications.

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• Hina West

  Delegate

  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 globally and beyond. Previously, headed up WWF-UK's corporate partnership management team - working with the private sector to forge shared-value partnerships, and change in business practices, that result in real conservation impact. Prior to this, Hina worked in a number of programmatic and partnership roles at Oxfam. Along with time spent working for New Zealand’s Green Party combating social and environmental injustice; within communications for the iconic MINI; and raising youth’s awareness of HIV/AIDS with The British Red Cross. Empathetic, hard-working, trustworthy, energetic, creative, entrepreneurial and solutions-focussed strategic thinker with exemplary communication, numerical and organisational skills. Enjoy working individually, but excel in a team environment; and inspire others to exceed goals, work around difficulties and create new ways to solve issues.

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• Sharon Burke

  Delegate

  Director, Resource Security, New America

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

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• Henry Iseman

  Delegate

  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 joined forces with fellow students at Yale to create Penta’s earliest efforts in Vietnam. Since then, Henry has grown Penta into a global operation and non-profit through his day-to-day management, strategic leadership, and fundraising efforts. Penta now repurposes prosthetic limbs discarded in the US for amputees in need in more than 25 countries. Henry is also passionate about the field of cultural heritage preservation. He is a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund, a global leader in this field, and helped to build WMF’s Junior Board, which he also leads.

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• Helen Agerup

  Delegate

  Mrs, Agerup Foundation

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• Hector Gomez Ang

  Delegate

  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 pipeline, currently under execution. He is part of the IFC's Community of Practice on Forcibly Displace People and led IFC’s involvement in the creation of the Amazon Guidelines in partnership with Brazil’s FGV and 100+ institutions. Hector started his career as an oilfield engineer at Schlumberger, worked at Mexico’s Grupo Alfa, was an M&A banker at Salomon Smith Barney and in the strategy team at Citigroup International. He was the director of global business development at AIG Consumer Finance Group with responsibility for Latin America and Eastern Europe. He joined IFC in 2008 where he has held the positions of head for El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, the Andean Region and the Amazon region. Hector holds Chemical and Systems Engineering and MBA degrees from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He also holds a distinction M.Sc. degree in Social Business and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics. He has been a board member at some of the largest financial institutions in Colombia and Mexico.

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• Heather White

  Delegate

  COO, Burning Man

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

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• Felipe Medina

  Delegate

  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 been studying best practices and mistakes of philanthropy in the United States and Europe to help jump-start philanthropy in the region. He also has been researching how to create a culture of strategic philanthropy in Latin America. Felipe is a member of the Steering Group of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Aspen Institute Colombia Initiative. He serves in the Advisory Board of Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Felipe is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Enseña por Colombia and a member of the Global Advisory Council of Acumen and Teach for All. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of L’Atelier, a Reggio Emilia inspired pre-school that he founded with his wife Simonetta. L’Atelier is working with several organizations to establish Reggio Emilia inspired early education centers. Felipe began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1990, managing assets for Latin American clients. Between 2000 and 2003, he was the regional director for Latin America’s private wealth management. Currently, Felipe manages relationships with some of the most influential families and individuals in the region. He is a member of the Private Wealth Philanthropy Advisory Committee and the Top Advisors Council of Goldman Sachs. Medina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Dedo n Ba

  Delegate

  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 Saharan Africa to identify & fund the next generation of diverse impact leaders in Africa. As Director of Strategy at Segal Family Foundation, supporting a portfolio of 350+ outstanding organizations across 20 sub saharan African countries, Dedo spends time working as a connector, brokering partnerships between philanthropists, key government officials, and diverse visionary change makers across Africa, Europe and US. One thing to know about him, he is a tireless activist and networker, engage him on a long walk on how to drive more responsive, new age philanthropy and investment in the new Africa.

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• Gregg Treinish

  Delegate

  CEO, Adventure Scientists

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

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• Govindraj Ethiraj

  Delegate

  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 general & news in specific in India and world-wide. His ventures were started with the vision of improving the quality of public discourse and playing a transformative role in enforcing accountability and better governance. Most recently, he founded BOOM (www.boomlive.in), a fake news busting initiative that tracks and debunks viral hoaxes in real time, often time preventing community violence by stopping rumours that stir up ethnic hatred. He also founded the award-winning IndiaSpend (indiaspend.org), a public interest journalism outfit which uses data to write and syndicate stories in areas like health, education and environment, and FactChecker (factchecker.in)which monitors people and institutions in public life. BOOM and FactChecker were India’s first verified members of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN), a part of the Poynter Institute. The award-winning IndiaSpend is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and also boasts some of the highest, continued citations for its data work in leading academic journals world over. Govindraj was named a 2018 McNulty Prize Laureate in recognition for his leadership with BOOM, IndiaSpend, and FactChecker. Govindraj also anchors seasonal shows on Indian news television – including presently on networks like BloombergQuint. Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media), and before that, Govindraj spent five years with television channel CNBC-TV18 where he actively drove most of the channels’ programming growth and expansion. Prior to television, he worked in print in The Economic Times and leading business magazines. He is a Fellow of the Inaugural Class of Ananta Aspen’s India Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a winner of the 2014 BMW Responsible Leaders Awards.

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• Glynis Rankin

  Delegate

  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 business development services in emerging economies. Glynis leads Creative Metier’s market building strategy, working with service providers in executive coaching and business development to strengthen their offerings and their businesses, and with small and growing businesses to strengthen their performance. In her consulting work Glynis has led significant assignments across Creative Metier’s work in governance, organisational and leadership development to ensure robust institutions delivering a strong social impact. She has initiated and led programs with Boards, CEOs and senior leaders across Sub-Saharan Africa in the financial sector, insurance, microfinance, consultancy firms and SMEs. She is currently focussed on extending the impact of multi-stakeholder networks as sustainable providers of support to the rural economy and the small business ecosystem in E Africa.

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• Meghan Curran

  Delegate

  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 Talent function before relocating to West Africa in 2018. Her commitment to market-driven approaches to tackling poverty is rooted in her experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala, after which she facilitated microfinance loans and created a financial literacy program for Grameen America, the U.S. affiliate of Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank. Meghan holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and a bachelor's degree from American University in Political Science, and is fluent in Spanish.

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• Giulia Zino

  Delegate

  Head of Donor Relations, Proximity Designs

  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 joined Proximity in February 2020 after holding various roles in the political and security risk consulting industry in Asia and Europe. She has ten years’ experience in advising multinational companies, government and non-profit organisations on how to successfully invest and operate in developing and frontier markets, with a focus on Myanmar and South-East Asia. She has helped dozens of companies enter Myanmar since the start of the reform process in 2010-11, including in the context of the country’s first oil and gas, foreign banking and telecommunications licences rounds. Giulia has a M.Litt. in International Security Studies from the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, UK) and a BA in Communication and Institutional Relations Studies from LUISS University (Rome, Italy).

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• Jean Shia

  Delegate

  Head of Portfolio and Investment, Autodesk Foundation

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

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• Gina Reiss

  Delegate

  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, global complexities and managed diverse teams across the US, South East Asia and East Africa. As a transparent, consensus-driven leader, her core competencies include strategic planning, resource mobilization and board/staff management. Reiss also has extensive experience in guiding organizations through leadership transitions, including restructuring, re-branding, and public relations crises. Fast Company selected Ms. Reiss among their 2012 “League of Extraordinary Women.”

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• George Tsiatis

  Delegate

  CEO & Co-Founder, Resolution Project

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

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• George McGraw

  Delegate

  CEO, DigDeep Right to Water Project

  George McGraw, Founder & CEO of DigDeep, is a leading expert on water and sanitation access, with a focus on the United States. With over a decade of experience in the WaSH (water, sanitation and hygiene) sector, he has led significant field projects, policy initiatives and research efforts, including the influential reports 'Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States,' and the 2022 report, 'Draining: The Economic Impact of America’s Hidden Water Crisis', George's impact extends well beyond research. He serves as a Water and Power Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, the nation's largest municipal utility. As an Ashoka Fellow, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and former Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University, George brings a wealth of expertise to the fight for water justice.

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• Geoff Revell

  Delegate

  Managing Director, WaterSHED

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

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• Matt Patsky

  Delegate

  CEO, Trillium Asset Management

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

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• Gbemisola Boyede

  Delegate

  Founder/CEO, Ask the Paediatricians Foundation

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

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• Gavin Armstrong

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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 Auburn University and was awarded the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Entrepreneur category in 2016. In 2017 he received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award and was named 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' by EY Canada. In 2018 he successfully pitched his company Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise on CBC's Dragons Den where he was able to secure a deal with two dragons.

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• Gaurav Mehta

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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 innovative enterprises. Prior to founding Dharma Life, Gaurav spent three years in the private equity space at General Atlantic, a large growth capital investment firm (until 2008). He focused his efforts on opportunities in the consumer and media, and healthcare sectors across Europe. Gaurav started his career with Morgan Stanley in London in investment banking, where he specialized in European capital products and healthcare investment banking. While he was working with Morgan Stanley, he became the Founder/President of the German Chapter at Pratham (which works towards providing education to under privileged children in India), Dusseldorf, Germany. As the Chapter Lead, he raised awareness and funding support by organizing multiple large-scale business conferences and events. Gaurav has been recognized as a Young Global Leader, Class of 2018 by World economic forum for his exemplary efforts in the field of social development. He has also won BMW Foundation Young Leaders Awards – 2013 at the Munich Economic Summit for addressing social issues through innovative high potential initiatives that can become sustainable in the mid-to-long term. Gaurav graduated with a BA degree with honors in International Business Studies and French from the European Business School, London. He then pursued his MBA degree from London Business School.

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• Gaston Wright

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  Director, Civic Compass

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

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• Gary Haugen

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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 aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. In this role, he led an international team of lawyers, criminal prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and forensics experts to gather evidence that would eventually be used to bring the perpetrators of the genocide to justice. Gary received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Gary has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. His work to protect the poor from violence has been featured by Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Times of India, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, the Guardian and National Public Radio, among many other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Good News About Injustice (Intervarsity Press) and, most recently, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press). Gary was invited to share the themes of The Locust Effect at the annual TED Conference in a talk entitled: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now.

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• Gabriela Salvador

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  Director, Latin America and The Caribbean, Americares

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

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• Gabriela Citrone

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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. Currently, Gabby is the Director at the Citrone 33 Foundation where she oversees programs and special initiatives. The Foundation invests in education, health, and human services to improve quality of life for all. Gabby co-designed and co-leads its EMBRACE Pittsburgh mental wellness initiative and, in 2017, served as a consultant for Play It Forward Pittsburgh, a campaign for organ donation. She has held instrumental positions as a Fellow at the Penguins Foundation and Intern at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy. Gabby is a member of the MaverickNext Fellowship, a transformative two-year program for young female philanthropists. MaverickNext increases access to reproductive healthcare for girls and women in the developing world. The fellowship has encouraged Gabby to pursue philanthropic opportunities in public health domestically and globally. Gabby has a bachelor’s degree in sport and event management from Elon University. Gabby was born in Fairfield, Connecticut and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also spends time with her family in Orlando, Florida, and Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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• Frederick "Rick Godley

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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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• Francesca DeMarco

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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 native of Southern California and currently living in Milan, Francesca previously spent more than 20 years in educational fundraising, most recently as Head of Fundraising at Bocconi University in Milan and before that as Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. She holds a Master’s degree in Italian from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the College of William & Mary.

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• Florentina Niradewi

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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 Ambassador to foster TEDx community in Indonesia and the Southeast Asia region since 2020. Being Curator of Impact IDN, an initiative about impact investing knowledge in Indonesia; Florentina has found her interest in the field of sustainable finance with a mission to contribute in saving the world from climate change. She is currently based in the United Kingdom, studying MSc Climate Change Finance & Investment at The University of Edinburgh. Aside from her work and volunteer endeavour, Florentina is passionate about sports and arts. She usually spends her weekends by going outdoor for trail, yoga, painting or making hand-built pottery.

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• Florence Namaganda

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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, Education, Family empowerment, advocacy, and awareness programs directly in 9 districts, with a nationwide reach through the special children’s Forum, a platform that coordinates and amplifies efforts of both organizations and individuals that are working in the disability space which I head. I am the founder of Dawn children's center which is an inclusive school and serves on the technical working group for the Ministry of Education. I serve on several boards including the Children at Risk Action Network (CRANE), Berakhah Medical Centre and the committee for Gender, social development in the Buganda Kingdom.

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• Etheldreda Nakimuli-mpungu

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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 published in several scientific journals including the Lancet. In 2016, her research on Group Support psychotherapy for depression treatment in rural communities earned her national and international praise: She was honored by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with the Presidential National Independence Medal of Honor on 8 March – International Women's Day. She was also one of five recipients of 2016 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Women Scientists in the Developing World. Dr. Nakimuli-Mpungu completed her Medical degree, and Master of Medicine in Psychiatry at the Makerere University in 1998 and 2006 respectively. In 2012, she attained a doctoral degree in psychiatric epidemiology from John’s Hopkins University, USA. She has been funded by Grand Challenges Canda, MQ Transforming Mental Health and Child Relief International Foundation. Other awards she has won include the Fulbright Science & Technology Award for PhD studies (2007) and International AstraZeneca/ APIRE Young minds in Psychiatry Award for demonstrating exceptional promise in psychiatric research (2005).

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• Erin Summe

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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 better understand the needs of a community and what kind of solutions will work within a unique context. In 2020 the team launched Thandeka Capital, a platform to identify, partner with, and raise capital for socially and environmentally sustainable investment funds around the world. Erin previously spent 5 years at Morgan Stanley as a trader in Equity Derivatives and 3 years in South Africa working with a non-profit in HIV prevention. She studied Economics at Georgetown University and received her MBA from London Business School in 2015.

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• Erin Castellas

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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 measurable positive social and environmental benefits which a focus on the Australian region. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring the organisation and investment teams deliver social and environmental value alongside financial returns. Prior to joining Impact Investment Group, Erin was a research fellow at the Centre for Social Impact where she continues to hold an adjunct fellowship. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Journal for Business Ethics, Social Enterprise Journal, and The Conversation. Erin holds a PhD from Monash University which explored how organisations create multiple forms of social, environmental and financial value and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

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• Erika Balbuena

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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. Prior to that, she headed up Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org, launching the Twilio.org Impact Fund, where she led investments in social enterprises and nonprofits focused on accelerating their impact through innovative communication technologies. While at Twilio, she also founded the crisis response team. She began her career in tech at TaskRabbit and prior to that consulted for large and small nonprofits, including the Campaign for UCSF Medical Center.

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• Marcela Garcia

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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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• Emma Shapiro

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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 Participant, Shapiro spent over a decade working in political communications in Washington D.C. Most recently, she served as the Campaign Director at The Hub Project, where she led teams to work on social impact campaigns around issues ranging from health care, the economy and the judicial system. Previously, she worked in state communications and rapid response at the think tank Center for American Progress, consulted and handled crisis communications at the PR agency SKDKnickerbocker, and worked in communications at EMILY’s List, an organization that helps elect pro-choice Democratic women.

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• Emiliano Mroue

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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 growth, making regenerative agriculture in Africa the norm. Previously, Emiliano was a corporate manager at Henkel AG’s headquarters in Dusseldorf, a DAX 30 multinational with 55,000 employees. At 24, he was ranked as Top Manager (95 percentile) for his informal leadership abilities, co-managing a team of 15 globally and a procurement budget of Eur 500M. Emiliano and his team excelled at steering the global financial crisis which resulted in him winning the Purchasing Excellence Award twice in three years. He studied Business Economics in Argentina’s Universidad di Tella, completed a master’s in international management in Barcelona’s ESADE, one-year long SEED Entrepreneurship Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business and became a CFA Charterholder in 2016. He is an international public speaker, having delivered talks in Georgetown, UC Berkley, Columbia, SoCap, TEDx, Borlaug Dialogue, among others. He is frequently advising governments and other organizations such as EU, USAID, FCDO (former DFID) among others. Emiliano is an avid traveler and speaks five languages fluently. He visited over 75 countries and his trips shaped his desire to dedicate his life to the advancement of social and environmental goals.

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• Elizabeth Markle

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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 "Community As Medicine" approach in collaboration with healthcare providers and insurers. Dr. Markle earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University and her M.A. in Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard University, and her postdoctoral training in Primary Care-Mental Health Integration at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Dr. Markle is a thought leader in the field of health and wellness and has been sought-after as a consultant for her unique insights and expertise in clinic-community integration, innovative approaches to mental health, and group facilitation.

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• Erik Engellau-Nilsson

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  CEO, Norrsken Foundation

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

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• Paloma Roldan

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Ciudad Saludable

  Educator, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. Executive Director and Ciudad Saludable; partner and Director of ”Urban interventions and Performance of the Peruvian Gender Observatory. Diploma in Environmental Teaching for Sustainable Development from the University of Querétaro - Mexico; Diploma in Community Relations and Social Responsibility from ESAN University, Peru and diploma in Anthropology and Photography from the Image Center in Peru, diploma in “Expressive Arts Therapy” from TAE Peru. Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialty in “Peace Building and conflict transformation” in the European Graduate School - Switzerland. Worked on inclusive recycling projects, circular economy, health, art, education, gender and environmental communication in urban, rural and indigenous communities for more than 20 years in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

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• Elizabeth Ellis

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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 entrepreneurial approach that empowers the rural poor.” A seasoned expert in gender, monitoring and evaluation, finance, and economic growth, Lizz has over 20 years of experience with designing solutions for challenging markets in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Lizz speaks French and Moroccan Arabic, and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Lizz has travelled and worked in more than 22 countries. As a certified high-performance coach, Lizz specializes in leading innovative multi-cultural teams to financial growth and impact effectiveness. She holds a master’s degree with a specialization in international non-profit management from Rutgers University and a BA in History and Global Development Studies from Grinnell College, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, and has been consistently recognized for her passionate commitment to developing those she works with. In addition to serving as Chair of the Board for Posner Center for International Development, she also serves on the iDE UK Board of Trustees, and on the Boards of Hydrologic Social Enterprise, Hilltribe Organics (a Thai social enterprise), iDE International Foundation in Switzerland, and iDE Ghana.

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• Niranjan Bose

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  Managing Director, Gates Ventures

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

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• Hibaaq Osman

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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 Sudan, to campaigning for justice and recognition for Korea’s ‘comfort women’, and supporting grassroots women activists to build constituencies and secure their rights in the wake of the revolutions across the Arab region. Named one of the world’s 500cMost Influential Muslims, Hibaaq is a member of the UNAOC’s Women’s Alliance for Peace and has previously served on a number of advisory groups and boards, including UN Women’s Civil Society Advisory Group, and the board of Donor Direct Action. Hibaaq is a senior fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and a member of the Yale African Women’s Leadership Network. Hibaaq also recently founded the Global Women's Think Tank, in partnership with the University of Central Florida.

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• Emmanuel Adegboye

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  Program Manager, Andela

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

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• English Sall

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  Board Member, Sall Family Foundation

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

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• Drew Kodjak

  Delegate

  Executive Director, The International Council on Clean Transportation

  Senior Director for Transportation Emissions, White House Climate Policy Office. On leave from International Council on Clean Transportation where I serve as Executive Director.

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• Heiner Baumann

  Delegate

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

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

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• Dmitry Arbuck

  Delegate

  President, Ondiana Polyclinic, Indiana Polyclinic

  Physician educated in Russia and the USA. Dual specialty in psychiatry/pain management. President of multispecialty/multidisciplinary pain management facility. Multiple scientific publications and two books author. Pioneering pharmacogenomics and stem cell treatment along with neuropharmacology.

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• Emily Bancroft

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  President, VillageReach

  Emily Bancroft is a global leader in systems change, dedicated to transforming health care delivery. She work with a diverse team of leaders to set the vision for how VillageReach works with governments to design responsive primary health care solutions for the most under-reached communities. Emily has been instrumental in VillageReach’s growth since 2010, first serving as Director of the organization’s Health Systems Group before she became Vice President in 2015, and President in 2017. In these previous roles, Emily led the integration of VillageReach’s work into global strategies and policies to ensure that new vaccines and essential medicines reach those at the last mile and helped to develop and launch some of VillageReach’s high impact digital health initiatives. In her time at VillageReach, the organization has expanded its reach and collaborations to impact health systems serving more than 70M people.

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• Diane Tworog

  Delegate

  Chief Operating Officer, The International Council on Clean Transportation

  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 functions, ensuring ICCT has the people, systems and processes to efficiently and effectively carryout its programmatic work. Diane believes a healthy and supportive culture is essential, and leads ICCT’s institutional work around diversity, equity and inclusion. Diane has spent her career in the nonprofit sector. Prior to ICCT she was Associate Director of Common Cause North Carolina, worked with the Elkhorn Slough Foundation and volunteered in Ecuador to expand an educational NGO. She graduated from Elon University and earned a certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University.

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• Libby Burkeman

  Delegate

  Head of Grants, Kusuma Trust UK

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• Nachson Mimran

  Delegate

  CEO, TO:

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

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• Diana Maguire

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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 distributes more than $800 million in medicine and supplies to an average of 90 countries each year. Maguire has more than 25 years of experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on new business development and partnership management. Since joining Americares in 2007 as a development consultant, Maguire has held several management positions, most recently leading Americares Institutional Relations team since 2011. Maguire holds a master’s in international studies from Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and five children.

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• Molly Parker

  Delegate

  Director, Strategic Initiatives, Jeff Skoll Group

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

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• Liz Sheehan

  Delegate

  Founder, Care2Communities

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

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• Michelle Wisson

  Delegate

  Donor Engagement Manager, Girls Not Brides

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

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• David Lubell

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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 that embraces immigrants and refugees, and fosters opportunity for all. Welcoming America, established in 2009, works with over 200 cities and towns across the U.S., supporting NGO's and local governments to transform their communities into inclusive places where everyone thrives. The Welcoming International Initiative that David leads partners with entities that want to build bottom-up movements for welcoming in their countries. It is currently working with partners in Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. David is also the founder, and former Executive Director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which has grown into a model for immigrant rights organizing throughout the U.S. At TIRRC, David helped found Welcoming Tennessee, the model for what is now Welcoming America. Welcoming America has gained significant recognition. In 2014, the White House honored the organization as “Champions of Change” for their innovations in immigrant integration. That same year the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and BMW Group distinguished Welcoming America as a recipient of their Intercultural Innovation Award. A graduate of Wesleyan University , David received a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the recipient of several social entrepreneurship fellowships, including Ashoka, Draper Richards Kaplan, and Harvard. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and was named to the 2016 Chronicle of Philanthropy's 40 under 40 list. In 2017, David was awarded The Charles Bronfman Prize, which recognizes young humanitarians.

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• Elizabeth Clewett

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  Chief of Staff, Project ECHO

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

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• Liz Berry Gips

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  Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

  Liz is a Venture Partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, working closely with the leadership of DRK’s portfolio organizations in Africa and the US. Prior, Liz led the planning, launch and initial operations of the Kigutu International Academy, an innovative secondary school in rural Burundi. Earlier, she assisted the Mastercard Foundation with the development of their education strategy for Africa and the design of a major education initiative in Rwanda. Liz also held leadership roles at USAID, serving as the founding Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Initiative and as a Senior Education Advisor in South Africa. Currently, Liz is Chair of the Board of the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA). She received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

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• Eugénie Fitzgerald

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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, whose career chasing market-driven social change has zig and zagged through non-profits, private and publicly traded companies, and government. In her current role, she has end-to-end P&L responsibility, sets the strategic priorities of the business and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, product and analytics. She is the Treasurer and Board member of the Astraea Foundation, a public foundation that invests in LGBTQI movements who challenge oppression and seed change in the U.S. and internationally.

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• Lara Pimentel

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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 and programmatically by increasing access and advocacy for adult learners and literacy. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic (2006-2008), Pimentel’s passion was ignited for addressing systemic social issues during her service. Pimentel’s previous career experience includes positions at two Upstate New York community foundations and most recently was the inaugural Executive Director of the Literacy Coalition of Herkimer & Oneida Counties. Lara Pimentel holds a Bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University and a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University. Pimentel’s professional interests include leadership management, fundraising and relationship building, and organizational capacity building/strategic planning. Lara has been fortunate to volunteer not only with the Peace Corps, but also with the United Way of the Valley & Greater Utica Area on Community Allocations, Vision 2020 and is immediate past president of the Literacy Funders Network.

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• Elena Bonometti

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  Chief Executive Officer, Tostan

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

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• Daniel Pearson

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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 by local communities to the problems they select. Dan has a passion for investing in local leadership and innovation, stewarding efforts that have directed more than $1 billion to support families in their goals. He has more than 15 years of experience working with development programs around the world, and has lived and worked in South America, Europe, and Western and South Asia. Dan has a master’s degree in international affairs from the University of Denver and a master’s in public administration from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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• Daniel Casanova

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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 a very unusual background. He has traveled extensively throughout the world and in very interesting ways. If you ever meet him ask him about sinking a traditional Bangladeshi Sampan in the Indian Ocean. Daniel has a love for languages and he speaks 4 languages. He is passionate about the movement of displaced peoples around the globe and a lifetime advocate for social justice. He comes from a philanthropic family and when speaking of his background and how he came to not-for-profit work often says, “he is in the family business”.

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• Edith Elliott

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  Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Noora Health

  Edith Elliott is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 400+ facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training, then follows up with families using mobile messaging technologies. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation. Prior to Noora Health, Edith was a Design Innovation Fellow at Stanford and worked on disease prevention at the Aspen Institute and PSI. Edith has been an Ashoka Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago Foundation, DRK Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs at Harvard. She holds a BA from Tufts and MA in International Policy Studies and Global Health from Stanford.

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• Curt Bowen

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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 that could reduce poverty for farmers on a large scale. Semilla Nueva now supports 18,000 Guatemalan farmer families by providing them with high-yielding, climate-resilient biofortified maize seeds, allowing them to increase their incomes by over US$140 on average and to produce enough nutritious maize to feed 400,000 individuals around the country. The NGO is now expanding its activities to other countries in Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout the years, Curt’s efforts and Semilla Nueva’s successes have led to his recognition through Forbes 30 under 30, fellowships from Ashoka and Mulago, the Whitman College Young Alumni Prize, and a Muhammed Ali Prize.

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• Courtney Henke

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  Director of Development, Last Mile Health

  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 years of business development, fundraising, and non-profit management experience across multiple sectors including education, workforce development, maternal and child health, and global public health. Courtney began her career as a teacher.

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• Yana Abu Taleb

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  Ecopeace co-director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Yana Abu Taleb, a dedicated environmental advocate and peacebuilder, serves as the Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East. A unique regional organization that brings together environmentalists from Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. With offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv. With a remarkable tenure spanning over two decades, Yana Abu Taleb has consistently catalyzed positive change and fostered unprecedented collaborations to achieve environmental sustainability and regional stability. As the Jordanian Director, she leads activities and holds responsibilities that encompass the development and management of national and regional projects. She serves as a crucial liaison, advocating for environmental protection and transboundary water issues while engaging with governmental and private sector figures and organizations.

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• Conor Shapiro

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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 expansion of St. Boniface Hospital to include new buildings dedicated to spinal cord injury, maternal and neonatal health, surgery, an expanded laboratory, and a soon to be constructed infectious disease center. During this time, Health Equity International transformed into a leading NGO in Haiti and has partnered with USAID, the CDC, the GE Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, among others. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Boston University and over 13 years of experience with Health Equity International. During his first seven years with the organization, Conor worked from Fond des Blancs in various capacities, including as Director General of the St. Boniface Hospital. In 2013, Mr. Shapiro was awarded the Young Alumni Achievement Award by the Boston University School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment to advancing development in Haiti.

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• Colin Tate

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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 headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company stages more than 20 conferences and events globally each year and publishes five media brands. One of the company’s signature events is the bi-annual Fiduciary Investors Symposium attended by global asset owners and hosted in the Americas and Europe. Conexus Financial’s events aim to place the responsibilities of investors in wider societal and political contexts, as well as promote the long-term stability of markets and sustainable retirement incomes. Tate served for seven years on the board of Australia’s most high profile homeless charity, The Wayside Chapel; and he has underwritten the welfare of 60,000 people in 28 villages throughout Uganda via The Hunger Project.

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• Willie Mpasuka

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  Executive Director, Rays of Hope

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

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• Gabriel Diamond

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  Associate Director, Video Production, Skoll Foundation

  Gabriel is the Associate Director of Video Production & photographer at the Skoll Foundation where he helps tell stories of social change agents around the world. He got started working in video at age 13 at KDOL-TV in Oakland, CA, and then went on to study theater at Trinity Rep Conservatory. He was Creative Director of the Youth Sounds’ “Factory", an advanced filmmaking lab for Bay Area youth. Works created under his mentorship won top prizes at dozens of national festivals, including an Emmy. He was an adjunct professor of film production at San Francisco State University. His indie narrative feature film "Less" is an urban fairytale about a man who has chosen to live on the streets in San Francisco. It received an honorable mention for the Grand Jury prize at the Dances With Films Festival. His short documentary “We Are In The Field: Adventures of a Nepalese Environmental Activist” has played in numerous festivals. In his personal work as a social artist, Gabriel co-created the Vulnerable Rally as a radical experiment—blending street theatre, shadow work, community building, and social/political commentary.

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• Claire Palmer

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  Director of Philanthropy, Internews

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• Donald Okudu

  Delegate

  Creative Director, I-AMVOCAL

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

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• Christopher Breedlove

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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 programs in San Francisco, California. Christopher facilitates volunteer-driven community leadership work around the world, whose goal is to unlock the innate skills of local communities to solve problems that bring about meaningful change. Supporting civic engagement solutions, resiliency projects, and community building, the Burning Man community is known for bringing unbridled creativity to every project.

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• Christina Barstow

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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 Christina served as an Advisor to the US government funded aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Chief Strategy Officer for Bridges to Prosperity. Christina earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a Masters of Public Health She currently serves as faculty in CU’s Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience.

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• Christian Pennotti

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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 course of his career, Christian has focused on advancing economic development and financial inclusion with a particular focus on advancing gender equality. In addition to his core role at CARE, Christian is the founder of Chomoka, a start-up social enterprise offering technology solutions to savings groups and bridging the gap to formal financial inclusion. Prior has served on the board of directors of Farm Shop Ltd in Kenya and the SEEP Network in the US. He began his career as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan.

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• Chris DeCardy

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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 initiatives on communications, operations and networking. He joined the Foundation in 2002 as director of communications. Prior to joining the Foundation, Chris worked for seven years at Environmental Media Services (EMS), first as associate director and then as executive director from 1998 to 2002. At EMS, he designed and implemented campaigns to improve and expand media coverage of environmental issues. Chris has also started organizations dedicated to improving utilization of networks and technology among environmental nonprofits and to reducing climate pollution at the community level. Chris holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He serves on the boards or in an advisory capacity to a number of nonprofit and community organizations.

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• Diana Swartz

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  Director of Goverance, Liger Leadership Academy

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

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• Kate Groch

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  CEO, Good Work Foundation

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

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• Cher-Wen DeWitt

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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 undergraduate studies in neuroscience at Oberlin College, Cher-Wen was a 2010-2011 Global Health Corps fellow and held the role of Country Director for FACE AIDS, a program of Partners In Health in Rwanda, delivering youth-focused community health education and support services to people living with HIV. She continued her career in Rwanda with One Acre Fund for several years, managing the logistics team responsible for last-mile delivery of agricultural products across the country. In 2015, she transitioned to an international role on One Acre Fund’s microfinance partnerships team, building a coalition of microfinance practitioners providing services to smallholder farmers. Prior to joining SFF, Cher-Wen worked as the Director of Operations for Flippable, an organization working to flip state governments and center pro-democracy issues through the targeted allocation of grassroots dollars to political campaigns.

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• Laurie Goering

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  Journalist, Individual

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

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• Theresa Chen

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  Director of Research, Stop AAPI Hate

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

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• Charles Garcia

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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 explore ways we can make meaningful impact on our humanity and the health of our planet. I believe that if I surround myself with fearless, passionate, creative ninjas, we can do great things together... and become lamplighters of souls by inspiring others to do the same. I love to surf, play soccer, race cars, play bridge, travel, read and write new books, be in nature, play my electric guitar, and enjoy my family and friends. What do people know me for? Charlie founded Sterling Financial Group, a privately held technology and financial services firm which he grew from a small business to 60 offices in seven countries and $2 billion in assets prior to selling it. Charlie was named Entrepreneur of the Year by three national organizations. He then turned his entrepreneurial gifts to the social sector, becoming the CEO of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) for four years. ALPFA helps underprivileged Latino students in over 160 universities graduate and be employed. Charlie hired a new management team, conducted a digital transformation, and grew members 10x, opening 70 new university student chapters. Charlie is one of two men on the national board of the Girl Scouts of the USA, and he is also on the national board of Junior Achievement, the largest organization in the world teaching K-12 children financial literacy and entrepreneurship. He is on the founding board of 3DE Schools, which is redesigning public high school education in America. Charlie has worked for four Presidents--both Democrat and Republican-- served as one of seven members to the Florida State Board of Education, overseeing all public education in Florida. President Barack Obama appointed him as the Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy to oversee all operations at the Air Force Academy. He was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by the Secretary of the Air Force who credited him with leading “a historic transformation”.

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• Delphine Uwamahoro

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  Country Director, The Ihangane Project

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

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• Eric Techel

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  Partner and CFO, Capricorn Investment Group

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

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• Catherine Chen

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  Chief Executive Officer, Polaris

  Catherine Chen has spent more than two decades building innovative social justice programs and pushing for policy change to address the root causes of sex and labor trafficking. Today she serves as the CEO of Polaris, the leading anti-trafficking organization in the United States. Before joining Polaris, Chen spearheaded a global campaign for Humanity United that raised the plight of migrant workers in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and resulted in Qatar becoming the first nation in the Persian Gulf to enact a national minimum wage. In 2022, Chen was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. She is a Board member of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) and a founding member of Chief, a national network of 15,000 women executives. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University.

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• Emma Caddy

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  CEO / Founder, Tiny Totos Kenya

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

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• Catalina Talero

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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 George Washington University. Her experience in senior-level nonprofit service has been gained at organizations such as My Sister’s Place, Global Kids, and Asian American LEAD. Born to Colombian parents shortly after they arrived in the U.S., Catalina is fluent in Spanish, conversant in French, and her substantive expertise is in civic education. Prior to working in philanthropy, Catalina was a program officer for the U.S. Department of Education. She received an honors bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in human and organizational development from George Washington University. During her time at GW, she received a Fulbright fellowship for research focusing on civic engagement and peace education among youth in Colombia while affiliated with Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.

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• Debbie Rogers

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  CEO, Reach Digital Health

  Debbie Rogers, a dynamic leader passionate about advancing mobile technology for health, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as CEO of Reach Digital Health (Previously Praekelt.org). Her leadership tenure at the organisation, spanning over a decade, demonstrates her ability to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. Drawing on her advanced Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Digital Arts degrees, Debbie possesses a unique blend of technological problem-solving skills and creative insights.

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• Kunal Doshi

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  Impact Investment Professional, Capricorn Investment Group

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

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• Scott Seydel

  Delegate

  Board Director, Seydel Companies

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

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• Carl Davis

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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 mind. Washington, D.C. is home. I am a native of Birmingham, Alabama. I am frequently working in NYC and London.

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• Elizabeth (Liz) Wilson

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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 practice around impact networks, systems, impact management, and communications. Previously Liz has worked as deputy director and co-founder at Agriculture for Impact and the Malabo Montpellier Panel, based in Imperial College London. As a project officer in DFID China, she worked on partnership initiatives to pilot climate change adaptation and sustainable urban development strategies. She also worked for a humanitarian health charity in the DRC and the UK, and served as a diplomat in the UK Embassy in China. Liz is a trustee of Nigerian non-profit The Visiola Foundation and the UK charity and grant maker Enterprise for Development.

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• Brisa DeAngulo

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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 her field, having successfully implemented for 15 years a child-directed service model that focuses on access to justice, personal healing, relational healing, political participation, economic independence, and education. Brisa has used her many years of field experience to refine her model and share best practices with advocates throughout her region. Since 2004, Brisa’s center has (1) provided free direct services to over 2,000 child survivors and their supportive family members. (2) maintained a 95% conviction rate in the hundreds of criminal trails it has managed, and (3) educated over 120,000 people (including government officials) in sexual violence prevention and best practices. Brisa is also a powerful advocate before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Brisa has presented several thematic hearings before the IACHR—in 2012, 2017, and 2019—addressing systematic violations of adolescent sexual violence survivors’ human rights. The first hearing in 2012 successfully pressured the Bolivian government to repeal is rape marriage law, a provision pardoning sexual aggressors of their crimes if they married their victims. Brisa’s sustained efforts are reshaping Bolivia’s justice system and improving its treatment of child survivors of sexual violence. Brisa has co-authored 12 books on sexual violence and childhood development. She has also conducted landmark research on the dynamics and prevalence of sexual violence in Bolivia.

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• Sandrine Woitrin

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  Project Co-lead, Wellbeing Project

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

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• Breanna Zwart

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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 international relations. Breanna was instrumental in shaping and driving Google’s Next Billion Users strategy for Access in Emerging Markets, focusing on regulatory issues and internet infrastructure. She cultivated government and private sector partnerships that showed the impact possible at the intersection of tech and social impact: bringing Internet infrastructure to India, managing relationships with the Government of Liberia and USAID, bringing Google Street View to Tunisia, and representing Google at the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Her thought leadership advanced Google’s agenda to connect the Next 5 Billion Users, ultimately shaping the World Bank 2016 development report “Digital Dividends: Internet and the Developing World.” Taking on YouTube’s strategy to empower content partnerships with NGOs, nonprofits, and human rights defenders, Breanna has advised a range of leading organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and the Malala Fund, delivering powerful digital storytelling programming to a global audience and providing them with training and resources to build their engagement and thrive on the platform. She played a key role in producing the YouTube Original event on racial injustice, Bear Witness Take Action, which earned more than 4.8 million views to date, and she produced a VR experience of child incarceration that went live on the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth channel.

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• Dar Vanderbeck

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  Unknown, Individual

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

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• Danielle Thomson

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  Research Director, TED Conferences LLC

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

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• Benjamin Winograd

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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 solutions, in his role as Managing Director, Global Next Generation Strategic Clients, he works closely with family members to support them as they prepare for the responsibilities that come with wealth, including through social impact. Prior to this role, Ben was a Senior Director leading the design, implementation, and execution of solutions for UHNW families. Over his career, he has had the privilege of working with RBC in the US, the UK and Canada across a variety of roles. Originally from Vancouver, he joined RBC as a summer student while completing his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia. As part of his degree, he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2017, he was fortunate to be selected for and participate in the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference. Ben and his wife have two young children and live in Toronto. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of Major Gifts for the RBC Employee Giving Campaign, a Board Member of Sunnybrook Next Generation and Start2Finish, and as an Olympic Supporter with the Canadian Olympic Committee.

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• Ben Deighton

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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 Association of British Science Writers. He has been a journalist for over 20 years and worked as a correspondent for Reuters in London and Brussels.

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• Becca Heller

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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 Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowship, an Echoing Green Fellowship, a Gruber Human Rights Fellowship, the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut Annual Community Service Award and a Dartmouth College Martin Luther King Jr. Emerging Leader in Social Justice Award. She was also named Foreign Policy’s Citizen Diplomat of the Year, Politico’s Women Rule Summit Ambassador, one of the Christian Science Monitor’s “30 under 30” change makers, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Becca was a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School from 2010 to 2018, and has also been honored as an Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service Lecturer at Cornell University and as a speaker at the Chicago Ideas Week Edison Talk. Becca’s interest in the legal challenges facing refugees began on a trip to Jordan during the summer after her first year in law school. During her stay, she visited with six different refugee families; each of them identified legal assistance as their most urgent need. Having just completed her first semester in Yale Law School’s Immigration Legal Services clinic doing asylum work, Becca believed that law students could assist refugees applying for resettlement. She returned to Yale and, together with Jon Finer, Mike Breen, Steve Poellot, and Kate Brubacher, founded IRAP in 2008.Becca received her J.D. from Yale Law School in May 2010. During law school, she participated in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She served as an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, and received a Coker Fellowship to teach legal writing to first year law students. She also received the Charles G. Albom Prize for excellence in the area of judicial and administrative appellate advocacy in connection with a Law School clinical program. Prior to law school, Becca lived and worked in Sub-Saharan Africa for two years, including one year as a U.S. Student Fulbright Scholar in Malawi. She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2005. While in college, she was also the recipient of Campus Compact’s National Student Humanitarian Award.

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• Kayode Ajayi

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  Country Director, Riders for Health

  Kayode Ajayi joined the organization in 1999 as the Technical Development Manager in Nigeria, when he developed a national maintenance network system for the World Health Organisation- led polio eradication campaign. He was instrumental in setting up our country programmes in Democratic Republic of Congo and The Gambia. He was posted to the Headquarters in 2002 as the Deputy Operations Director before assuming the position of Performance Director in 2008 to oversee the standards and across the organization. He was appointed as the country director in Nigeria in July 2016. With a background in Marine Engineering, he is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport He is an Alumnus of the International School of Management and recently bagged a certificate in Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management from the Havard Business School, Boston USA.

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• Damilola Onafuwa

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  Creative Director, StoryMaxima

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

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• bart burstein

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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 agriculture, small business lending, health services and public health. Bart has provided guidance in the realms of marketing plans and implementation, automating customer systems, business planning and corporate governance. Prior to co-founding and funding Pace Able, Bart had a 40-year career in technology, including roles as software development, sales management, merger and acquisitions, customer support, professional services and training. He held roles in larger corporations and six startups, plus held board positions in the US and Europe.

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• Aylin Oncel

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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 Women's Studies and Political Science from UCLA. Throughout her career, she devoted her time to pro bono advocacy for Lawyers without Borders, the Public Interest Law and Policy Group, and Tahirih Justice Center. Aylin is a staunch women's rights advocate and is proud to have served on the Board of the U.S. National Committee for UN Women's San Francisco chapter. She's an avid foodie and certified sommelier, and spends most of her free time cooking or wine tasting with family and friends.

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• Nadia Naviwala

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  Senior Advisor - Global Partnerships, The Citizens Foundation Pakistan

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

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• Ayan Mukhopadhyay

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  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University

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• Autumn McDonald

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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 structures. Most recently, New America CA has led multiple human-centered research initiatives geared at lifting the voice and lived experiences of workers and their families, particularly for those vulnerable to the rapidly changing nature of work. McDonald has two decades of experience working with foundations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies on strategy, advocacy, and civic innovation. Her work has focused on coalition building and innovative problem solving in service of social, economic, and racial justice. Before joining New America, McDonald served as a senior advisor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee through the FUSE Corps executive fellowship. During her tenure, she led the women's economic empowerment agenda, shaping policies to improve economic opportunities for women and families throughout the Bay Area. Prior to that, McDonald worked with FSG, a social impact-focused consulting firm. Throughout her career, McDonald has led work related to economic mobility, education, place-based initiatives, and distressed communities. McDonald serves on the boards of Equal Rights Advocates, Lincoln Families, and GO Public Schools. She has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a master’s in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a master’s in the learning sciences from the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy. She, her husband, and their three children live in Oakland.

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• Audrey Selian

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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 underserved in India across various sectors including agriculture, health, energy, water, education and livelihoods. Audrey has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006, and is founder of ArthaImpact.com, an online impact investment platform that is designed to tackle the economics of due diligence around high impact, small scale SMEs/SGBs. Through its associated vehicle Artha Networks Inc., the platform tool has been licensed to the Inter-American Development Bank for Latin America and is actively being considered for deployment in other sectors and geographies, including for Central Asia (by the Aga Khan Development Network). Audrey is also an advisor to the Halloran Philanthropies, and has a background in management consulting from PricewaterhouseCoopers; her entrepreneurial experience includes several years spent in business development, marketing and sales at NSF-funded software start-up Wireless Grids Corporation. She has spent a number of years as a consultant to various branches of the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations. Audrey currently serves as a trustee for several non-profit organizations, sits on the board of a number of for-profits, and holds a PhD in Technology Policy & Development Studies from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is on the advisory committees/Boards of the Impact Hub Global, Impact Hub Geneva, Impact Hub Yerevan, Ashden, Volans, Impact Finance Geneva, Argidius, and Womanity Foundation. Audrey holds degrees from The London School of Economics (MSc) and Wellesley College (BA). In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2004-5.

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• David Strelneck

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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 many benefits that result. These approaches have become known loosely as "the circular economy of nutrients." Operating at the overlap of health, food, farming, and environmental conservation, David founded Nourish^N after a decade of supporting and looking for systemic action-patterns with more than 200 social entrepreneurs at Ashoka and Skoll. He previously instigated and helped lead several environmental initiatives, including designing U.N. and U.S. Montreal Protocol approaches to eliminate ozone-depleting pollution among automobile mechanics in 18 developing countries; launching the world’s first live wilderness webcam in Costa Rican cloud forests in 2000, to draw global attention to cross-border issues in management of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor; and creating the early (2002) online social network Backyard Jungle for the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS Kids!), deploying the internet itself to motivate children to leave their computers and explore outside. David holds degrees in political science and public policy from Stanford University and Harvard University.

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• Craig Heintzman

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  CEO, Arifu

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

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• Audra Renyi

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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 she served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund; in Kenya she worked as a business consultant in microfinance and she worked as director of development at Canada World Youth. Ms. Renyi holds bachelor’s degrees in economics (Wharton School) and international studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and has completed an executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. She is a winner of the 2017 Governor General of Canada's Innovation Award, was named a Heroine of Health at the WHO World Health Assembly, was named Wharton Top 40 under 40, was recognized as the Young International Leader of Quebec by ARISTA, and named a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum.

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• Audette Exel, AO

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  Founder and Chair, Adara Group

  TBA

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• Joan Anway

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  Advisor, Refugee Company

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

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• Atul Satija

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  Founder-CEO, The/Nudge

  After 17 years of starting and scaling various businesses, Atul now serves as the CEO of The/Nudge Institute and Give. He was pivotal in scaling InMobi to a global mobile advertising leader in 20+ countries as Chief Business Officer and served on the Board of the Mobile Marketing Association. His expertise spans leadership positions at Google, Adobe, Samsung and Infosys. Beyond business, Atul advises nonprofits like the Museum of Art & Photography, Udhyam Learning Foundation & Parivar. He is a Board Director at Heifer International. Atul has been named in the #40underForty list by The Economic Times. He holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a B-Tech from the National Institute of Technology.

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• Ashwin Ravichandran

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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 to startups and has never looked back.    After consulting for startups for three years, working in every vertical possible - Ashwin understood Psychology, Economics and Impact by taking a year off to study Liberal Arts. In 2014, Ashwin started traveling the world consulting for startups.    In July 2015, Ashwin began as a tech fellow at MEST in Accra, Ghana working with 60 entrepreneurs on how to build sustainable tech startups. He joined MEST in 2015 as a Technology Teaching Fellow and has since served as the Incubator Manager for MEST Accra, Director of Portfolio Support, Country Director of Ghana and is now the Managing Director of MEST Africa. He attained this position by dint of his incredible value and support which was evident in his invaluable mentorship in the career paths of the Entrepreneurs-In-Training and fellows. Ashwin is greatly inspired to nurture and guide the African entrepreneurship Space with a talented team so that these entrepreneurs can take on new challenge

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• Ashley Barrett

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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 Human Services, where she focused on federal policy and grant programs promoting women’s health and rights; serving as a delegate to the U.N. Crime Commission, where she collaborated with representatives from 22 countries to publish international protocols to assist victims of crime and abuse of power; and serving as the director of grants and communications for Women & Infants Hospital and the Care New England Health System in Rhode Island. Ashley received a master’s in social welfare policy from the University of California, Los Angeles and was a Presidential Management Fellow in the Clinton White House. She is an active member of the Network of Engaged International Donors.

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• Ashif Shaikh

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  Chief Executive Officer, Jan Sahas USA, Inc.

  Asif Shaikh is founder People’s Courage International, Migrants Resilience Collaborative and Jan Sahas. Asif founded Jan Sahas his own lived experience and have helped millions of migrant workers, survivors of sexual abuse, trafficking, forced labour and manual scavengers. In 2020, Asif launched the Migrant Resilience Collaborative (MRC), MRC is a grassroots-led multi-stakeholder collaborative of non-profits, philanthropic, government and private sector actors focused on ensuring safety, security, and mobility for 10 million migrant families. Currently Asif is working with People’s Courage International (PCI). PCI is supporting climate dopration and just transition initiatives across South and Southeast Asia. He was awarded the Harvard Kennedy School's Gleitsman International Award in 2022, Social Innovator of the Year in 2020 Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum), Ashoka Fellow in 2016, Times of India Social Impact Award and Star Impact Award by 42nd president of the United States.

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• Claire Joubert

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  Network Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Asa Skogstrom Feldt

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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. Åsa has a combination of business and NGO background, now focusing on the intersection between philanthropy and business development to contribute to solutions to the big challenges of our time.

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• Arthur Mills IV

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  Chief Operating Officer, New Teacher Center

  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 private and education sectors provides him a unique perspective to this work, informs his leadership as a key thought leader in driving NTC’s culture and business model forward, and strengthens the organization's operations and business acumen. Previously, while Executive Director of Talent Management and Organizational Strategy at Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, GA, Georgia’s fourth largest school district, Mills developed and implemented the system’s award-winning set of GO “Growth and Opportunity” Fulton people initiatives to revamp teacher and leader selection, recreate new teacher induction support methodologies, modernize recruiting, design an adaptive leadership development framework, and improve overall people management capability. Mills designed and launched Fulton’s first Project Management Office as Director of Project Management in 2012, and led the district's 20-month community engagement initiative to become Georgia's largest charter system and developed the district's first-ever “Building Our Future 2012-2017” strategic plan during his two-year Broad Residency with Fulton. Prior to joining Fulton County Schools, Mills spent over fifteen years in challenging strategy and fiscal management roles with General Mills, Dell, BNSF Railway, and GE Capital to build a diverse set of international and domestic experiences. Mills and his wife Carla happily live in the city of Atlanta, where he is a member and Board Financial Secretary with the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, leads as Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 2600, and serves as a Deacon in his local church. A cultural arts enthusiast, Mills was recently selected as Chair of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s new Advisory Council, focusing on broadening the ASO’s inclusiveness and reach across Atlanta’s diverse communities. Follow him on twitter at @amills4 and his 2019 hashtags #CultureVsEverything #LeadWithIntent #LeadWithEquity #LeadWithInclusion.

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• Arief Aziz

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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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• Chrystina Russell

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

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

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• Christopher Franck

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  Managing Director, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies

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

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• Anya Kamenetz

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  Correspondent, National Public Radio

  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 (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books were Generation Debt ; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education; and The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don’t Have To Be. Kamenetz was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, and won an Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in 2017 along with the rest of the NPR Ed team. She’s been a New America fellow, a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and a columnist for the Village Voice. She’s contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and been featured in documentaries shown on PBS, CNN, HBO and Vice. She frequently speaks on topics related to children, learning and technology, to audiences including at Google, Apple, and Sesame, SXSW and TEDx. Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

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• Ina Breuer

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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, Central America, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and South Asia address difficult challenges relating to reconciliation and change. Prior to BC, Ina was the Assistant Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York. She completed her studies at Northwestern University, the Free University of Berlin and the New School for Social Research. Ina is a German citizen that was born and raised in India and South Korea.

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• Luis Sanabria

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  Chief Operating Officer, Fundación Paraguaya

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

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• Anthony Back

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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 postgraduate training at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. His research in communication between patients and clinicians has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation and many others. He was the first American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care recipient, and the Inaugural Walther Cancer Foundation Supportive and Palliative Care award for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In 2017, he was named a Visionary in Palliative Care by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The COVID-Ready Communication Playbook he authored in March 2020 (https://www.vitaltalk.org/) went viral, was covered in the New York Times and numerous medical journals, and was translated by volunteer physicians into 25 languages.

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• David Weekley

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  Founder, Dovetail Impact Foundation

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

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• David Rothschild

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  Senior Director, Partnerships, Nia Tero Foundation

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

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• Lisa Jordan

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  Managing Director Draper Richard Kaplan Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

  Lisa Jordan is a senior philanthropic executive with a twenty year career focused on impact and systemic change. She is a Managing Director for the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the largest venture philanthropy in the United States. She has served as CEO of Bernard van Leer Foundation, CSO at Porticus Foundation and in leadership positions at the Ford Foundation. Lisa is a well-known speaker on democracy and globalization. She is co-editor of ‘NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations’ (2006, Earthscan). Lisa was recently named as one of the top ten ‘civic influencers’ in the Netherlands and serves on multiple social enterprise boards. She is deeply committed to strengthening civil society. She acts as a consultant for many foundations on issues of strategy, venture philanthropy and blended financial approaches to achieve impact.

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• Anna-Marie Harling

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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 inclusive systems change so millions of people live fulfilling lives. In her role she fosters collaboration, mobilizes philanthropic funding to support Co-Impact’s goals, and advocates for more and better funding that centers gender equality and women’s leadership. Anna-Marie’s prior roles span philanthropy advisory, practical experience and academic rigor, contributing to her global view on philanthropy’s potential and its challenges. She holds an MBA from IESE Business School and an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics from Oxford University. She serves on the Board of World Bicycle Relief and is an avid triathlete and road cyclist.

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• Chris Blues

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  Programme Manager for Social Ventures, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• James Mitchell

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  Co-Founder & Executive Director, Orkidstudio

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

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• Angela Baker

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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 through their core business activities. Baker oversees a portfolio of programs that empower people through technology and training, including Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™, a strategic initiative that brings wireless technology to underserved communities globally. To date, Wireless Reach has partnered with 650+ organizations in 119 programs in over 45 countries and has reached over 17 million beneficiaries. The portfolio also includes Qualcomm’s numerous STEM engagement programs that are inspiring the inventors of tomorrow and Qualcomm’s Sustainability and Reporting efforts, which includes the development and publication of the annual Qualcomm Sustainability Report. Previously, she served as an advisor to Secretary Hillary Clinton in the Office of Innovation at the United States Department of State, where she worked on foreign policy goals connected to the 21st Century Statecraft agenda through bilateral and multilateral engagement with strategic partners on technology and development issues. Specifically, she was part of a team that designed and implemented “Techcamp” – an ongoing program that connects civil society across the globe with new and emerging technology resources to solve real world challenges and build digital capacity - in over 30 countries.

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• Amy Keller

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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 imperfect fruits and vegetables that go unharvested on farms. PurePlus vision is to illuminate the power of fruits and vegetables for the health of people and the planet. Keller is also a Director at 501CThree founded by Jaden Smith and Drew FitzGerald, with a vision to achieve radical decarbonization by influencing a new generation to adopt more sustainable lifestyles and engage in social impact. 501CThree is the non-profit reimagined for a younger generation who wants action, blending innovation and creative storytelling to raise awareness and get people engaged with climate change solutions. Keller has spent her career working on environmental initiatives to save the planet. She is also very focused on health and well-being as a 7 time ironman and ultra-marathoner.

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• Amy Guterman

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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 complex, ambiguous problems by surfacing and translating stakeholder insights into strategic visions and scalable technology solutions in the social sector. Prior to joining Salesforce, Amy led cross-disciplinary innovation programs across a range of subject matter from the private and public sectors. The programs she led leveraged open innovation methodology and ethnographic research to tackle challenges ranging from reducing violence in Chicago to redesigning health information systems in low to moderate income countries. Her work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, FastCo, Wired, and The Verge and recognized internationally by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the White House.

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• Changkun Shen

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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 exceptional track records, like consecutively founded city named TEDx brand in Chongqing and Chengdu, and made their TEDx brand rank in the most impactful TEDx events list all around China. Besides, he holds the master degree in Strategic leadership towards sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

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• Amy Bach

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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 3,000 candidates worldwide to support the launch of Measures for Justice. Following that, she was named a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur. For her work on Ordinary Injustice, Amy received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University. Amy was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and is a graduate of Stanford Law School. In 2012, she taught Criminal Law at the University of Buffalo Law School as a Visiting Professor. In 2019, she won the Academy of Criminal Justice Science's Leadership and Innovation Award and the Charles Bronfman Prize. Amy lives in Rochester, NY, where the organization is based.

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• Celina de Sola

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  Co-Founder and President, Glasswing International

  Celina de Sola is the Co-founder and President of Glasswing International. She has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. Prior to Glasswing, Celina worked as a consultant for the Population Council, was a crisis interventionist for Latino immigrants in the United States, and spent over five years with Americares leading responses to complex humanitarian crises in regions including Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Indonesia. She is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation, Ashoka, and LEGO ReImagine Learning; an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Prize, and the Audacious Project; a Tällberg Global Leader; and the 2023–24 Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a member of the InterAmerican Foundation’s Advisory Council. Celina was a speaker at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver and has been featured on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Uncharted Ground podcast.

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• Alison Holder

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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 from civil society and the development and private sectors. We work to ensure that girls' and women's movements, advocates and decision makers have the data they need, and in a format they can use, to guide and drive faster progress towards the gender equality commitments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve this, we connect data and evidence with advocacy and action—using existing gender equality related data, supporting calls to fill data gaps, and training and equipping advocates to use data and evidence in their efforts to reach the transformational agenda of the SDGs by 2030. EM2030 was formed in 2016 by a group of cross-sector partners who united their resources, skills, networks and ambition to use data and bring new and critical insights, stories and action to help achieve collective impact for girls and women. The current partnership is a joint effort of leading regional and global organizations from civil society and the development and private sectors, including: FEMNET, ARROW, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CLADEM, Data2X, IWHC, KPMG, ONE Campaign, Plan International, and Women Deliver. Alison has 20 years’ experience in international development, leading advocacy work on inequality, tax justice, accountability, and corporate responsibility (at Action Aid, Oxfam, and Save the Children), on livelihoods with women in India, and small business development in South Africa. Alison started her career at Accenture, working on corporate social responsibility and business strategy. Alison has an MSc from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an undergraduate degree from the Ivey Business School in Canada.

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• Alicyn Yarbrough

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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 joining Glimmer in 2010, Alicyn has served in various roles, including overseeing strategy development, program design and fundraising. She spearheaded the effort to revise Glimmer’s theory of change in 2018 to focus on agricultural livelihoods as they key to building long-term resilience in rural Ethiopia. Her commitment to the people of Ethiopia drives her focus on deepening and leveraging the strong partnerships and country-wide progress seen since Glimmer was founded in 2000. Alicyn earned a bachelor’s degree in business and accounting from Texas Tech University. She currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her family.

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• Jenny Yates

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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, Uganda and in the Communications Division in London. Prior to that, Jenny worked in NGOs and with the governments of Uganda and Swaziland, including working with Oxfam in Mozambique and as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow in the Ministry of Agriculture in Swaziland.

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• Cristina Yoon

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  Senior Director, Grants Management, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Flora Bracco

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  Senior Partnerships Associate, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

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

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• Jenny Scharrer

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  Head of Division, KfW Development Bank

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

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• Alexandra Van der Ploeg

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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 programs that deliver sustainable social impact and long-term business value. In this function, she also oversees corporate giving, volunteerism and the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships for which Alexandra has a particular passion. Alexandra joined SAP in 1999. She started with SAP Switzerland in charge of management development and over the course of the next ten years held various managerial positions in Human Resources. Moving into the CSR organization in 2010, Alexandra developed and managed various global CSR programs, such as building an infrastructure for social business in Haiti and the development of a range of pro-bono volunteering program, e.g. the SAP Social Sabbatical Portfolio. Alexandra also serves on the advisory council of IMPACT 2030 and is part of the Leadership Council of the Realized Worth Institute. She holds an MBA from Henley Business School in Great Britain.

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• Alexandra Adams

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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 Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The foundation for all of my leadership and research has been community-based participatory research working in partnership with communities to understand and solve health challenges using both scientific rigor and crucial community knowledge. I have directed multiple clinical trials, including the Healthy Children, Strong Families2 trial in five Native communities nationally, have over 60 per-reviewed publications, and have received over $35 million in National Institutes of Health funding. I have worked in research partnerships with many cultures and American Indian communities in the United States, and recently with Indigenous communities in Hawaii and New Zealand. My blending of medical, research, and Indigenous knowledge and having to bridge these divergent worlds has taught me the critical importance of culture, language, and spiritual revitalization in healing Indigenous families and communities suffering from historic and current trauma. As a center director, I mentor many inter-disciplinary junior faculty researchers and we have a number of research products from our community partnered work that we are working to disseminate to other communities. I am eager to learn from and contribute to the international dialog in promotion of health equity. I am also eager to be in the company of others working to create a more just world in which diversity of opinion and the importance of an Indigenous holistic worldview in which all things are interconnected is understood.

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• Felix Brooks-church

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  CEO, Sanku - Project Healthy Children

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

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• Caroline Staffell

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

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

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• Caroline Harper

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  Chief Executive Officer, Sightsavers

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

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• Alex Jones

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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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• Aimee Ansari

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  Executive Director, CLEAR Global

  Aimee Ansari was appointed CLEAR Global’s (then Translators without Borders) first Executive Director in 2016. The organization had a team of three full-time staff members at the time. Within six years, CLEAR Global had over 130 team members and annual turnover has increased by well over 1000%. A natural “disrupter,” Aimee saw the potential use cases for CLEAR Global’s innovations, hired an excellent team and put new thinking to work for the most marginalized. Aimee has over 25 years of experience in leadership positions in large humanitarian and development organizations. Aime has led UN programs in Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, and Bangladesh, focusing on economic empowerment and microfinance. She has also worked in humanitarian crises from the Tajik civil war to the earthquake in Haiti, the conflicts in the Balkans to the Syrian refugee crisis and the conflict in South Sudan. Aimee has worked with Care, Oxfam, Save the Children and the United Nations.

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• Carla Grados Villamar

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  Co-Founder, Lucha Startup Studio

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

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• Jacqueline Geis

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  Chief Executive Officer, Videre

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

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• Adam Rosendahl

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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 ART®, he and his team of expert facilitators design and deliver unique learning and development programs across 12 countries for clients like Apple, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram, and Southwest Airlines, as well as government agencies, universities, and conferences across the globe. Drawing from his work as a youth empowerment facilitator/trainer, DJ, visual artist, and entrepreneur, he developed the methodology for LATE NITE ART: a process that spans industry, age, and culture, supporting participants to improve emotional intelligence, build creative confidence, and open new pathways for expression. Adam enjoys nothing more than lighting the creative spark in the people and places that need it most.

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• Adam McCurdie

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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 fees to fund education for disadvantaged kids. Prior to Humanitix Adam was a consultant at Accenture, lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney Business School and board member of Ripple Capital which provides micro loans to disadvantaged refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Adam is passionate about social change about the ability for new business model to drive innovative approaches to solving complex problems.

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• Claire Wathen

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  Director, Network & Partnerships, Skoll Foundation

  Animated by the power of connection, Claire cultivates the global Skoll Foundation network of social innovators, funders, private, and public sector leaders. Claire collaborates with partners to help unlock resources and bridge ecosystems. Claire co-leads network engagement for the Skoll World Forum, founded and now oversees the Skoll World Forum Fellowship and TEDx Skoll Conversations. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, a co-host of the Wasan Network, and an advisor to multiple organizations.   Prior to Skoll, Claire managed the San Diego Zoo’s internal innovation lab under the CFO. She worked with corporate R&D teams, co-led organizational experiments, and developed community programs to help deepen human connection with biodiversity. She is an alum of Seth Godin's altMBA, AVPN Impact Investing Fellowship, RSA, and JPCatholic University. After 15 years of studying and teaching contemporary dance, Claire now choreographs spaces for people to connect and co-create a more just future

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• Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro

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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 agricultural residues. To date, MitiMeth has trained over 500 women from communities across Nigeria and Ghana to make eco-friendly home décor and lifestyle products from these natural fibres. She is passionate about creating sustainable textiles and decorative home accessories from renewable materials and working with artisans, designers and organizations to push these into the mainstream. She has been featured on BBC, Deutsche Welle TV, CNBC Africa and CNN’s African Start-Up. Her TED Talk has 1.8 million views and her work has been featured in several publications including a 2018 UN Environment Programme publication on “Exploring the Potential for Adopting Alternative Materials to reduce Marine Plastic Litter”. Prior to founding MitiMeth, Achenyo spent 11 years with ExxonMobil where she held a variety of Regional and Global positions. She has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, an M.S. in Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University and an M.B.A from Cornell University. She held the position of Associate Lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Centre for General Studies during the 2018/2019 session and Course Director for LEAP Africa’s 2020/2021 Social Innovators Programme Workshop.

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• Abigail Falik

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  Founder & CEO, Flight School

  Abby Falik is a social entrepreneur, seeker, and speaker transforming how we learn, launch and lead. Named one of the “Most Creative People in Business,” by Fast Company and one of Goldman Sachs’ “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs”, Abby has been profiled by the NYT, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. She has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Fellow, a Harvard Business School Fellow, and was chosen as one of America's “Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers” by the Business of Giving. After winning Harvard’s Pitch for Change in 2008, Abby founded Global Citizen Year, an acclaimed Fellowship that used the transition after high school to help young adults find their people, purpose and power. In 2022 she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to design a blueprint for taking the model to scale. Today, she’s designing a rebellious rite of passage to equip GenZ with the resilience, empathy and agency they’ll need to change the world....for good.

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• Aarti Porwal

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  Managing Director, Stanford Center for Health Education, Digital Medic

  Aarti Porwal is Managing Director of the Stanford Center for Health Education and the Digital Medic Initiative, a global program committed to democratizing access to vital health education and currently reaching over 36M learners. At Digital Medic, we are committed to reaching health workers and communities worldwide with accurate, timely, and understandable digital health information.The content is designed to reach communities directly, while also providing frontline community health workers (CHWs) with the tools they need to communicate health messages effectively to their populations. We work to build capacity for the global health workforce, increase health-promoting behaviors, and improve health outcomes. Aarti also helped form and launch the Digital Medic South Africa office, extending our presence and ability to collaborate in the Global South. Aarti has been working in the healthcare and education sector for over 20 years, and completed an MHSA and BBA from U of Michigan.

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• Christopher Hohn

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  Founder, Children's Investment Fund Foundation

  Christopher Hohn is the founder of the Children’s Investment (TCI) Fund, a hedge fund based in London. 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 India. Key areas of focus include climate change, girls’ education, malnutrition, neglected tropical diseases and child protection. With a clear focus on reducing global emissions to limit temperature increase to 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels, CIFF’s climate work spans a range of sectors, including energy, transport, industry, food and land use, alongside cross-cutting strategic levers such as finance and accountability, diplomacy, legal action, and strategic communications. He has an MBA (high distinction) from Harvard Business School.

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• Gurpreet Singh

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  Senior Program Manager, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Bronwyn Dugtig

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  Associate Director, Executive Education, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Yasemin Sirali

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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 childhood to higher education to adult trainings. Prior to joining Ozyegin Social Investments, Yasemin worked as a management consultant at the New York City and Philadelphia offices of Deloitte Consulting, where she provided advisory services to pharma and biotech companies on strategic and operational issues. She completed an Honors degree in Economics and French Literature at Swarthmore College and obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School. Yasemin is a Board Member of the Education Reform Initiative, Steering Committee Member of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium, Fellow of the Harvard University FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, and a Responsible Leader of the BMW Foundation.

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• Whitney May

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  Director of Government Services, Center for Tech and Civic Life

  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, Whitney served the Durham County Board of Elections in North Carolina from 2007 to 2012 then joined the New Organizing Institute to work on the Voting Information Project. Whitney holds a BA in Business Administration from Belmont University. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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• Wendy Jaffe

  Delegate

  consultant, Individual

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• Vanessa TEST Wai

  Delegate

  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 served as the Communities Manager at Benetech, a Skoll Awardee. Previously, Vanessa worked at the Downtown Women’s Center, where she managed their volunteer program and started three social enterprises (a café, retail store, and product line) that created job training and employment opportunities for homeless women in the Los Angeles Skid Row Community. Vanessa holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine with a minor in management. She is currently pursuing an MBA from this University of California, Davis. Vanessa enjoys the adventures of parenting two energetic and mischievous kids with her husband. She is passionate about food, community building, and social innovation.

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• Brian Walusimbi

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  Executive Director, Bless a Child Foundation

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

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• Vaishali Nigam Sinha

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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 responsibility (CSR) and sustainability initiatives. A strong advocate of equal participation of women in economic activities, Vaishali is also passionate about Climate Change, Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership. She has been a speaker at international forums like the California Governor’s Global Climate Action Summit, Clinton Global Initiative and United Nations Global Compact Network. She is a President’s invitee to Columbia World Projects – a high-level forum at Columbia University created to tackle major global challenges. She also serves on the President’s Advisory Council at Wellesley College. Vaishali is deeply engaged with industry bodies, think tanks and educational institutions. She is a member of the Governing Council of the UN Global Compact Network, India (GCNI) and Chairperson of their Gender Committee; Chairperson – South Asian Women In Energy (SAWIE) – a body set up under USISPF to promote diversity and gender equity in energy sector; Chair of CII Indian Women Network and Woman Empowerment Committee and is on the Advisory Council of the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development. Vaishali is on the Columbia Global Centre’s Mumbai Advisory Board and a member of the Governing Council of the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women. Vaishali has also authored opinion articles on a range of topics from sustainability to gender to CSR which have been published in leading Indian dailies, magazines and industry journals. In June 2020, Vaishali was listed among Asia’s Most Influential Women in Renewable Energy by Solar Quarter magazine. Vaishali was felicitated for her outstanding contribution towards woman empowerment by CSR Journal in July 2019 and also recognized

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• Tim Jellison

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  US Board Trustee, Spring Impact, Spring Impact

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• Temie Giwa-Tubosun

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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 International Development (DFID), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Lagos State Government, amongst others. Her remarkable contributions have been recognised by reputable organizations including The World Economic Forum, the Cartier Women's Initiative, The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Centre, TEDx, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She is passionate about improving access to healthcare in Africa and improving the SDGs.

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• Sylvain Yuma

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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 December 2016 to April 2018: director of cabinet of the minister of health of the DRC, in june 2006 to November 2017: director of the National transfusion program

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• Chris Raine

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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 mission to safely detox 10,000 Australians by 2025. Chris is a Young Australian of the Year, a Westpac Social Change Fellow, a Skoll Scholarship recipient, and has completed an MBA at Oxford University. In 2023, he was awarded a John Monash Scholarship.

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• Syed Irteza Ubaid

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  Ambassador, TEDx

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

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• Brandon Kinport

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  Social Impact Partnerships, Artefact Group

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

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• Syed Asaad Ayub Ahmad

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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 University of Texas Austin and a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from N.E.D University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. Prior to joining TCF, he was working as Sales Director for Castrol in Pakistan and has also served in other senior positions on behalf of British Petroleum. These involved development of business prospects for Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other regional markets. Prior to BP, Asaad has worked for ExxonMobil and Shell. Asaad’s interests include social work, teaching, reading and photography.

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• Swati Saxena

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  Director, Resource Mobilization and Communication, ARMMAN

  Swati 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 morbidity. She has an experience of over 15 years wearing various hats, including that of a resource mobilization and communication professional in the development sector, working on programmes by Population Services International, UNICEF, UNFPA, The Global Fund, Rotary's Pulse Polio Committee and National Aids Control Organisation. Prior to ARMMAN, she successfully founded an education startup in the field of skill-building, working out of the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad.

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• Suzanne Biegel

  Delegate

  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 and impact lens. Her work spans research, field building, and advisory in gender-smart investing. Suzanne was a founding board member of Confluence Philanthropy. She was Vice Chair of Liberty Hill Foundation. She is passionate about the role of investors and funders to shift market systems and invest for impact with a gender lens. Suzanne is Senior Gender Lens Investing Adviser at Wharton Business School, is a Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and she teaches Getting Gender Smart at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She sits on the Investor Advisory Council for the Equality Fund, and on numerous advisory boards including Cornerstone Capital and SheEO. She also leads the Women, Girls, and Reduced Inequalities group at Toniic ,where she is an active member. She has been coming to Skoll World Forum for 10 years, now, as a funder, as an investor, and as a field builder. Suzanne was an award winning entrepreneur for the e-learning company that she built in the 1990s, and has won numerous awards throughout her 30+ year career, including the Beacon Award for Philanthropy and Social Investment, in the UK. She is based in London.

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• Sunil Wadhwani

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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 ranked among the world’s leading consulting firms. In 2015, IGATE was sold to Cap Gemini of France for over $4 billion. Sunil is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mastech Corporation, a provider of digital transformation solutions. Mastech is a publicly-traded company with about $200 million in revenues. Sunil is an active angel investor. He has invested in over 40 early-stage technology companies and has also served on the Boards of several of these ventures. Sunil established the non-profit WISH Foundation in India in 2014. WISH transforms primary health systems in low-income areas using innovation. WISH manages over 400 health clinics which provided free healthcare to over 5 million patients in 2018. www.wishfoundationindia.org. In 2018 Sunil and his brother Romesh launched the non-profit Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (WadhwaniAI.org), with the goal of using AI to accelerate social development in the most vulnerable communities in India and other emerging economies. The Institute develops and deploys AI-based solutions in domains such as public health, education financial inclusion, agriculture and urban planning. Sunil serves or has served as a Trustee or Director of Carnegie-Mellon University, George Washington University, The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Pittsburgh Branch), United Way Worldwide, and UPMC Health System. Sunil is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology and has a Master’s Degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.

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• Sumitra Pasupathy

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  Founder + Partner, Ashoka

  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 innovation in the fields of learning, planet and climate; and ageing. Previously, she was with Ashoka Innovators for the Public as a Global Stewardship Lead; and is on the Board of Playeum, Singapore Art Museum, Avanti US Fellows (501c) and advisor to Sofina Philanthropic Fund, Pratham Books, YouthXYouth. She now seeks to support philanthropic individuals, family foundations, founders, civil society organisations to support transformative systems-change impact. The heart of her approach is anchored around the relational work that uplifts the missing voices of society; weaving and building the bridge between different change agents for and inner place for greater social impact in Asia.

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• Steve Williams

  Delegate

  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 helped over 3,000 children to date. Steve has also started several organisations to help create a more equitable and inclusive society for people living with disabilities in western Uganda, and these include: Kyaninga Mobility, (www.kyaningamobility.org) a workshop that designs, tests, develops, and manufactures wheelchairs, standing devices, seating apparatuses, prosthetics, and other mobility equipment that is specially tailored to the rural setting we operate in. Kyaninga Education Hub and Kyaninga Inclusive Module School, (www.kyaningaedhub.org) Kyaninga Education Hub serves as a centre of excellence for the continued professional development of local Ugandan teachers. The Inclusive school allows our trainee teachers to learn in the same experiential, hands-on, and engaging way that we advocate for children. Kyaninga Forest Foundation (KFF), (www.kyaningaforestfoundation.com). KFF believes the preservation of biodiversity is critical for future prosperity, and as such we work to protect the biodiversity and ecological integrity of the natural world to the benefit of all those who depend upon it. Kyaninga Dairy (www.kyaningadairy.com) was established in 2016 with a view of assisting KCDC to become more sustainable and less reliant on donor funding by generating much-needed income through the sale of delicious, hand-crafted cheese. Steve is the creator of Kyaninga Lodge (www.kyaningalodge.com), which has been an essential funding partner to start the above organisations. The Kyaninga Group is deeply personal for Steve as the organisations were founded because of the experiences that he faced with his son, who was born with epilepsy and a developmental delay.

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• Bob Filbin

  Delegate

  Chief Data Scientist, Crisis Text Line

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

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• Stephanie Boyle

  Delegate

  Group Head of Partner and Industry PR, Skyscanner, Skyscanner

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• Carina Pimenta

  Delegate

  Former Co-Founder and Executive Director, CONEXSUS

  Carina 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 co-founded Conexsus in 2018, having previously worked in both private sector and civil society organizations. In March 2023, she joined the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, as National Secretary for Bioeconomy. Throughout her career, she developed expertise in green and innovative finance, development of community businesses and small businesses, entrepreneurship, public policy and development of the bioeconomy.

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• Eddie Mandhry

  Delegate

  Founder, Prometheus

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

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• Sorina Campean

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  Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement Lead, Saïd Business School

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

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• Donny Bridges

  Delegate

  Co-Founder/ Director of Civic Data, Center for Tech and Civic Life

  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 in order to have maximum impact. Prior to founding CTCL, Donny was the Election Administration Research Director at the New Organizing Institute from 2012 to 2015, where he developed his obsession with local government and its data. Donny holds BAs in Political Science and Philosophy from Stanford University. When he's not nerding out about edge cases in US elections data, he's probably nerding out about coffee, Formula 1, or half-understood concepts in quantum physics. He also recently joined a bowling league, and yes, he has made a ridiculous spreadsheet to track his team's data.

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• Sonny Bardhan

  Delegate

  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 decades of international experience across private, public, and social sectors. Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2014, Sonny worked at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where he developed strategy, built the investment pipeline, and originated high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sonny previously served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both the financial institutions group and the social sector office. He began his career at Capital One, and has also worked with Innovations for Poverty Action and UnLtd. Sonny received an MPA/ID from Harvard, an MBA from Oxford and an MA from Cambridge

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• Deo Niyizonkiza

  Delegate

  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 Burundi, where he attended grade school and part of medical school. He left the country during the catastrophic war that lasted more than a decade and took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Deo survived not only this man-made tragedy and poverty, but also homelessness in New York City. Deo’s life journey is told in Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder’s book, Strength in What Remains, a New York Times best seller named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Despite the hurdles he faced in the U.S.—homelessness, illness, and low-paying work delivering groceries— he eventually enrolled at Columbia University, where he received his bachelor’s degree. After graduating from Columbia, he attended the Harvard School of Public Health, where he met Dr. Paul Farmer and began working at the medical nonprofit organization Partners In Health and Harvard Medical School. He left Partners In Health to continue his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School. In 2005, guided by his unwavering conviction that humanity’s progress should be measured by how we honor the dignity of others, including those a world away, Deo traveled back to Burundi. There, in the remote village of Kigutu, he established Village Health Works, with the goal of removing barriers to human dignity and progress by creating a model health care system and education based on critical thinking. Deo's passion rallied the community of Kigutu into action. Thanks to community-donated land, a small amount of seed money from American fellow medical students and supporters, a community of compassionate volunteers, and Deo's l

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• Diana Walker

  Delegate

  CEO, Walker Impact Strategies

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

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• Snorre Westgaard

  Delegate

  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, contributing to the overall growth and outreach of the HPPIn. Mr. Westgaard has been guiding HPPI’s education and development goals by working closely with the central government as well as the state governments, local and global non-profit organizations, community groups, researchers, as well as the private sector. He brings with him valuable experience gained through leading many successful teams and complex assignments across various global social welfare organizations. Mr. Westgaard has been instrumental in developing new education projects in India, like ‘Kadam’ (Step-Up), an innovative programme aligned with the Right to Education, Act, 2009 and Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, an initiative aimed at getting ‘out-of-school-children’ back into the school system by providing holistic academic support to them. He has also been an important part of HPPI’s team which has been working on ‘Necessary Teacher Training Programme’, a two year diploma of education for new primary school teachers across various states in the country. Prior to his work in India, Mr. Westgaard provided regional support in the health and community development sectors mainly in Southern Africa. He has made valuable contributions on projects aimed at increasing the awareness about HIV/AIDS and other rampant diseases, their prevention, diagnosis and treatment. These projects include ‘HOPE’ and ‘Total Control Epidemic’ programmes, which spanned across various countries across the globe. He was a part of developing and starting these programmes which has today reached over 20 million people and has and connected them with information, services and support.

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• Sherryl Loseno

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Voice of the Free

  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 Zamboanga City in partnership with the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippine Ports Authority, Law Enforcement Agencies and local government unit. I'm also part of the Training Team of Sea-based and Air-based Anti-Trafficking Taskforces in Zamboanga City, headed by the Department of Justice. I served as a resource person on Human Trafficking of Children during the International Children’s Trust Conference and Annual General Meeting, London; Facilitated and help organized International Field Exchange, Lima Peru, Hongkong and United States.

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• Deborah Drake

  Delegate

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

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

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• Shahed Alam

  Delegate

  Co-founder and Co-CEO, Noora Health

  Dr. Shahed Alam is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, a non-profit dedicated to improving outcomes and strengthening health systems by equipping family caregivers with the skills they need to care for their loved ones. In partnership with public health systems in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, Noora Health has trained over 5 million caregivers across 4700+ hospitals and clinics, and was honoured as a TED 2022 Audacious Project Grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation. Shahed received his MD from Stanford University and is currently an associate faculty member at Ariadne Labs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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• Catalina Escobar

  Delegate

  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 Bogota. She began her career in the banking and private fields, when in 2001 she created what would become her passion: The Juanfe Foundation (Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation). Catalina is globally recognized social entrepreneur. Granted the National Merit Order Award by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in 2011, she joined the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women´s Mentoring Partnership and became a CNN Hero in 2012. Being the recipient of numerous awards, including 21 Leaders of the 21st Century by Women eNews in N.Y., Top 10 Best Colombian Leaders 2013, and Lewis Institute Award from Babson College, Catalina was recognized as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. In 2015 she won the World of Children Humanitarian Award. In 2016 she was given the Honorary Doctorate Degree from Clark University, as well as she has been selected as Women Leaders in Global Health Fellow 2017 by Stanford University. She’s a board member of Women in Connection in Colombia a group of top CEO´s women and leaders throughout the country. Catalina is an international speaker. Some of her interventions have been in Georgetown University, Standard Chartered Bank, TEDWomen, Citibank, Aspen Institute, Fortune Most Powerful Women, UN Women, Nobel Peace Price Summit, Babson College, among others.

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• Seth Cochran

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  Founder & CEO, Operation Fistula

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

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• Sergio Pancorbo

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  Senior Consultant, International Finance Corporation

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

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• Sahar Tejpar

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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 of experience in global development and non-profits including the Aga Khan Development Network and We Mean Business Coalition. Sehr is passionate about bringing together diverse stakeholders in partnership across common goals, while also driving strategic change. She currently is the Strategic Partnerships Lead for Tenure Facility, working with the Executive Director to build Tenure Facility’s partnerships and future strategic impact. In her free time she enjoys living in her new home town of Lisbon Portugal, developing herself as a ballroom dancer, and practicing yoga.

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• Sandra Contreras

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  Director of Impact and New Business Development, Glasswing International

  Sandra is the Impact Director and Representative of Glasswing International in Colombia. Sandra has more than 20 years of experience in designing development programs for various donors, contexts, and international organizations in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. Over the past five years, Sandra has led, alongside a multidisciplinary team, Glasswing's fundraising efforts and program design aimed at improving access to community-based mental health services and service-learning programs for youth, among other initiatives. Sandra is from El Salvador and holds a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy- Tufts University and she and her husband live and raise their twin teenage daughters and younger son in Bogotá, Colombia.

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• Ruth Bechtel

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  Country Director, Mozambique, VillageReach

  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 valuable last mile perspective with experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring development programs in both Mozambique and Swaziland. Prior to joining VillageReach, Ruth worked with the Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health as well as with Oxfam Great Britain and Helvetas. In addition, Ruth brings years of experience in linking local community level challenges to national and above national policy debates and advocacy. Ruth has an MSc in Managing Rural Change from the University of London, Imperial College.

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• Daniel Buchbinder

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  CEO and Founder, Alterna Impact

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

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• Benjamin Kumpf

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  Head of Innovation, Department for International Development

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

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• Rudolf Hilti

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  Founder & Chair, HUS Institute

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

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• Roopa Dhatt

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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 supporters in 90+ countries. Dr. Dhatt works to transform women's leadership in health, mobilizing emerging leaders, urging commitment fulfillment, and ensuring accountability. With 15+ years in global health and collaborations in 120+ countries, she advises on health workforce, gender equity, and universal health coverage. Recognized in the Gender Equality Top 100, Dr. Dhatt's influence extends to the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, G7 advisory roles, and global health committees. As a public delegate to the U.S. Delegation to the UN 65th Commission of Status of Women, led by VP Kamala Harris, she significantly shapes global health policy through impactful publications and media engagements.

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• Benedicte Wilhelmsen

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  Board Observer, Wilstar Social Impact

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

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• Colman J. Chamberlain

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  Global Managing Director, Unreasonable Group

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

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• Robert Newman

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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 visionary and effective public sector teams. Prior to that, he held roles as Vice President and Global Head of Tuberculosis at Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health; Country Director for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Cambodia; Managing Director for Policy & Performance at Gavi; Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization, CDC team lead for the President’s Malaria Initiative; and Country Coordinator for Health Alliance International in Mozambique. He received his BA in English Literature from Williams College, his MD from Johns Hopkins University, and his MPH from the University of Washington, where he remains Clinical Professor of Global Health

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• Randy Work

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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 equity with Lone Star Funds, a global investment fund, from 1997 to 2009. During this time, he co-founded the Japan office, which he managed for nearly 10 years. Randall grew up in southern California, graduating from UCLA with a degree in International Economics in 1989 and an MBA in Finance in 1996. He has lived in London for the past 12 years, after living in Japan and Hong Kong for the previous 10 years.

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• Ramesh Padmanabhan

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  CEO, ARMMAN

  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 was the CEO of NSE.IT, a technology subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India, for seven years. At NSE.IT, Ramesh was pivotal in transforming the company from a captive to a global technology organization. Ramesh has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MphasiS, a technology services company. At MphasiS, Ramesh played key roles in product delivery, platform development, integration of companies and human capital management. Ramesh has done his post-graduation in software technology from the National Center for Software Technology, Mumbai.

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• Raj Gilda

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  Co-founder, Lend a Hand India

  Raj Gilda, a banker-turned-social entrepreneur leads resource mobilization and external relations at Lend A Hand India, managing its presence in the USA and UK. With over 20 years of experience in education, banking, insurance, and IT, he transitioned to full-time social work in 2011. His past roles include positions at Citibank and Deloitte Consulting in New York. Raj has been involved in various government advisory roles, such as a member of the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), advisor to the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan (RMSA) in Maharashtra, advisor to the National Curriculum Framework(NCF) and a Chevening Gurukul Scholar at the London School of Economics. He's recognized as a top 100 graduate alumni of the University of Texas at Austin and received an award for community service from the U.S. President. Raj is an Electronics Engineer from the University of Pune, holds an MBA from the University of Texas

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• Radha Rajkotia

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  Chief Executive Officer, Building Markets

  Radha is an experienced leader in international economic development and is passionate about using the power of business, technology, data, and evidence to make a meaningful impact on the lives of economically vulnerable people. She has worked in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and led global initiatives to create lasting social, economic, and environmental impact through the private and nonprofit sectors. Radha lives in Washington DC, with her husband and three children. When not working or with her family, her happiest place is on her kayak.

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• David Issroff

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  Founder/Trustee, Issroff Family Foundation

  To be advised.

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• Rachel Waddell

  Delegate

  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 and partnerships roles with the New Climate Economy, the Global Green Growth Institute and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. She holds a BA from the University of Nottingham and an MA from the University of Leeds.

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• Priya Bery

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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 to bring scalable solutions to tough global challenges. Priya’s career started on Capitol Hill when she had the lucky opportunity to serve her home state working for U.S. Senator Carl Levin during the Clinton Administration. In 2001 she started the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS with the late Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, a venture credited for redefining the role of business in addressing the global AIDS crisis. She continued to push the bar on the role of business and social impact by joining Virgin Unite in 2006 to lead Richard Branson’s advocacy and philanthropy agenda as Director Public Affairs & Partnerships. She built a global community of entrepreneurs committed to world change and incubated Virgin Unite’s social investments and leadership initiatives like The Elders, B-Team and Carbon War room. Priya joined the leadership team at Los Angeles based, TOMS in 2012. As VP of Giving she tripled the impact and reach of TOMS social impact portfolio and developed the company’s first SROI and shared value framework. She went on to serve as Chief of Staff and Vice President of Social Entrepreneurship where she led the $100M social investment portfolio including TOMS Social Entrepreneurship Fund, Tomorrow’s Project and Start Something That Matters Fund with Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, Blake Mycoskie. Most recently Priya was the founding CEO of Soho Impact, an innovative foundation focused on fostering a creative economy and reinventing education through creativity and play. A Michigan native and Wolverine at heart, Priya now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and 2 young daughters and they are constantly experimenting with ways to make service and civic action a part of everyday family life.

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• Pooneh Ghoddoosi

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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 funders such as philanthropic, commercial, and educational organisations. She looks after a portfolio of nearly 5 million USD of funding secured to design and deliver educational and solutions-focused content. Pooneh is well-known internationally as one of the BBC’s select group of multilingual TV and radio presenters. She is also an experienced senior media trainer, having designed and delivered training courses for journalists around the world.

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• Pradeep Nair

  Delegate

  Advisor, Ford Foundation

  Ex-Deloitte Consulting, Clinton Foundation, Paul Volcker Advisory. Currently Ford Foundation. Focused on Investing/ESG

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• Polly Lomas

  Delegate

  Programme Manager - Travalyst, Sussex Royal - Travalyst

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• Pip Wheaton

  Delegate

  Consultant, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Ayesha Wagle

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  Managing Director - Capital, Rippleworks

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

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• Dannie Mckenzie

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  Executive Director, Kidz Can

  Daniel McKenzie is the Executive Director for KidzCan Zimbabwe, a foundation supporting childhood cancer in Zimbabwe. A graduate in Mass Communication and Philosophy and a broadcast journalist by profession. I have worked with the local national broadcaster ZBC as a radio and television presenter producer for 30 years. I head a staff of ten, whose responsibilities include strategic management of KidzCan, reporting to and supporting the board of directors, human resource management, stakeholder engagement, fundraising and fostering organisational ethos to mention a few.

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• Peter Rundlet

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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, including programmatic, policy, and operational activities. Rundlet's extensive background working to achieve positive and durable social change includes key posts both inside and outside government. Before joining AARP, Rundlet served as the Director of International Strategy for the Obama Foundation, where he spearheaded the design and development of all of the organization's international programs. During his tenure, the International team grew quickly, raised millions of dollars, and established several strategic partnerships to support programs that engage and empower thousands of emerging leaders from around the world. Prior to that post, Rundlet served as Managing Director and Head of the Washington, DC office of the human rights foundation Humanity United. As President Barack Obama's Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary, Rundlet exercised control over all written information prepared for the President, ensuring quality and readiness for the President's eyes and that the views of all relevant senior advisors were reflected in decision memos. In that post, Rundlet also helped oversee the offices of Presidential Correspondence, the Office of the Executive Clerk, and the Office of Records Management. Before that, Rundlet was the Vice President and Managing Director for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, where he managed the work of two dozen international policy experts and analysts, edited three books, convened several major international conferences and expert working groups, and appeared as a commentator on a wide range of media outlets. Prior to coming to CAP, Rundlet served as Counsel for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. Rundlet also served in President Clinton's White House, first as a White House Fellow, working in the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, and later as Associate Counsel to the President. Rundlet also has worked as an associate attorney in the political law department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Earlier in his career, Rundlet was an Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he litigated voting rights, housing, school desegregation, and employment discrimination cases. A former Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, Rundlet holds a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University.

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• Paula Gutierrez

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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, youth empowerment and community development in Latinamerica and Africa. Co-founder of the Impact HUB Bogotá, first center for social and environmental innovators in Colombia and Host of the Latam Impact Hub Cluster.

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• Breanne Svehla

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  Associate Director for Operations, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

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

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• Patti Parson

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  Managing Producer, PBS NewsHour

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

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• Otto Orondaam

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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 sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth. He has been a community organizer, development consultant and a social entrepreneur for over 15 years, working with thousands of young people across the private and public sectors. In 2012, he founded Slum2School Africa to provide educational scholarships for out-of-school children and create a solution to the deplorable state of education in the slums and underserved communities across Nigeria/Africa. Today, Slum2School Africa has grown to become one of Africa’s leading volunteer-driven developmental organizations and over the past 8 years, he has worked with over 10,100 volunteers across 35 countries to provide educational scholarships and dozens of development support to over 107,000 children from 47 communities across Nigeria. He has built various early childhood development centers, adopted public schools, built e-libraries, health centers, technology and Innovation labs serving thousands of children and recently, built the first virtual learning classroom in Africa. Otto's vision is to see that every child and youth, irrespective of their color, origin, gender and physical or mental ability is given an equal opportunity and the best chances to education, to enable them maximize their potential and contribute positively to the growth of the African continent.

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• Audrey Giacomini

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  Head of Programs and content, World Innovation Summit for Education

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

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• Pablo Arigita

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  Social impact investment manager, Open Value Foundation

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• Norette Turimuci

  Delegate

  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 Cancer in Toronto. In this role, she coordinated three national cancer screening networks and supported initiatives to improve cancer care for Indigenous Peoples. Before moving to Canada, she honed her financial management and client relationship-building skills during her eight-year tenure with the Cooke Financial Group, an elite investment group based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Norette graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance with minors in Economics and Spanish from Butler University in Indianapolis, and she holds a Certificate in International Project Management from the University of Toronto. Throughout all of her professional experiences, Norette has always emphasized empowering women and girls, like her daughter, in East Africa and creating future women leaders.

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• Boris Bulayev

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  CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!

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

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• Noa Gafni Slaney

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  Executive Director, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation

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

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• Niranjan Suresh

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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 programs in skill development and employment, livelihoods and farmer insurance. In strategy roles, I was responsible for building systems on monitoring and evaluation, human resource management and grant management. In my free time, I enjoy cooking, football, running and trekking. In my year at Oxford, I have expanded my vision of what impact means to me! I would find it interesting to work on areas such as impact measurement, program management and impact investing.

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• Bob Bloom

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  Chief Financial Officer, Heifer International

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

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• Natash Muller

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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 problems. It is with this in mind that she founded NM Impact Ltd: An independent investment and convening vehicle that aims to inspire, motivate and connect like-minded Next Gens and to catalyze increased capital flows, both philanthropic and through impactful investments, to social enterprises and sustainable businesses. Natasha actively campaigns on mental health issues; has worked on policy initiatives; helped fundraise and create philanthropic solutions and is a trustee for United for Global Mental Health and Philanthropy Impact. She also occupies seats on various advisory committees and boards including Philanthropy Impact; the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) at the University of Zurich, the Empower initiative with Harvard Medical School, and is a founding member of The Conduit social impact membership club. Natasha holds a BA in Geography; an MSC in the Political Economy of Violence, Conflict, and Development from SOAS University, and is an Alumni of the Impact Investing for the Next Generation course at Harvard Kennedy School. Outside of her work, she was a competitive equestrian show jumper and is currently an avid weightlifter, sports enthusiast, and a contemporary art collector.

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• Antoine Firmenich

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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 organizations & initiatives that impact early childhood, health & education, as well as the oceans & coastal ecosystems. MAC3 seeks to make sustainable impact at scale, applying honed investment & business principles to philanthropy. While supporting leading institutions & research projects in the US, Europe & Asia, MAC3 is also focusing on selected local communities in Asia. Antoine serves as Director of Firmenich International. Founded in 1895, Firmenich is the world’s largest family-owned flavors and fragrance company. The company’s products touch >3 billion consumers daily. He is a founding Director of Conservation International’s Asia Pacific board & founding member of Co-Impact Community.

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• Nan-b de Gaspé Beaubien

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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 enterprising women and enterprising families, public health and environmental causes. An internationally renowned expert on the topic of family enterprise, Nan b is a regular speaker at global conferences and top universities worldwide. The psychology of business After pursuing doctoral studies in psychology, Nan b began her career as a psychologist and university lecturer. Her understanding of human dynamics and insight into the psychology of management allowed her to play an important role in the successful operation and growth of Telemedia, the family business. Viewing family as the oldest associative unit, Nan b has worked tirelessly to build on its power to impact the community at large and the greater social fabric of a nation. In the early ‘90s, Nan b and Philippe founded the Business Families Foundation (BFF), a pioneering non-profit that is devoted to helping family businesses succeed and endure. Nan-b has helped bring together professionals, academics and experienced family entrepreneurs to exchange knowledge and develop a network of regional educational hubs in Canada, the U.S., South America, and Asia sharing her expertise globally. The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation Through the de Gaspé beaubien Foundation Nan-b has devoted time and energy to helping her grandchildren with their project on water preservation on the Great Lakes and across Canada. Using technology to influence Environmental Policy ("AquaHacking") the family Foundation has influenced public policy as well as helping to found 17 entrepreneurial businesses working to solve 10 critical water issues. She also spends time and energy to studying, improving and promoting the changing role of women in society and business through programs such as women’s Narratives Project at Smith College in Massachusetts and the Women in Entrepreneurial Families Initiative (WEFI) Nan b also served with several other international or national non-profit organizations, such as the: • Harvard Business School Board Associates • Institute for Research on Public Policy • Canadian Association of Family Enterprise • Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Committee • National Centre for Management Research and Development (Women in Management Program) • Family Firm Institute (FFI Fellow) • Canadian Council of Children and Youth (President for 4 years) As a complement to her business and philanthropic roles, Nan b has served as a Director of multinational companies such as the Campbell Soup Company and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts – and she was often the first woman to do so. Awards • Order of Canada • Canadian Business Hall of Fame • Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame • Philanthropy Merit Award from the Quebec Chamber of Commerce • Honorary Doctorate from the University of British Columbia

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• Myriam Khoury

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  Vice President - Innovation, Mercy Corps

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

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• Charles Sennott

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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, Sennott started GroundTruth in 2014 and in 2017 launched the non-profit organization's new, local reporting initiative, Report for America, which places 250 reporters in 164 newsrooms across 48 U.S. states. GroundTruth also supports about 40 global reporting fellowships each year in under-covered corners of the world, covering challenging global issues such as climate change, migration, human rights, health, inequality and poverty. Reporting on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, including the post 9-11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring, Sennott began his career in local news covering cops, courts and municipal government. Sennott’s deep experience reporting led him to dedicate himself to supporting and training the next generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of our time. Sennott is also the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website. Previously, Sennott worked for many years as a reporter at the New York Daily News and then the Boston Globe, where he became Bureau Chief for the Middle East and Europe, and a leader of the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005. Sennott has also served as a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE and the PBS NewsHour. He has contributed news analysis to the BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC and others. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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• Muriel Lamin

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

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

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• Momina Ahmed

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  Assistant Manager Grant Raising & Donor Management, Kashf Foundation

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• Mohamed Amersi

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  Chairman, Inclusive Ventures Group

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

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• Michael Taylor

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  Director, International Land Coalition

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

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• Merrill Gregg

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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 philanthropy, business, and impact finance. By strategically impacting the distance, time, and speed through which transformational outcomes are realized, the Velocity Collaborative accelerates visionary solutions that unite business-oriented approaches and the expertise of nonprofit leaders. Friedkin Philanthropies comprise the philanthropic endeavors, charities, and corporate social responsibility efforts of the Friedkin family and The Friedkin Group, and are driven by the experience, expertise, and passions of Chairman and CEO Dan Friedkin. The diverse companies affiliated with The Friedkin Group are unified by a shared mission: to provide best-in-class experiences that inspire joy and purpose. As an initiative of Friedkin Philanthropies, the Velocity Collaborative is a bridge between The Friedkin Group’s business acumen and the Friedkin family’s passion for investing in meaningful philanthropic endeavors. Before joining Velocity, Ms. Gregg spent the last five years developing innovative conservation finance models. Ms. Gregg established Texas' first revolving loan fund capitalized with philanthropic program-related investments for land acquisition and led an inaugural mission-related impact investment portfolio at Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. Prior to her career in nonprofit conservation finance, Ms. Gregg was a vice president of marketing at Brigade Capital Management, a $16 billion credit asset manager based in New York City, and worked at Goldman Sachs for seven years. She serves on the board and finance committee of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, a joint Canada-U.S. nonprofit organization that works to protect one of the last intact mountain ecosystems left on Earth. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in History.

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• Maya Patel

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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 intersection of business and purpose - as a brand strategist, storyteller, community builder and impact investor. She has worked with brands and cultural leaders across the purpose spectrum: pioneers in social entrepreneurship, tech giants shifting the world’s expectations of business, nonprofits driving impact at scale, and celebrities, creatives and influencers fearlessly using their platform to change the world. Most recently Kate was the Global Brand Marketing Director at TOMS, where she spearheaded their #EndGunViolenceTogether campaign and managed a $100M impact investment fund. A social entrepreneur at heart, Kate has also started her own social business focused on uniting creative mediums with sustainable development initiatives, where she launched a globally-sourced sustainable fashion line and built a music school in Malawi.

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• Maryam Pasha

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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 UK government policy and most importantly helped people use their voice to make change. She is a storytelling coach and consultant and since 2015 has been working with organisations and individuals to help them tell better stories. She specialises in supporting experts to speak effectively to non-experts, with a recent focus on climate change communication. Maryam has 10 years of experience in the human rights and charity sector and a background in psychology. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford where she focuses on impact storytelling.

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• Maryam Gardisi

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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 internationally recognized organization active in mental health care, psychosocial support, and intra-cultural dialogue as a means for peace and reconciliation.

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• Marion Ntiru

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  Director, Programs, The ELMA Philanthropies

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

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• Luis Palacios

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  Founder & CEO, Elystone Capital

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

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• Louise Richardson

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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 University where she spent twenty years on the faculty of the Harvard Government Department and latterly as Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She currently sits on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Booker Prize Foundation and numerous other charities. A political scientist by training, Professor Richardson is recognised internationally as an expert on terrorism and counter-terrorism. Her publications include Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (2007), What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006), The Roots of Terrorism (2006), and When Allies Differ (1996). She has written numerous articles on international terrorism, British foreign and defence policy, security institutions, and international relations, lectured to public, professional, media and education groups and served on editorial boards for several journals and presses. Professor Richardson’s awards include the Sumner Prize for work towards the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews in Scotland; Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s College Belfast in Ireland; Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Russia; Notre Dame University in the USA and the University of the West Indies. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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• Anubha Rawat

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  Projects Director, DAK Foundation

  With over 20 years of experience working in international development, Anubha is the Projects Director at the DAK Foundation, a private foundation based in Australia. DAK primarily focuses on sub-saharan Africa and Asia in three areas – women's health programmes (birth injury repair and family planning), restorative eyesight surgery and distribution of medical equipment, focussing on oxygen systems. Anubha is passionate about program development and initiatives championed at the local level. Anubha is a Director of Partners for Equity, Australia, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Australian International Development Network (AIDN), and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation, USA. She holds a Masters in Child Development from Delhi University, a Graduate Diploma in International Studies from the University of Sydney and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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• Louisa Brassey

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  Principal, The Lucille Foundation

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

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• Loic Comolli

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  Co-CEO, NESsT

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

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• Lisa Rodricks

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  Vice President - Operations, Educate Girls

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• Lindsay Coates

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  Managing Director, BRAC

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

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• Linda Ndungu Wambua

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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 strategy and program management support. Specifically, Linda formulated corporate and business unit strategies aimed at long term growth and expansion across markets, developed robust operating models to support strategy and designed execution roadmaps for clients in the financial services and telecommunications industry. In the public sector space, she managed large, multi-year donor funded projects focused on youth and education. Linda is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Nairobi.

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• Liby T Johnson

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  Executive Director, Gram Vikas

  Liby T Johnson has led large scale, impactful, poverty eradication efforts in his nearly three decades of social development work, with non-profits and governments in India, in diverse sectors as community institutions and local governance, migration, livelihoods, water, and disaster management. Liby set up the National Resource Organisation of Government of Kerala under the National Rural Livelihood Mission of the Government of India. During his time with the United Nations Development Programme, he contributed to setting up capacity building mechanisms to support women entrepreneurs and women producers’ collectives across India. As the chief functionary of Gram Vikas, he is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in its fifth decade aiming to influence the life of nearly five million persons by enabling water and livelihoods security.He contributes regularly to policy discussions at the State and National levels on water, sanitation, livelihoods and disaster resilience.

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• Lewis Temple

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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 children and families as an alternative to institutional child care. Later he worked as a Country Director for GOAL in Ethiopia, managing large scale humanitarian and multi-sectoral development programmes and then led HelpAge International’s regional programme in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Prior to joining BRAC Lewis worked for six years as CEO of iDE UK – an NGO that has pioneered market based development for smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia. As CEO at BRAC UK he leads the team based in London on BRAC UK’s work to develop partnerships, generate resources and influence policy makers to help BRAC achieve its mission worldwide. Founded and led from Bangladesh, BRAC has a ‘hybrid’ approach to development, combining development impact with a hard-nosed business ethic. BRAC social enterprises and microfinance are outstanding examples of businesses that benefit many millions of people by providing employment and income opportunities and also generating profits to enable BRAC to deliver its development services to the poorest. BRAC has that rare track record in international development of having achieved a quite remarkable scale in its impact on the world’s poorest communities.

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• Lenka Setkova

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  Chief Executive, Fidelity International Foundations

  Experienced Chief Executive and NED/Trustee with a significant track record of initiating and spearheading programmes to strengthen organisational performance and impact, enabling social/environmental change/business growth. Extensive experience in progressive philanthropy (private and corporate), international development and responsible investing - integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision-making and ownership practices. Senior roles held in non-profit, private and public sector organisations operating in diverse contexts in the UK and internationally (across Europe, Asia Pacific and East Africa).

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• Laura Zaccagnino

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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 development/education focused think tanks. I hope to continue my career in either social impact consulting or in a strategy role at a social enterprise, working on issues related to equity and sustainability. I hold a BA in Political Science from Amherst College.

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• Annie Theriault

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  Chief Investment Officer, Grand Challenges Canada

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

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• Laura Kim

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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 Factory,” “RBG,” “The Look of Silence” and “CITIZENFOUR.”   Prior to joining Participant, Kim had her own firm INSIDE JOB and worked on films like “The Act of Killing,” “Winters Bone,” “Restrepo,” “Gloria” and “Stories We Tell.” While head of marketing at Warner Independent Pictures, Kim oversaw the releases of “March of the Penguins,” “Good Night, And Good Luck.”, “Before Sunset” and “Paradise Now” amongst others. At MPRM, she was involved with countless films and represented Sundance Institute, Good Machine, Strand Releasing, etc. Kim serves as a Governor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is on the Board of Directors for Film Independent and is a BAFTA member.

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• Laura Griffin

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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 Children. Prior to working in the non-profit sector, she spent nine years in the Publishing industry including working for BBC Worldwide and Hachette Livre, leading on revenue streams with mass market retailers. After completing her degree in the UK, Laura studied and worked in Austria and Japan.

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• Kristin Lord

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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 2014, Dr. Lord served as Acting President and Executive Vice President of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally created organization that prevents, mitigates, and resolves violent conflict worldwide. From 2009 to 2013, Lord was Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, where she oversaw the Center’s research and served as one of three members of the Center’s leadership team. Prior to joining CNAS, Lord was a fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she directed the science and technology initiative of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World and authored studies on human development in the Arab world and U.S. public diplomacy. From 1995 to 2008, Lord held leadership roles at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, including Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations and Associate Dean for Management and Planning. Dr. Lord is a member of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the American University in Cairo, a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-chair of the Alliance for International Youth Development

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• Kiva Iscol

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  Vice Chair & Chief Strategist, IF Hummingbird Foundation

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

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• Anna Zimmermann Jin

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  Director, Evaluation & Learning, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Ashley Thomas

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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 Rapid Evaluator at X, starting moonshots for Alphabet’s next billion users in emerging markets. Prior to joining X, she worked for M-KOPA Solar (Africa’s largest solar home system company) and Innovations for Poverty Action, where she led the engineering team working on Nobel Prize winner Michael Kremer’s Safe Water project. She holds multiple patents and led one of X’s major open sourcing efforts in conjunction with publishing the work in Nature.

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• Betsy Beaumon

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  Chief Product Officer, The Valuable 500

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

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• Kevin Jenkins

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  President and Chief Executive Officer, Manchester-Bidwell Corporation

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• Kelly Diggins

  Delegate

  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 networks and the philanthropy community. Prior to RPA, Kelly served as a Kiva Fellow collaborating with micro-finance institutions in Costa Rica and Guatemala. She has a diverse background ranging from working in the legal field as a paralegal to volunteering for youth development organizations. Kelly received a B.A. in Global Economics and Latin American Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and a Trans-Global Executive MBA from Saint Mary’s College of California. Kelly has extensive experience in Latin America as an Amigos de las Américas volunteer implementing community service projects and focusing on sustainable development while living in Honduras, Paraguay, and Dominican Republic. She serves on the board of the Amigos de las Américas San Francisco Chapter and Climate Action Now! (CAN!), which cultivates educational and ecological resilience by removing pavement to create organic gardens.

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• KC Harris

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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 graduating from university, KC became the Program Coordinator for Eastern Congo Initiative, a non- profit founded by Ben Affleck to increase investment in eastern Congo. In 2015, KC joined the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), supporting governance and stabilization programs in Europe and Asia. In 2017, KC moved to Macedonia to become the Program & Reporting Officer for the USAID OTI Macedonia Program. She has continued to work for USAID programs in the Balkans including, most recently, in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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• Katherine Potaski

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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 Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in International Organizations from New York University and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University.

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• Juan Caballero

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

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

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• Joshua Castellino

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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 positions in Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Italy. He worked as a journalist in Mumbai, with the Indian Express Group, was awarded a Chevening Scholarship to pursue an MA in International Law & Politics in 1995, and completed his PhD in International Law in 1998. He has authored and edited eight books in international law and human rights law, on self-determination, title to territory and indigenous peoples rights, besides several articles on a range of these and other legal sub-topics. He has completed the third, in a five-book series published by Oxford University Press, on issues concerning Global Minority Rights Law, the latest entitled Minority Rights in the Middle East: A Comparative Legal Analysis (with Kathleen Cavanaugh). Joshua was part of the EU-China Experts & Diplomatic Dialogue and Lawyers for the New Millennium: Support for the Arab Law Union. Joshua regularly engages with multilateral organizations and with Law Societies and NGOs in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, on issues of human rights advocacy and public international law. He is on the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network where he co-chairs the Thematic Group on Social Inclusion, Gender and Human Rights. He was appointed Chair, by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the 8th Forum on Minority Issues, an inter-governmental dialogue with civil society under the auspices of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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• Blair Milam

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  Director, Brand Partnerships, Freethink

  Blair Milam is San Francisco based and currently serves as the Vice President of Brand Partnerships at Freethink, with the responsibility of overseeing custom content partnerships and strategy. Blair has worked with several partners during her time at Freethink including Intuitive, Coinbase, The McNulty Foundation, and The Skoll Foundation. Prior to Freethink, Blair has a proven track record in strategic partnerships, serving as a Sales Director and as a Director of Business Development. Outside of her professional achievements, she is also an avid traveler and a yoga instructor in the bay area.

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• Joshin Raghubar

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  Chairperson, UVU Africa

  Joshin Raghubar is technology and impact venture entrepreneur. He is the founder of iKineo Ventures, a venture builder and investment firm, through which is he currently growing Explore Sideways, a travel(tech) company; Adbot, a machine-learning powered SaaS platform automating online search advertising for SMEs; and Inves Capital, a group of digital asset and cryptocurrency businesses that includes ZARP, a leading emerging markets stablecoin. He is a co-founder and Chairperson of Kena Health, a health-tech venture which aims to be Africa’s leading low-cost out-of-hospital healthcare provider. Joshin serves as chairperson of the UVU Africa group tasked with development of the region as a technology and innovation cluster. Through this role he is also a director of UVU Bio, Africa’s biotech cluster initiative. Joshin also served as a non-executive director of the Africa Leadership Initiative, is the current Chair of the Cape Town Chapter of YPO, and is on the board of Cape Town Touris

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• Joram Patrick Mugisha

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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 through Science, Technology and Innovation. Mugisha is a YALI East Africa Regional Leadership Centre Fellow (Business & Enterprise Track-cohort 14).He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Chemistry (Hons) from Makerere University, an MSc in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research from University of Southampton-UK and a Master in Intellectual Property (MIP) from Africa University Mutare-Zimbabwe. He has ten (10) years of working experience in Translational Research and Development within the academia and industry ecosystem as well as five (5) year experience in innovation and intellectual property management. Currently, working as an Assistant Commissioner, heading the department of Innovations and Intellectual Property Management at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. His areas of expertise and interest include: Translational Research and Development (Idea to market);Standards and innovation management at firm level;Innovation and intellectual property management;Start-ups and business incubation advisory (business modelling and execution);Natural Product Chemistry, Drug discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Agro-value addition, Quality and standards, ICT based solutions, social innovations with big impacts especially in health, climate change, food security, gender and equity; Technical support in Establishing and running of Innovations and Technology Transfer Offices, focus on Academia and MSMEs; and Connecting the world through, Respect, Love and Kindness.

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• Jenneke Olson

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  Community Manager, Skoll Foundation

  Jenneke works as the Skoll Foundation's Community Manager. Prior to joining Skoll, Jenneke worked as a project manager in localization, where she handled quoting, managing and delivering translations of medical device documents on multiple client accounts. She also has a background in quality assurance testing. Jenneke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and in Dutch Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, crafting, and science fiction.

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• Jochen Berger

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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 join founders on their way to a successful exit. Besides that, I am investing in social impact startups in the early stages to support them with money and advice to scale their companies to influence the world positively. The combination of doing something good and following solid business plans should not be mutually exclusive. My investments in this space try to solve problems in different parts of the world instead of solely maximizing profits. In 2019 I founded Entrepreneurs for Knowledge, a nonprofit organization, that aims to provide access to education for underprivileged children and communities worldwide by building school infrastructure. With our “Foundation as a Service” model, we help other companies and individuals to support the construction of schools and support them with project selection, project management, and ongoing monitoring of the project development. All overhead costs are covered, and therefore 100% of the donations will reach the project. Our goal is to support as many kids through school buildings as we can. So far, we have built more than 20 schools worldwide (efk.org), which are visited by thousands of kids every day.

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• Monika Lessl

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  CEO Executive Director, Bayer Foundation

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

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• Joan Platt

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  President Foundation, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation

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• Jessica Galeria

  Delegate

  Director of Institutional Philanthropy & Partnerships, Fair Trade USA

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• Jennifer Holt

  Delegate

  Technical Consultant, Building Markets

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

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• Jennifer Crouch

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  Director, Development, VillageReach

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• Jeanne Work

  Delegate

  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, banking and IPOs. After leaving O’Melveny, Jeanne started a small real estate business acquiring, renovating and leasing residential property in London and the USA. She also held fundraising roles with various charities and provided pro bono legal support to the UK National Centre for Domestic Violence. Jeanne studied political science and economics at Stanford University, graduating in 1991. She then studied law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, graduating cum laude in 1994. Jeanne is a member of the California Bar and is fluent in Spanish.

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• Bastian Mueller

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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 speaker and key industry events. Yunus Social Business was co-founded by Peace Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with the mission to finance social businesses in emerging economies across different sectors like education, job creation, WASH or clean energy. Prior to YSB, Bastian worked in microfinance in Latin America and SME development in Sub-Sahara Africa.

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• Jason Rissman

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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 Director of OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation practice. In this role, he has worked to expand the impact of design thinking on pressing global issues through creating platforms for greater inclusion, collaboration and transparency. OpenIDEO envisions a world transformed by the creative power of people everywhere. Leading OpenIDEO, Jason has spearheaded portfolios of innovation programs covering health, international development, sustainability and education. He has overseen over 60 OpenIDEO programs, partnering with leading foundations, large governments and mission-driven companies. Prior to his role at IDEO, Jason helped Google.org launch and grow projects that utilized technology for social impact across a broad range of issues, including: civic engagement, response to natural disasters, protection of endangered languages and expansion of Internet access. Before his work with Google.org, Jason helped Google develop its mobile advertising business. Jason received his MBA from the New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a BA from Cornell where he was named a Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize Winner for Peace Studies.

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• Jacques-Antoine Ormond

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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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• Andreas Zeller

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  Managing Partner, Open Capital Advisors

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

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• Antonella Broglia

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  Owner, TEDx

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

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• Jacqueline Detiger

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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 the Netherlands regarding social issues, culture and scientific research. In Africa it supports projects and organizations in the fields of agriculture, healthcare, reproductive rights, community building and education. (https://www.dioraphte.nl). Jacqueline has extensive knowledge of the philanthropy sector in the Netherlands. She has been on various boards of non-profits. She pioneered as one of the first philanthropy advisors. She enjoys supporting foundations with their daily practice and strategy. In 2019 she was in the top 100 of influential people in the philanthropy sector in the Netherlands. Besides a post academic degree in Philanthropic Studies from the Free University of Amsterdam, she holds a master’s degree in Communications (University of Amsterdam) and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology (Tufts University). In her free time she tries to become a more experienced and better beekeeper.

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• Ishbel Matheson

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  Chief Communications Officer, Marine Stewardship Council

  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 the field of international development. Originally, I was a journalist - winning awards for my coverage of African issues as the BBC's East Africa Correspondent.

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• Huda Jaffer

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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 Saunders

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  Marketing and Communications Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  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 society-owned journals in economics, business and management.

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• Anbreen Ajaib

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  Executive Director, Bedari

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

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• Avery Bang

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  CEO, Bridges to Prosperity

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

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• Anna Verghese

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  Executive Director, Audacious Project @ TED, TED Conferences LLC

  Anna is the Executive Director of the Audacious Project

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• Anna Pienaar

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  Executive Director, Responsible Labour Initiative, Global Battery Alliance

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

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• Grace Kim

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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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• Galen Welsch

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  Co-Founder, CEO, Jibu

  Galen Welsch co-founded Jibu in 2012 and under his leadership Jibu has quickly become the world's largest social franchise network bringing affordable drinking water access to thousands, and creating hundreds of jobs, mostly for youth, across East Africa. In addition to Jibu, Galen is an active YPO member, an Advisory Board member of the University of New Hampshire's Rosenberg International Franchise Center (RIFC), on the Advisory Council of Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and an advisor / or Board member for several African start ups. Galen has been an advocate for leveraging business model equity for systems change and presented at events including Harvard's Social Enterprise Conference, the UN General Assembly's Global Development Lab showcase, and the International Franchise Association (IFA) conference. More re business model (versus product) impact: https://nextbillion.net/as-impact-investors-we-often-miss-one-thing-who-has-the-power/

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• Ana Morales

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  Bord Member, Glasswing International

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

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• Felipe Proto

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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 talented leaders committed to the social transformation of Brazil. Felipe holds a Bachelor Degree in Business (FGV-Brazil), a master in Management and Sustainability (FDC-Brazil) and is a Global Competitiveness Leadership Fellow (Georgetown University). Before joining the Lemann Foundation, he worked as management consultant, performing projects for many industries and organizations in Brazil and USA.

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• Ana Bakshi

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  Director, Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford

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

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• Evi Lazou

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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, building and implementing programmes as well as making grants in support of its mission. Evi is a founding partner and board member of The People's Trust, an organisation that provides business development services and micro-funding to start-ups and small, existing businesses in Greece. She is also one of the founding partners of Greenwood Place, a community of strategic philanthropists. Evi has broad experience and has worked in marketing and operations, including as Executive Vice President Marketing for Hyatt Regency Hotels and Tourism Hellas S.A. She holds a BA Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Organizational Behavior and French Civilisation from Brown University, Providence, RI and studied interior design at The New School, Parsons School of Design in New York.

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• Evan Thomas

  Delegate

  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 Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments. Evan is currently a member of the NASA and USAID SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, a member of the board of the Millennium Water Alliance, and Co-Chair of the ASME Engineering for Global Development Research Committee. Evan has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder, is a registered Professional Engineer, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Oregon Health and Science University. Evan’s technical background is in water and air testing and treatment applied in contexts from emerging economies to operational spacecraft. He founded SweetSense Inc. which is supported by USAID and the National Science Foundation to develop and apply satellite connected sensors monitoring drinking water systems. Daily, the team is monitoring millions of people’s water supply across east Africa. Evan’s research has been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, USAID, the Moore Foundation, the UN Foundation, the CDC, UNESCO, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Gates Foundation, and others.

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• Amy Mullen

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  Chief Development Officer, Root Capital

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

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• Esther Wang

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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 the world. Esther led development of IDinsight’s people operations, recruitment, systems, safety & security, legal, HR and policies, new country expansion, training and development, organizational summits, and other global initiatives. Esther lived in Lusaka, Zambia for 8 years, from early days of the first Africa office. Prior to IDinsight, Esther was a management consultant with Bain & Company, a co-founder of a social enterprise in the Tibetan Plateau, and co-led several not-for-profit organizations. Esther holds a joint bachelor’s of science and bachelor’s of arts from the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. She also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. Esther was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship and an Echoing Green Fellow. Esther has lived and worked in China, Swaziland, Uganda, India, Ghana, Cambodia, and Zambia.

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• Eric Stowe

  Delegate

  CEO, Splash

  Founder and CEO at Splash.

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• Emily Buxton McCann

  Delegate

  CEO, Citizen Schools

  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 Disney Company and served as an analyst in Mergers and Acquisitions at J.P. Morgan. She serves on several national non-profit boards including, Teach Plus and Good Sports. She received a B.A. from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A seven-time marathoner, Emily lives in Needham, Mass. with her husband Sean, who is a secondary school history teacher, coach and admissions officer and their four children.

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• Emer Dooley

  Delegate

  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 across the globe. Emer is a faculty member at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, teaching in technology strategy, entrepreneurship, venture capital and global health. In 2019 she pioneered a new Social Entrepreneurship Fellows program with the UW Population Health Initiative. She works with the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, involving students in all aspects of company creation, technology commercialization and investment. She also worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and teams of graduate students on Global Health issues. She has received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Outside the university, Emer raised and ran The Alliance of Angels Seed Fund I, a small early-stage technology fund which invested in 14 Seattle startups. A former computer designer, and high-tech executive, she holds BSc and MEng degrees from the University of Limerick, and an MBA and PhD from the University of Washington.

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• Elizabeth Jack

  Delegate

  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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• Anna Johnson

  Delegate

  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 students to develop a systems-thinking approach to address complex social, cultural, and environmental challenges. Joining us from Canada, Anna is a Calgary-based social entrepreneur with a background in social innovation, nonprofit management, and systems thinking. Prior to joining the team at Skoll, Anna managed the Canadian edition of Map the System through her work at the Institute of Community Prosperity. Anna has also worked for a social-purpose consultancy that supported practitioners and organisations across sectors to amplify their social and environmental impact through systems change, organisational strategy, and social enterprise development. Anna is the co-founder of Fresh Routes, an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to increasing affordable and healthy food access. She provides strategic oversight and support to several nonprofit boards and advisory committees across Alberta, including Board Chair of Calgary Can, Director of Strategy and Fund Development at the Leftovers Foundation, founding member of Mount Royal University’s Alumni Council. Her board and committee work has been nationally recognised and was recently nominated for Future of Good's "21 Youth Reshaping Governance" award in recognition of her non-profit board leadership

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• Elaina Artemiev

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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. Elaina was a founding member of the Tabakov Studio Theatre in Moscow, where she worked for many years before starting a teaching career at the Moscow Art Theatre School (MATS). Many of her students achieved national and international acclaim in the Theatre, TV, and Movie industries. She moved to the United States and joined Butler University Faculty in 2005. She is a tenured Professor of Theatre Acting and Directing at the Butler University, Indianapolis, IN. Elaina founded the Butler International Theatre Exchange Program and has developed a system to training that incorporates Michael Chekhov’s Method, Vakhtangov Research, and Stanislavsky System. This unique course is aimed at developing an awakening of actor’s imagination, stage awareness, and creativity. In 2012, she founded International Foundation for Theatre Education and Research (IFTER) while developing a brand new program for postgraduate students in Acting and Directing at GITIS with training in acting, directing, voice, movement, dance and Russian language.

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• Amelia Hapsari

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  Southeast Asia Framework Change Leader, Ashoka

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

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• Eduardo Silva

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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 Equity team. He is the co-founder and former president of the Endowment Fund Amigos da Poli, on behalf of his Alma matter in Brazil. He earned his Bachelors of Science from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Fundação Estudar & Instituto Ling Scholar and a POY Fellow.

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• Anna Bouchier

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  Swiss Director, APOPO

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

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• Ameena Hussain

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

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

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• Amanda Wilkinson

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  CEO, Motivation Charitable Trust

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

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• Ebenezer Buckman

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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 thinking, entrepreneurship, ethics and leadership. In his current role at Ashesi, Eben plays a key role in growing philanthropic support for the university's mission. He is also responsible for driving implementation of special projects initiated by the Office of the President, as well as coordinating all internal and external communications to support Ashesi's work. Eben is an alumnus of Ashesi University, having graduated with his bachelor's in Management Information Systems. He also holds a Masters in Corporate Communications from IE Business School.

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• Diana Sierra

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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 Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from Universidad de Los Andes, Diana combines her design expertise with a passion for social impact. Through her work, she strives to break down barriers to gender equality and create a world where every woman and girl can thrive.

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• Dhruv Gupta

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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 Delhi. Leveraging this grassroots experience and wanting to work at scale, I joined the International Innovation Corps (IIC), a programme run by the University of Chicago in India which sends top talent to work with governments. As a project lead at the IIC, I worked on governance reform, community engagement and school transformation with the Department of Education in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Post-IIC, I moved to the World Bank, where I worked on interventions that helped improve the quality of early childhood education services in India. I believe that transforming government systems through decentralised management and participatory development can solve the learning crisis in the world.

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• Delphine Halgand

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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 Reporters Without Borders’ North America Director, advocating for journalists, bloggers, and media rights worldwide. Delphine regularly appears on American (CNN, Fox News, PBS, Democracy Now!,..), foreign media (BBC World TV, Al Jazeera, France 24) and gives lectures and conferences at U.S. universities (Harvard, UCLA, Yale, Columbia) on issues of press freedom violations. In May 2017, she received the 2017 James W Foley American Hostage Freedom Award for her work assisting American journalists detained abroad. Earlier in her career, she served as Press attaché at the French Embassy to the U.S. Since graduating from Sciences Po Paris with an M.A. in Journalism, Delphine has worked as an economics

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• Dee Poon

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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 the International Advisory Committee of Harvard University’s Asia Center (Cambridge, MA), a Member on the Family Advisory Council of The Ownership Project at Oxford Saïd Business School, as well as on the Global Steering Committee of Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (Hong Kong & London). She is on the Board of Directors for the Esquel - Y.L. Yang Education Foundation. In 2014, Dee was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and designated a Fellow of Aspen Institute’s China Fellowship Program. Actively engaged in the arts, Dee sits on the International Council of the Tate (London), and the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art (New York). She serves on the Board of Directors of the China Arts Foundation (Beijing & New York), and has served on the Board of Directors of Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong). Dee has also been on the Performance Committee at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), a member of the Lincoln Center China Advisory Council (New York), and was a co-founder of the Ambassadors of Design (Hong Kong). Her 42-second short film “An Exercise in Futility,” shot as part of 42x42, was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival as well as the Cannes Film Festival. Before joining Esquel, Dee was an Editor-at-Large for iLook Magazine and a featured columnist for Modern Weekly, where she wrote about sustainability. Her 2008 pop-up retail venture DYSEMEVAS was one of the first to highlight the emerging Chinese design scene outside of China. Dee graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a BA in philosophy.

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• Allie Burns

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  CEO, Village Capital

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

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• Dave Peery

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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 approaches to funding and serving social entrepreneurs. He is a founding member of Big Bang Philanthropy and the Red de Inversores Ángeles, Paraguay’s first network of angel investors. Recently, Dave co-founded Salto Capital which provides support and capital to Paraguayan social entrepreneurs. He recently moved with his family from Paraguay to the mountains of Utah.

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• Daniel Pheysey

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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 missions. Previously, I worked with Movie Studios on our North America Entertainment team, having worked with Sports Partners in London prior to moving to the US. I'm heavily involved with LGBT+ and diversity projects such as the YouTube #ProudtoPlay and Android #andproud Pride campaigns, including previously leading Google's UK LGBT network.

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• Daniel Burssa

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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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• Dalal Al Waheidi

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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 bottom-line and daily high performance. Dalal has significant experience in Board governance, community development and relationship management. She has exceptional interpersonal skills, capable of resolving and managing multiple and complex issues and motivating staff to peak performance. As the Executive Director of WE Charity, Dalal Al-Waheidi has been integral in shaping the WE movement's success into an international charity and educational partner. She joined the organization in 2002 and has held various pivotal roles, including the International Program Director, Chief Operations Director and Executive Director of WE Day. Passionate about women's and children's rights, Dalal has studied, travelled and volunteered throughout South America, Europe, the Middle East and North America. She earned a scholarship to attend the world-renowned Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway, the only global educational NGO that brings students together from all over the world. She has also spent time in Ecuador working with indigenous street children. In 2014, Dalal was selected as one of RBC's Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award winners. As a war-affected Palestinian youth born and raised in Kuwait during the Gulf War, Dalal has been a firsthand witness to the terrible impact of conflict on children. These early experiences gave her a unique understanding of the real costs The Women's Executive Network has recognized Dalal's exemplary leadership at WE with Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award in the "Future Leaders" category and her former alma mater, Trent University the Distinguished Alumni Award for demonstrating extraordinary leadership early in her career.

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• Alexander Svetakov

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  Founder, Absolut-Help Foundation

  Philanthropist. Founder of Absolut Help Foundation

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• Almaz Negash

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  CEO & Founder, African Diaspora Network

  Almaz Negash, a prominent trailblazer in Silicon Valley, has been recognized as one of the 12 inaugural members of President Biden’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States. She has also been named as one of Silicon Valley 100 outstanding Women of Influence for her significant contributions to social innovation. In 2010, she founded the African Diaspora Network (ADN) with a mission to inform, engage and activate Africans in the diaspora, fostering direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders. This collaborative approach aims to drive investment and uplift the lives of individuals across the African continent and in our local communities. Under Almaz's visionary leadership, ADN has become a pivotal platform for various programs and initiatives, including YALI LL and Beyond Remittances.

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• Chrystel Cornelius

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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 25 years of experience working in the Native economic development field. She is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians located in North Dakota. Ms. Cornelius has dedicated her career to capitalizing Native communities upholding tribal sovereignty and self-determination measures through the issuance of capital and organizational capacity building efforts. Chrystel Cornelius is a founding steering committee member and previously held the position as the Board Secretary for the Native CDFI Network (NCN). Ms. Cornelius is also a former board member of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), is a current board member of the Community Reinvestment Fund (CRF) and holds the position of Chair for the Red Feather Development Group. She is a BALLE Fellow and Skoll Fellow. Ms. Chrystel Cornelius attained a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota.

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• Christophe Cox

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  CEO, APOPO

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• Chad Arnold

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  Chief Development Officer, Water For People

  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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• Cassia van der Hoof Holstein

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  Director, Global Health Equity, Emerson Collective

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

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• Candace Yu

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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, Candace supported video fundraising campaigns led by Creators passionate about social issues, including climate action and pediatric health; these issue-related campaigns increased awareness among online viewers globally and inspired them to donate to charities. Candace formerly served in policy-making roles at The White House, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. Senate on issues including open internet, online security, voting rights and elections administration, and increasing access to government programs for underrepresented communities.

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• Camille Eiss

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  Chief of Global Partnerships and Policy, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  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, and a global team that drives strategic engagement with civil society, governments, philanthropy, and the public to support independent media and advance accountability around the world. From 2012 to 2017, Camille served in the Obama administration as senior adviser on anti-corruption to the assistant secretary of state for democracy, rights, and labor and as a senior policy and strategic communications adviser on a range of humanitarian, international development, and governance issues at USAID. She spearheaded and launched the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, a partnership that combines investigative journalism and advocacy to advance reform, accountability, and justice. She served on the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership, coordinated USAID engagement in UN negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals, and led crisis communications in response to a series of Level 3 humanitarian emergencies. Camille is the founding policy director of the Truman National Security Project, where she spent three years building a national movement for security policy rooted in the protection of human rights, democracy, and global security. She served as an analyst and editor of Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s global survey of political rights and civil liberties, and as associate managing editor of The Washington Quarterly at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Camille is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds degrees from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics and is based in Washington, D.C.

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• Alexis Ettinger

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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 career developing and investing in entrepreneurial approaches to social change, with a strong focus on building cross-sector collaborations and ecosystems. Prior to the Aspen Institute, Alexis was the Director for Social Innovation at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health, where she led a mobile health enterprise in India. Previously, she was the Head of Strategy at the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, designing programs and partnerships to support social ventures and systems-level impact initiatives. She’s also worked on designing a gender-lens investing initiative at Criterion Institute, building a global coalition for government impact investing with the Global Social Progress Imperative, and advancing thought leadership for the field through writing and speaking on these topics. She started her career at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, where she supported a network of over 2,000 social entrepreneurs globally. A New Jersey native, Alexis has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a proud parent of two young boys.

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• Brittany Butler

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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 non-profit, Character Lab. Under her leadership, the organization created online content that reached 500K people and translated multiple evidence-based studies into products used by diverse schools across the US. Brittany also launched and ran a non-profit in post-Katrina New Orleans, which created and trained a makeshift network of mental health providers to serve the city’s uninsured population. While the city’s public hospital was closed, this network of organizations and citizens delivered mental health and resilience services more than 100,000 times, trained hundreds of providers, and opened two Health and Resilience Centers that are still in operation today. Brittany’s experience building socially focused organizations and creating collective impact is an important reference point as a mentor for other social innovators aspiring to drive system level change as well as when visioning and directing activities at SICI. Finally, Brittany is keenly interested in advancing effective collaboration between universities and social actors. She fostered university-community relationships while Director of Partnership Initiatives for the RAND Corporation in the Gulf States, which paved the way for a new Rand Policy Institute in the region as well as cross-sector programming and community based participatory research efforts focused on equitable public health outcomes. Brittany has an MPP from Harvard and a BA from Yale. She has presented about her work at the White House and through both peer reviewed and popular publications.

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• Britt Lake

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  CEO, Feedback Labs

  At Feedback Labs, Britt leads a team working to change the norms in development, aid, and philanthropic policy to be more responsive to the people those policies aim to help. A founding member of Feedback Labs in 2014, Britt joined the organization as CEO in April 2019. Prior to this role, Britt was a member of the executive team at GlobalGiving, the world’s first and largest global crowdfunding community. During her 12 years at GlobalGiving, Britt helped grow the organization to raise half a billion dollars in support of thousands of community-led organizations in 170+ countries. She also built and managed the Disaster Recovery Network at GlobalGiving, which granted millions of dollars in small grants to local groups working to rebuild their communities after natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Britt has also worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with a variety of nonprofits throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Britt holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

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• Brent Harris

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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 Group, where he advised boards and executives on philanthropy and public policy. Earlier in his career, he was counsel for the Presidential Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and a fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. His writing on foreign policy has appeared in op-eds for the New York Times and he is a board advisor for the International Council on Clean Transportation. Harris earned bachelor's, master's, and law degrees at Stanford University, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. He lives in California and enjoys the great outdoors.

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• Björn Landsberg

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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 for EY as a Senior Manager in Assurance serving listed multi-billion dollar groups but also private equity owned clients applying buy-and-build strategies. He started his career in the Audit Capital Markets division of Deloitte. Bjoern brings more than 15 years of experience in corporate financial control and audit, holds a degree in Business Administration, is a United States CPA, a licensed tax advisor in Germany ("Steuerberater") and was qualified to sign audit opinions in Germany ("Wirtschaftsprüfer").

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• Bernard Olayo

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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 experience managing complex public health programs in resource-limited settings across the globe. He is also a technical team member on several World Bank projects, primarily as a technical advisor to several ministries of health.

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• Bernadette Moffat

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  Executive Director, The ELMA Philanthropies

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

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• Arif Neky

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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 Accelerator Lab for Kenya. He is Chairman of the Task Force for the National Advisory Board (NAB) for Impact Finance in Kenya and a member of the Africa Venture Philanthropy Alliance SAG (AVPA). He was the founding Coordinator of the first SDG Philanthropy Platform in Kenya, Founding Co-Chair of the EA Philanthropy Network and helped create the Kenya Philanthropy Forum. Arif is currently active in broadening the SDG Partnership Platform in Kenya to unlock significant private, philanthropic, intellectual and blended finance capital and collaborations to accelerate high priority SDG impacts. As the former Regional CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) East Africa for over 13 years, Arif was directly responsible for a wide portfolio of programs in health, education, rural development and civil society enhancement across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Arif was previously the Regional Representative across Eastern Africa for the French & International Bank - Société Générale where his achievements included blended financing of selected development and infrastructure projects up to 250m French Francs per annum. He was also previously the founder and CEO of the Microsoft certified Academy of Learning in Vancouver, Canada. Contact Arif Neky at arif.neky@one.un.org

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• Simon Taylor

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  Director, Global Witness

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

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• Anthony Harte

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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 Brothers. In 2018 Anthony completed a Masters programme at Cass Business School in Grant making, Social Investment & Philanthropy and has a BSc in Economics and Finance from the University of York. Anthony sits on a range of non-for-profit boards and advisory roles, including as a founding Trustee of Right to Succeed and is an Ambassador for The Careers and Education Company.

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• Mitchell Besser

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  Interim Chair, m2m SA; Founder, m2m, mothers2mothers

  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 pregnant women and new mothers with HIV; towards reducing the number of babies born with HIV and keeping mothers healthy and alive to care for their families. Since 2001, m2m has cared for 15 million mothers and children. In ten countries in Africa, m2m employs 2000 women living with HIV in programs addressing needs of HIV negative and positive women, adolescent girls and young women; and early child development. In 2014, Mitch launched AgeWell, dedicated to needs of older persons. Applying m2m’s peer model, AgeWell employs tech-enabled, independent older people to provide companionship and promote well-being among less able older people. The program has provided service in South Africa, Ireland and the U.S.

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• Anshu Bhartia

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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 not-for-profit organisations. I have over 26 years of experience working seamlessly in for-profit global and non-profit organisations. Prior to UnLtd India, I was the CEO of Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRAN) and Friends of WWB, a leading Financial Services Organization where I was instrumental in launching an innovative credit product for farmer producer organisations (FPOs) and for facilitating access for solar products and water and sanitation facilities. I am passionate about mentoring and taking social organisations to scale. At leisure, I am a foodie, I love reading, hiking, and visiting monuments.

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• Anna Carthy

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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 Project Services in Copenhagen. Here at Oxford, I am working with the Oxford Development Consultancy, and Said Business School’s Circular Economy lab. I am also a member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship’s Leading for Impact programme, and the Lively World’s Oxford Praxis lab. My area of interest is climate and development, particularly the intersection of social justice, environmental issues, and sustainable development. I am always enthusiastic to engage in discussions of environmental justice and climate justice, and am eager to support climate action initiatives. For my master’s thesis I am researching the concept of a ‘just transition’ in agriculture, particularly looking at what this means for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In the long-term, I am keen to work towards a future that is socially and ecologically just and regenerative.

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• Gopi Gopalakrishnan

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  Founder & President, World Health Partners

  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 management systems the utility of whatever available resources in the community. Gopi has been a member of India’s Population Commission and has advised numerous national and international organizations on cost-effective service delivery. He has served as a global technical advisor of the International Finance Corporation and is currently an advisor of the National Health Mission. Gopi has worked as the Director of International Programs of DKT International based in Washington DC overseeing 14 programs and as Country Director in Vietnam. Besides Skoll, he has been awarded by Schwab and Ashoka Foundations and the Government of Vietnam. He holds a masters degree and has been trained at Harvard.

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• Gregory Rockson

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  Co-Founder and CEO, mPharma

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

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• Anita Ramachandran

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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 SAWERA, an NGO assisting South Asian women affected by domestic violence. In 2019, she received the Portland Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award and in 2020 was awarded for Exceptional Community Service by the Chetana Foundation. She currently sits on the boards of two Oregon based non-profits: Virginia Garcia Foundation and Relay Resources. She leans on her corporate leadership acumen and human-centered approach to support her social entrepreneurship journey, and has continued to push for a trust-based philanthropy in her relationships with funders, sharing authentically through her own experience, how these relationships can catalyze equitable opportunity for entrepreneurs worldwide.

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• Sasha Fisher

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  Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Spark MicroGrants

  Sasha Fisher is the Co-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. Sasha is an inaugural Obama Fellow and Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow. She was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurship list and was honored with the Muhammad Ali Award for Respect. She holds a BA from the University of Vermont in Studio Art and a self-designed major of Human Security, a paradigm for development that recognizes the rising legitimacy of non-state actors in securing basic human needs.

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• Pascale de la Fregonniere

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  Executive Director, Cartier Philanthropy

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

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• Amy Rao

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  Board Member, Human Rights Watch

  Amy Rao is the Executive Vice President of The Schmidt Family Foundation and Founder & CEO of Integrated Archive Systems, a company she founded in 1994. Amy’s greatest passion is for the defending and protecting of human rights both domestically and internationally and currently serves on the Chair of the International board of Human Rights Watch. Amy also serves on the board of The Fund for Global Human Rights and on the board of the Schmidt Family Foundation. She is a founding board member of Re:Store Justice, an organization dedicated to supporting the formerly incarcerated. Amy lives with her husband Harry Plant in Palo Alto, California. Together they have five adult children scattered around the country.

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• Brittany Boettcher

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  Managing Director, Operations & Programs - Investments, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Adrienne DiCasparro

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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 impact. A Seattle native, Adrienne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University where she studied Linguistics, Anthropology, and Genetics.

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• Sylvana Sinha

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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 integrates digital health and in-clinic experiences convenient to where everyone lives, works, and clicks. Tripling growth every year since launching in 2018, Praava’s tech-forward model is designed to be efficient, accessible, and scalable across emerging markets, where 85 percent of the world live. In 2020, Praava was recognized by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea. Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the standard for healthcare for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens. Ms. Sinha is Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a graduate of Columbia Law School, Harvard's Kennedy School, and Wellesley College.

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• Nicola Galombik

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  Executive Director, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

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

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• Nick Grono

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  CEO, Freedom Fund

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

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• Jose Luis Oquinena

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  Chairman, Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation

  ORGANIZATION Chairman Gawad Kalinga Foundation Mission: Organizing communities towards zero poverty, zero exclusion and net zero carbon Chairman Enchanted Farm Inc Mission: Ending rural poverty through preferential value creation President/Coo BayanAnihan Corporation Mission: Establishing community-based processing hubs Co-Founder 3Zero Global Alliance Mission: Building convergence for individuals and institution to a future of ZERO: poverty, exclusion and net zero carbon MY EDUCATION University of Asia and the Pacific - Certificate Course on Applied Sustainability Management Program - Fellowship on Strategic Business and Macro-Economics Program University of Negros Occidental Recoletos - Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Board Passer) - Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management MY PRESENT ENGAGEMENTS Leading a Team in (1) organizing and on-boarding small holder farmers to a value creation platform based on production fueled by equity not loans (2) engaging corporat

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• Amy Herskovitz

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  Advisor, Fortitude Fund

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

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• Sharmila Surianarain

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  Chief Impact Officer, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

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

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• Mosun Layode

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  Executive Director, African Philanthropy Forum

  Mosun Layode is a development professional with almost two decades of experience in international development and nonprofit leadership. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the African Philanthropy Forum (APF). She works extensively across Africa with established and emerging philanthropists who are committed to the sustainable and inclusive development of Africa. Prior to this, she served as the Executive Director of WIMBIZ and LEAP Africa, leading nonprofits in Nigeria. Passionate about the interplay of social issues and business, Mosun founded Social Runway, a nonprofit organization that supports social innovators. She has also served as an independent development consultant for nonprofit organizations. Mosun studied Urban and Regional Planning at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria and obtained an MSc. in Environmental Resources Management from Lagos State University. She has an MBA from Lagos Business School and benefited from Executive Programs offered by the IESE Business School, Barcelona and Harvard Business School. Mosun currently sits on nonprofit boards and is an alumnus of the United States International Visitors Leadership Program.

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• Mia Kami

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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 majored in Law and Politics. Mia channels her passions into songwriting & uses her music to tell her stories as a young Pacific woman. She believes that art is the strongest form of storytelling that connects Pacific and indigenous people to their ancestors & their descendants

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• Amy Brakeman

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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 46 countries. Umsizi is part of an emerging coalition of funders working to increase the direct funding and support of promising proximal leaders in Africa. To address the enormous gap in employment for youth on the continent, Amy catalyzed a Peer Learning Network of leading youth employment accelerators. Umsizi leaders work alongside impact investing experts and to shift assets to be aligned with ESG objectives and the mission of the Umsizi Fund. Amy’s first career was with McKinsey & Company as a consultant and leader of professional development. She also led a global community of 2,000 McKinsey alumni involved in bridging the social and business sectors. Amy worked with public school reform initiatives in the U.S. primarily with charter schools in Massachusetts. Amy has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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• Abbie Jung

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  Asia Director, Nexus Global

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

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• Yasmina Zaidman

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  Chief of Development and Partnerships, Acumen

  Yasmina Zaidman is the Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at Acumen, which works to change the way the world tackles poverty. She leads its work with strategic corporate partners that share Acumen’s commitment to entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She spearheaded Acumen’s gender integration work, co-authoring the report Women and Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty ICRW. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for over twenty-five years. She served on the board of the White Ribbon Alliance for almost seven years, and is still serving on the boards of KadAfrica as well as Fundacion Cacao de Colombia.

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• Shawn MacDonald

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  CEO, Verité

  Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that promotes workers’ rights in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy. Shawn has broad international experience in labor rights, social entrepreneurship, workplace health, and multi-sector partnerships from his roles as Director of Accreditation at the Fair Labor Association; Vice President of Ashoka; Senior Advisor at Meridian Group International; and co-founder of the Development and Employment Policy Project. He also worked for a variety of civil society initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and an AB in History from Harvard University.

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• Samuel Azout

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  Chairman, Fundacion Futbol con Corazon

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

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• Rodney Foxworth

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  Founder, Common Future

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

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• Paulo Savaget

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  Associate Professor, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Paulo Savaget is an associate professor at the University of Oxford’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. He is the author of The Four Workarounds and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar. The emphasis of his research is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. His work unpacks the mechanics of entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on large-scale sustainability challenges (e.g. poverty, climate change, circular economy). Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, governments, and intergovernmental organizations.

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• Oren Yakobovich

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

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

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• Madeleine Ballard

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  Executive Director, Community Health Impact Coalition

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

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• Lindsay Branham

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  Founder, Novo Films

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

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• Joe Speicher

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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 leading operations for the global health organization. He began his career in the banking and finance sector, working with Deutsche Bank and Cambridge Associates. He then spent three years in the Peace Corps in the Philippines and has worked as a consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Bank, and Google.org. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University and holds a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University.

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• Frank Beadle de Palomo

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  President & CEO, mothers2mothers

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

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• Denielle Sachs

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  Senior Director, APCO Worldwide

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

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• Cathy Clark

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

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

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• Ami Dalal

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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, and agriculture sectors. Prior to FINCA, Ami worked at Acumen Fund, Ashoka, Macquarie Capital and the JBG Companies. Ms. Dalal received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.S. and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Alasdair Harris

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  Executive Director, Blue Ventures

  Alasdair is a marine conservationist working at the interface of ocean protection and social justice. His organisation Blue Ventures develops locally led approaches to marine conservation that benefit people and nature. Blue Ventures’ approach is helping many hundreds of thousands of people address overfishing and safeguard ocean life in fifteen countries across southeast Asia and Africa, Alasdair is a TED fellow, and holds a PhD in marine ecology and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Edinburgh. He has spent more than two decades working with communities to rebuild small-scale fisheries across the tropical Indo-Pacific.

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• Yves Moury

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  Founder, President & CEO, Fundación Capital

  Yves Moury is the Founder and CEO of Fundación Capital, a global organization aiming at asset-building for the poor and climate action. He has been honored as a Schwab Foundation (the sister organization of the World Economic Forum) Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Awardee. In 2017 he was also named an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and in 2014 received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a global recognition for his work in education and economic opportunities. Fundación Capital is a pioneer in systems change for economic citizenship and inclusive finance, working to help the poor access formal finance and save; grow and invest their assets; insure their families, build resilient mechanisms against climate change; and chart a permanent path out of poverty. To achieve results at scale, the organization aligns advances in public policy, market mechanisms, digital technologies and data-based impact measurement.

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• Wendy Kopp

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  CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All

  Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 61 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University as well as honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Wise Prize for Education and the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.

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• Vera Cordeiro

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  Founder & Chairwoman of the Board, Instituto Dara

  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 Psychosomatics Department in 1979. In 1991, she founded Instituto Dara (former Associação Saúde Criança), a social organization that uses a pioneering methodology to promote the well-being of families in situations of social vulnerability, with long-term results, as proven by researchers at Georgetown University in 2013. Instituto Dara has been awarded among the many prizes received in Brazil and abroad Dr. Vera is an Ashoka fellow, Avina leader, Social Entrepreneur of Schwab Foundation andSkoll awardee. Honorary Member of the Ashoka World Council. Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and former board member of the PATH: A Catalyst for Global Health from 2005 to 2011.

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• Sue Riddlestone

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  CEO & Co-founder, Bioregional Development Group

  Sue is a 2009 Skoll Awardee and a Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in sustainable living, focused on our homes, cities and the products and services we use. Including the world-famous BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives. Sue and the team systematised their approach as “One Planet Living” which is freely available for anyone to use. Based on 10 principles and a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. There is now a global network of exemplary communities, and 10 million people living in places that have used One Planet Living. Sue draws on these inspiring examples to support policy change, for the built environment and through a formal role in the UN process to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At global social entrepreneur network Catalyst 2030 Sue helped secure a UN Resolution on the social and solidarity economy. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympics.

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• Sohini Bhattacharya

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  CEO & President, Breakthrough

  Sohini has worked in the development sector for 30+ years with a focus on women and empowerment. She has been closely connected to the Women’s Movement in India and co-founded Sanhita Gender Resource Centre — the first of its kind in Eastern India in 1996. Before Breakthrough, she worked with Ashoka Innovators for the Public for 10 years to bring in more women entrepreneurs to the fellowship and on institution building for the organisation in South Asia. She also worked as the India strategy advisor for the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network from 2010-2013. Sohini is a founding member of the Coalition for Good Schools – Voices from the South, a collection of leading practitioners and influencers committed to delivering access to a safe learning environment for children across the Global South. Sohini also represents Breakthrough as the knowledge partner in a consortium to support the global programming of What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale Programme by FCDO, U.K.

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• Sarah Zak Borgman

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  Advisor, Skoll Foundation

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

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• Sally Uren

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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 multi-stakeholder collaborations – all designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food to apparel. Sally has recently contributed to Forum’s 'Business Transformation Compass' - as well as co-authoring ‘Driving Co-Benefits for Climate and Health’ - private sector guidance for developing integrated climate and health strategies. Sally is a regular speaker at international conferences and has had articles published in a wide variety of media outlets. She is an independent advisor on Advisory Boards for several global businesses including M&S and Kimberly Clark. In December 2017 Sally received an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for services to sustainability in business.

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• Sam Gregory

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  CEO, WITNESS

  Sam Gregory is an internationally recognized human rights advocate and technologist. As Executive Director of WITNESS, he leads their strategic plan to "Fortify the Truth" and champions their global team who support millions of people using video and technology for human rights. Sam Gregory helps ensure we are better prepared globally for deepfakes and deceptive generative AI. He has testified to both US House and Senate and spoken at TED on proactive, human rights-based responses. He initiated WITNESS’ "Prepare, Don’t Panic" initiative that grounds these technologies in realities of frontline journalists and human rights defenders and has directly influenced platform policies, emerging technologies for trust and public discussion of who and what to prioritize. Sam served on the ICC Technology Advisory Board, co-chaired the Partnership on AI’s Expert Group on AI and the Media and led the Threats and Harms Taskforce of a leading coalition to develop standards for media provenance.

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• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

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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 Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd. Ndidi serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. India, Stanbic IBTC Group, the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, and the Bridgespan Group. Ndidi holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow. Ndidi is a TED speaker, a Schwab Fellow and the author of Social Innovation in Africa.

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• Michael Painter

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  Managing Director, Programs, Nia Tero Foundation

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

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• Michael Eckhart

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  Adjunct Professor, Columbia University

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

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• Mark Kramer

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  Managing Director, FSG, FSG, Inc.

  Mark R. Kramer Founder, Kramer Impact Capital Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, FSG Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Mark Kramer is a leading researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on philanthropy, business strategies for social impact, and impact investing. He is best known as the co-author of seminal articles in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review on Creating Shared Value, Collective Impact, and Catalytic Philanthropy. Mark co-founded FSG with Michael Porter, a 160-person global social impact consulting firm, that includes the Shared Value Initiative, the Collective Impact Forum, and Talent Rewire. In 2021, Mark stepped back from active management at FSG to create an impact investment firm, currently in formation. Mark also serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, a member of the Aspen Philanthropy Group and an advisor to Kimberly-Clark and Nestle. Previously, Mark served as President of the private equity firm Kramer Capital Management. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, The Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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• Marcus Bleasdale

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  Managing Director, Wilstar Social Impact

  Marcus is the Managing Director of Wilstar the non-profit social impact investing arm of Aweco AS a Norwegian asset management company owned by the Arne Wilhelmsen family. His work there has focused on financing social entrepreneurs and assisting them in a sustainable change to create a better world. With a proven ability to oversee major philanthropic and social impact investment operations, He has a passion for social and environmental impact, climate change advisory, and social advocacy tactics. Marcus has also worked, together with Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership to engage understanding around climate challenges and innovative solutions for a better world. Marcus is also one of the worlds leading documentary photographers and a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. He uses his work to influence decision-makers and policymakers around the world. His work on Human Rights and Conflict has been shown at the US Senate, The US House of Representatives, The United Nations and the Houses of Parliament in the UK and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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• Marcel Fukayama

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  Executive Director, Sistema B

  Marcel Fukayama is an Impact Entrepreneur, Cancer Survivor and Cathedral Builder. He has been involved with different initiatives in new economy. Co-Founder of Din4mo with objectives to empower entrepreneurs that solve social problems and to develop innovative structures that drive capital to both low income families and social enterprises. Co-Founder of Sistema B Brazil to strengthen the B Corp community and redefine success in business. He is currently the Executive Director of Sistema B International leading the B Corp Movement in 19 countries, 670 certified B Corps and 30,000 businesses using the Skoll Awardee B Lab’s BIA to manage their triple impact. Major in Business, MBA and MA in Public Admin at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is committed to work with the social society and policy makers and inspire innovation and new public policies. He coordinated the Brazilian Presidency Campaign of Marina Silva and Eduardo Jorge (REDE/PV) in 2018. Currently, he sits in the Committee for the National Strategy of Impact Investing and Impact Business of the Brazilian Ministry of Economy. Previously, he pioneered by creating one of the first internet cafés in Brazil at 17-year-old and served as CEO of Skoll Awardee CDI Global working with a network in 15 countries to use technology for social change.

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• Lisa Jackson

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  Managing Partner, Imago Dei Fund

  Lisa is the Managing Partner for the Imago Dei Fund based in Boston, MA. Lisa has worked in the social sector for over two decades in a variety of roles. She began her career in education and psychology as a professor at Boston College. Her research there was focused on agency and self-efficacy in youth at the intersection of racial and gender identity. Realizing how much she enjoyed working with youth and being more directly engaged with schools, Lisa decided to leave academia to manage a federally funded college access and success program for the Boston Public Schools (GEAR-UP). As her eclectic trajectory evolved, Lisa stepped into organization leadership positions focused on evaluation and assessment, risk management, research and strategy development. Prior to joining the Imago Dei Fund (IDF) in 2018 as its Managing Partner, Lisa served as the Vice President for Research at The Center for Effective Philanthropy, and the Managing Partner for Portfolio Investments at New Profit, Inc. Both of these experiences shaped her perspective on philanthropy providing a solid foundation for her to step into her role at IDF. Lisa serves on several boards including College Advising Corps, SPARK Microgrants, My Life My Choice, Boston Schools Fund, Compass Working Capital, and New England International Donors (NEID). She is also a former elected member of the Brookline School Committee. Lisa has a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University.

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• Kennedy Odede

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  CEO and Co-founder, Shining Hope for Communities

  Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. He grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. At age ten he became a street child. Still, he dreamed about changing his community. In 2004, he had a job in a factory earning $1 for ten hours of work. He saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the people of Kibera, SHOFCO became the largest grassroots organization in the slum. Today, SHOFCO impacts over 300,000 slum dwellers across 10 urban slums in Kenya, and is the largest employer in Kibera. In 2018, SHOFCO became the youngest-ever organization to receive the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian prize awarded to nonprofits that have made extraordinary contributions to alleviate human suffering. Although he was entirely informally educated, Kennedy received a full scholarship to Wesleyan University, becoming one of Kibera’s first to receive an education from an American liberal arts institution. He graduated in 2012 as the Commencement Speaker and with honors in Sociology. He later served on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. He was awarded the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship, which is given to the world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs. He was named to FORBES "30 under 30 list" for top Social Entrepreneurs in 2014. He is a New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid: Love, Hope, and Loss in an African Slum, co-written with his wife and partner, Jessica Posner Odede. He has published opinion articles on urban poverty in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Project Syndicate. He previously served on the United Nations International Commission on Financing of Global Education Opportunities. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a UBS Global Visionary.

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• Julius Mbeya

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  Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance

  Julius is currently the Co-CEO of Lwala Community Alliance, where he works with communities to catalyze their own change through innovative programming that is going to scale, influencing health systems and putting communities at the center of their own development. He believes that when communities lead, change is lasting. As a community health enthusiast, he leads pro-CHW efforts in Kenya working closely with the MOH and community health actors through the Community Health Units for Universal Health Coverage (CHU4UHC) of which he is the chair. He has also offered capacity support to nonprofits across Africa and globally. Julius holds an MA in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Nairobi, is a published author and a member of several professional associations. He is a voice for locally led development, an advocate for trust based philanthropy and sits on the boards of foundations and local organizations.

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• Emily Arnold-Fernandez

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  President and CEO, Asylum Access

  Emily Arnold-Fernández is the President and CEO of Asylum Access, the leading global refugee human rights organization. After learning that most refugees spend decades deprived of basic rights, Emily founded Asylum Access in 2005 to create a world where refugees can live safely, move freely, work and send children to school, and rebuild their lives. Today, Asylum Access has impacted more than 2 million refugees worldwide, working intensively across multiple countries and at the global level to dismantle barriers to refugees' economic and civic participation and ensure all refugees have a fair chance at a new life. Emily's achievements have earned her numerous accolades, including the Equality and Nondiscrimination Award from Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination (2016); the prestigious Grinnell Prize (2013); and recognition by the Dalai Lama as one of 50 “Unsung Heroes of Compassion” (2009). She served as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University in Fall 2012 and on the Advisory Board of Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre from 2014 to 2017. Emily holds a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Pomona College. She lives on an island in San Francisco Bay with her spouse and three-legged dog.

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• Carlos Souza, Jr.

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  Associate Researcher, Imazon

  Carlos Souza Jr. holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Pará State Federal University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in soil science from Penn State University, US, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, US. He is currently an associate researcher at Imazon, where he focuses on remote sensing for mapping and monitoring forests, forest degradation, land use and land cover change, surface water monitoring, and spatial modeling. Dr. Souza Jr. has co-authored over 100 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He is also the co-founder of Terras App, an IT company that provides solutions for sustainable landscapes, and the MapBiomas Institute, IAMap. Dr. Souza Jr. has been honored with the Skoll Award and is a Mulago Foundation Fellow.

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• Alison Kodjak

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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, Bloomberg News, the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Center for Public Integrity. As a reporter she has covered an array of subjects, including economics, health policy and taxes, and major news events including the 2008 financial collapse, the fight over Obamacare and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As an editor she has overseen investigative coverage of the war in Ukraine, the global pandemic and two presidential impeachments. She works closely with the PBS series FRONTLINE to create documentary films from AP’s investigative reporting. Her work as a reporter and editor has been honored many times, including with three George Polk Awards, a Gerald Loeb award and the Overseas Press Club Malcolm

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• Abha Thorat-Shah

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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 not-for-profit partners that tackle complex development challenges including the improvement of education and gender outcomes in South Asia. In recognition of work in this area, Abha was a Fellow of Practice 2020 and 2021 at the Go Labs, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. A recognised expert in her field, she is a co-chair of Taskforce 9 on Global Cooperation for SDGs Financing as part of Think20, the official engagement group of the G20 bringing together leading think tanks and research centres worldwide and is a member of the Asian Impact Leaders Network hosted by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network.

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• Susan Burns

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  Advisor, Global Footprint Network

  Susan Burns is a Skoll Awardee and Philanthropic Advisor with Unleashing Generosity helping donors increase their impact and give joyfully. She is a co-founder of Global Footprint Network, one of the world’s leading scientific organizations addressing global ecological limits. Prior to launching Global Footprint Network, Susan founded the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies, advising such companies as Mitsubishi Electric and Lowes. Susan serves on the Development Committee of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC) where she is a vocalist. She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster children, a member of the Social Justice Ministry of Imani Community Church in Oakland, and a member of ICJJ (Interfaith Coalition for Justice in Our Jails).

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• Solomon Benge

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  Founder & Executive Director, Fundi Bots

  I am passionate about the intersection of education, design, business and technology. In 2011, I founded Fundi Bots, an education non-profit with a mission to accelerate learning for (science) students in Africa. Fundi Bots aims to promote better learning outcomes, improved career prospects and real-world technological advancement in African schools and communities through training and experimentation in hands-on, project-based and skills-oriented science disciplines, starting with robotics. Today, Fundi Bots works with more than 180 schools, 400 teachers and 11,000 students in Uganda. Our goal is to accelerate science learning and provide workforce training for one million young African people by 2030. Through my work with Fundi Bots, I was selected as a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2014 Ashoka Fellow. Echoing Green and Ashoka Fellowships provide financial, logistical and advisory support to emerging world leaders to pursue ideas that try to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. In 2017, I was selected as an African Visionary Fellow by the Segal Family Foundation.

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• Silverius Unggul

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  President, Telapak

  I am social entrepreneur with a unique journey. I start in small village in Indonesia to transform illegal logging become a sustainable forest management, lead the movement acrros Indonesia by built inclusive company. Now, I am leading forestry sector (538 consession with more than 30 millioj hectare forest) in Indonesia at Infonesia Chambers of commerse and Industry to do Regenerative Forestry in Indonesia.

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• Sanjeev Arora

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  Founder & Director, Project ECHO; Professor of Medicine, Univ. of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Project ECHO

  Sanjeev Arora, MD, is the founder of Project ECHO and the Executive Director of the ECHO Institute. A pioneer in democratizing specialized medical knowledge for the good of humanity, Dr. Arora launched Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico in 2003 as a solution for helping all patients receive quality care faster. Today, the ECHO Model is being applied around the globe, with programs in North America, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia and partnerships with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. ECHO topics have expanded beyond health care to include K-12 education, climate change, public safety and more.

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• Sana Mustafa

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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 international refugee rights organization with lived experience of forced displacement. Prior to joining Asylum Access, Sana led global efforts for representation and inclusion of forcibly displaced persons. She is an active public speaker, board member of Karam foundation, and member of Syria’s first Syrian women’s political movement.

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• Rob Ransom

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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 also been a member of the Booking.com Leadership Team since 2014, and for four years, Rob oversaw the company’s division dedicated to developing cloud-based software solutions to help Booking.com’s accommodation partners grow their businesses. Prior to joining Booking.com in 2014, Rob served as CEO and President of Bongarde Media, an integrated digital media and software business, and Vice President of Marketing and Product at HouseValues Inc., (now part of Zillow, Inc.), a provider of online lead generation and B2B software in the online real estate sector. Rob also spent more than 6 years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Rob holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in International Relations from Princeton University. He speaks English and French, and originally hails from Seattle, Washington, USA.

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• Raj Panjabi

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  Board Member, Skoll Foundation and President Emeritus, Last Mile Health

  One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, Raj Panjabi is a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and former White House official. Dr. Panjabi served as White House Senior Director, leading the pandemic and biological threats office for President Biden at the National Security Council. He played a pivotal role in the largest global vaccination campaign in history against COVID-19 and numerous infectious disease outbreak responses. He oversaw White House efforts to prevent the next pandemic, including playing a lead role in implementing the National Biodefense Strategy, American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, President’s Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, and the U.S. Global Health Security Act. Panjabi also led the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative. Panjabi is Entrepreneur In Residence at Emerson Collective, co-founder at Last Mile Health, and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

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• Quratul Ain Bakhteari

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  Founding Director IDSP - Pakistan, Institute for Development Studies and Practices

  Born in 1949 , raised in a refugee settlement in Karachi, completed high school and married off. Had 3 children at 21 , completed Masters in social work, first community assignment construction of pit toilets in the homes of 5000 poor families living in squatter’s community. The sanitation project helped create national policy , Completed PhD “ Sanitation to development “ from university of technology LOUGHBOROUGH UK . Created methodologies of creating partnerships with the communities in Balochistan, established 2200 rural girls primary schools, enrolling more than 200,000 girls. Establish INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND PRACTICE 7000 graduates, created Leadership training for Community Midwives 400 women empowered as Community midwives, Organic agriculture with 300 small and landless farmers. Environment friendly campus for University of Community Development.

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• Peter Drobac

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  Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  A medic, global public health specialist and social entrepreneur, Dr Peter Drobac is a Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford, and the outgoing Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Centre promotes social innovation by developing talent, promoting actionable insight through research, and catalysing deep exchanges with a global community of innovators.Peter was a co-founder and first Executive Director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Working at the intersection of health, education, and technology, UGHE aspires to train the next generation of global health leaders and to become a worldwide innovation hub for health care delivery science.Peter has nearly two decades of academic, clinical and policy experience in global health. He played a key role in the transformation of Rwanda’s health system, which has delivered unprecedented gains in population health and prosperity. As Executive Director of Partn

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• Neil Jeffery

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  Chief Executive Officer, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor

  Neil has been Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) since early 2014. He has over two decade’s experience of successfully leading and growing organizations, social enterprises and innovative partnerships, in both Europe, North America and globally. He previously led social enterprises delivering services to base of the pyramid consumers in the energy and agricultural sectors and headed a policy institute in Washington DC working to enhance the impact of US policy in the Andean Region. He holds an MBA with distinction from Cass Business School, an MA from the University of Cambridge and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published with Cranfield University and the US Institute for Peace.

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• Mathis Wackernagel

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  Founder, President, Global Footprint Network

  Dr. Mathis Wackernagel established 30 years ago an accounting system to compare the size of human economies with the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate. This impact measure, called “footprint” has now become a generic name for all human impact, whether carbon or ecological footprint. Mathis’ work has focused not only on making ecological overshoot accessible and relevant to decision-making, but also on showcasing the economic advantage of accepting rather than denying this reality. In 2003, he co-founded Global Footprint Network, a sustainability think-tank, possibly most known for its annual Earth Overshoot Day. His awards include various honorary degrees as well as the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, and a 2007 Skoll Award.

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• Martin Fisher

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  Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KickStart International

  As a pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin is the co-founder & CEO of KickStart, a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to pivot from rainfed to irrigated farming, earn a lot more money, adapt-to-climate-change & climb out of poverty. KickStart designs & promotes lowest-cost irrigation technologies & to-date over 390,000 farmers have used its pumps to grow, harvest & sell high-value crops year-round, independent of rains. Their highly profitable & resilient farms have lifted 1.5M people out of poverty. With almost no irrigation in SSA, millions more can irrigate & gain income & food security. KickStart partners with hundreds of organizations to promote irrigation, develop new technologies, innovate new ways to reach & finance farmers, & advocate for system changes. With a Cornell BSc, a Stanford MSc & PhD, a Fulbright in Kenya, and many awards, Martin is a Skoll & Schwab SE & a Stanford Engineering Hero.

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• Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda

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  Founder, Voice of the Free

  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 enactment of pioneering laws in the Philippines to promote decent work for domestic workers, law to eliminate the worst forms of child labor and anti-trafficking law amendments. She was appointed by the two Philippine Presidents to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking as NGO representative and served for six years. She was also a member of the Presidential-Illegal Recruitment Task force during the Aquino Administration. Cecilia currently serves as an Advisory Board of the Freedom United, and as part of the Advisory Council of Telos Governance Agency

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• Kirk Hanson

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  Author and Independent Consultant, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  Kirk O. Hanson stepped down recently as Executive Director of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, one of the leading global centers for the study of applied ethics, where he held the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Professorship in Social Ethics for 17 years. Previously Kirk taught business ethics at the Stanford Business School for 23 years and is recognized as one of the founders of the academic field of business ethics. He has been an emeritus faculty member at Stanford since 2001. Hanson writes and has published widely on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations and their leaders. His current research interests include the design of corporate ethics programs and the responsibilities of boards for the ethical culture of organizations. Hanson has consulted with more than 125 corporations, nonprofit organizations, health care entitles, and government bodies on the design of ethics programs and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.

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• Kola Masha

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  Founder & Managing Director, Babban Gona Farm Services, Ltd., Babban Gona

  Kola is an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to solving Africa's leading social challenge, dramatic rise in insecurity. Kola brings significant leadership experience across four continents and multiple leading companies, including General Electric (GE), Abiomed and Notore. In addition, Kola brings extensive public sector experience as the former Senior Advisor to the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture. Kola is globally recognized as a thought leader in African Agribusiness. In recognition of his leadership in driving positive change on the African Continent, he has received several global awards including the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship and Rainer Fellowship. Kola holds an MBA (Honors) from Harvard and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Specialties: Impact Investing, Agricultural Development, Smallholder Farmer Development,

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• Karabi Acharya

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  Director, Global Ideas for US Solutions, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Karabi Acharya, ScD directs the Global Ideas for US Solutions portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This portfolio draws inspiration from how other countries are achieving health and well-being for all members of the society and identifies best practices in order to adapt them to improve health and well-being in the United States. She is a public health anthropologist and worked over 20 years on international health and development issues in over 15 countries. Previously, Acharya was global director for Ashoka, a network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, where she led Ashoka’s efforts to document the system changes that Ashoka Fellows achieve. Prior to Ashoka, she worked for the Academy for Educational Development where she worked to bring community voices and perspectives into policy and program design. She was also on faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Karabi holds a Doctor of Science from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and is a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow. She enjoys crossing boundaries; both conceptual and geographic and practices “Blue Marble Thinking” daily.

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• Jim Taylor

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  Co-Founder & CEO, Proximity Designs

  Jim Taylor is the co-founder and chief executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change across rural Myanmar. The big idea 20 years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After serving over 2 million farm families, and generating +$300 million in new income, the idea still has legs. Jim’s originally from Seattle but has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He has an MBA and studied economics at Harvard. He currently lives in Chicago.

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• Jagdeesh Rao Puppala

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  Founder, Foundation for Ecological Security

  A practitioner from the very beginning, Jagdeesh’s 37 year professional engagement has been on interrelated issues of poverty and environmental degradation and on ‘systems thinking’ at the interface of ecology, society and economy. Jagdeesh has been the Chief Executive of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) since its inception in 2001 till July 2020. Subsequently, he was associated its Promise of Commons initiative since it's inception in 2020 till September 2021 as it's anchor and curator. He was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Omidyar Network India in 2022. Along with a few partners, he is currently designing an ecosystem initiative titled 'Common Ground' to build collaborative action for addressing challenges posed by climate change, loss of economic opportunities and inequalities. Jagdeesh is a Skoll Awardee, a Henry Arnhold Fellow and a Senior Ashoka Fellow. His areas of interest include Commons, decentralized governance, systems thinking and systems change.

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• Gabrielle Fitzgerald

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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 and response. As a platform for social change, Panorama’s mission is to maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions with audacious thinking and bold action. Gabrielle also co-founded the Pandemic Action Network, which drives collective action to end the COVID-19 crisis and ensure the world is prepared for the next pandemic.

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• Ella Gudwin

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  Chief Executive Officer, VisionSpring

  Ella Gudwin is the CEO of VisionSpring, a social entrepreneur and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in global health and international development. Before coming to VisionSpring, she served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Program Development at AmeriCares. She completed her Master's in Emerging Market Economics and Southeast Asia studies from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She regularly speaks about hybrid business models which blend earned revenue with philanthropy; growing a purpose-driven business that serves low-income customers; and measuring social impact.

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• Debbie Aung Din Taylor

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  Co-Founder, Proximity Research Lead, Proximity Designs

  Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Proximity designs and delivers innovative and profitable low-carbon farming products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support farmers to transition to regenerative farming practices, while boosting farm incomes by approximately USD 250 annually. Since 2004, Proximity’s products and services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling over 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar for over two decades. She is a founding member of the Climate Action for Smallholders (CASH) Coalition.

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• Willy Foote

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  Founder and CEO, Root Capital

  Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $1.7 billion in loans to 770 agricultural businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these businesses have bought and marketed crops for 2.4 million smallholder farmers, reaching over 10 million people in rural communities. Willy is a Skoll Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Global Fellow. He served for nearly a decade on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and serves on the Strategic Advisory Council of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. Willy holds an MS in development economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Yale University.

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• Sebastien Marot

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  Executive Director, Friends-International

  Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (3PC), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.

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• Sakena Yacoobi

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  President and CEO, Afghan Institute of Learning

  Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the President & Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an organization she founded in 1995 in response to the lack of education and health care that the Afghan people faced after decades of war and strife. Dr. Yacoobi is also the President & Executive Director of Sakena Fund formerly known as Creating Hope International (CHI). Dr. Yacoobi has established 352 Learning Centers, four schools, a hospital, and a radio/ TV station in Afghanistan and is the recipient of six honorary doctorates including from Princeton University. Each year, Dr. Yacoobi speaks at numerous events, conferences and at institutions such as the UN, Stanford University and Oxford University. Dr. Yacoobi particularly enjoys engaging with youth at schools, inspiring them to be globally minded citizens. Most recently in 2022 in response to the devastating fall of the nation, after the Taliban took over; Girls once again banned from schools, Dr. Yacoobi’s AIL staff with her

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• Sam Parker

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  Founder, FIGURE80

  Graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam worked for 17 years in the agrochemicals and commodity trading businesses, with responsibilities across Latin America, Africa and Asia. During this time, Sam took a two-year break to work as a volunteer with street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2002, he moved into the development sector with the International Save the Children Alliance, leading the organisational development of its 30 national members. 2006, Sam joined Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), as its first CEO, and became a Skoll Awardee in 2014. In 2015, Sam was appointed Director of the Shell Foundation, which funds the expansion of renewable energy to low-income consumers who have no access to electricity. Recognizing the crucial importance of business in achieving the SDGs, in 2021, Sam co-founded Agile Governance Inc., a B-Corp that helps social enterprises to transform business performance and raise more capital through smart, agile governance.

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• Paul van Zyl

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  Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Conduit

  Paul served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998. His background is in human rights law, and he has received a number of scholarships and accolades for his work in global social impact. Paul was selected as a Hauser Global Scholar at NYU, a program which selects 10 of the finest students from countries across the world. He received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 with Juan E. Mendez, with whom he founded the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an international human rights organisation based in New York. Paul was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the WEF in 2008. He has served as an adviser and consultant to many NGOs and Governments on transitional justice issues in over 30 countries. Paul co-founded The Conduit in 2018, and that year was named by London Tech Week as one of its 30 "Change Makers'.

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• Paul Rice

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  Founder & CEO, Fair Trade USA

  Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, Paul has helped establish Fair Trade as one of the fastest growing segments of the food and apparel industries. To date, Fair Trade USA has partnered with over 1,500 leading companies, including Green Mountain, Nespresso, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, and Target. Fair Trade USA now certifies coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, coconut, fresh produce, and seafood. Through groundbreaking partnerships with Patagonia, Athleta, West Elm and J. Crew, Fair Trade has begun certifying apparel and home goods. In 2022, consumer recognition of the Fair Trade Certified label hit 65%. To date, Fair Trade USA and its partners have generated over $1 billion in additional income for farmers and workers in 51 countries, allowing them to care for the environment and steadily improve their livelihoods. Paul has been named Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Business Leader of the Year and is a four-time winner of Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year.

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• Nithya Ramanathan

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  CEO & Co-Founder, Nexleaf Analytics

  Nithya Ramanathan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics, a non-profit technology company dedicated to partnering with governments across Africa and Asia to ensure they have the data they need to build lasting solutions that improve the health of people. Nexleaf’s unique approach brings together sensor technology, data analysis, and user engagement to identify and address big problems. Nexleaf tech helps governments protect vaccines for 1 in 10 babies born on Earth each year. Nithya and her team have achieved this outsized impact by working shoulder-to-shoulder with Ministries of Health—rather than attempting to bypass governments​​—to scale cutting-edge technologies refined through close collaboration with personnel at every level of the health system, from top-tier government officials to last-mile health care workers.

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• Nguhi Mwaura

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  Program Manager, Co-Impact

  Nguhi Mwaura is currently focused on strategies for directing more philanthropic funding to African-led initiatives. Previously, Nguhi was a fellow in the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. Before joining Skoll, she worked as a Program Manager at Schole, an investment firm that acquires and manages schools across Africa, where she helped refine and expand their strategy for East Africa. Nguhi also served as a management consultant at Dalberg, advising a diverse range of clients on issues from agriculture to early childhood education. A Kenyan national, Nguhi has lived and worked in various countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and is dedicated to supporting African entrepreneurs to drive development on their own terms.

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• Nina Smith

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  Founding CEO/Strategic Advisor, GoodWeave

  Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and founding Chief Executive Officer of GoodWeave International (GoodWeave), the leading international NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. At GoodWeave's helm from 1999 to 2023, Nina pioneered a market-led model that has reduced child labor at scale in select sectors by shining a light on the most vulnerable supply chain workers; stopping abuse; and addressing root causes. A Skoll and Schwab Foundation Awardee, Nina advocates for child and worker rights through her writing, public speaking and the boards she serves, including The Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute. Nina is also winner of the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership, and is a member of Elluminate’s Women’s Leadership Collective.

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• Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter

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  Executive Director for Strategy and Content, Social Capital Markets LLC

  Michelle is an impact investor, strategist and social entrepreneur. In her role as Executive Director for Strategy and Content at SOCAP, she leads the programatic direction and curation for the largest impact investment conference. She is also a General Partner at IMPAQTO Capital, a revenue-based financing fund for investing in the missing middle of impact finance in the Andean region. Before her current role, Michelle was the CEO and co-founder of IMPAQTO, a B Corporation with a mission to support impact entrepreneurs reach their goals by building the ecosystem and network they need to thrive. IMPAQTO offers coworking spaces, a business accelerator, innovation consulting services and an impact investing fund to Latin American entrepreneurs building a better world. Michelle is a recent mother of twins and lives in Quito. She holds an Mst in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master's in Public Policy, UC Berkeley.

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• Mindy Lubber

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  Chief Executive Officer and President, Ceres

  Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks have grown significantly in size and influence. As a well-known global thought leader, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders to consider all material financial risks and opportunities—including those related to climate change, water scarcity and nature loss—in decision-making. She has also received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership including the ’Champions of the Earth award, the UN's highest environmental honor; the Barron’s Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance every year since 2020; the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network; the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation; and the Nonprofit Times 2022 Power & Influence Top 50.

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• Mechai Viravaidya

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  Chairman, Population and Community Development Association

  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 key positions as Thailand’s Cabinet spokesperson, Deputy Minister of Industry, Minister of the Office of the Prime Minister, and Chairman of several of Thailand’s largest government-owned enterprises. Mechai was presented with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service (1994), recognized as one of Asiaweek’s “20 Great Asians” (1995), the United Nations Population Award (1997), one of TIME Magazine’s “Asian Heroes” (2006), the Bill and Melinda Gates Award for Global Health (2007), the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2008). He was honoured with the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2009). More recently, the Global Humanitarian Award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute (2022)

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• Matthew Forti

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  Managing Director, One Acre Fund

  Matthew Forti is the Managing Director of One Acre Fund, now the largest nonprofit social enterprise working exclusively to improve the yields, incomes, and resilience of over 4 million African subsistence farmers. Matt played an instrumental role in One Acre Fund’s founding, helping to raise the seed capital and becoming its inaugural Board Chair. Today Matt coordinates the organization’s global operations, including partnership and business development, corporate finance, monitoring & evaluation, and the organization’s governing boards. Prior, Matt was a Manager at the Bridgespan Group, co-heading its performance measurement practice and working in the global development practice area. Matt received his MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management and BA summa cum laude from Northwestern University. Matt writes extensively on the topic of performance measurement, including through a blog series for Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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• Maryana Iskander

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  Chief Executive Officer, Wikimedia Foundation

  Maryana Iskander is CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. She spent 10 years as CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa, winning the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Prior to this, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was an associate at McKinsey & Company, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She is a Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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• Liz Diebold

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  Managing Director, Portfolio and Investments, Skoll Foundation

  Liz is Managing Director – Portfolio and Investments at the Skoll Foundation, where she identifies and leads timely, strategic investments in Awardees with whom we see extraordinary potential for large scale and lasting change in the world. She also serves as a collaborative advisor to grantees and multiple external partners. Liz has significant experience in the broad areas of investment and finance in developing markets - from digital financial inclusion to fund structuring and facilitating supply chain investments with small local firms and large multinational corporations - and deep agriculture sector knowledge. She is passionate about growing markets and empowering economically disenfranchised people around the world with choice to pursue a range of economic livelihoods. Prior to joining Skoll, Liz held positions with USAID, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OPIC, and as a development consultant. Liz is a Midwesterner at heart (KCMO!) and a globalist in spirit who never ceases to be moved by human kindness.

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• Lucy Lake

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  Executive Chair & Advisor, CAMFED

  Lucy joined CAMFED in 1994, shortly after it was founded, and went on to become the CEO. In 2023, Lucy stepped aside as CEO and continues as Executive Advisor, working with the executive and boards to position CAMFED for its next phase of development. Under Lucy’s leadership, CAMFED was awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize and the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, and has been recognized by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD for best practice in taking development innovation to scale. In 2020, Lucy was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Development alongside Angeline Murimirwa, now CAMFED's CEO, for her contribution to gender equality in education. Lucy is a founding member and former Co-Chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, a member of the High-Level Steering Group of the Education Commission’s Workforce Initiative, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Education Monitoring Report.

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• Jordan Kassalow

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  Founder, VisionSpring

  Jordan Kassalow is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of VisionSpring, the co-founder of EYElliance, and a Partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan also founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo New York. Prior to his position at the Council, he served as Director of the River Blindness Division at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan, Skoll, Ashoka, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was named one of Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs, was the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize, and was recognized in Forbes Impact 30. VisionSpring has been internationally recognized by the Skoll Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the World Bank; is a three-time winner of Fast-Company's Social Capitalist Award; and a winner of Duke University’s Enterprising Social Innovation Award. Additionally, he co-authored Dare

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• Josh Karliner

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  International Director, Program and Strategy, Health Care Without Harm

  Josh Karliner helps lead Health Care Without Harm’s worldwide systems change efforts to build a zero emissions and climate resilient health care sector. He has coordinated HCWH’s international work since 2005, co-creating and developing of the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, with members now in 76 countries. Closely collaborating with the World Health Organization, Josh also led HCWH’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in healthcare. He is author of two books along with a wide variety of academic and popular publications on global environmental and health policy. Josh is a member of the board of directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, and the Save the Waves Coalition. He lives in San Francisco, USA.

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• John Marks

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  Founder & Managing Director, Search for Common Ground

  John Marks is the founder and Managing Director of Confluence International, an Amsterdam-based NGO that specializes in Track II diplomacy and TV production to promote social change. Until 2014, he was President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO, which he founded in 1982. SFCG was nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. John also founded Common Ground Productions (CGP) and has produced or executive-produced TV series in more than 20 countries. He is a Visiting Scholar in Peacebuilding and Social Entrepreneurship at Leiden University in the Netherlands. With his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, and, additionally, he is an Ashoka Senior Fellow. A best-selling, award-winning author, he graduated from Cornell University and was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has an honorary PhD from the UN’s University of Peace in Costa Rica.

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• Joe Madiath

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  CEO & President, Gram Vikas USA

  Joe Madiath is the Founder and Chairman of Gram Vikas. Joe has spent over 45 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Orissa, India. Drawn to Odisha in 1971 to help communities that had been ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, Joe stayed on as an activist focused on sustainable development. Founded in 1979, Gram Vikas utilizes a holistic model of development, based on Joe’s conviction that every family in a village needs to have healthy living practices for an improved quality of life. Gram Vikas works in the areas of renewable energy, especially biogas and solar energy. Totally inclusive water and sanitation is the flagship programme of Gram Vikas. This model has transformed more than 1200 villages and has successfully proven that the rural poor can and will pay for better sanitation and water facilities.

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• Jeroo Billimoria

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  Co-Founder and Chief Facilitator, Catalyst 2030

  Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with over twenty years’ experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll Awardee, and Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline India and Child Helpline International, which have helped enable the financial inclusion and protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries. Jeroo is now founder of One Family Foundation, which incubates social innovations, helps them scale, and is currently anchoring Catalyst 2030 – a global network working to accelerate progress towards the SDGs through radical and transformative social innovation at the country level. 

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• Jeffrey Walker

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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 Fund; Co-Founder Subtle and Healing Energy Collaborative; Bd Aurelia Institute for Space Devel; Co-Founder Psychedelic Health Equity Initiative; Co-Founder ex-Managing Partner JPMorgan Partners Private Equity Fund; Retired Vice-Chairman JPMorgan Chase; MBA Harvard Business School; BS U of Virginia; CMA and CPA. Previously - Co-Founder Chair NPower; Harvard B School Bd of Visitors/Deans Board/Social Enterprise; Board Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership; Chair Thomas Jefferson/Monticello Foundation; Chair Millennium Promise; Bd of Visitors Univ of Virginia; Bd Berklee College of Music and numerous other public, private and non-profit boards. Received John Whitehead Award for Philanthropy

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• James Nardella

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  Chief Program Officer, Last Mile Health

  As Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health, James guides programs that strengthen community health systems, upskill the community health workforce, and deliver community-based care and treatment in Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. He also oversees Last Mile Health’s key influence initiative, Africa Frontline First, which aims to improve the design, durability, and amount of community health financing coming from government, philanthropy, and multi-lateral institutions. Prior to joining Last Mile Health, James served as a Principal on the Portfolio & Investments Team at the Skoll Foundation and led the Foundation’s relationship with a $40M portfolio of current Skoll Awardees. Before Skoll, James led the Lwala Community Alliance, a health and development organization known for its community approach to increasing child survival, skilled delivery rates, and access to HIV care in rural Kenya. James has a Master's in International Ed Policy from Vanderbilt University.

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• Henry McLoughlin

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  Director of Strategy, Capricorn Investment Group

  Henry is director of advocacy at Capricorn Investment Group, a firm that invests in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape Joby Aviation and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. At Capricorn, Henry helps catalyze capital towards the solutions to the climate change crisis. Prior to Capricorn, Henry was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris, Casablanca and Dubai and with Oliver Wyman in New York. His last year as a consultant was spent with the World Economic Forum where he was in charge of the infrastructure finance initiative, a project aimed at rapidly scaling up essential infrastructure, including renewable energy, in emerging countries. Henry is a former captain in the French Marine Infantry, serving within NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2007. He is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d’Ulm), of Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Paris and of the Saint-Cyr Special Military School (ROTC).

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• Heather Grady

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  Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  Heather Grady is a Vice President in the San Francisco team of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and leads the practice area of Environment and Climate Change, including a range of funder collaboratives, advisory engagements, and research. She co-founded and leads the Shifting Systems initiative that encourages funders to place longer-term, more adaptive funding with grantee partners to enable them to create systemic impact. She oversees a portfolio of over 40 sponsored projects and advises philanthropists and foundations. Her perspectives and practice have been influenced by two decades living and working in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She previously worked with the Rockefeller Foundation, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, and Oxfam Great Britain. She is on the board of Doc Society, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Wildlife Justice Commission, the Dropbox Foundation and Forum for the Future, and the Advisory Council of Daughters for Earth.

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• Harish Hande

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  CEO, Selco Foundation

  Harish Hande, Founder SELCO Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 25 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011. Today SELCO is an umbrella of organizations, each tasked to address gaps in the energy access ecosystem namely SELCO India (1994), energy access enterprise; SELCO Foundation (2010), non profit R&D, SELCO Incubation Centre (2012), nurturing grass roots energy enterprises and finally SELCO Fund (2016), deploy patient capital.

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• Gary White

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  CEO and Co-founder, Water.org

  Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, two organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit solution, creating new financing options for poor populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed WaterEquity, an impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis, with an exclusive focus on mobilizing private investments in water and sanitation throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as Inditex, Reckitt, Amazon Web Services, the Water Resilience Coalition, and Bank of America on responses to the global water crisis. Gary holds three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University S&T.

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• Fernando Travesí

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  Executive Director, International Center for Transitional Justice

  Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs. Prior to joining ICTJ in 2014, he was the Director of the United Nations Transitional Justice Basket Fund in Colombia. He also served as UNDP Senior Justice Advisor in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution. In Nepal and Colombia, Travesí held regional responsibilities with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protect civilian populations affected by the armed conflict, including documenting violations of international humanitarian law, monitoring prisons and detention places and managing the dossier of missing and disappeared. He also worked in Sierra Leone, as Country Director of the Spanish Red Cross, where he led Red Cross’ projects on rehabilitation of child combatants and children affected by the war. Prior to that, he worked for the NGO Movimiento por la Paz, as Regional Director for the Balkans leading a cross-border program on access to justice for refugees, displaced people, and returnees and; as Country Director in Albania during the Kosovo war. Mr. Travesí is a Lawyer who also completed post-graduate specialized courses in international public law and practiced in Spain mostly on criminal, immigration and civil issues. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the University Pontificia Javeriana of Colombia that awarded him with the Annual University Honor Medal for Academic Merits. He is a recognized novelist and playwright, winning awards such as the Spanish National Prize of Theater.

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• Erin Worsham

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  Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship

  Erin is the Executive Director of CASE at Duke University. CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. Erin also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member with Duke University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative teaching a course on Social Innovation and advising a course on Impact Investing. Prior to her work at Duke, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, developing public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank, and serving at a nonprofit think tank. She has a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/erinworsham

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• Erik Brodt

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  Director, Northwest Native American Center of Excellence, Northwest Native American Center of Excellence

  Erik Brodt, MD Anishinaabe – Minnesota Chippewa Erik grew up near Chippewa Falls, WI and spent summers with family in the rural areas around Bemidji, MN. Dr. Brodt earned his M.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and completed residency in Family Medicine at the Seattle Indian Health Board – Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency in Seattle, WA. Dr. Brodt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He practices in the OHSU Scappoose and Warm Springs Tribal Health clinics, while also serving as the founding Director of the OHSU Northwest Native American Center of Excellence. Erik is a fierce believer in occasional magic working to eliminate Native health disparities and improve Native American Health Professions programming nationally through creative partnerships and collaborations. An entrepreneur at heart, Erik and his wife Amanda have explored the fashion ecosystem through their global collection Ginew – featured in Vogue & GQ; culinary creativity and sustainable food systems; and the digital media non-profit WE ARE HEALERS. In his free time Dr. Brodt enjoys spending his time in Portland, OR with his wife Amanda, daughter Honukōkūlaniokauna’oa (Honu), their dogs Stinky & Pippa, and a motley crew of friends comprised of change-makers, mavens, and creatives.

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• Elizabeth Hausler

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  Founder & CEO, Build Change

  World-class social innovator. Safe housing advocate. Bricklayer. Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few employees in 2004 to a global team spread across five continents. She is the recipient of many honors, and in 2011, was named the US Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Together with Build Change, she was awarded the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2018, she received the University of California, Berkeley’s Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. Elizabeth is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. Dr. Hausler has headlined top conferences, lectured at eminent universities, and been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Elle Magazine, ABC News, and Bloomberg Business.

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• Eleanor Allen

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  CEO, B Lab

  Eleanor is the CEO of Catapult For Change, PBC. Catapult For Change provides leadership coaching for executives and teams and management consulting services. Eleanor believes that we all have tremendous potential yet sometimes we encounter obstacles that hold us back. She started Catapult For Change to help clients tackle those obstacles using a holistic approach to problem solving and personal growth so each person can grow and reach their potential with grace and joy. This includes supporting clients with personal inner work (developing a practice to promote individual well-being) and professional skill building so they can find their zone of brilliance to succeed and thrive. Eleanor is the former CEO of B Lab Global and Water For People. She is also a corporate board member, management consultant, technical specialist, and professional engineer. She enjoys ultra/endurance cycling, hiking, cooking, and exploring Colorado and beyond with her husband, two boys, and two dogs.

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• David Linde

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  CEO, Participant

  David Linde is CEO of Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. Linde is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, content, impact campaigning, operations, and acquisitions. Participant titles include Oscar winners Spotlight, Green Book, American Factory, CITIZENFOUR, The Cove, An Inconvenient Truth, ROMA and A Fantastic Woman; as well as Contagion, Good Night Good Luck, Flee and in television, Emmy®-winning content such as Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. Linde’s background spans production, global distribution and building companies from the ground up. He served as chairman of Universal Pictures, co-founder of Focus Features and CEO/owner of Lava Bear Films, where he produced multi-Oscar® nominee Arrival. Linde currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees and Film Independent's Board Of Directors.

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• Daniel Viederman

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  Partner, Working Capital Fund

  As Partner in the Working Capital Fund, Dan engages and supports entrepreneurs in pursuit of innovative tools to scale improvements for marginalized workers in global supply chains. He is an award-winning social entrepreneur and leader in supply chain innovation, having led Verite for fifteen years. He began his career in China where he established two international NGOs. Dan is a graduate of Yale University, has an MA from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a certificate in Chinese from Nanjing Teacher’s University.

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• Chris Jochnick

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  President and Chief Executive Officer, Landesa

  Chris Jochnick is a global land rights expert and social entrepreneur with decades of experience in international development. Chris joined Landesa as CEO in August 2015 after leading Oxfam America’s work on corporate advocacy, including the successful “Behind the Brands” campaign. Jochnick is the co-founder and former director of two pioneering non-profit organizations: Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Ecuador-based Centros De Derechos Economicos y Sociales. Jochnick has taught human rights courses at Columbia, Harvard, American University and the University of Melbourne. He is a former fellow of the Echoing Green and MacArthur foundations.

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• Charmian Gooch

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  Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness

  Charmian Gooch jointly led Global Witness's first campaign, exposing the trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers. Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness’s ground-breaking campaign to combat ‘blood diamonds’; Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of this work. In 2014 Charmian was awarded the TED Prize, given to an ‘extraordinary individual with a creative and bold vision to spark global change’. In the same year, Charmian along with Global Witness co-founders Patrick Alley and Simon Taylor, received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, awarded to ‘transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo’. She was also named one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in business and is a Young Global Leader Alumni.

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• Carne Ross

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  Executive Director, Independent Diplomat

  Carne Ross founded and now runs Independent Diplomat, an award-winning international advisory group that advises democratic governments and political groups (such as the Syrian democratic opposition) on diplomatic strategy. An author of two books (most recently, “The Leaderless Revolution”), he is a frequent commentator on world affairs for the BBC, CNN, New York Times, Financial Times and other publications. He is the subject of the recent BBC4 documentary film, “Accidental Anarchist”. Carne is a former senior British diplomat and WMD expert who resigned after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war.

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• Bryan Dove

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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 Skyscanner’s product, engineering, data science, design and infrastructure teams at an accelerated scale across ten global offices. Since taking on the role of CEO, Bryan has focussed on Skyscanner’s global growth and strategy. Skyscanner now welcomes up to 100m people to its travel marketplace every month and is on a mission to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

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• Bright Simons

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  President, mPedigree

  Bright is the President of mPedigree, a social enterprise working on three continents in partnership with governments, Fortune 500 companies, and grassroots organizations to spread innovative, including patent-pending, technologies that secure communities from supply chain fraud. At Koldchain, he led pioneering work at the Harvard Innovation Labs to invent & patent organo-sensors for biomedicals. Besides his own primary work, he is an enthusiastic Advisor of other organisations. He serves on the Supervisory Board of Care International; on the Sustainability Board of UCB, a European biopharma pioneer; the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar; and is the Vice Chair of the Africa Population Health Research Center. He previously served on the inaugural Microsoft Africa Advisory Council. As an early Director at IMANI, he has contributed considerably to its recognition as one of Africa's top 5 think tanks. He was on the 2016 Fortune 50 World Greatest Leaders list.

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• Ben Pyne

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  Principal, Skoll Foundation

  As a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, Ben is responsible for identifying, investing in, and advising a portfolio of social innovators who are driving lasting change. He currently leads Skoll's investment strategy in Health & Pandemics and leads select investments in other issue spaces. In previous roles at Skoll, Ben has led the Skoll Awards process and global sourcing outreach, launched Skoll's internal fellowship program, and jointly designed the foundation's emergency COVID-19 funding program with the Skoll Awardee community. Ben joined Skoll after completing a Global Health Corps fellowship with IntraHealth in Uganda, focused on addressing health worker absenteeism. Previously, Ben was a management consultant in Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations practice, with experience across a wide range of industries. In Ben’s free time, you might find him trying an overly ambitious art or photography project, exploring the woods with his family and his dog, or playing any(!) game.

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• Anne Marie Burgoyne

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  Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective

  Anne Marie Burgoyne is the Managing Director, Philanthropy at Emerson Collective where she leads the organization’s philanthropic investments across a wide array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity. Anne Marie has served on the boards of over 30 nonprofits and is currently on the boards of Hope Enterprise Corporation, The Management Center and Waverley Street Foundation. Anne Marie was a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, a nonprofit Executive Director, an investment banker, and an executive of a technology services company. Anne Marie received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and holds a BA in English and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two terrific girls and enjoys walking, yoga, cooking and cabaret singing.

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• Aerie Changala

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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 marginalized communities comes from his time serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Burkina Faso. Having spent the majority of his adult life living across Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, Aerie has traveled extensively, speaks five languages, and brings a truly global perspective to his work at Nuru. Aerie earned his BA in International Affairs from John Cabot University (Rome, Italy); his MA in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK); and complete Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leadership (Palo Alto, CA).

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• Aakash Sethi

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  CEO, Quest Alliance

  I have over 20 years of experience in Education & Youth Employment programs and have been engaged in developing networks for knowledge creation and policy advocacy in corporate responsibility and technology for development. As the founder & Chief Executive Officer of QUEST Alliance that promotes the use of technology in schools & vocational training to develop self learning pathways for children and youth, I aim to transform classrooms and skill training programs into vibrant hubs of self-learning; role modelling teachers as 21st Century facilitators and re-designing education technologies (both traditional to digital) to put young people in charge of their own learning and career pathways and empowering unemployable youth. I was an active member of AIESEC the world's largest youth for 5 years. I am an Ashoka fellow and an Asia 21 fellow and serve on the board of Children's Movement for Civic Awareness and Dalit Shakti Kendra.

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• Yvette J Alberdingkthijm

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  Consultant/Advisor/Collaborator, WITNESS

  Yvette ("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 work in activist' communities of practice. My passion is to coach and support teams in areas of: governance; ethics; strategy; global organizational design; board development; multi-stakeholder partnerships; community-driven partnerships; leadership transitions; building sustainable structures and practices; fostering cohesive, resilient teams and thriving organizational cultures. Ask me about: * managing risk in a rapidly transforming world * ethically and effectively responding to recent trends in human rights & new technologies * fostering healthy organizational design & remote global teams in the digital age * leading with care to support sustainable practices & wellbeing for teams

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• Tim Hanstad

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  Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Chandler Foundation

  Tim Hanstad is the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors, where he served as CEO for five years. Prior to this, Tim co-founded and was the long-time CEO of Landesa, the world’s leading land-rights organization. He led its growth from a two-person team to a leading global NGO with more than 20 offices around the world. He launched Landesa’s programs in China, the former Soviet Union, and India, where he lived for many years and currently resides. Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and a WEF Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. He has authored books and book chapters on economic and social development. He holds two law degrees from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Seattle Pacific University. He has completed certificate programs at Harvard. However, his greatest learning has come from spending time with those on the socioeconomic margins in more than 20 countries. Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and father to four adult children.

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• Tim Kunihiro

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  Managing Director, Rippleworks

  Tim and his team partners with social ventures to identify and address operational challenges where Rippleworks can support their teams in areas such as human capital, marketing & sales, and data & technology through with 4 month, pro bono projects. For these projects, we set clear outcomes, bring in volunteers with deep functional expertise in the functional areas, and proactively manage the projects with ventures and experts. Rippleworks supports over 70 projects per year. Prior to Rippleworks, Tim served as CEO for a SaaS startup incubated out of Barcelona, Spain, and held key leadership positions at TaskRabbit and eBay across operations, international expansion, business development and product management.

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• Taddy Blecher

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  CEO, Community and Individual Development Association, Community and Individual Development Association City Campus

  Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute and the Imvula Empowerment Trust, CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and Chairperson of the SA National Government team on Entrepreneurship, Education, & Employability. He is a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa, helping to create six free access institutions of higher learning as well as co-founding the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. As a result, over 21,000 unemployed South Africans have been educated, found employment, and moved from unemployment into the middle-class. As a qualified actuary and management consultant, Dr Blecher is passionate about the approach of Consciousness-Based Education, a system of education developing the full potential of every student. This has led the Maharishi Institute to winning multiple prizes including the first prize in a global competition for the most innovative education initiative in the world

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• Susan Collin Marks

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  Peace Ambassador, Search for Common Ground

  Susan Collin Marks, Peace Ambassador for Search for Common Ground, an internationally renowned peacemaker and peacebuilder, has worked in some of the most conflictual places on the planet, mediating, facilitating dialogue, and establishing supporting peace initiatives. In recent years, she focused on counsellin and supporting high level political, institutional and civil society leaders worldwide, including cabinet ministers, military generals, and members of the US Congress. In September 2014, she stepped aside after 20 years as vice president of what grew into the largest peacebuilding NGO in the world, and moved from Washington DC to Europe. Search for Common Ground was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Susan has numerous awards and honors. Susan writes, speaks, counsels, teaches, and supports peace initiatives internationally. She holds a vision of a world of peace and dignity. She believes that our common humanity binds us together more than our differences divide us.

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• Sridhar Prasad

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  Partner, Bridgespan Group

  Sridhar is a partner in The Bridgespan Group's Boston office. As part of Bridgespan’s Philanthropy and Global Development practice areas, Sridhar has worked with a number of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic collaboratives, including Women’s World Banking, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Lever for Change, and The Audacious Project. Much of his work has focused on building successful platforms to harness and direct philanthropic capital in order to both reduce perceived barriers for aspirational philanthropists and increase access to scale capital for high-impact change agents. Sridhar holds a BA in history from Columbia University, a JD from the Harvard Law School, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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• Stephan Chambers

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  Director, The Marshall Institute, London School of Economics

  Stephan Chambers is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at LSE and Director of the 100x Impact Accelerator. He serves on the steering groups for the Just Transition Finance Lab and the LSE Grantham Research Institute. At LSE he also sits on the governing board for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and is Professor in Practice at the Department of Management and Course Director for the Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship. Before joining the Marshall Institute Stephan Chambers was the Co-Founder of the Skoll World Forum. From 2000 to 2014 he directed the University of Oxford’s MBA and was the founding Director of Oxford University's Executive MBA programme.

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• Saskia Bruysten

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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 provides employment, education, healthcare, safe water and clean energy to over 13 million people worldwide. YSB Corporate Innovation partners with established corporations to help them use their core competencies to address social problems. Together with the World Economic Forum she co-initiated the COVID Alliance for social entrepreneurs spanning almost 60 leading impact-first organizations and networks. Saskia was appointed to the EU Commission’s expert group on social business and has advised on Ban Ki-Moon’s UN MDG Advocacy Group as well as Richard Branson’s B-team. She has lectured at several universities and events, including the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. She co-authored a report with the Boston Consulting Group on the experiences of building large-scale social business joint ventures with corporations. Prior to YSB, Saskia was the Co-CEO of the Grameen Creative Lab and a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and New York. She holds an MBA from the European Business School in Germany and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Saskia holds a German and Canadian citizenship.

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• Shamil Idriss

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  Chief Executive Officer, Search for Common Ground

  Shamil is privileged to lead the largest non-governmental peacebuilding organization in the world. Believing that the most enduring change is that which makes allies of adversaries and that translates conflict into cooperation, he is honored to count among his colleagues over 800 frontline peacebuilders in more than 30 countries who drive such transformative change in some of the most challenging conflict contexts in the world. Prior to his current role Shamil served as CEO of Soliya where he led a public-private sector coalition that capitalized the field of virtual exchange. Previously he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as staff director of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, a project intended to improve relations between Western and Muslim-majority countries. Idriss was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and won the Open Society Foundation’s 2015 New Executive Award. He lives with his wife and two teenage children in Washington, DC.

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• Sandy Herz

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  Independent, Individual

  Sandy Herz is an established philanthropic leader, strategist and storytelling evangelist. Most recently, Sandy served as President of Sobrato Philanthropies, leading an ambitious growth strategy for a multigenerational Giving Pledge family, supporting their individual philanthropy and expanding their collective philanthropy from local place-based giving to include global initiatives such as climate change. Previously at the Skoll Foundation, she led Skoll’s early Connect & Celebrate programs, including the Skoll World Forum, before diving deep into storytelling, curating Skoll’s award-winning film, media, and publishing portfolio and developing a multisector network strategy leveraging partnerships to attract resources and amplify the impact of Skoll entrepreneurs.

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• Sally Osberg

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  Vice Chair and Senior Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative. In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise. Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field. Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, as Vice Chair of the Social Progress Imperative and as a board director for New America and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University. She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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• Richard Fahey

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  Special Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  Richard Fahey served as Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation from 2004 to 2021, where he contributed to the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems. Richard now serves as Special Advisor to the Foundation. As COO, Richard led the Skoll Foundation’s finance, impact measurement, technology, and other business management functions. He was the key executive staff interface between the Investment Committee and the Capricorn Investment Group which manages the Foundation’s endowment. Richard worked closely with the Foundation’s investment manager to align the Foundation’s investment capital with its mission. Prior to joining Skoll, Richard spent nearly 25 years with the Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of senior operations, infrastructure, finance policy, and controller positions. He earned his B.A. at Georgetown University in Economics and History, and his M.B.A at the University of Chicago.

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• Randall Kempner

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  Senior Advisor, Energy and Environment Program, Aspen Institute

  Randall Kempner is Senior Advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program. His primary focus areas are climate investing, climate philanthropy and the intersection of climate change and economic development. He recently served as the CEO of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, a Texas-based grantmaking foundation that seeks innovative, sustainable solutions for environmental problems. For the previous eleven years, Randall worked as a VP of the Aspen Institute and the founding executive director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of nearly 300 organizations that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He presently serves on the advisory boards of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Center for Global Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Chair of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund, a family foundation focused on his hometown of Galveston, Texas.

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• Rachael Clay

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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 together to create transformational change. She delivers through Ethicore and her pro-bono work. As an impact innovator, Rachael has twenty five years' experience of insight, engagement, strategy, and partnerships to influence social change. She worked for Oxfam for a decade and prior to that in the public and private sectors. Her increasing focus is on finance for impact.

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• Peter Tufano

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  Peter Moores Dean; Dean of Said Business School, Saïd Business School

  Professor Peter Tufano has served as the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford since July 2011. His work focuses on financial innovation, especially that which improves lives of low-income families. This work is reflected in his research; the social enterprise he founded to support wealth-building by the American families (buildcommonwealth.org); and policy engagements credited with influencing US policy, including the U.S. American Savings Promotion Act. As Dean, he has emphasized the role of business education in addressing the major challenges of the world through deeper connections with the broader university and a clearer articulation of purpose. At Oxford, this orientation has manifested itself in the Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme; the “Global Opportunities & Threats: Oxford” required course that emphasizes systems interventions and leadership; a set of new entrepreneurial projects including the pan-University The Oxford Foundry and the global partnership with Creative Destruction Lab; the promotion of humanities in the leadership curriculum; and the promotion of a responsible business agenda oriented around the UN SDGs. Before joining Oxford, Tufano spent 33 years at Harvard, with more than two decades on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he co-founded the Harvard University Innovation Lab (i-Lab).

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• Peggy Clark

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  CEO and President, International Center for Research on Women

  Peggy Clark is President and CEO of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the leading women’s research organization in the world. Throughout her career Peggy has worked to tackle and address gender inequality, including women’s economic security, health, and well-being. She is currently leading a major restructure of ICRW to build a global network of Gender Centers of Excellence to support the next generation of expertise and solutions to build a more gender equal world. Prior to ICRW, Peggy was the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, Executive Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Director of Realizing Rights, Chair of the Women’s Policy Group and Program Officer, Ford Foundation, and Director of Small-Scale Enterprise and Credit at Save the Children. Peggy is Chair, African Leaders Malaria Alliance ;Vice Chair, Ashesi University Ghana; Board Emeritus, Calvert Impact Capital; Board Member Last Mile Health.

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• Patrick Alley

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  Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness

  Patrick is one of the three founders of Global Witness. Founded in 1993 Global Witness has become one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to rooting out corruption and environmental and human rights abuses around the world, with Patrick taking part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe. Taking the findings to lawmakers and into the boardrooms of multinational companies Patrick and his colleagues have challenged the assumption that you can’t change things. Global Witness now has major focus on tackling the climate crisis. Patrick is the author of Very Bad People, published in 2022, which charts some of Global Witness’ key investigations. Alongside his two co-founders Patrick received the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the same year that Global Witness won the TED Prize. Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing the murderous trade in blood diamonds.

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• Pamela Roussos

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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 leading venture-backed software companies. Pamela began mentoring social entrepreneurs in 2010 and has been dedicated to and inspired by them ever since. She is a sought-after speaker for her expertise in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, global accelerators and place-based initiatives designed to spur economic growth in under-developed communities in the US and around the world.

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• Pat Mitchell

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  Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media

  Throughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the first woman President of PBS and of CNN Productions. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host and curator for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of ConnectedWomenLeaders, a cohort of global women leaders, across generations and geography, who are launching a global, women-led campaign for climate justice titled Project Dandelion. She is Chair Emeritus of the Sundance Institute and just received the Vanguard Award for philanthropy. She also serves on the board of The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the VDAY movement to end violence; she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council and Chair Emeritus of the Women’s Media Center which established an annual award in her name. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

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• Olivia Leland

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  Founder and CEO, Co-Impact

  Olivia Leland is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative for equitable systems change at scale, focused on advancing gender equality and elevating women and girls’ power, agency and leadership at all levels. Olivia has more than two decades of international experience in philanthropy, government, and the non-profit sector. Prior to Co-Impact, Olivia was the founding director of the Giving Pledge – an effort launched by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to help address society’s most pressing problems by encouraging increased philanthropy. Previously, Olivia worked in microfinance and financial inclusion, and in the areas of strategy development, multi-sector collaboration, and advancing gender equality.

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• Ned Breslin

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  Founder, The Invitation

  Writing a book on Ukraine, building an Invitation to starve child welfare of children and families who have no place in that system, and welcoming each day with a smile and a bit of light.

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• Neelam Chhiber

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  Co-founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation

  Neelam Chhiber is the Co-founder of Industree. For the past three decades, she has been working on regenerative economic transformation of India’s most vulnerable women by unleashing their abilities to build and scale self owned collective enterprises, able to leverage economies of scale. A holistic eco system built on digital and financial services, enables them to use design, technical, marketing and management solutions to bridge the urban-rural divide. Neelam and her team have already impacted 500,000 lives and ensured cumulative market access of over 58 M USD, with a clear focus on Equity, Gender and Climate. Their work ensures that women in communities have access to work close to their homes, becoming part of mainstream value chains with customers such as IKEA, H&M Home, Fabindia, and the Future Group, in climate positive value chains. This gives them greater control over their economic security and also significantly improves social gains.

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• Namrita Kapur

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  Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation

  Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises on the philanthropy of founders of one of the oldest VC firms and of a Fortune 500 company. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised National Geographic on its impact investing strategy. Namrita is also an angel investor in the Portfolia fund of funds, which focuses on educating and activating female angel investors. She serves on the Boards of Environmental League of Massachusetts, Center for Business & Environment at Yale, IE-Brown Executive MBA Program, Massachusetts Environmental Justice Council and the Museum of Science. She holds two degrees from Yale and one from Princeton.

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• Michael Etzel

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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 Capital’s Double Impact Fund and Texas Pacific Group’s (TPG) Rise Fund—where Bridgespan has partnered to develop and deliver rigorous, quantitative impact underwriting, as detailed in Harvard Business Review’s “Calculating the Value of Impact Investing.” Michael has also worked with institutional, family, and corporate philanthropists, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The MacArthur Foundation. He currently serves on the board of Splash. Michael has contributed to the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, leading a Bridgespan team that supported the development of a first-ever bipartisan policy agenda for the growing field of impact investing. Michael has also explored opportunities for philanthropists to get involved in ‘catalytic’ forms of impact investing in “Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing.” Michael earned his AB cum laude with high honors from Harvard College, and his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.

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• Martin Burt

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  Founder & Executive Director, Fundación Paraguaya

  Dr. Martín Burt is a world-renowned social entrepreneur who has developed anti-poverty and educational social innovations that are currently being implemented worldwide. He is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization in 2018 by the IADB. Dr. Burt is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. He has also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. His latest book “Paraguay without Poverty” was published in November 2023. He has received several international awards. He holds a PhD from Tulane University and is Lecturer & Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Research Associate at University of California, Irvine, and Professor, Master’s Program in Microfinance, at Universidad de Alcalá.

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• Mallika Dutt

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  Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance, Breakthrough

  Mallika Dutt is the Program Director of Gender Equity and Governance at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is a longtime advocate for equity and well-being for people and planet, with deep experience in advancing justice through an intersectional lens. Prior to joining the foundation, she founded and led INTER-CONNECTED, where she supported transformational change through her unique methodology combining ancient wisdom, contemplative practices, storytelling, and social justice activism. As the founder and leader of Breakthrough, she has used culture to change culture through award-winning multi-media campaigns that have touched millions. She also headed a social justice and human rights program in South Asia with the Ford Foundation. A recipient of multiple awards, she received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016. Mallika has served on several boards and committees and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallika is a graduate of NYU Law Schoo

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• Mabel van Oranje

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  Founder, Girls Not Brides

  Mabel van Oranje is a global advocate for equality, justice and freedom and serial entrepreneur for social change. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the creation and growth of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, the Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls. Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and VOW for Girls (chair). She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, the Graca Machel Trust and The Elders. Mabel is a champion of Girls Not Brides, and a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow her tweets @MabelvanOranje

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• Luis Szaran

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  Founder and Director, Sonidos de la Tierra

  LUIS SZARAN Artist for PEACE of UNESCO Orchestra conductor, composer and musicologist As a social entrepreneur, in 2002 he founded the social and community integration program through music: Sounds of the Earth, aimed at low-income children and young people. In 2005, he received the “Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship” from the Skoll Foundation. In 2013 he was recognized as Global Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum. In 2008 he was chosen, by the American University, as one of the 12 most outstanding leaders of Paraguay. He is the author of books published in Paraguay, Germany, Italy and Spain.

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• Louis Boorstin

  Delegate

  Managing Director, Osprey Foundation

  Louis is Managing Director of the Osprey Foundation, where he leads programs on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sustainable energy/cleaner cooking. In addition to managing a portfolio of grants and impact investments, Louis works to advance these sectors through systems change, innovative finance, and new service delivery models. From 2005-2013, Louis founded and led the WASH program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, building a portfolio of more than US$ 300 million. Prior to that, he worked for 15 years at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, where he led the environmental finance team from 1997 to 2004 and helped to pioneer the impact investing field. Louis currently sits on the boards of IRC WASH and the RICE Institute, and he advises several other social ventures and non-profits. He holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an MBA and MA (Development Economics) from Stanford University.

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• Liz Carolan

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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 elected leaders at the Institute for Government in the United Kingdom and working in the President’s Office in Sierra Leone. She established the Open Data Institute’s international program, supporting accountability efforts in 30 countries, including leading an open elections project in Burkina Faso. She later helped get the Open Data Charter off the ground as Director of Strategy. In 2018, Liz founded the Transparent Referendum Initiative (TRI) during Ireland’s referendum on abortion. TRI built an open database of online political advertising and uncovered disinformation campaigns and attempts at overseas interference that led to changes in tech company policy.

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• Katie Bunten-Wamaru

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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 Visionary Fund, Katie is laser-focused on driving more resources to high-impact African visionaries. Prior to her current role, Katie worked with the Segal Family Foundation as the Director of Strategy, spearheading the African Visionary Fellowship. Within the first two years of the Fellowship, she brought in $2.4 million in new funding to Fellows. Across her philanthropic experience, she has managed due diligence on grant portfolios of over $10 million & leveraged $21 million in new funding to grantee partners through extensive donor engagement. Katie has an MA in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University and a BA in Peace & Justice Studies from Wellesley College.

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• Josh Nesbit

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  Former Chief Executive Officer, Medic

  Josh Nesbit is the co-founder and former CEO of Medic, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health with and in the hardest-to-reach communities. The open-source software helps over 35,000 community health workers provide care for more than 20 million people in Africa and Asia. These health workers deliver care and services, door-to-door, through more than 1.5 million home visits each month. Together with our partners, we envision a more just world in which health workers are supported as they provide care for their neighbors, universal health coverage is a reality, and health is secured as a human right. Before co-founding Medic, Josh studied global health and bioethics at Stanford University, where his qualitative research focused on pediatric HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Josh is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow. He has served on the Board of Directors for Developing Radio Partners and IntraHealth International. Josh was selected by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development, received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development, and was named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 top social entrepreneurs. In 2014, Medic received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2016, Josh accepted a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. Josh is continually inspired by health workers around the world.

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• Jim Fruchterman

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  Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters, Benetech

  Jim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech. After starting two successful machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses. His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.

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• Jessie Coates

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  Global Impact Entrepreneurship Leader, EY (Global)

  As EY Global Impact Entrepreneurship and Markets Leader, Jessie brings together entrepreneurs, corporates and public sector institutions to help scale new technologies and business models that purposefully drive progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A chartered accountant by trade, Jessie began her career in corporate finance before working as a consultant with clients across the social, private and public sectors. Since 2017, she has focused on combining public and private sector capabilities to help life-changing impact entrepreneurs overcome barriers to scale, primarily in emerging market contexts. She also serves on the board of several local and international impact enterprises and nonprofits. Jessie holds a BA and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Honors, and is an alumna of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program.

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• Jess Ladd

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  Founder, Callisto

  Jess grew up in San Francisco during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and became deeply committed to sexual health and rights as a result. She explored how to best contribute to improving sexual health & wellbeing in the US through a variety of paths - as an infectious disease epidemiologist, a health education teacher, a public policy advocate, and even from the halls of the White House. Throughout this journey, she was often brought back to the untapped potential of technology to address this issue. Jess founded her first tech startup in 2011, named Sexual Health Innovations, and built a series of technologies to help prevent and track sexually transmitted infections. She then founded Callisto in 2015, a nonprofit dedicated to using technology to support sexual assault survivors and advance justice. Jess has since transitioned Callisto to new leadership, and is advising social impact startups on their strategy and product development.

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• Jess Search

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  Chief Executive, Doc Society

  Jess is a founder of Doc Society, which has funded and championed the work of independent documentary filmmakers around the world since 2005. Writing with Fire, I Am Softie, The Edge of Democracy, CITIZENFOUR, The Territory, The Square, Virunga etc Currently obsessed with Climate and Democracy narratives and protecting the space for independent storytelling. Jess is also a trustee of MSI Reproductive Choices, the world's most effective family planning and abortion provider in 37 countries. Jess is also chair of UK think tank IPPR and a board member of crowdfunding innovator Kickstarter. Jess is a big fan of the Skoll World Forum.

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• Jeremy Hockenstein

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Digital Divide Data

  Jeremy Hockenstein is the Chair of Digital Divide Data, the Skoll award winning organization he co-founded in 2001. He is now the Co-founder and Managing Director of Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes in Africa.

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• Jeanne Bourgault

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  President and CEO, Internews

  As President and CEO of Internews, Jeanne Bourgault leads the strategic management of the organization and its programs in more than 80 countries around the world. Bourgault has overseen Internews’ growth in areas underserved by local media, such as Afghanistan and South Sudan, and under her leadership Internews has led the growing sector of humanitarian information, expanded into US programs to meet unique domestic information gaps, developed strategies to address the growing challenges of digital information technology, and centered the information needs of women and girls throughout its programs. During her tenure, Internews has piloted and developed innovative programs including the Earth Journalism Network, United for News, and the Listening Post Collective. Prior to Internews, Bourgault worked internationally in countries undergoing dramatic shifts in media and political landscapes. She joined Internews in 2001 as Vice President for Programs after six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development, including three years at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and as a strategic advisor for media and community development programs in post-war Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. Bourgault has consulted on international program design and evaluation for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Triangle Institute, and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, among others. Bourgault speaks on issues of global news, women’s media leadership, information technology, and participatory community development worldwide, including venues such as the Skoll World Forum, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She serves on the Media, Entertainment, and Information Industries Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum, and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development.

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• Jamie McAuliffe

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  Senior Fellow, Aspen Institute

  Jamie McAuliffe is a the founding Director of the Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN), housed at the The Aspen Institute. Jamie launched the GOYN in partnership with Prudential Financial, YouthBuild International, Global Development Incubator, Catholic Relief Services, and Accenture to build a global network of communities that are advancing place-based, cross-sector, and systemic approaches to tackling youth unemployment. Previously, Jamie was President & CEO of Education For Employment (EFE) where he led the organization during a period of dramatic growth to provide job opportunities for tens of thousands of youth across 8 affiliated nonprofits in the Middle East & North Africa. Prior to EFE, Jamie was Portfolio Manager at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, a foundation dedicated to scaling solutions to help vulnerable youth become successful adults. Early in his career, Jamie worked with Ashoka to support leading social entrepreneurs globally. Jamie is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Chair and then Vice-Chair for the World Economic Forum Agenda Councils on Youth Unemployment and the Future of Work, respectively. Jamie was named a Schwab Foundation Global Social Entrepreneur in 2012 and is an alumnus of Teach for America and the Coro Fellows program. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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• James Mwangi

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  Founder and CEO, Africa Climate Ventures

  James Irungu Mwangi is the founder and CEO of Africa Climate Ventures, where he is working to build and accelerate transformative climate-smart and carbon-negative businesses across the continent. James is also the founder of the Climate Action Platform – Africa (CAP-A), a public benefit organization launched in 2021, to unlock Africa’s potential for inclusive prosperity through Climate Positive Growth. Previously, James co-founded the Dalberg Group, where over a 20-year period, he led the firm's expansion into Africa, served as Global Managing Partner and then as Executive Director. He is an independent director on several boards including the Skoll Foundation, the Global Centre for Pluralism, One Acre Fund, Old Mutual Limited and Koko Networks. James holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University. He is a 2022 Climate Breakthrough Awardee, a 2021 Yale World Fellow, a 2009 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow and a 2013 Young Global Leader.

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• Holly Gordon

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  Chief Impact Officer, Participant

  Holly Gordon is the Chief Impact Officer at Participant, overseeing the company’s social impact strategy and campaigns, furthering Participant’s mission to create storytelling that inspires positive social change. These global, multi-year campaigns are driven by the company’s content and powered by strategic partnerships to address the most important issues of our time. Prior to joining Participant, Gordon co-founded Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education. Selected by Fast Company as a member of the League of Extraordinary Women and named by Newsweek/Daily Beast as one of 125 Women of Impact, Gordon is also an Executive Producer for the Girl Rising film at the center of the movement. Forbes Magazine named the Girl Rising campaign the #1 Most Dynamic Social Initiative of 2012. In 2015, Holly was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar and currently serves on the boards of MAKERS and Girl Rising.

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• Gidon Bromberg

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  EcoPeace co-director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Gidon Bromberg is the founder and 3 decade Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. Mr. Bromberg has spearheaded the organization’s advocacy campaigns in the Middle East and internationally. He developed a cross-border community peace-building program known as “Good Water Neighbors.” The program has helped advance rehabilitation efforts in the Jordan River and defuse the sanitation crisis in Gaza, leading to the removal of most of the pollution from Gaza Strip and southern Israel beaches. The program is seen as a model for environmental peacebuilding in other conflict areas around the world. Bromberg co-authored EcoPeace’s call for a Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, to advance climate resilience and peace. The report and later EcoPeace efforts led to the signing in November 2021

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• Gillian Caldwell

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  Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID, United States Agency for International Development

  Gillian Caldwell serves as a Deputy Assistant Administrator at USAID overseeing several climate and environmentally oriented centers. She also serves as USAID's Chief Climate Officer, responsible for helping guide and oversee USAID’s climate and environment work across the agency. Gillian is a filmmaker and an attorney and has been working to protect human rights and the environment throughout her career. Prior to joining the Agency, she served as the CEO of Skoll Award Winner Global Witness which has a focus on tackling climate change and deploys investigations into corruption and natural resource extraction to drive systems change worldwide. From 2007-2010, she launched and led 1Sky, a highly collaborative cross-sector campaign with over 600 allied organizations to pass legislation in the US to address the climate crisis. Gillian is a 2005 Skoll Award winner for her leadership of WITNESS, founded my musician Peter Gabriel.

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• Elizabeth Smith

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  Co-founder & CEO, EYElliance

  Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance.  Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets.  Her personal interest in facilitating less developed countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time living and working with young entrepreneurs in East Africa.  In 2011 Liz joined VisionSpring, a social enterprise focused on improving access to affordable eyeglasses, as its Director of Business Development.  Previously she had consulted at the UNDP for six yeas with the UN Office of South-South Cooperation forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda.  Liz started a record label in 1995, graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, is a member of the Explorers Club, and a two time National Geographic Society grant recipient for her work documenting endangered song.

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• Edith Chapin

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  Vice President and Executive Editor, National Public Radio

  Edith Chapin is the Vice President and Executive Editor of NPR News. In that role she resumes responsibility for the NPR newsroom, setting daily news priorities, and directing all of NPR's news-gathering teams. She has full authority to work across the newsroom to ensure that desks, shows and digital teams are rowing in the same direction on major stories and coverage, so that NPR can be consistent and collaborative in our approach to news on all of our platforms. From 2017-2019 she led NPR's efforts to build a collaborative journalism network with NPR Member stations. When Chapin was named Executive Editor in 2015 she was charged with overseeing all desks and reporters, and helping to set the agenda for the entire News division. Previously, Chapin was the senior supervising editor of NPR's International Desk. She managed a team of correspondents based outside the United States committed to bringing listeners dynamic stories of the world's people, politics, economy, and culture. Prior to joining NPR in 2012, Chapin spent 25 years at CNN and worked her way up from intern, to bureau chief to vice president. Most recently, Chapin was the Vice President and Deputy Bureau Chief of CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau, where her strategic editorial and management responsibility included oversight of the 2009 presidential transition coverage and daily coverage of the White House and Capitol Hill. Chapin contributed to Covering Catastrophe (Bonus Books, 2002), a book recounting the events of 9/11 in an oral history format. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations sits on the board of The Masters School. She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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• Drew Sullivan

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  Co-founder and Publisher, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  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 serves as editor, OCCRP won more than 100 investigative journalism awards including the European Press Prize, IRE award and the Global Shining Light. OCCRP is one of the world’s largest investigative media with more than 50 investigative editors on six continents. Before OCCRP, he was a reporter for the Tennessean newspaper and the Associated Press. Before becoming a journalist, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems. He has been an actor in four movies and plays the Bodhran and sings in the Balkans only authentic Irish band.

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• Doug Galen

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  CEO/Co-Founder, Rippleworks

  Doug Galen is the co-founder and CEO of Rippleworks, a nonprofit foundation that delivers the practical support social ventures need to scale faster and improve lives. Through Rippleworks’ customized high-impact projects, expert-led learning programs, and access to capital, social ventures gain the knowledge, training, and funding necessary for them to tackle operational challenges and meet the needs of the communities they serve. Since launching in 2015, Rippleworks has managed 250+ projects with 200 social ventures across 59 countries, partnered with experts to train 300+ ventures, and dispenses scaling capital loans and grants worldwide. Prior to Rippleworks, Doug was part of founding or early-stage leadership teams for venture-backed, consumer-tech ventures -- including Shutterfly, Shopkick, eBay, and E-LOAN. Doug has been teaching Startup Garage at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for ten years.

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• Debra Dunn

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  Director, Stanford University

  Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world. Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative. Pre-Stanford, Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22-year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.

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• Dan Berelowitz

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  Founder, Spring Impact

  Dan founded Spring Impact based on his experiences working across a range of social sector organisations, and his frustration on seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan has developed scale strategies and implementation plans with over 200 organisations ranging from Skoll Awardees such as Tostan and FES to Bezos Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and several leading social businesses. Dan is always looking for ambitious teams seeking to break through barriers on their journey to impact. A regular presenter and writer, Dan is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Clore Social Leadership Fellow and a Rothschild Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He graduated from the University of Nottingham and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Leadership and Public Policy Executive Program.

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• Chris Underhill

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  Principal of Mentor Services, BasicNeeds

  Chris Underhill MBE works as a mentor and is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life, and mental health in the community. He has developed a number of social enterprises (THRIVE and ADD International) and several organisations in the field of global mental health (BasicNeeds - which promotes the Model for Mental Health and Development, created by Chris in 2000). Chris runs his own mentoring practice called Mentor Services and presents on health, quality of life, mental health and resilience. Chris is co-founder of a new organisation benefitting social entrepreneurs: The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs, and is Chair of the Catalyst-2030 Mental Health Collaboration. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and has been honoured with an MBE by HRH the Queen for his work in disability.

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• Chris Bradford

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  CEO, African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Academy

  Chris Bradford is driven to build transformational educational institutions. Over the past seventeen years, Chris has guided the development of African Leadership Academy. African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting the continent’s future leaders. Today, his work includes the development of the Anzisha Education Accelerator, which invests in high potential school founders across Africa who are building great schools that empower children to maximize their potential and communities to reimagine the possible. Chris seeks to build strong organizations that transform societies by empowering individuals to reimagine what is possible for themselves and their communities. He relishes the process of institution building: ensuring that organizations are built to last and thrive beyond their founders. Prior to ALA, Chris co-founded Terra Education and worked at organizations including Procter and Gamble, BCG, and the Broad Foundation. He also worked as a teacher at Oundle School, a boarding school in England. Chris is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford University (MBA, MA Education).

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• Charmian Love

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  Co-Founder, B Lab UK

  Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good. She is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her areas of focus include the rise of profit and purpose business models, circular economy and mobilizing a ‘Movement of Movements’.

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• Cheryl Dorsey

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  President, Echoing Green

  Cheryl L. Dorsey is the president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership. A social entrepreneur herself, Cheryl received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in Boston. Cheryl has served in two presidential administrations and currently serves on several boards including The Bridgespan Group and Skoll Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the Manual C. Carballo Memorial Prize. Cheryl has been named one of "America's Best Leaders" by US News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and one of The Nonprofit Times' "Power and Influence Top 50." She has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her master's in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

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• Chuck Slaughter

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  Founder and Board Chair, Living Goods

  Chuck Slaughter is the founder of TravelSmith and Living Goods, is a managing Director of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a Senior Advisor to TPG’s Rise Fund, a $5 billion impact investing platform. Chuck earned a BA and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As an advisor to several private equity funds, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. As its pro-bono president Chuck lead the turnaround of a network of clinics serving the poor in Kenya. This inspired him to create Living Goods, which supports government community health workers who provide health care on call delivered to the doorsteps of over 8 million people. Living Goods Smart Health app automates diagnoses, enables managers to optimize the performance of thousands of health workers in in remote villages, and provides real-time, auditable data to health ministries and funders. A RCT shows this approach is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $3 per capita. LG’s is helping partners replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Digital Square, Aspen Management Partners, PATH’s Digital Advisory Board, and was previously the Vice Chair of the Initiative for Global Development (Co-founded by Bill Gates Sr). He received a Skoll Award, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.

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• C.D. Glin

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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 communities and enterprises. Prior to joining USADF, Glin was the Associate Director for Africa for the Rockefeller Foundation. From 2008-2010, Glin previously served as a presidential appointee in the Obama Administration as the first Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Global Partnerships for the U.S. Peace Corps, and played a key role in Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary. Glin worked for the State Department, USAID and the World Bank while based in Ghana and Nigeria. Glin also served as a volunteer in the first Peace Corps South Africa group during the Presidency of Nelson Mandela. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Howard University; a Master’s in Business Management from Tulane University and Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Oxford’s Saïd Business School. Glin is life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2011, he was designated by the White House as a “Champion of Change” for his commitment and contributions to international service and civic participation.

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• Bruce Lowry

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  Vice President, Investments, Skoll Foundation

  Bruce’s work at Skoll focuses primarily on collective impact issues, many carried over from the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF). A former diplomat, Bruce brings a policy lens to questions of scale, a key focus for all Skoll philanthropic activities. His current remit includes COVID-19 response, climate change, U.S. democracy, and nuclear nonproliferation. Bruce originally joined the Skoll Foundation in 2008 as communications director, then helped inaugural president Larry Brilliant launch SGTF in 2010, taking on a policy and advocacy role. Bruce ran the nuclear nonproliferation program and oversaw SGTF’s MidEast conflict work, while also playing a leading role in the launch of the Climate Advocacy Lab, SGTF’s primary climate effort which went independent in 2017. Bruce helped conceptualize and launch two funder collaboratives, Climate Nexus, on climate communication, and N Square, an initiative to bring new players into the nuclear nonproliferation sphere. While SGTF sunset at the end of 2017, Bruce is still on the advisory boards of all three efforts. Bruce also served for a period of time at SGTF’s interim president. Prior to joining Skoll, Bruce spent nearly a decade in the technology sphere with Oracle and Novell, largely in communications roles. He had a 14-year stint as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department, serving overseas in Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, and Italy, and in various economic roles in Washington, D.C., working on, among other issues, the G-7 process, Middle East peace, European regional issues, Ukraine, and nuclear safety. Bruce holds a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Bruce chairs the board of Cazadero Music Camp. A recovering French Horn player, he is now learning the Scottish smallpipes. He also enjoys playing low-key pickup soccer.

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• Bill Drayton

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  Founder and CEO, Ashoka, Ashoka

  Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch. As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. He worked at McKinsey & Company for ten years and taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched many reforms including emissions trading, a fundamental change in regulation that is now the basis of much global as well as US regulatory law, including in fields beyond the environment.  Bill launched Ashoka in 1980; in 1984, he used the stipend he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He has been selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and, in 2019, Drayton was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU and more.

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• Ben Drew

  Speaker

  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 oversees Bokun, the Iceland-based and globally-leading software company serving the tours, attractions and experiences industry. Bokun was acquired by and integrated into TripAdvisor in 2018 under Ben’s leadership. Ben joined Tripadvisor as head of business development for vacation rentals in 2012, where he led significant inventory growth, and the acquisitions of vacation rental brands Niumba, VacationHomeRentals and HouseTrip. Prior to joining Tripadvisor, Ben led business development for emerging markets at Expedia, and worked as a strategy consultant at Deloitte. Ben holds a degree in economics from the University of Cambridge.

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• Bart Weetjens

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  Co-Founder, APOPO

  Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. He took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem. What started in 1995 as a modest research initiative in detection rats technology, gradually grew into a global humanitarian operation through his organisation apopo.org which became one of the leading social enterprises in the world, recognised and awarded by networks like Ashoka, the Skoll Awards and the World Economic Forum. Bart transitioned from his executive role in 2015 to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social innovation, he recently co-founded a new initiative innerpreneurs.org which is a brave space for entrepreneurial leaders to fulfilll their noble life purpose.

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• Ari Johnson

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  Chief Executive Officer, Muso

  Ari Johnson, MD, is co-founder and CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of infectious disease, health systems design, socioeconomic determinants of health, AIDS, and migration. The co-recipient of the 2021 Charles Bronfman Prize, Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco. Over the past fifteen years, Ari has supported Muso to design and build Rapid Care, a strategy to accelerate universal access to healthcare. A 2018 study in BMJ Global Health documented how communities served by this strategy achieved and sustained a rate of child death lower than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa for five years running. Muso cares for more than 500,000 patients, and supports governments to redesign their national community health systems.

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• Arbind Singh

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Nidan

  Arbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 which along with various offshoots today works with more than 10,00,000 informal workers for better laws and polices, livelihood promotion ,access to financial services ,skill building ,enabling workers to seize opportunities in market and promoting social security .Establishing inclusive models of growth has also been an integral strategy along with institution building which includes setting up for profit institutions. A very successful initiative has been the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) which has brought security to hundreds of thousands of street vendors in India. NASVI got a National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In 2014 ,the Govt of India enacted the Central Law for Street Vendors which mandates participation of Street Vendors in securing their livelihood and creati

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• Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Speaker

  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 that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School) from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. She has written or edited seven books, including “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She is also a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. She is married to Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they have two sons.

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• Andy Bryant

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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 portfolio from 30 organizations to now well over 300. The most important quantifiable changes that Andy has overseen: 1) African staff: Zero in 2010 to 70% in 2022 2) African-led partners: Zero in 2010 to over 80% in 2022 3) Grant decisions made in Africa: Zero in 2010 to nearly 100% in 2022 He has worked in international development for many years in Africa and Asia, including positions with Tanzanian Children’s Fund and TechnoServe. Andy completed a BA from Princeton University in 2003 and subsequently graduated from Syracuse University in 2007 with a MPA in International Development.

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• Andrew Stern

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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: building the first investor platform for blended finance in Convergence; putting global mental health on the map through citiesRISE; guiding the startup strategy and operations of the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; and expanding financing for the world’s half billion smallholder farmers with ISF Advisors and Aceli Africa, among other initiatives. Prior to GDI, Andrew was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors where he worked for 10 years, including as the Global Operating Partner and head of the Inclusive Growth Practice. Andrew helped start, design and launch the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a program at the Aspen Institute that propels entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Andrew previously served on ANDE’s Executive Committee and also as the founding Co-Chairperson for mothers2mothers, an internationally recognized health program preventing HIV transmission from mothers to children. Andrew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from Princeton University.

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• Andrew Hudson

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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 has spearheaded some of the organisation’s signature advocacy successes, as well as leading critical aspects of the internationalisation of Crisis Action. Prior to Crisis Action, Andrew worked for four years at Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) in New York, where he coordinated UN advocacy, managed the Human Rights Defenders Program and led Latin American work. Previously, Andrew was a lawyer in Australia representing indigent clients and refugees and spearheading major law reform projects. He has also worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Ecuador, the UN Regional Commission in Thailand, the Australian delegation to the UN General Assembly, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. Andrew holds honours degrees in politics and law from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Laws from New York University School of Law. He is a John Monash Scholar.

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• Andrew Kassoy

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  Co-Founder & CEO, B Lab

  Andrew is co-founder and board co-chair of B Lab, the nonprofit organization behind the B Corp movement. B Lab’s vision is stakeholder capitalism - an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all. B Lab drives systemic change by changing the culture, behavior, and structure of business and the capital markets. The movement is led by the example of nearly 8,000 Certified B Corporations in 80 countries. Before leaving the private sector to co-found B Lab, Andrew spent 16 years as a partner in private equity funds at DLJ, Credit Suisse, and MSD Capital. He and his co-founders have won numerous awards and recognition, including a New York Times Visionary, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the McNulty Prize. He is a lecturer at Princeton University, where he teaches a course on stakeholder capitalism with his wife, Margot Brandenburg, and he has served on numerous for profit and non-profit boards. Andrew lives in Brooklyn with his wife and four children.

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• Andrea Coleman

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  Founder and board, Riders for Health

  Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and founder of Two Wheels for Life. She is life-long motorcyclist and co-founded Riders with Barry Coleman, her husband, and motorcycle sporting hero, Randy Mamola in 1996. She has worked for 30 years to show that a systematic approach to managing motorcycles and motorised vehicles in Africa means health care can be delivered – predictably and reliably, however harsh the conditions or however remote the community - money saved and people employed and trained to a very high standard. Andrea’s motorcycle racing life and her work in promotion and sports management provided her with a practical outlook and a set of skills that have helped to guide the financial and advocacy development of the work of Riders for Health. In 2013 Andrea won the Women of the Year Award, sponsored by Barclays Bank for her part in revolutionising medical provision across Africa. In 2006 she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award. Andrea was select

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• Alloysius Attah

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  CEO & Co-founder, Farmerline

  Alloysius Attah is the co-founder and CEO of Farmerline, a Ghana-headquartered startup developing and deploying a suite of digital technologies to build lasting resilience and wealth for over 2.2 million rural farmers across the world. Farmerline’s AI-powered Mergdata platform provides a full suite of technology for farmers, NGOs, governments and large corporations along the whole supply chain. Farmers get access to commodity markets, weather data, farming techniques, flexible financing and high quality inputs, whilst governments, NGOs and food manufacturers get access to traceable commodities, forest monitoring and mapping data, and impact analytics. Alloysius is the recipient of multiple awards including the Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and CNBC Africa’s Young Business Leader. TIME Magazine recognized its Mergdata as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019.

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• Alex Nicholls

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  Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Professor Alex Nicholls MBA is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: social and impact investment; the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; and Fair Trade. To date Alex has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and six books. He has over twelve thousand citations of his work. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Abdullah Saleh

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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 Chief Executive Director of Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange), a not-for-profit social enterprise organization with global programs. He also co-founded 3 spin-off social enterprise companies that develop disruptive technologies particularly for vulnerable populations as well as a trauma education focused social enterprise.

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• Aakash Ganju

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  CEO, Saathealth

  Dr Aakash Ganju is a healthcare entrepreneur and the CEO of Saathealth, an impact focused digital health company building AI powered tools for targeted interventions and positive outcomes for health workers and consumers. Trained in medicine and management, Aakash started his career leading research teams at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson and developing mobile health solutions for underserved populations across Asia and Africa. He has been a health technology entrepreneur since 2011, working at the intersection of behavior change sciences, user centred design, health and technology to develop and deploy sustainable health technology solutions serving patients in infectious diseases, women and children?s health and chronic diseases. Aakash is passionate about integrating human-centricity, technology and collaborative solutions to build healthcare experiences of the future.

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• Aaron Pereira

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  Project Leader, Wellbeing Project

  Aaron is excited about the interplay between our inner lives and the broader world. Aaron Pereira is currently Project Lead for The Wellbeing Project. The Wellbeing Project is focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. It emerged from a 7 year sabbatical ending in 2012. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka, Georgetown University, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and Synergos. Aaron worked with the Guggenheim on an urban labs project, co-founded a pilot social enterprise to address housing issues in Mumbai slums, and explored neighbourhood life through a project in Paris. Aaron was co-founder of CanadaHelps and Vartana. CanadaHelps engages over 4 million Canadians and raises over $400 million a year for social sector organizations. It also works with over 20,000 charities on capacity issues. Vartana was focused on addressing financing needs in the social sector. Vartana played a key role in the early development of the field of social

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• Wawira Njiru

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  Founder and Executive Director, Food for Education

  Wawira is the founder of Food for Education, a social enterprise that is creating the blueprint for school feeding in Africa. Led by African women, they leverage payment technology and smart supply chains to source nutritious ingredients from local smallholder farmers, simplify distribution, and bring high-quality daily school meals to children. They have provided over 15 million meals since their first central kitchen opened in 2016 and their scalable, efficient model is creating a sustainable path to solve the child nutrition crisis for over 200 million African children. Wawira is the winner of the 2022 Global Icon Award by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a 2021 Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, 2020 Ford Foundation Global Fellow, a 2018 Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a recipient of the Builders of Africa Award 2018, one of 2018’s Top 40 under 40 women in Kenya, and the youngest recipient of the University of South Australia’s alumni award in 2017. She is also the inaugur

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• Wendy Wong

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  Senior Program Coordinator, Public Engagement and Communications, Skoll Foundation

  As Senior Program Coordinator on the Public Engagement and Communications team, Wendy provides support on a range of projects that inform, interact with, and inspire Skoll Foundation’s broad and dynamic community and network. She is a user centered design enthusiast and driven to keep the human at the core of her work. Wendy first joined the Skoll Foundation in 2018 as Registration Assistant for the Skoll World Forum where she ensured a smooth coordination of Skoll Week invitations and customized user experience journeys for various segments of the community. She continued to support the Community & Convenings team through coordinating efforts to obtain, deploy, and maintain the technology solutions for the Skoll World Forum. Prior to Skoll, she spent over four years coordinating work processes within the student records department regarding maintenance, dissemination, processing, and confidentiality of student records information at University of California, Riverside (UCR). Wendy earned her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from UCR. She is always looking for new learning opportunities and is currently pursuing a Certification of Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online. She is a proudly Los Angeles born and raised with roots to Taishan who happily resides in Bay Area with her husband, two kids, and two dogs.

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• Wen Yu

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• Yazmany Arboleda

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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 reinvention by using our collective imagination. He believes that art is a universal language of invention and agency, through which we redefine culture, express our shared experience and envision all possibilities. Over the past two decades he has created public art projects with communities in India, Japan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Afghanistan, Spain, and Colombia. In the United States he has collaborated with Carnegie Hall, the Yale School of Management, and BRIC among others. He is currently the artist in residence at IntegrateNYC and the director of communications for Artists Striving To End Poverty. He is a cofounder of limeSHIFT, the Future Historical Society, and the Artist As Citizen Conference. He lectures at UNC, MIT, and LPAC about the power of art in public space. At the heart of his practice is the idea that art is a verb, not a noun. To learn more visit yazmany.net.

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• Vivek Maru

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  CEO, Namati

  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 lands, enforce environmental law, and secure basic rights to healthcare and citizenship. Namati convenes the Global Legal Empowerment Network, more than 1,000 groups from every region in the world who are learning from one another and collaborating on common challenges. This community successfully advocated for the inclusion of access to justice in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Vivek is co-author of Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice (Cambridge University Press). His TED talk, How to Put the Power of Law in People’s Hands, has been viewed over a million times.

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• Vivek Murthy

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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 launched the TurnTheTide campaign, catalyzing a movement among health professionals to address the nation’s opioid crisis. He also issued the first Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, calling for expanded access to prevention and treatment and for recognizing addiction as a chronic illness, not a character flaw. An internal medicine physician and entrepreneur. In 2017, Dr. Murthy focused his attention on chronic stress and isolation as prevalent problems that have profound implications for health, productivity, and happiness. He has co-founded a number of organizations: VISIONS, an HIV/AIDS education program in India; Swasthya, a community health partnership in rural India training women as health providers and educators; software company TrialNetworks; and Doctors for America. Dr. Murthy received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Yale. He completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and later joined Harvard Medical School as faculty in internal medicine. His research focused on vaccine development and later on the participation of women and minorities in clinical trials. Dr. Murthy resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Dr. Alice Chen and their two young children. In the spring of 2020 Murthy will add author to his list of credentials as his book “Together” on the healing power of real world connections in a sometimes lonely world will be published by Harper Collins.

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• Tracy Rector

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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 Outta the Muck and Sweetheart Deal, all currently on the film festival circuit. In addition, Tracy served as impact producer for the Emmy Award-winning feature documentary Dawnland. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Sundance. Tracy is a board member of Mize Foundation and Working Films and a proud mother to two young adults.

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• Tulaine Montgomery

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  CEO, New Profit

  Tulaine Montgomery is an entrepreneur, educator, writer and organizer. She has played leadership roles in the launch and expansion of social enterprises across the U.S., Caribbean, East Africa, Indonesia and South Africa. Tulaine currently serves as CEO of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing education, economic mobility and opportunity in America. During her time at New Profit, Tulaine has led initiatives focused on strengthening education-to-employment pathways for overlooked youth, driving resources and support to entrepreneurs who have been directly impacted by the American legal system, and building a more diverse, effective and inclusive social impact sector. Tulaine has also served as the lead architect of New Profit’s Inclusive Impact strategy and Proximate Capital, a $100M fund which seeks to bridge the resource gap by providing unrestricted capital and capacity support to Black, Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and rural social entrepreneurs. Outside of New Profit, Tulaine is a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations and socially responsible companies, and serves as the Board Chair for GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the nation. Her other board positions include Beyond 12, College for Social Innovation, and Jitegemee (a youth-serving organization in Kenya). She is also the Host and Co-Producer of "Say More with Tulaine,” a podcast that explores what it would take to build a world that works for everyone. Tulaine is a highly sought after speaker who has presented at many conferences such as Skoll World Forum, ASU+GSV, SXSW EDU and many others. Her writing has been featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Root, Worth Media, and more. She has a master’s in public policy from Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from Smith College. Tulaine is an experienced cellist and writer; she has written and produced five original plays.

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• TEST Sarah Bishop

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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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• Tina Robilotto

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  Interim CEO, Callisto

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• Toni Kamau

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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 stories of outsiders, rebels and change makers. Toni is currently producing three feature documentaries, and the first, Softie, directed by Sam Soko premiered at Sundance 2020 and won a special jury prize at the festival.

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• TEST Jeremy Sloss

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  Product Sales Specialist - Data Center, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Marcus Whitmore de Clermont

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  Physician, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Matthew Clairmont

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  Geneticist, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Miriam Shephard

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  Scientist, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

  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 vampire father of Marcus Whitmore, among others. He is a geneticist, vampire, and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University. His educational credentials are too extensive to list here. In addition to working in his laboratory, Matthew enjoys reading books written by old friends and collecting wine.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 vampire father of Marcus Whitmore, among others. He is a geneticist, vampire, and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University. His educational credentials are too extensive to list here. In addition to working in his laboratory, Matthew enjoys reading books written by old friends and collecting wine.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 vampire father of Marcus Whitmore, among others. He is a geneticist, vampire, and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University. His educational credentials are too extensive to list here. In addition to working in his laboratory, Matthew enjoys reading books written by old friends and collecting wine.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 Ys

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• TEST Poseidon

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  God of the Seas, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Hades

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  God of the Underworld, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Hamish Osborne

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  Financial Advisor, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Hephaestus

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  God of the forge, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Hera

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  Queen of the Gods, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Heracles

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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最も初期の証拠は、ファレロンからの古代の碑文による紀元前6世紀（121–122および160–165）でした。 Kodaigirisha hito wa, herakuresu no shi o kinen shita herakuresu no matsuri o, metageitonion no tsuki no 2-nichi-me (7 tsuki gejun matawa 8 tsuki jōjun ni kaisai) ni iwaimashita. Bahareiyaoashisu ni aru Ejiputo no herakuresu shinden to omowa reru mono wa, kigenzen 21-nen ni sakanoborimasu. Marutashima ni kansuru putoremaiosu no kijutsu no sai hyōka wa, rasu iru rēbu no iseki to herakuresu no jiin o musubitsukeyou to shimashitaga [10], giron wa ketteitekina monode wa arimasen. [11] Ikutsu ka no kodai toshi wa kare ni keiiwoarawashite herakurea to nadzuke raremashita. Atenai hito wa herakuresu o kami to shite sūhai shita saisho no hito no hitorideshitaga, eiyū no shinseina chii o shitatameru koto o kyohi shita Girisha no toshi ga arimashita. Herakuresu ni 2tsu no betsubetsu no seiiki o teikyō shita dake no porisu mo ikutsu ka ari, 1tsu wa kare o kami to shite ninshiki shi, mō 1tsu wa hīrō to shite nomi ninshiki shite imasu. [12] Kono aimai-sa wa, tokuni rekishiya (herodotosu nado) ya geijutsuka ga peishisutoratosu no jidai ni gaka nado no sūhai o shōrei shita toki ni, herakuresu no karuto o sakusei suru no ni yakudachimashita. Ikutsu ka no jōhō-gen wa, herakuresu no karuto wa, shujinkō no tengoku e no jōshō to kare no kurushimi no tame ni sonzoku shi, sore ga matsuri, gishiki, gishiki, soshite nazo no soshiki-ka no kiso to natta to setsumei shimashita. Tatoeba, kurushimi (aishū) ga kanashimi to mo no gishiki o hikiokoshita to iu kansatsu ga arimasu. Sore wa ichiren no karuto gishiki no naka de nazo no yorokobi no mae ni kimashita. [13] Mata, Aporo no baai to dōyō ni, herakuresu no karuto wa, onaji seishitsu o kyōyū suru hitobito nado no jimoto no karuto no jinbutsu o ky

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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 reign of Hercules in Argos to the deification of Hercules himself and of Asclepius there are comprised thirty-eight years, according to Apollodorus the chronicler: and from that point to the deification of Castor and Pollux fifty-three years: and somewhere about this time was the capture of Troy." Temple to Heracles in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Readers with a literalist bent, following Clement's reasoning, have asserted from this remark that, since Heracles ruled over Tiryns in Argos at the same time that Eurystheus ruled over Mycenae, and since at about this time Linus was Heracles' teacher, one can conclude, based on Jerome's date—in his universal history, his Chronicon—given to Linus' notoriety in teaching Heracles in 1264 BCE, that Heracles' death and deification occurred 38 years later, in approximately 1226 BCE. Cult The ancient Greeks celebrated the festival of the Heracleia, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion (which would fall in late July or early August). What is believed to be an Egyptian Temple of Heracles in the Bahariya Oasis dates to 21 BCE. A reassessment of Ptolemy's descriptions of the island of Malta attempted to link the site at Ras ir-Raħeb with a temple to Heracles,[10] but the arguments are not conclusive.[11] Several ancient cities were named Heraclea in his honor. Although the Athenians were among the first to worship Heracles as a god, there were Greek cities that refused to recognize the hero's divine status. There are also several poleis that merely provided two separate sanctuaries for Heracles, one recognizing him as a god, the other only as a hero.[12] This ambiguity helped crea

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  God of wisdom and warfare, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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  Professor, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• TEST Dionysus

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  God of Wine, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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  Historian, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• Steve Metcalfe

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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 living conditions for some of the world’s poorest urban residents, and leads on a range of communications initiatives. Throughout Steve’s career, he has had a particular focus on the role that the private sector can play in poverty alleviation. Prior to joining WSUP, he led communications for Youth Business International, where he led entrepreneurship campaigns in countries such as the UK, Uganda, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates, highlighting the role that young entrepreneurs could play in job creation and developing new products and services. Previously, he worked for the International Business Leaders Forum, a non-profit advising multinationals on sustainable development. Steve started his career as a journalist for a range of business and finance publications.

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• Syndey Bristow

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  Secret Agent, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

  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 until Jack was transferred to Los Angeles when Sydney was two. In 1981 her mother, who was also an undercover agent for the KGB, faked her own death to prevent being apprehended by the FBI. Afterwards Jack was taken into custody for some time, because it was believed that he also was part of a larger conspiracy. Jack named Arvin Sloane as Sydney's temporary guardian and Sydney went to live with Sloane and his wife Emily, for a time (Note that this is a retcon as it was previously established that Sydney did not meet Arvin or Emily until Sydney had already started working for SD-6. Sydney herself had stated that she had large memory gaps from around the time of her mother's death and can only remember that her father began drinking heavily and became more of an absentee father, leaving Sydney to be raised by nannies. Later it is revealed that the memory gaps are due to Jack, who after finally having been cleared, tested Project Christmas on Sydney, so that she would never be recruited by the KGB, and like all the candidates tested, the training ended with Sydney's memory erased.) When Sydney was 19 years old and a freshman in college, a man approached her and told her that he worked with US intelligence and that they wanted to interview her because she fit a profile. She declined at first but then decided to join them. After meeting with an organization she believed was the Central Intelligence Agency, she signed "dozens of non-disclosure agreements" and was offered a job. They had Sydney take a job as an office assistant on the twentieth floor of Credit Dauphine, a corporate bank in downtown Los Angeles. She assumed that the bank was somehow affiliated with the CIA. When s

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  God of the Sun, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• Sirius Black

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  The Godfather, Hogwarts

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• Sonya Childress

  Speaker

  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 research, writing and convenings. A veteran cultural strategist, Sonya served as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media, where she led impact campaigns for veteran director Stanley Nelson’s films, including Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. She has led impact campaigns and advised countless filmmakers on their impact and theatrical strategies, including Yance Ford (Strong Island), Peter Bratt (Dolores), Steve James (The Interrupters), Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera (The Infiltrators), Byron Hurt (Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) and Jeff Zimbalist (Favela Rising). Sonya held staff and consulting positions at Active Voice, California Newsreel, Kartemquin Films, ITVS and Working Films. She founded Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship, a yearlong mentorship and training program for impact producers of color. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she is a frequent speaker, funding panelist, and was an inaugural 2015 Rockwood JustFilms fellow. Sonya is a trustee of The Whitman Institute, which advances social, political, and economic equity through Trust Based Philanthropy. Sonya resides in Los Angeles.

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• Shauna Carey

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  CEO, IDEO.org

  Shauna currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, leveraging her deep expertise in both design and social impact to oversee the strategy and vision for IDEO.org. Previously, in her role as Executive Design Director & Chief Communications Officer, Shauna worked alongside design teams and communities to surface insights to unlock new possibilities, create narratives that inspire action, and share stories about the impact of design. Over the past nine years at IDEO.org, Shauna has worked on projects and programs focused on advancing health equity, criminal justice reform, refugee rights, gender equality, and climate resilience. She also previously served as Managing Director and co-lead of our New York studio. Prior to joining IDEO.org, Shauna worked to expand access to quality education and health care at organizations like Room to Read and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. She also helped launch and grow a number of mission-driven startups in Europe and the San Francisco Bay Area. A social scientist at heart, Shauna holds a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Outside of work, she’s happiest barefoot on a beach somewhere or at home in Brooklyn, where she can usually be found wandering around with a strong cup of coffee in hand.

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• Shawn Theunissen

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  CEo and Founder, Property Point

  Shawn Theunissen is an executive at Growthpoint Properties responsible for corporate social responsibility, transformation and has also led the organisations corporate strategy function. In 2008 he founded Property Point, an entrepreneurship support and development social enterprise in the property industry, which focuses on the holistic development of small and growing businesses with the objective of creating economic inclusion and job creation. In 2012 he founded Entrepreneurship To The Point a content creation and advisory service with the objective of building the entrepreneurial eco-system. He is a keen contributor to building impact organisations and serves on the following boards: • ANDE Global Board (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, Washington DC based) • Social Enterprise Academy Africa • Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce (JCCI), Vice President • SA REITS (Real Estate Invest Trust) Association, Chair of the Transformation Committee Shawn obtained his Master’s Degree in concept-making and people-centric innovation from 180 Academy in Denmark. The title of his thesis was “Innovation Strategies for economic development programmes” in which he explored the use of open innovation to drive small business improvement. He has a BCom Industrial Psychology Degree from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and has completed the Senior Executive Programme Africa at Harvard Business School. He has been a facilitator and guest speaker at various business schools and business forums in South Africa and abroad.

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• Shivani Garg Patel

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  Chief Strategy Officer, Skoll Foundation

  Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation and focuses on developing and amplifying the Foundation's work to enable lasting social change. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor and brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work. Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Shivani co-founded and led Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers who provide critical medical care to women and children in low-income communities around the world. Her technology-driven social innovation work has spanned the Grameen Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant and product manager in the private sector. Shivani is a proud and under-caffeinated mom of two. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

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• Selorm Branttie

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  Global Strategy Director, mPedigree

  Selorm Branttie is the Global Strategy Director for mPedigree, the industry leader in using innovative mobile technologies to counter the faking of products using mobile technology. Since joining mPedigree in 2010, Selorm has been responsible for the expansion of the service under the mandate of NAFDAC in Nigeria and seeing the technology to industries including but not limited to Automotive, Cosmetics, Textiles and several Fast Moving Consumer Goods brands. Selorm led efforts to put mPedigree on course to provide traceability applications for crop seed varieties in East Africa, with plans to bring other agro-inputs under the ambit of the surveillance program. He is also responsible for the design and dissemination of public information related to drug supply chains and anti-counterfeiting, working closely with stakeholders like regulators and pharmaceutical co-operatives in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. Selorm is an Aspen Global Voices 2019 fellow and a Skoll Enterprenurship Award winner for 2019. Selorm was a founding member of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, a think tank that directs on issues related to development and governance. His efforts contributed to the organization being named among the world’s top 100 think tanks by the United Nations and in the top 5 of African research institutes in consecutive years by the University of Pennsylvania

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• Sarah Jakiel

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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 supported the organization’s commitment to innovation and impact. Jakiel started with Polaris in 2007, launching and directing the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which serves as a critical national resource focused on victim identification. She led Polaris’s international expansion beginning in 2012 and focused on targeted capacity-building efforts and the launch of national hotline hubs in the U.K., Mexico and Canada. She launched Polaris’s Data Analysis wing to learn more about the scope, size and systems of modern slavery and to find out where and how human traffickers operate and put them out of business. Recent efforts included the development and launch of a human trafficking typology that identified more than 25 types of human trafficking in the U.S. and laid out a systematic blueprint to tackle and disrupt each type. Jakiel holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia in political science and French and an M.A. in Human Rights and Social Justice from American University. She spent several years living and working abroad in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

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• Sarah Endres

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  Grants Manager, Global Health Corps

  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 equity around the world. In her first five years on the Programs Team at GHC, Sarah built up systems and processes for the fellowship program, including the Community Portal, fellow onboarding, partner selection, Training Institute, and curriculum tools used throughout the fellowship. She has also worked as an independent consultant, doing graphic design for various organizations and configuring a CRM database for a start-up nonprofit to organize their business development. Most recently, Sarah took a break from office work to spend five months working on a small organic farm where she got her hands dirty learning how to grow and harvest food, and appreciated spending every day under the big skies of her current home state of Colorado. Fun Fact: Sarah has a passion for cooking. Starting from a young age, she would mix many spices with milk and insist that her mom try her “soup!” She is confident her skills have improved since then.

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• Seema Patel

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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 inequity..

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• Samantha Wright

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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 filmmaker Jeff Orlowski to build the impact arm of Exposure Labs. In this role, she produced impact campaigns around the Emmy-award winning film Chasing Coral (2017), and launched the climate film accelerator, Unstoppable. Samantha's fascination with storytelling for social change began when she lived in China running TEDxBeijing, and it turned into an obsession while leading Girl Rising's expansion to India. She has an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and lives in LA with her husband and 2 year old daughter.

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• Sanjay Joshie

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  Executive Director, Foundation for Ecological Security

  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 advocacy around Commons, integrated disaster management and risk reduction.I am deeply invested in nurturing an inclusive and gender-sensitive work culture that embraces diversity, promotes respect and acceptance, and fosters distributed power, leadership and learning at all levels and in all endeavors of FES.

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• Ron Weasley

  Delegate

  Counsel, Hogwarts

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• Rubeus Hagrid

  Delegate

  Keeper of Keys and Grounds, Hogwarts

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• Russ Gaskin

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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 bank lending with climate needs in Europe and North America * Developing an international human rights measurement system * Advancing climate-positive agriculture globally * Advancing inclusive community wealth-building * Shifting the upstream determinants of health * Closing racial and economic gaps in education and workforce opportunity CoCreative's quest is to continue to grow our impact five times faster than we grow our firm, so we freely share all of our tools, models, and methods; help start and grow other systems change consultancies; and work with partners like Ashoka and Illuminate to grow the field and practice of systems change. We also offer training on leading collaborative systems change, leveraging conflict to drive innovation in social systems, and facilitating complex multistakeholder collaborations. Russ also builds the capacities of others to lead effective collaboration by speaking and teaching on changing complex systems, human-centered design, and leveraging conflict and diversity as sources of strategic innovation. Prior to launching CoCreative, Russ served as the chief business officer of Green America, a global leader in developing economic strategies to advance social equity and environmental sustainability; served as managing director of US SIF, a pioneering membership organization for financial firms and institutional investors doing impact investing; and founded the Green Business Network, the first network of triple-bottom-line businesses in the U.S.

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• Safeena Husain

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  Founder & Executive Director, Educate Girls Foundation

  Safeena Husain is the Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls, a non-profit working towards empowering communities for girls’ education in remote villages of India. Under Safeena’s guidance, Educate Girls has mobilised 1.4 million+ girls for enrolment to date, supporting over 18.6 million+ children. Safeena’s efforts to bridge the gender gap in education in India have been instrumental in Educate Girls achieving the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education and becoming an Audacious Project.

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• Robin Bilinski

  Delegate

  Production Coordinator, Community and Convenings, Skoll Foundation

  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 2019, helping support the newly formed Strategy Office team. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Robin worked for a local health insurance plan where she ran the Contracting and Credentialing departments; researched and summarized health care laws for operations and policies; and responded to State and federal audits and investigations. She also has a diverse history of technology experience, from CAD drafting to database and software vendor management. Robin was inspired to join the Skoll Foundation’s mission to live in a world of peace and prosperity for all, and spends much of her free time hiking and biking in nature.

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• Robin Smalley

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• Pavla Holcova

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  regional editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

  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 between the Slovak government and Italian mafia. Her other work includes looking into the massive illegal arms sales to Syrian during the war, exploring the links between the global cocaine trade and Balkan organized crime groups, and identifying the illegal investments of politicians into real estate. In November 2016, Pavla was selected among a hundred New Europe change-makers and 100 people changing Central and Eastern Europe for the better. In 2018, she was selected for the European Young Leaders initiative. Before joining OCCRP, Pavla worked with Cuban dissidents.

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• Rachel Owens

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  Head of EU Office, Global Witness

  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 on corruption in EU golden visa schemes and to increase transparency of company ownership through the EU anti-money laundering rules. She was previously Campaign Leader of Global Witness’ campaign to tackle corruption in the oil, gas and mining sectors leading a campaign to bring in new beneficial ownership rules for all 52 countries that are part of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Before joining Global Witness, she was Chief of Staff to Arlene McCarthy, former Vice-President of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs committee leading legislative work on financial services policy including reform of EU market abuse rules, capital markets reform and bankers bonuses.

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• Reza Afshar

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  Executive Director, Independent Diplomat

  Reza Afshar OBE was appointed Independent Diplomat’s Executive Director in 2020. He has extensive international security and diplomacy experience. He was ID’s Policy Director for 7 years, overseeing all diplomatic support to non-state actors, and ran ID’s Syrian oppositon work. Reza served 13 years in the UK government, specialising in crisis management and negotiation. He was posted to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 to work closely with the Northern Alliance and in 2006 to manage a counter-narcotics team. Reza managed crisis teams on Iraq (2003), Zimbabwe (2008) and Syria (2013). He spent 3.5 years as lead UK negotiator on Middle East, Asia and Europe at the UN Security Council (2009-12) where he authored and negotiated numerous sanctions regimes, peacekeeping operations, an ICC referral and use of force to protect civilians in Libya. Reza also negotiated a new arms control protocol on explosive remnants of war, and served as MENA adviser to the UK Foreign Secretary (2012).

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• Richard Besser

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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 foundation devoted solely to improving health in the US. They focus on building a comprehensive Culture of Health that provides everyone in America with a fair and just for health and well-being. Access to healthy food, clean air and water, safe housing, secure employment at a living wage, transportation, education, and the elimination of barriers from discrimination are all-important contributors to health and well-being. The author or co-author of hundreds of presentations, abstracts, chapters, editorials and publications, Besser has earned many awards for his work in public health and for his volunteer service. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He received the Surgeon General's Medallion for his leadership during the H1N1 response and the Dean's Medal from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2012, he received an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of global maternal health issues, and two Peabody Awards for coverage of Hurricane Sandy and Robin Roberts’ health journey. In 2017 and 2018, he received an Emmy award for “Outstanding Morning Program” as part of the Good Morning America team. His book, “Tell Me the Truth, Doctor: Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Health Questions,” was published in 2013. Besser received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Williams College and medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. He practices as a volunteer pediatrician at the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, N.J. He and his wife Jeanne, a food writer, have two sons, Alex and Jack.

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• Olanrewaju Suraju

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  Chairman, HEDA Resource Centre

  Mr. Suraju Olanrewaju is the Chairman of Civil Society Network Against Corruption. Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) is a coalition of over hundred and fifty Anti-corruption organizations whose primary aim is to constructively combat corruption and ensure the effective monitoring of various Anti-graft agencies in the fight against corruption and contribute towards the enthronement of transparency, accountability, probity and total commitment in the fight to eradicate corruption in Nigeria. He is instrumental to the formation of several multi stakeholders partnerships, networks, coalitions and organizations around the issues of good governance, human rights, anti-corruption and sustainable development across Nigeria and Africa. He presently sits on board of several Organizations. He consults for institutions on transparency and accountability in government. He is a Fellow of the Chevening scholarship and Netherlands Fellowship Program. He holds Post graduate Diplomas and

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• Ory Okolloh

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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 engagement space. She serves on the Board of Directors of several organisations including the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, East African Breweries Limited, the Board of Trustees of the Van Leer Group and is the Chair of the Stanbic Bank Foundation. She is also an Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) Fellow and has in the past served as advisory board member to Twiga Foods, Global Witness. Amnesty International Africa and Endeavor Kenya among other organisations. Prior to this, Ory was Google’s policy and strategy manager for Africa. Ory was also at the forefront of developing technology innovation as a founding member of Ushahidi. She was the organization’s Executive Director from inception until December 2010. Ory is also the co-founder of Mzalendo, a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan MPs. In 2011 Ory was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and one of Africa's most Powerful Women by Forbes Magazine. In 2014 she was named Time 100's most influential people in the world. Ory earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A in political science from the University of Pittsburgh.

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• Natasha Wang Mwansa

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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 Health Organisation in recognition of her work towards adolescent health for over six years and after her awe striking speech on what young people want during the opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly. She is recognised by the 50th World Economic Forum as one of the top ten Teenagers and young people below the age of 20 worldwide creating impact and changing the world. She is a Junior Reporter and Journalist. Natasha has also been recently recognised by her president, H.E Edgar Chagwa Lungu, as one of the young people in her country creating phenomenal impact and change worldwide. Additionally she is a health, women and young people’s rights activist and advocate. She is also a Women Deliver 2018 Young Leader and the founder and the Executive Director of the Natasha Mwansa Foundation, a foundation that aims to see a world in which Young People are heard, valued, healthy and given the opportunity to share power with stakeholders and influence decisions made over them. Additionally, her work has led her to sit on the African Union Commission’s Youth Advisory Board, she was picked as the United Nation’s Population Fund’s Youth Ambassador and she is a Social Accountability Monitor and a first year student at the University of Zambia. Her goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of communities while being a voice, light and solution and to help people, especially young people by equipping them to realise that they too have a voice and ought to be heard.

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• Nick Watts

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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 continuation of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change. The Countdown tracks and drives progress towards a world which is responding to climate change in a way that protects and promotes public health. Nick is also the Chair of NHS England’s Net Zero work, leading an Expert Panel and analytical team to how, and by when, the NHS can reach net zero. Dr Watts is a medical doctor, having worked in a number of settings in Western Australia, and has trained in population health (UWA) and public policy (University College London). He works to engage the health profession on the links between climate change and public health, having founded both the Global Climate and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.

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• Nancy Lublin

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  Former Chief Executive Officer, Crisis Text Line

  Nancy Lublin enjoys building things that matter. At age 23, she turned a $5,000 inheritance into Dress for Success, a global entity that provides interview suits and career development training to women in need. Today, Dress for Success helps women reclaim their destinies in almost 150 cities in 22 countries. In 2003, Lublin came to Do Something to rescue it from the ashes. The organization had lost its office space, was $250,000 in debt, and had just laid off 21 out of 22 people. Lublin moved everything online, transforming it into DoSomething.org, an organization that leverages technology like social media and texting to reach its audience. Today, DoSomething.org is one of the largest youth organizations in the world with more than 5.5 million members. In 2013, while still CEO of DoSomething.org, Lublin turned her popular TED talk (http://bit.ly/1elbveM) into her third company. She raised $4 million dollars, hired a team, and launched Crisis Text Line. It processed over 100 million messages in its first five years and is heralded as a pioneer in big data for social good. Lublin served as CEO until of Crisis Text Line until June 2020. Lublin’s innovative approach to business, teens and technology has transcended the not-for-profit world, making her a sought-after expert and public speaker. She wrote a popular monthly column for Fast Company for two years and has taught graduate-level courses as an adjunct faculty at both Yale and NYU. She is the author of 4 books and sits on the board of McGraw Hill Education and is the board chair for Change.org. Nancy was a judge for 2017’s Miss USA Pageant (she thinks this is hilarious.) Actually, she has been a judge for lots of things and named to lots of lists and received many awards, but she will not let us list them here because she thinks lists and awards are silly. Lublin has a BA from Brown University, an M.Litt from Oxford University (as a Marshall Scholar), and a law degree from New York University. She lives in Manhattan with her Husband (Jason Diaz) and two children. They spend their free time visiting the nation’s best water parks and ice cream shops.

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• Marta Lado

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  Chief medical officer Partners In health (PIH) SIerra Leone, Partners In Health

  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 Medicine and Hygiene (LSTMH) since 2012. - International Medicine and Global/Public Health Expert: Policy making and implementation of Health programs for the last 5 years in Sierra Leone; first as a Senior clinician in Internal Medicine at Connaught hospital (Freetown) and the College of Medicine and Allied Health Science (CoMAHS) and, since 2017, as the Chief Medical Officer for Partners In Health (PIH) in the country. This role embraces from managing all the clinical staff working for the organization in country (>500 people), to designing and implementing Clinical Programs (MDR TB, TB, HIV, Internal Medicine, Reproductive Maternal and Neonatal Care, Surgery, Pediatrics, Mental Health, Primary health care, etc) but also working as the Technical Advisor to the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) and Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) in the National HIV, TB, Malaria and Non communicable diseases programs among others. - Ebola Clinical Expert after vast exposure in the West African outbreak 2014-2016 in Sierra Leone with King´s College Global Health partners and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during October-November 2018 and May-June 2019 as WHO consultant for Case Management. Elaboration of Clinical guidelines for Case Management of Ebola with WHO, EDCARN and GOARN.

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• Martha Ntoipo

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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 in Environmental Planning and Management. Martha works solely with women and girls from her community and other indigenous communities in Tanzania towards eradicating poverty and hunger by diversifying livelihoods, economic empowerment, maternal and sexual reproductive health, human rights as well as Environmental conservation where issues of climate change are addressed. She is from a very big family due to polygamy and saw many injustices done to women and girls, she experienced them herself, this is why she swore to work towards bringing change for the present and coming generations of women and girls in her community and in Tanzania.

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• Mary Robinson

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  Chair of The Elders, The Elders

  Mary Robinson is a founding member and Chair 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 rights and climate justice. She has addressed the UN Security Council on multiple occasions and has met with world leaders including President Ramaphosa in South Africa, Pope Francis in the Vatican, President Macron in Paris and President Xi Jinping in Beijing. She was the first woman President of Ireland (1990–1997) and is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997–2002). From 2013- 2016, she served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change and then on El Niño and Climate. She was appointed Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice at Trinity College Dublin in 2019.

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• Lisa Marsh Ryerson

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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 its efforts across private, public and nonprofit sectors. Under her leadership, the Foundation has secured unprecedented funding and embarked on relationships with high-profile organizations to create and advance effective solutions that help struggling seniors meet their basic needs and transform their lives. She has received numerous awards and honors for her leadership and service, both at AARP Foundation and in previous positions. Before joining AARP Foundation, Ms. Ryerson served as the president and CEO of Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. Ms. Ryerson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wells College and a Master of Science from the State University of New York College at Cortland. Lauded for her leadership, she has received numerous awards and honors, including an honorary degree from Southern New Hampshire University in 2015 and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the State University of New York at Albany for having “met and exceeded each of John Quincy Adams’ standards for leadership.”

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• Lovasoa Cédrique Augustave

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  Fisheries Programme Coordinator - southwest Madagascar, Blue Ventures

  Lovasoa 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 Coastal and Marine Biodiversity from the Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines in Toliara, Madagascar. In 2012, Lovasoa received a scholarship and left Madagascar to pursue a Masters degree in Norway. Studying there for five years he received two MScs, in Environmental Offshore Engineering from the University of Stavanger (UiS) and International Fisheries Management from the University of Tromsø (UiT) in 2014 and 2018 respectively. Lovasoa returned to Madagascar in 2018 to work for Blue Ventures, a UK based marine conservation NGO, as the Fisheries Programme Coordinator for southwest Madagascar, focusing on the female dominated octopus fishery. In this role, Lovasoa has been able to use his educational opportunities to positively impact his community: by supporting small-scale fishers (SSF) in their attempts to sustainably manage their marine resources. Experiencing the grassroots complexity of the fishery, Lovasoa is committed to empower fishermen and women into resource management and the decision making process, and is keen to promote best fishing practices via SSF guidelines and the implementation of a Fisheries Improvement Project.

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• Mandeep Dhaliwal

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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 countries. She is passionate about equity and justice and work at the intersections of health, gender, environment and climate.

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• Maphefo Sipula

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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 developing practioner-led research with various stakeholders in order to better support small and growing business and to accelerate impact in the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem. She has MSc in Industrialisation, Trade and Development and PGDip in Development Finance. In her previous roles, she worked as a development economist working for various research think tanks in areas of social-economic policy, industrial development, trade and development finance.

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• Laura Hattendorf

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  Head of Grants and Investments, Mulago Foundation

  Laura is responsible for Mulago’s operations, investment strategy and execution, leading a team that sources, vets and manages over 100 funding relationships (grants, debt and equity) with social enterprises in Africa and South/Southeast Asia. Since Laura joined the foundation in 2007, Mulago has provided over $150 million in early stage funding for many iconic social enterprises, including Educate Girls, Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Muso, Zola and One Acre Fund. Laura is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business – teaching Formation of Impact Ventures – on the board of Innovations for Poverty Action and an advisor to many social enterprises around the world. Laura thrives in entrepreneurial environments and most of her professional career has been in early stage companies. She received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University.

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• Kathy Reich

  Speaker

  Director, BUILD, Ford Foundation

  Kathy Reich leads the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative in the United States and in the foundation’s 10 global regions. BUILD is a 12-year, $2 billion initiative to strengthen key institutions around the world that fight inequality. To date, the BUILD program has supported more than 450 organizations in 38 countries. Before joining Ford in 2016, Kathy worked for 15 years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, most recently as organizational effectiveness and philanthropy director. Prior to that, she was policy director of a non-profit, served as a legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, and worked for state and local elected officials in her home state of California. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and is a frequent writer and speaker on issues related to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

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• Kevin Starr

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  CEO, Mulago Foundation

  Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most fellows become part of the Mulago solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale. Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago. He and his team now work with 50 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America.

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• Julian Walker

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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 commitment to storytelling and societal transformation. Julian's career has been marked by his unwavering dedication to educating, empowering, and mobilizing millions of Black Americans. He has a diverse background as an independent filmmaker with Kinfolk Collective, a video producer for Atlanta Black Star, and a pivotal force behind PushBlack's incredible growth. Julian’s contributions were instrumental in PushBlack’s evolution from a modest email list to the largest nonprofit media company for Black people, reaching millions across various mediums, and running the largest voter turnout program in the digital space. Julian also hosts the organization's flagship podcast, "Black History Year,"

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• Jocelyn Wyatt

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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 alongside more than 3.5 million displaced people every year. Prior to Alight, Jocelyn was the Cofounder and CEO of IDEO.org, a global design studio partnering with NGOs to design products and services that create a more just and inclusive world. During her decade of leadership there, she spearheaded collaborations with DFID (the UK’s Department for International Development), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PSI (formerly Population Services International), and many other organizations with broad global reach. In addition to her role as a founding board member of Airbnb.org, Jocelyn serves on the advisory boards of Marketplace and the Drucker Institute. She is also a founding member of Chief.

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• Jim Bildner

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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 210 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including systemic poverty, food and water insecurity, access to healthcare and economic opportunities, sanitation, homelessness, criminal justice, social justice and climate change and adaptation strategies. In the aggregate, its portfolio organizations have directly impacted more than 300 million lives. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation and chair of its Investment Committee and serves on the boards of a number of other non profit and for profit organizations.

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• Jack Bristow

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  Secret Agent, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION

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• Jacqueline Novogratz

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  Founder & CEO, Acumen

  Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies and leaders with character, competence and moral leadership. Acumen invests pioneering philanthropic capital in sustainable businesses addressing the toughest problems of poverty. Under Jacqueline’s leadership, Acumen has invested $128 million in 128 companies providing critical goods and services to more than 260 million low-income people across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. Acumen also has launched KawiSafi, an impact fund focused on off-grid solar in East Africa and is in the process of building several other for-profit facilities. Acumen also cultivates a new kind of leader through its Fellows Programs and +Acumen, its online school for social change. To date, the organization has built a corps of 500+ Fellows. More than 450,000 individuals from 192 countries have taken +Acumen’s online courses. Acumen is now reimagining a global university designed to integrate the transformational depth of its fellowships with the scale of +Acumen to equip thousands of young changemakers with the tools and ecosystem to lead in today’s world. Jacqueline sits on the board of the Aspen Institute. Her best-selling memoir The Blue Sweater chronicles her quest to understand poverty and bring dignity to the poor. In 2017, Forbes listed Jacqueline as one of the World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.

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• Gary Cohen

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  President, Health Care Without Harm

  Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty eight years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the environmental health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org), and Practice Greenhealth (www.practicegreenhealth.org). Both organizations were created to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and anchor institutions to support environmental health and resilience in the communities they serve. In 2013, he was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House. In 2015, Cohen was named a MacArthur Fellow and was a recipient of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

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• Farida Bemba Nabourema

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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 sites, Farida denounces corruption, dictatorship and promotes a form of progressive Pan Africanism. In 2014, Farida published a book in French titled “La Pression de oppression” (The Pressure of Oppression) in which she discussed the different forms of oppression that people face throughout Africa and most particularly in Togo and highlighted the need for youth and women to be politically engaged and fight for democracy. Farida is also the Executive Director of the Togolese Civil League, an NGO that promotes democracy, rule of law and human rights in Togo through civil resistance, civic education, and advocacy. Prior to taking that position, Farida founded the Faure Must Go movement in 2011 at the age of 20 where she organized Togolese youths to stand against the dictatorial regime of the Gnassingbe which has been ruling Togo for the past 52 years, making it the oldest military regime in Africa. Faure Must Go has become the slogan for the civil resistance movement in Togo of which Farida is one of the most well-known leaders. Farida was listed among the 100 Most Reputable People in Africa and the 100 Most Influential Youth in Africa in 2018 and has been recently nominated among the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2019. Time Magazine listed her among the people keeping the dream of democracy alive and her story of years of activism as a young woman and life in exile was featured in CNN. Farida’s TED Talk video “Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship “ released in March 2018 has been viewed over 1.5 million times on Ted.com and YouTube. Farida currently works as the Engagement and Collaboration coordinator of Africans Rising, a pan-African movement which supports citizen movements of Africans and African descents to demand justice , peace and dignity through nonviolent civic action.

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• Femi Oke

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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 Jazeera documentary series "Fault Lines"; and the social media contributor for NPR's midday news program "Here and Now." Femi’s reporting has been recognised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Communications Agency and InterAction. Since the 1980s, she has worked for BBC television and radio, Sky TV, all the U.K. terrestrial television networks, CNN and U.S. public radio. As a professional moderator Femi has presided over world class events including European Development Days, NBA Africa Celebratory Luncheon for the U.S. National Basketball Association, and the historic Barbershop Conference at the United Nations Headquarters.

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• Francois Bonnici

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  Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership

  Dr François Bonnici is public health physician, professor, social change practitioner and foundation leader with over two decades of experience working across multiple countries, and sectors. Deeply rooted in context and frontline work, he has worked extensively with civil society, movements, foundations, governments, multilaterals and business in progressive and catalytic partnerships that seek to advance the work of primary actors, and understand the organizational practices of “systems work” towards more transformative social change. He currently serves as Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, an international foundation dedicated to advancing the most impactful and innovative models of social change, and concurrently as Head of Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum. He was Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town from 2011-2018, establishing a globally recognized institute for knowledge, capacity and action advancing the discourse and systemic impact of social innovation in Africa. He is the co-author of the upcoming book, The Systems Work of Social Change, and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. He has been recognised as an Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and Associate Fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. He was a founding board member of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in South Africa, and a board member of the Social Innovation Exchange.

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• Ebrahim Rasool

  Speaker

  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 for a world safe for difference. Is a Senior Fellow at both Georgetown and Rutgers Universities. Edited a recently published book called Living Where We Don’t Make The Rules - a guide for Muslim minorities.

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• Emily Tracy

  Delegate

  Chief Revenue Officer, Code for America

  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 planning, growth, and diversification of revenue, including institutional funding, individual support, and earned revenue. Before joining Polaris, Emily was the National Director of Development at NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, where she doubled individual giving revenue. She also worked in the higher education sector to secure support from graduate and law school alumni. Emily served as Director of Development at PROVAIL, a multiservice agency in Seattle that provides life opportunities for people living with disabilities. Emily’s career has also included directing the foundation relations team at the Center for Food Safety and Oceana. Emily, her husband, and two cats, Gallatin and Madison, live in beautiful Big Sky, MT. She loves hiking, fly fishing, nordic skiing, 80s music, all things Costco, and gardening in the quest for the perfect heirloom tomato. She holds an MS from Marymount University and a BA from The George Washington University.

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• Eskedar Getahun

  Delegate

  Interim Co-CEO, PushBlack

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• Diego Del Moral

  Speaker

  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 enterprises. Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at ITESO, Tec de Monterrey and Universidad de Guadalajara, and designer of the Social Innovation Lab of ITESO. In 2016 I started a nomadic lifestyle and co-founded the Collective of Disruptive Design, a group of Latin American misfits with a focus on collective social change practices.Our belief is that change should be unleashed, that processes for healthier systems should be valued over big-bang solutions, and that value should be more equitably distributed for all stakeholders. Many of our tools and frameworks come from the intersection of systems and design thinking. We are currently managing citizen security, early childhood and communit

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• Dixon Chibanda

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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 a professor of psychiatry and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Zimbabwe. He is current director of the African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI) which is training over 200 PhD/Post Doc Fellows across Africa in culturally relevant mental health topics across Africa. He is the recipient of the 2023 John McNulty Prize and an Aspen New Voices Fellow (2017).

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• Darrell Scott

  Speaker

  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, Instagram, etc). With these trusted media relationships, PushBlack encourages subscribers to take action on critical issues, register to vote, and to cast their votes on Election Day. Prior to founding PushBlack, Darrell was a venture manager at Accelerate Change, a media lab for social justice non-profits. Darrell is based in Washington, D.C.

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• David Miliband

  Speaker

  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 throughout the United States and the IRC’s advocacy efforts in Washington and other capitals on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people. David has had a distinguished political career in the United Kingdom. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the youngest Foreign Secretary in three decades, driving advancements in human rights and representing the United Kingdom throughout the world. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.” In 2016 David was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine and in 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David is also the author of the book, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time. As the son of refugees, David brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work and to the premise of the book: that we can rescue the dignity and hopes of refugees and displaced people. And if we help them, in the process we will rescue our own values.

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• David Sigman

  Delegate

  Project Manager, Caspian Agency

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• Dena Trujillo

  Delegate

  CEO, Crisis Text Line, Crisis Text Line

  Dena Trujillo, CEO of Crisis Text Line, has spent over 20 years operating at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact. Prior to Crisis Text Line, Dena was a Venture Partner at Omidyar Network, where she spent 17 years driving philanthropic initiatives around the world. Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need. Guided by empathy and innovation, Crisis Text Line endeavors to build an empathetic world where nobody feels alone.

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• Cristina Yoshida Fernandes

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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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• Colette Pichon Battle

  Speaker

  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 sacrifice zones in the US and throughout the Global South. An award-winning lawyer with a specliaization US Asylum & Immigration law, Colette is a climate justice organizer and develops programming focused on equitable climate disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development and energy democracy. Her TED Talk on climate migration was ranked in the top 10 TED talks of 2020. Pichon Battle is a 2023 Heinz Award for the Environment, has been named a Harvard Hauser Leader, Catalyst Award (Rachel’s Network) and is a 2019 Obama Fellow. She serves on the board of the US Climate Action Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

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• Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere

  Delegate

  Chief People Officer, Skoll Foundation

  Annalisa is the Chief People Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where she focuses on managing the strategy and processes related to building, supporting, and retaining the exceptional talent of the Foundation’s team members. Annalisa believes deeply in Skoll’s vision and works to ensure that the Foundation’s values are reinforced through every initiative, communication, and talent system. Annalisa has a passion for coaching and developing people. Partnering with leaders to design the human experience—employee engagement—so that people thrive at work, is her "thing." For Annalisa, that means "We strive to create a welcoming, empowering, and rewarding place to work, infused with joy and a real sense of belonging." Before joining Skoll, Annalisa held Human Resources leadership roles with the American Automobile Association (AAA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), REDF, and various other organizations. You can check LinkedIn for her professional wanderings. Annalisa is perhaps best known for her love of roller skating, quads-only. As she puts it, "I'm kinda awesome."

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• Antonio Zappulla

  Speaker

  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 media freedom, raise awareness of human rights issues, and foster more Antonio is the founder of Openly, the world's first platform dedicated to fair, accurate, and impartial coverage of LGBT+ stories with global distribution through the Reuters wire. In 2018, he ranked first in the OUTstanding list of third sector LGBT+ executives published by the Financial Times. In 2017 he was named a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe, and in 2016 he was awarded the Talented Young Italians Award by the Italian Chamber of Commerce. Antonio is a One Young World Ambassador and a World Economic Forum agenda contributor. He sits on the boards of Open for Business and the International News Safety Institute (INSI) and is a member of the steering committee of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Prior to his present role, Antonio was director of communications and COO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation and executive producer at Bloomberg Television in charge of news, factual programming, and documentaries for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, developing award-winning TV series.

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• Anushka Ratnayake

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  CEO & Founder, myAgro

  Anushka is recognized as a Global Leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers & designing for greater gender inclusion. She’s a serial entrepreneur who has had leadership roles in some of the most awarded and recognized social enterprises in the last two decades – Kiva.org, One Acre Fund and now myAgro. She’s a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, TED speaker, and Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship. She lives in Senegal, where myAgro is headquartered. myAgro served 115,000 farmers across West Africa last year and helped them increase their income by 35%. myAgro’s North Star is to reach 1 million farmers by 2026.

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• Andrew Youn

  Delegate

  CEO, One Acre Fund

  Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s people living on $1-a-day are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 8,000 full-time staff who serve 1,500,000 families per year, plus 2,500,000+ more families through partnerships. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

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• Anjan Sundaram

  Speaker

  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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• Alessandra Orofino

  Speaker

  Executive Director, NOSSAS

  Peri’s founder, Alessandra Orofino, is an expert in mass communications and large-scale mobilization, boasting extensive experience in grassroots campaigning, as well as film and TV production. Alessandra served as Executive Director for 12 years of NOSSAS, Brazil’s largest membership-driven campaigning organization. Her outstanding contributions at NOSSAS earned recognition through the Obama Foundation fellowship program and the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation. Additionally, Alessandra serves as the showrunner for Greg News, a highly acclaimed political satire show on HBO Latin America, and has also taken on the role of producer for two feature-length documentaries directed by Academy Award nominee Petra Costa. Alessandra actively contributes to various boards and committees, including sitting on the Board of Trustees at Luminate Foundation.

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• Amanda Renteria

  Delegate

  Chief Executive Officer, Code for America

  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 that strengthen the social safety net, increase access to tax benefits, automate record clearance, and foster an active civic tech volunteer network across the country. In September 2020, they launched a mobile-first tax credit portal in English and Spanish in partnership with the White House and Treasury. In April of 2021, they were awarded a philanthropic investment of $100 million to improve state social safety net systems over the next several years. In addition to leading Code for America, Amanda is a paid contributor to the BBC and ABC News on policy and political matters in the United States.

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• Aaron Huey

  Speaker

  Founder, Amplifier

  Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Explorer, a Stanford d.School Fellow, and Founder + Chief Creative of Amplifier.org. As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines including several cover stories. His photo career started with a photo essay in teh Smithsonian about his solo walk across America in 2001 (3,349 mile in 154 days). As a Stanford Knight Fellow and then as one of the first d.School Media Experiments Fellows, Huey focused on using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world to evolve his storytelling. That resulted in many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy non-profit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" with a small team now based in South Seattle. Huey’s Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience, won the Webby for best VR Interactive Design in 2019 and parts of that project will become Pre-Colonial History and Cultural Heritage lessons in AR and VR for K-12 classrooms across the US in 2021. Huey is currently working on a set of new AR experiments at Amplifier. But, perhaps most importantly, Huey was named the 3rd coolest Dad in America by Fatherly.com after Lebron James and Kelly Slater.

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