Skoll World Forum 2024
Thursday, January 1, 1970
Speakers
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Executive Director, RenovaBR
Bruna Barros is the current Executive Director of RenovaBR and has +15 years of experience in consulting and auditing companies, public sector and third sector. She holds a BA in Accounting from FECAP, an MBA in International Business from BI International, 2 executive specializations in public policies (SIPA / Columbia and SAIS / Johns Hopkins) and a master's degree in Public Policy at Insper (2023). Was Special Advisor on Competitiveness, Productivity and Entrepreneurship and Undersecretary of Entrepreneurship and Microcredit of the State of São Paulo. She is also Fiscal Board to Legisla Brasil and the Grupo Mulheres do Brasil, and is fellow from political and leadership organizations as Movimento Acredito, RAPS, RenovaBR, ProLíder of Instituto Four, and the Public Policy Committee of the Grupo Mulheres do Brasil. Her purpose is to to help strengthen democracy and public policies that matters for society.
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Social Investments Editor, Alliance Magazine
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Policy Officer - Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice (SRREJ), U.S. Department of State
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Head of Development, Major Gifts, Saïd Business School
Head of Development (Major Gifts) at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Philanthropy and business development specialist.
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Project Manager and Producer, For Freedoms
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Member Board of Directors, Biokinetics Association of South Africa
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Consultant, Arpan
With over 20 years of experience in both corporate and social sectors, I am passionate about creating a world free of sexual abuse. I hold an MBA in Management Science, and certifications in Business Coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Child Sex Abuse Prevention and Healing, Parenting and Emotional Intelligence.
As an Advisory Board Member at Foundation for Rebuilding Childhood (Affiliated and knowledge partner - Global Fund for Children), I provide strategic guidance and support to the organization that invests in and support courageous, nascent organizations with bold ideas to meet children's needs and engage them as leaders of the future. As a fundraising consultant for Arpan and Goonj, I help them secure funds and partnerships for their programs that empower women, youth, and children, and create equitable and dignified relationships between urban and rural communities. I leverage my skills in not for profit leadership, sustainable partnerships and capacity building for scale.
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Individual, Individual
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Translator/Writer/Speaker & Independent Scholar, Embassy of Brazil in the UK
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Digital Producer, SciDev.Net
I'm a digital media + comms and clean AI enthusiast.
Previously was: Editor CIO East Africa (now CIO Africa / dx5); volunteer editor at Energy Storage MEA; Communications officer at Open society Initiative East Africa and Nile Basin Discourse; Editor and journalist Vision Group, Uganda.
Today, I'm Digital Producer at SciDev.Net, a publication of CABI.org.
I'm a member of the National Union of Journalists (UK), ardent follower of The African Editors Forum and former president of Uganda Journalists Safety Committee.
I studied IT at Islamic University in Uganda, studied Global journalism at Stockholm University, Sweden, photojournalism at the International institute of journalism - Berlin, Germany. I am still learning.
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Co-Founder, e-School Box
Samuel Ubido is a globally recognized tech thought leader, speaker, and social entrepreneur with expertise in blockchain, cyber security, AI, machine learning, edtech, and impact investing. He co-founded School Box to provide quality e-learning experiences using technology. Samuel has delivered keynote speeches at major events worldwide and is a mentor to young entrepreneurs. He is dedicated to using technology to create a positive social impact and supports organizations and initiatives that share this goal. Samuel's achievements have earned him numerous accolades a true inspiration to all who know him.
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Deputy Editor, SciDev.Net
Ruth Douglas is the deputy editor of SciDev.Net, the world's leading source of news and analysis on science for international development. She coordinates a team of editors and journalists around the world, covering the latest developments in health, climate, agriculture, and technology, among others. Before joining the organisation in 2019 she worked for eight years as a journalist and online news editor with the international news agency Agence France-Presse. Ruth has a degree in French and German from the University of Edinburgh and a postgraduate diploma in journalism.
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Digital Editor, Alliance Magazine
Digital Editor at Alliance
Online Editor at Insurance Day
Senior reporter at Managing IP
Freelance reporter on health and US politics at The Economist, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, Salon, BBC World Service
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Chief Executive, Electoral Reform Society
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Board Secretary, Vote Run Lead
Rhonda is the immediate past co-chair of the National Social Action Commission for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In this role, she was one of the founders of Delta 4 Women in Action, a 501c4 organization created by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to expand their political footprint beyond advocacy in the community.
She is a member of the executive management team at Jacobs Engineering as the Vice President, Client Account Manager for Transit Services. After retiring at the age of 45 from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), where she served as the Senior Director of External Affairs for MARTA for more than fifteen years and led the Office of Government Relations and the Office of Community Affairs.
She also Co-Founder of Vote Run Lead and serves at the Board Secretary for Vote Run Lead Action, the c4 sister organization of VRL.
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Associate Partner, Special Projects, New Profit
Michelle is based in Northern Virginia, and brings years of experience supporting executive operations and program management to New Profit. Most recently, she served as a Strategic Portfolio Lead at MIT Solve and the Director of the U.S. Fellows at Ashoka. During her earlier experiences, Michelle was a management consultant in the public sector, focusing on organizational strategy, change management, and communications and completed internships in several governmental organizations, including the U.S. Congress, the White House, and INTERPOL. She is an Education Pioneer Fellow and holds a B.S. in Political Science with a focus International Relations from Old Dominion University, and she is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She is an avid reader, who enjoys outdoor activities, like hiking and farmer’s markets, spending time with family and friends, and trying new recipes.
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Unknown, Individual
Precious Wilson Nkandu is an accomplished business leader. She holds an MBA from University of Liverpool Management School
Precious has over 15 years’ experience driving resource mobilisation, product development and Innovation, business development, business systemisation, business planning, strategy & scale, operations & project management, and capital finance.
Her experience spans across Africa, Europe, and the USA, working in sectors like Healthcare (healthTech), Mining, Capital Finance, Development Finance and Institutional Investment, Banking, Infrastructure Investment and project development, and international media and publishing.
Precious has extensive experience in building high performance teams, operationalising and development of business models and driving Innovation. She helps organisations scale.
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Individual, Individual
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Brazilian Ambassador to the UK and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Government of Brazil
Antonio Patriota is currently Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
He served as Foreign Minister from 2011 to 2013, and Deputy Foreign
Minister from 2009 to 2010. He was Ambassador of Brasil to the United States
(2007-2009), Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations (2013-
2016), Ambassador to Italy (2016-2019), and to Egypt (2019-2023).
During his period as Ambassador to the UN, Patriota was Chairman of the
60th and 61st Sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women and
Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission of the UN (2013-2014). During
his diplomatic career, he was also posted in Geneva (1983-1987 and 1999-
2003), New York (1994-1999), Beijing (1987-1988) and Caracas (1988-1990).
Ambassador Patriota is a member of the “Leaders for Peace” initiative under
the chairmanship of former French Prime Minister Raffarin.
Ambassador Patriota has recorded two albums of his compositions on piano
under the name Tonio de Aguiar.
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Senior Vice President FINE, Engro Corp.
Christine Dawood embodies visionary leadership at the intersection of entrepreneurship, psychology, and philanthropy. As a trustee of The Dawood Foundation and Senior Vice President at Engro Corporation, she supports impactful initiatives in education and community development, drawing upon the rich cultural tapestry of her German-British heritage and embracing the Dawood Family’s legacy of social responsibility.
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Managing Partner, Humanity United
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Founder and Director, Antarang
Priya Agrawal, an Ashoka Fellow, and an ASPIRe Fellow, is the Founder Director of Antarang Foundation. In a career spanning over 3 decades, Priya has led organisations in advertising and market research, The Akanksha Foundation and SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action).
In her work in education, Priya noticed the many failures of traditional career linkage programs and that the transition to work was very challenging for the most disadvantaged high-school students from low-income demographics across India. She also discovered that the grey zone between education and employment was not just a function of English or traditional vocational skills as was perceived, but also a lack of awareness and access. That led to starting Antarang Foundation in 2013- a systems-integrated, holistic, high impact career education model that works with 5 state governments in India, impacting over 350,000 young adults as of date and slated to impact 2 million by 2025.
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CEO, Associação Bem Comum
Teacher and lawyer, Veveu Arruda was a municipal secretary, vice-mayor and mayor of Sobral, his hometown, between 1997 and 2016. He led one of the most successful cases of educational policy reform - recognized not only in Brazil, but around the world. His policies raise Sobral from 55th to 1st in the Brazilian Education Quality Index, increasing literacy from 52% to 92% in just 5 years. His team was later responsible for scaling this success story to the entire state of Ceara. Veveu currently heads the Bem Comum Association, a non-profit organization that supports Brazilian municipalities and states in designing and implementing policies to improve learning, with an emphasis on children's literacy, inspired by the experiences of Sobral and Ceará.
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Co-founder and CEO, Rang De
Smita Ram, Co-founder of Rang De, pioneered peer to peer lending in India. Her platform Rang De has been empowering communities through innovative financial solutions. With a background in social entrepreneurship, she brings a wealth of experience in micro-lending and social investing. Smita's passion for social change and financial inclusion has driven Rang De's mission to bridge the gap between urban, upwardly mobile social investors and low income communities of farmers, entrepreneurs and artisans, thus transforming lives across India. Her strategic acumen and commitment to sustainable development have positioned Rang De as a pioneering force in the social impact sector.
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Head Philanthropy, XTX Markets
I work as Head of Philanthropy at XTX Markets, an algorithmic trading company based in London and with offices globally. Our philanthropy focuses primarily on excellence in mathematics and science education, and on global talent. We also have a significant programme of funding for climate and global development.
Prior to joining XTX Markets, I started my career as an economics and history teacher in an inner-city school, training through the Teach First programme. At the end of the programme, I left the classroom to co-found The Brilliant Club, an educational charity that recruits, trains and places PhD researchers to work as tutors in inner-city schools. I also have various NED roles, including at the Teach for All Network and Voice21.
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Co-Founder and Chief of Strategy, Asar Social Impact Advisors
I'm Sanjiv, with wide-ranging experience in the Socio-Environmental, ESG and international spheres. A cross-sectoral expert across Climate and Biodiversity, amongst other issues, I am committed to driving sustainable solutions that benefit the planet and people.
A Climate Breakthrough Awardee along with my mates Brikesh and Vinuta, I have supported as well as led initiatives in developing and implementing strategies that address complex environmental challenges while fostering positive social and co-related economic outcomes.
I am currently with Asar, a consulting company in the socio-environmental space, Prior to my current role, I held various leadership positions across the Greenpeace world, including Program Director at Greenpeace Japan, Co-Executive Director of Greenpeace India, and Global Director for the Climate & Energy Program at Greenpeace International.
I've also had the opportunity of representing other multinational and intergovernmental organisations as well as engagi
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Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Global Institute for Disease Elimination
Dr Kumanan Rasanathan is the
Executive Director at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, in Geneva.
Dr Rasanathan is a public health physician with a strong background in health policy and
systems research and extensive experience working at different levels of WHO and within the wider UN system. During his almost 25 years working in health systems, career highlights have included serving as Incident Manager for WHO for the COVID-19 response in Cambodia, helping to drive the development of the Sustainable Development Goal health agenda while at UNICEF, contributing to the work of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, co-writing the 2008 WHO World Health Report on primary health
care, and running meningococcal vaccine trials that enabled vaccine licensure and roll-out in
New Zealand.
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Wallace Center Co-Director, Winrock International
For over 15 years, Pete Huff has worked in the farming and food system sector, overseeing nonprofit and government projects in the U.S. and Australia. He focuses on ensuring the financial success for family farms while promoting positive environmental impacts and social justice. Before leading the Resilient Agriculture and Ecosystem team at Wallace Center at Winrock International, he directed food systems at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy where he focused on regional food system development and funding. In Australia, Pete led the development of new urban agriculture and food waste programming in the State of Victoria. In California, he co-managed organic farming operations and associated education programs while earning certificates in permaculture design. He holds degrees in Environmental Management and Environmental History from Indiana University-Bloomington and a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He’s based in western Wisconsin.
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Chief Executive Officer, Entertainment Industry Foundation
Nicole Sexton was named the President and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) in 2017. As President and CEO Nicole is responsible for the day-to-day operations and for developing strategies and plans ensuring their alignment the with short-term and long-term objectives of the organization. Prior to joining EIF, Nicole was Chief of Staff of the Central Park Conservancy. Nicole is a member of the board of advisors of SMU DataArts. She is on the Board of Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts. Nicole serves as Board Secretary of Friends of the Global Fund she is also a distinguished member of the Board of the White House Historical Association. She graduated with a B.A. from Southern Methodist University and has completed graduate studies in Art History at Georgetown University as well graduate studies in Public Policy at Yale University.
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Assistant to the Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
Michele Sumilas is currently the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management (PLR). PLR strengthens the Agency’s policy voice and leadership in the interagency by better aligning budgetary considerations, planning processes, implementation discipline, and monitoring and evaluation with our development and humanitarian priorities. She previously served as Executive Director of Bread for the World, an anti-hunger Christian advocacy organization. Her government experience includes serving as USAID Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff during the Obama administration, and on the House Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. Prior to serving in government, Sumilas worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Health Council. Sumilas attended Mount Holyoke College and received her Master's Degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Consultant, Individual
In 1988, Michael Rosenblum invented an entirely new way to shoot, edit and produce television, with a strong emphasis on television news and documentaries. Instead of sending out the traditional team of reporter, producer, crew and editor, he believed that one well-trained journalist, working with small, hand-held gear, could do it all on their own. He called this Video Journalism. In 1988, it was a radical idea. Today, it is a standard way of working, most often called MMJ or Multi Media Journalism.
He has built and designed more than 60 TV news channels and networks all over the world, all based on his concept. He was founder and President of New York Times Television. Taught at Columbia University, New York University and currently Executive in Residence at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.
Winner of multiple Emmy Awards, among others, he is the author of four books on the media and has lectured worldwide on the interface between media and technology,
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Senior Advisor to the Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
Michael Camilleri is a Senior Advisor in the Office of USAID Administrator Samantha Power, where he leads the Agency's Democracy Delivers Initiative. From 2021 to 2022 he served as Executive Director of USAID’s Northern Triangle Task Force.
Prior to joining USAID, Michael was Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. From 2012 to 2017, he served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as Director for Andean Affairs at the National Security Council. Earlier in his career he worked as a human rights lawyer at the Organization of American States, the Center for Justice and International Law, and with a coalition of civil society organizations in Guatemala.
Michael's analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, All In Together
Lauren Leader is a thought leader, activist and advisor who has devoted her career to advancing gender equality and American democracy. She is the founder and CEO of All In Together, a non-partisan, nonprofit organization committed to advancing women’s civic and political participation. Lauren is also founder of a boutique consulting firm that works with a wide array of leaders both in business and politics to advance diversity and equality. From 2019-2023 she served in elected office in Harrison, NY.
Lauren is an opinion contributor to numerous publications highlighting issues of gender and politics and appears regularly on an array of news networks and programs. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, conventions, forums including the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Milken Global Conference. She was a 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholar and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in NY with her three daughters. She is a native of Washington DC.
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Co-Director, Youth Climate Justice Fund
Joshua Amponsem is a Ghanaian climate activist with extensive experience in Climate Action, Disaster Risk, and Resilience Building. Between 2021-2023, Joshua served as the Climate Lead at the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth and transitioned to work as the Co-Director for the newly established Youth Climate Justice Fund to further his advocacy for shifting climate philanthropy to youth and locally led organisations.
He founded the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) and serves as an Advisor to the Urban Movement Innovation Fund, TED Countdown, International Renewable Energy Agency.
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Coordinator - Chairman Office, Gram Vikas USA
Jyoti Prasanna Singh is the Coordinator at Chairman’s Office based in Gram Vikas, Mohuda. He working with Gram Vikas has spent over 15 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Odisha, India and loved sustainable development as his whole life. He has prior experience in planning, monitoring and documentation. He worked on water and sanitation, livelihood projects among the poorest communities of rural and tribal villages in Odisha, India. He also served on social based art education to promote water, sanitation and hygiene in villages. Jyoti holds a Master in Business Administration from IGNOU in 2018, Post Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management from Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), Bhubaneswar in 2007 and Bachelor of Science in Physics from Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi in 2003
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Co-CEO, Peace First
Dr. Isaac Cudjoe is the CEO of Peace First, a global social impact organization that provides training, mentorship, and thought leadership to help changemakers ideate, design, and launch changemaking projects. Under his leadership, Peace First has expanded its storytelling efforts to better amplify the stories of young changemakers in 166 countries. Isaac has also spearheaded a comprehensive update of all Peace First programs, ensuring they serve the needs of young people while also recognizing the unique skill sets and perspectives they bring to changemaking work.
He is a community organizer, social entrepreneur, and peace-building devotee with demonstrated success as an active participant and in partnership with domestic and international organizations. He has used his training from the Young African Leaders Initiative and The African Middle Eastern Leadership fellowship to help communities inspire social change agents to do more and be more for the places they call home.
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Managing Partner, Private Equity Support
I am the Founder and Managing Partner of a women-led SME Enterprise Advisory Firm, Private Equity Support (PES), whose ethos is democratizing early-stage financing in sub–Saharan Africa, through providing investment facilitation and value creation support.
PES is a culmination of 18+ years of working in the capital markets (Nairobi Securities Exchange), making private equity investments into SMEs (Fusion Investments Africa ), and asset management (Britam Asset Managers ).
Over the last 8 years, through PES, I have worked with SMEs from across 25 countries in Africa, mobilized over USD 25M in capital and engaged with over 400 SMEs, most of whom are local founder centric, with 48% of them being women led/owned. I am also the gender lead consultant– East Africa for the climate focused Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN). This work with SMEs actively promotes achievement of various Social Development Goals (SDGs), specifically promoting inclusive economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Founder, Rethinking Removals
Gabrielle Walker is a passionate advocate for climate action, and advises the senior leadership of global companies, governments and humanitarian organizations around the world. She is cofounder of two organizations aiming to accelerate action in carbon removals: Rethinking Removals and CUR8. Gabrielle has worked on climate change for more than three decades. She was climate editor at Nature, has a PhD in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton. She has also written countless magazine and newspaper articles, presented many TV and radio programs for the BBC and has authored four books including The Hot Topic: How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On, which was described by Al Gore as "a beacon of clarity".
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CEO, Africa Public Health Foundation
Ebere Okereke has extensive experience shaping public health policy, and developing and implementing strategic initiatives. Her focus is health security, health system strengthening, and leadership. She is passionate about championing African women in health leadership.
She is the CEO of Africa Public Health Foundation. Previous roles include Consultant in Global Health Public Health England, Senior Adviser Tony Blair Institute, and Hon Senior Adviser to the inaugural Director of Africa CDC.
She participates in many esteemed initiatives. She contributes to the governing board of the Albert Luthuli Institute of Leadership, Pretoria University and is a founding member of the Africa CDC Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme. She contributes to global health scientific, expert reference and advisory groups.
She is a Fellow at the UK Faculty of Public Health and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. She was recently awarded an honorary DSc by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Principal, The Engel Family Trust
Emily Engel is an independent scholar, educator, activist, and philanthropist whose work focuses on the intersection of culture and environment to mitigate the ongoing challenges of climate change. Emily works as an activist through the Sierra Club, the League of Women Voters, Rachel’s Network, and the PSI Maverick Collective. She received her PHD from the University of California, Santa Barbara and attended Tulane University as an undergraduate.
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Global Campaigns Manager, Digital Action
Bruna is a digital rights activist working on advocacy, regulation and policy-making of new and upcoming technologies and Internet Governance. She’s actively contributed to the development of internet legislation in Brazil such as the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in Brazil and the Brazilian General Data Protection Legislation, as well as advocacy campaigns and stakeholder engagement regarding topics such as data protection, the risks of State Surveillance and freedom of expression and platform regulation. Previously she was a guest researcher at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) and, as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancellor Fellowship for future leaders (Bundeskanzler-Stipendium), has worked with lead CSOs in Brazil such as Data Privacy Brazil. She is a member of the UN’s Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group and a Generic Names Supporting Organization councillor at ICANN.
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CEO, Global Leading Light
Dieudonne is the Founder and CEO of Global Leading Light Initiatives, a non-profit organization based at Stenden University in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape. Our mission is to combat poverty, particularly in townships, by empowering children, youth, and women through access to technology and entrepreneurship. Dieudonne is also an author and inspirational facilitator known for leading sessions on "authentic leadership." His work promotes a shift in the leadership dynamic within community development, moving away from the "savior/victim" paradigm toward authentic empowerment.
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Project manager, CGA
Archaeology
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Head of Memberships Editorial, Devex
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Chief Executive Advisor, me too.
Dani Ayers is an organizational development and strategy executive. Over 18 years, she has led inside small, grassroots organizations, as well as multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Her passion for the multi-layered intersections of social justice, centering Black women and girls, has grounded her career path and leadership development. As the first CEO of me too. International, undergirding the work of Tarana Burke’s visionary ‘me too.’ Movement, Dani built the global organization’s foundational infrastructure and led day-to-day operations for five years. She now serves Chief Executive Advisor with the organization. She has also held leadership roles as Managing Director of Art Sanctuary, a Black arts for social change organization in Philadelphia, and Director of Organizational Development for a portfolio of Boys & Girls Clubs in the Southwest US. Dani specializes in building organizational infrastructure and developing internal operations and culture in service to vision.
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Cherry Rangel is an Indigenous cultural strategist, resource organizer, and racial justice coach. As Director of Advancement for NDN Collective, Cherry shapes and resources the future of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America). For over 15 years Cherry's work has transformed organizations, ecosystems, philanthropies, and the field of arts and culture toward justice. As a resource organizer, Cherry’s advocacy has ensured that hundreds of millions of dollars have been redirected to the US and Global South, BIPOC communities, and TGNC and queer communities. With Ron Ragin, she co-authored Freedom Maps: Activating Legacies of Culture, Art, and Organizing in the US South, and with Sage Crump, she authored Queer (Re)public: On QTPOC Liberatory Aesthetics. Cherry is a Just Economy Institute Fellow, and was a 2019 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow and serves on the boards of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, and LOUD: the New Orleans queer youth theater.
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, Skoll Foundation
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Director of Impact, Conserve Global
Dr Harriet Davies-Mostert is Director of Impact at Conserve Global, a non-profit whose ambition is to solve arguably the biggest conservation and climate crisis on the African continent: the degradation of vital ecosystems beyond national parks. Harriet drives efforts to track Conserve’s environmental, social and economic impact through robust scientific processes complemented by grass-roots knowledge systems to inform decision-making at all levels. As a Regional Vice Chair for the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, her work spans large carnivore conservation, natural resources governance and policy, the data-science-policy interface, and the wildlife economy's role in biodiversity conservation and rural development. With 50+ scientific publications, an MSc in Tropical Resource Ecology (Zimbabwe), and a Doctorate on African Wild Dogs (Oxford), her contributions have been pivotal in promoting sustainable development and evidence-based conservation practices in Africa.
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Individual, Individual
Sarah Tuke is a communications and sustainability professional with over 20 years of experience. As Head of European Communications for People Against Dirty (Ecover and Method), Sarah was part of an award-winning marketing team that re-launched the Ecover brand across Europe. Responsible for thought leadership, she created and led a number of sustainability initiatives including a set of externally facing plastic commitments and a Nature-based Solutions fund. Sarah started her career working in PR agencies. She was then Head of Communications for Coca-Cola Great Britain working across a portfolio of brands and leading both corporate and consumer PR as well as issues management. In 2022 she received a Post-Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership from Cambridge University and is a volunteer with the Cranfield Trust.
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Global Head of Banking Regulations, Mazars
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Chief Executive, Christchurch Call
Paul is an experienced leader of international digital policy and diplomacy work. As the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Christchurch Call Foundation, he continues to drive a collaborative effort to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. Paul has led the Christchurch Call secretariat since its inception, playing a key role in advancing its mission.
Paul served as the New Zealand Prime Minister's Special Representative on Cyber and Digital from 2020-2024. His background includes leading the National Security Policy Directorate at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (2018-2019) and the National Cyber Policy Office (2012-2017). Paul's diplomatic experience spans assignments in Brussels, Solomon Islands, Beijing, and Taipei. Paul was educated at Victoria University of Wellington and the Chinese Language and Area Studies School, Taipei. This global perspective informs and shapes Paul’s approach to digital challenges.
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President, Hattaway Communications
Doug founded Hattaway Communications to help visionary leaders and organizations use the power of strategy, science, and storytelling to achieve ambitious goals for people and the planet. A storyteller by training—in journalism and creative writing—he is passionate about adapting insights from the social sciences to enhance the power of strategic communications.
He pioneered an approach known as Aspirational Communication, which was featured in a Stanford Social Innovation Review cover story about the historic marriage equality movement and Truth anti-smoking campaign, which “transformed public attitudes by connecting their causes to the personal aspirations of their audiences.”
Doug has three decades of experience working with leaders at the highest levels of U.S. politics and government, international organizations and NGOs, cutting-edge businesses, and the world’s largest foundations.
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Senior Licensing & Ventures Manager, Oxford University Innovation
Licensing and ventures manager at Oxford University Innovation, looking to work with the academics at the University to make the greatest amount of impact from their research. I have worked within the digital health and pharmaceutical teams here and have a strong interest in supporting social venture creation . I have also been involved in the creation of several social ventures mainly focused around mental health and have more recently been involved in the Universities ImpactU fund, providing pathfinder funding to university backed social ventures within the UK.
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CEO, Luksic Foundation
Isabella Luksic is CEO of Fundación Luksic, a family foundation based in Chile. Additionally, she is President of the Board of Corporación Desarrollo de Choshuenco, and member of the Boards of Ganadera y Forestal Quechumalal SpA, as well as MIT Sloan's Latin American Office.
Isabella holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Development Studies with honours from Brown University, USA.
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Individual, Individual
AJ Hale serves as the Vice President of Programs for a private family foundation dedicated to promoting sustainable cardiovascular capacity building in underserved areas. With over a decade of experience spanning medical sales, technology, and clinical/OR cardiac device expertise, AJ is committed to linking burgeoning programs worldwide with the necessary resources for sustainable development.
In collaboration with esteemed partners such as the Cardiovascular Education Foundation, Project My Heart Your Heart, Team Heart Rwanda, The African Heart Rhythm Association, The Pan African Society of Cardiology, and numerous other national and international programs, AJ actively seeks out opportunities to expand the network of organizations and individuals committed to this collaborative endeavor.
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Board Member, Pacific Clinics
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Rabbi, Individual
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Finance, Individual
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Director of Program Strategy and Partnerships, Nobel Peace Center
Helena Lamb is Director of Program Strategy and Partnerships at the Nobel Peace Center. She spent eight years leading Human Rights Watch’s work in Norway and previously was Managing Director of the Youth of the European Peoples Party in Brussels. She holds a Bachelors Degree from Stanford University, a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Accelerated Management Degree from Solvay Business School, Brussels. Helena has worked as an archaeologist and an amateur opera singer.
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Director, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute
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Head of Operations, Office of Amal Clooney
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Chief Operating Officer, Clooney Foundation for Justice
Deena Katz is a producer and philanthropist who has spearheaded major social justice movements with a focus on promoting the rights of women, children, minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. Deena was one of the founders and Co-Chair of the grassroots Women’s March LA, which became the largest Women’s March in the world, with a record-breaking one million people attending in 2017.Women’s March LA continues to thrive and inspire each year with Deena leading the charge. She is hands on in every aspect of the organisation, playing a leading role in the fundraising that enables the 100% donation-based group to thrive year after year.
Deena, along with George Clooney, chaired the March For Our Lives movement, leading a fundraising campaign that raised more than $15 million dollars to protect children from violent attacks in schools. Several million people turned out across the United States alone, making it one of the largest protests in American history. Deena also oversaw more than 880 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world. In total, more than 36 million children marched worldwide. Under Deena’s guidance, March for Our Lives went from concept to iconic event in less than five weeks, and has continued to make a difference as a civil rights organization that aims to bring about gun controls to protect children across the United States.
Deena is also a producer of many high-profile successful Emmy Award winning television series. She is Co-Executive Producer of Dancing with the Stars, where she oversees a staff of nearly 300 people. Deena took the iconic show from its pre-sale vision to what is now its thirty-second season on air. Deena is also the Co-Executive Producer of multiple other shows on Netflix, Peacock, Hulu and NBC and has produced dozens of television series and specials on ABC, CBS, Amazon, HBO, Bravo, Fox, CW, Lifetime and Disney+, incorporating and forging collaborations between high profile talent as well as up-and-coming discoveries in entertainment, politics, sports, and social media.
Deena is a native Southern Californian, where she learned at the side of her parents who were advocates for social and political justice way ahead of their time. She is a proud graduate of UCLA, where she studied sociology.
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Professor of Public International Law and Barrister, Twenty Essex
Professor Philippa Webb is a barrister at Twenty Essex and Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, where she is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution. She is a specialist in public international law and appears in domestic and international courts, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court. She is appointed to the United Kingdom Attorney General’s Public International Law Panel of Counsel and is a founding board member of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Philippa has held positions in the Presidency of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and in United Nations Headquarters. She was shortlisted for 2022 “Barrister of the Year” by The Lawyer magazine. Her publications include Freedom of Speech in International Law (2024, chapters on insulting speech and false speech, A Clooney & D Neuberger eds), The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (2021, with A Clooney) and Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations (2017, with Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC, D Akande, S Sivakumaran and J Sloan). Her treatise, The Law of State Immunity (2015, with Lady Fox KC) has been cited by leading courts around the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwebb/
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Freelance Journalist, Individual
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Director of Fellowships, Clooney Foundation for Justice
"Sabrina Mahtani is a Zambian-British lawyer and expert on access to justice for women. She currently serves as Director of Fellowships at the Clooney Foundation for Justice (Part-Time), leading their fellowship programme for early-career women lawyers from across Africa.
She was previously a Senior Policy Advisor for The Elders and led their Access to Justice Program. Prior to that she led Amnesty International’s research, litigation and advocacy work on Anglophone West Africa. She has consulted for a wide variety of organisations, including UNODC and Penal Reform International.
She co-founded AdvocAid, a feminist organisation in Sierra Leone providing access to justice for women in detention, and previously worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
She was a Wasserstein Fellow in Residence at Harvard Law School and is a non-resident fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation.
Sabrina is an award-winning writer and commentator on justice and human rights, and has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera and African Arguments. She also hosts the Women Beyond Walls podcast, the only podcast focused on spotlighting the global issue of the over-incarceration of women.
She holds a BA in Law and History from University College London and an LL.M. from New York University and is a part-time DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford.
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Chief of Staff, Clooney Foundation for Justice
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Barrister, Individual
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Senior Advisor, Strategic Partnerships, AmeriCorps
Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell serves in the Biden-Harris Administration as AmeriCorps’ Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships. AmeriCorps is the federal agency for national service and volunteering, which works to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service. Yasmeen’s focus is on key administration priorities, including the American Climate Corps, announced by President Biden in September 2023. She leads the Partnerships Team in the CEO’s office at the agency, which develops interagency and public-private partnerships, and she also served for two years as AmeriCorps’ acting Strategic Advisor for Native American Affairs.
Yasmeen is a proud AmeriCorps alumna, and served in 2008 with the Arab American Resource Corps. She earned a bachelor's degree from George Washington University and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School.
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Independent AI & Tech Policy Consultant, Partnership on AI
Ollie was the founding Executive Director of the UK government's AI governance advisory body, the Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation (CDEI - now known as the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit).
Before the CDEI, Ollie held a number of senior policy roles focused on technology, digital and data, including Deputy Director for Technology Policy in DCMS (now DSIT) where he was responsible a cross-government programme of work to develop the norms and rules for the online world. Ollie also served as head of policy for the Government Digital Service and led the UK’s world-leading Open Data programme from the Cabinet Office. Ollie began his civil service career in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, serving under Prime Ministers David Cameron and Gordon Brown.
Ollie now works as an independent advisor on responsible AI and public policy, working with clients in civil society and international organisations including Partnership on AI, NATO and the Omidyar Group.
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Deputy Director General, Africa CDC
Tajudeen is a Medical Doctor with postgraduate qualifications in Pediatrics and Public Health. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians and Fellow of the Chatham House Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK. He has years of senior level experience in Emergency Preparedness and Response, Health Workforce Development, Public Health Research, Health Diplomacy, Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child & Adolescent Health, and National Public Health Institutes. He is currently the Head of Public Health Institutes and Research at the Africa CDC. He coordinates the establishment and strengthening of National Public Health Institutes in AU Member States. He coordinates the Health Workforce Development and Public Health Research agendas of the Africa CDC. Tajudeen also double as the Acting Deputy Director General of Africa CDC where he coordinates all technical programmes at the Africa CDC. Tajudeen has several publications in peer reviewed journals.
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Women's Movement Coordinator, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
Gloria, a social innovator with a background in social tech startups, brings 20 years of experience in fostering global impact through international startups.
Specializing in connecting diverse stakeholders for impactful collaborations, she founded Mater Earth. This platform champions biodiversity and climate nature-based solutions, with a particular emphasis on indigenous communities worldwide and promoting female-led initiatives in climate action. Gloria's transformative journey began during her studies in Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, Oxford, run by Skoll Center.
Currently, she provides technical support to the Women's Movement of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. Her commitment lies in ensuring equitable representation and resource access for women from indigenous and local communities in global climate and biodiversity negotiations.
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Executive Director of Global Policy, ONE
David McNair is executive director at ONE.org and Non Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
He sits on the European Council on Foreign Relations Council and is a founding executive board member of the Africa Europe Foundation.
He has worked on successful campaigns to reduce child mortality, secure signficiant resources for climate finance and crack down on grand corruption and tax evasion.
In 2012 he was named one of the ninety-nine top foreign policy leaders under 33. He holds a PhD in social geography from the Queen’s University of Belfast.
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Academic Director of Gradel Institute of Charity, University of Oxford North America
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Independent, Individual
Eliana Lauder is a current MBA candidate at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Outside of class, her focus is on increasing public impact of academic initiatives in the social sciences and impact finance as a mechanism to redistribute power and patient capital. Before her MBA, Eliana worked in the United States Senate (Booker D-NJ), Google Ventures, StopFishbombing Malaysia, and most recently, headed up UX at Recidiviz.org. In her free time, Eliana enjoys knitting with her grandmother, flying small planes, and surfing big waves.
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Claire is the Programming Manager at the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), a pioneering institution seeking to accelerate innovation in healthcare, sustainable agriculture, clean energy and governance. At EIT, Claire leads the curriculum design for the brand-new interdisciplinary Ellison Scholars programme.
Claire’s background and expertise is in educational programme design, network building, and partnership development, with a focus on entrepreneurship and social impact.
Previously, Claire held roles at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, as the Senior Programme Manager for Networks and Partnerships at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, and Lead Programme Manager at the Entrepreneurship Centre.
Prior to her time at Oxford, Claire managed a portfolio of executive education programmes at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge. She began her career managing an education outreach programme in South Africa.
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Senior Conflict Advisor, The Elders
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COO, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Foundation
Jenelle Sirleaf joined the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) as Director of Library, Archives, Exhibits, and Administration in March 2021. In this role she was responsible for supervising the archives acquisition process, as well as contributing to the design and construction of the Presidential Library and its future exhibits. Jenelle is currently the acting Chief Operating Officer for the EJS Center.
Prior to joining the EJS Center, Jenelle worked in Corporate Finance for Intel Corporation as a Senior Financial Analyst where she gained experience in strategic planning, risk analysis, and cost and inventory reporting. Jenelle holds both a bachelor’s degree in economics from Emory University, as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
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Asia Editor, Thomson Reuters
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Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes
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Executive Director, Childrens Rights Innovation Fund
Dr. Ramatu Bangura led the design and inception, as Founding Director, of the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF). Prior to CRIF, Ramatu served as a Programme Officer for the NoVo Foundation’s Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Rights Initiative, where she funded work to advance the rights, leadership and safety of adolescent girls in the United States and in the Global South. Ramatu has spent the last 25 years engaging in organising, advocacy, and research on a host of issues impacting transnational girls, including early and forced marriage, sexual violence, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and educational access for English Language Learners in the United States and Central America. Ramatu earned both a Masters of Education (EdM) and Doctorate of Education (EdD) from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Strategy - People & Sustainability Services, Accenture
Cyrus is a leader in Accenture's Sustainability Services with a focus on embedding sustainability through strategy, leadership, and operating model - building sustainable organisations that work for current and future generations. Industry focus on financial services, resources, and retail, with experience working with C-suite execs to front-line colleagues. Fellow of World Economic Forum, and Tutor with Oxford Said Business School, focusing on strategy, sustainability, and innovation.
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Associate Director, Principal Gifts, University of Oxford North America
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Senior Advisor of Biotechnology, Co-Director of the Delivery Unit, Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Dr Joe Fitchett is Senior Adviser for Biotechnology at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal.
In this role, Joe is responsible for the IPD vaccine pipeline and oversees the strategy to launch new capabilities for the development and production of regionally-relevant countermeasures for epidemics as part of a newly established Dakar biotechnology hub. Joe is project sponsor for the technology transfer of the first measles/rubella vaccine to be produced in Africa and the IPD-CEPI partnering agreement for outbreak vaccines. Joe also helped establish the Advanced Vaccine Bioprocessing lab and the Grand Challenges Sénégal innovation fund.
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Operations Manager, The Elders
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ASL Interpreter, Individual
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Chief Executive Officer, Ilifa Labantwana
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Director, Birdy Communications
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Press Communications Specialist, Com' for it!
Wafaa Hammich is a devoted press communications expert dedicated to assisting non-profit organizations, start-ups, and companies in promoting ideas and projects that contribute positively to society. With a rich background as the Spokesperson and Communication Manager for the City of Brussels over an impressive 8-year tenure, Wafaa has demonstrated exceptional communication skills and strategic acumen.
Her contributions have not gone unnoticed, as she has been honored as one of Belgium's 40 under 40. Additionally, Wafaa serves as a curator expert at TEDxBrussels, showcasing her commitment to fostering meaningful dialogue and sharing impactful ideas on a global platform.
Wafaa is originally from Brussels, Belgium and holds a master degree in Journalism from the University of Brussels.
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Vice President, Investor Relations, The END Fund
Mireille Mather is currently VP Investor Relations at the END Fund - one of the leading, original collaborative funds effecting large-scale outcomes, with a focus on ending disease. Mireille holds over 20 years of executive leadership experience in the global development and humanitarian sectors. She has a passion for equitable partnerships.
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Deputy CEO, Equimundo
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Country Manager, International Budget Partnership
Maleine Niang is a public policy expert with a broad background in social equity and fiscal governance. He is a passionate advocate of the right to public service and is dedicating his career to shifting power to the underserved: people with disabilities, informal settlement dwellers and marginalized communities in sub-urban and rural areas. Maleine leads International Budget Partnership Senegal’s efforts to budget for the poor and promote safe, sustainable and cost-effective service delivery systems that are adapted to the needs and realities of the underserved. He strives toward ensuring that sanitation and health service delivery systems in Senegal are more inclusive, pro-poor and gender-intentional, leveraging the power of data and technological innovations. Through his work, Maleine invests in the leaders of transformative change: social movements, coalitions of civil society organizations, media and government actors across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Assistant Vice President, Advancement, USC Shoah Foundation
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Investment Manager, Rippleworks
Rumbidzai Maruza
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Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, Rippleworks
As a former advisor and now Head of Marketing at Rippleworks, I help companies navigate change and growth ambitions with a focus on purpose, culture, innovation and values-led thinking. I have extensive experience in brand & digital transformations, business and brand strategy, organizational design, change management, mentoring start-up founders and helping coach C-level executives scale their operations globally.
During my career, I have worked with the Centre for Social Innovation, Covenant House, MaRS Discovery District, Operation PreFrontal Cortex, Sinai Health, The Knowledge Society and the World Resource Institute (WRI). I have worked at the global level, as well as collaborating with specific markets, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, South Korea, UK and Vietnam.
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Manager, Global Pluralism Award, Global Centre for Pluralism
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Senior Program Officer, Scaling Innovation, Results for Development Institute
I’m a development communications expert passionate about innovative and inclusive human-centred approaches that use storytelling, narrative building, and indigenous knowledge to disrupt social hierarchies, secure greater equity and transform societies.
I'm currently working on supporting equitable development funding practice, inclusive demand-led innovation, and responsible scaling of development innovation for health, education and nutrition. I also manage a development innovation training that supports practitioners to engender stronger, more inclusive innovation ecosystems that can support the responsible scaling of diverse innovative solutions.
Outside of my role at R4D, I'm co-leading an incubation lab around African narratives for decolonising development funding and involved in an exploration using XR for collectively envisioning a transformed system without sexual and gender-based violence.
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Senior Fellow, Results for Development Institute
Felicia Khan is a Senior Fellow at Results for Development (R4D), working with the Innovation and Governance teams. She brings experience working cross-sector with partners to build assets and opportunities for social impact, and has contributed to systems change initiatives in Asia, Africa, and the U.S.. At R4D she works with the International Development Innovation Alliance and has led research and working groups focused on innovation ecosystem strengthening, advancing gender equality, and promoting technical, institutional and social innovation. More recently, her efforts have included promoting fair funding, more equitable partnerships and localization towards greater agency and systems change. Ms. Khan consultants specializing in learning, knowledge management and systems change. Projects range from coordinating Living Cities equitable rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina, to launching Ford Foundation’s GrantCraft initiative, to conducting research with HBS/HKS.
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National Director and Founder, Miss Earth South Africa
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Poet, Philosopher, Speaker, Individual
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Director, Rights and Livelihoods, Rights and Resources Group
Bryson Ogden is Director of the Rights, Livelihoods, and Private Sector Engagement Program of RRI. Bryson has 12 years of experience leading and supporting work in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America to advance rights-based economic development. He coordinates the Interlaken Group network of companies, investors, rightsholders and civil society, to scale up private sector support for
community land tenure. Prior to joining RRI, he worked as a portfolio manager and equity analyst, covering the energy sector. He also consulted for the Kenya Forestry Research
Institute in Nairobi. Bryson holds a B.S. in International Business from the University of
Arkansas, an M.P.A. in Environmental Policy, and an M.S. in Applied Ecology, both from Indiana University.
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Reporter, Global Development Desk, The Guardian
Sarah Johnson is a reporter on the global development desk at the Guardian.
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Individual, Individual
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Director, Africa Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation
Wadzanayi Muchenje is the Director, Africa Regional Office at The Rockefeller Foundation where she drives strategy on the Foundation’s priorities , engagements and investments across Africa. As a champion for locally led development, she's also leading efforts to ensure the scaling of locally led development approaches and solutions.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Wadzanayi was with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) where she worked with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health to develop and implement strategies to scale point-of-care diagnostic services, m-health solutions and access to next-generation, antiretroviral medicines.
Wadzanayi is fluent in English, French and Shona and holds a BA in International Affairs, Cum Laude, from the George Washington University and a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.
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Freelancer, Interpreter for Melissa Malzkuhn, Individual
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Founder, Policy Shapers
"Ebenezar Wikina is the Founder of Policy Shapers, a civic startup that empowers young people with the knowledge, skills, and tools to engage with public policy.
Mr. Wikina is also a Senior Partnerships Specialist at Nguvu Collective, a World Economic Forum Expert, a Senior Category Judge of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, a Trustee of the Sickle Cell Awareness and Health Foundation, a pioneer member of the British Council’s UK-Africa Youth Advisory Board, a founding member of the Open Government Youth Collective, and a Thematic Lead at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
Over the past three years, he has led the #ReformIELTS campaign which seeks to end the practice of mandating Anglo-Africans to write English proficiency tests while seeking study or work opportunities abroad. So far, the campaign has mobilized over 82,000 supporters, engaged policymakers across Africa, Europe, and North America, and influenced policy changes in 30 universities around the world.
Ebenezar is a Mandela Washington Fellow, Civic Hive Fellow, Bridge Fellow, and GIJN Fellow. He’s also the winner of the first-ever Soundcity Africa MVP Award for Community Development, the Royal African Youth Leadership Award, and the NESG Exceptional Leadership Award, to mention a few. Mr Wikina is an alumnus of the International Institute of Journalism Abuja, the London School of Journalism, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Stanford Center for Professional Development."
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Co-Founder & CEO, Fighting Chance Australia
"Laura O’Reilly is a social entrepreneur who is working to create change in the Australian disability sector. Inspired by her experiences as the sibling of a young man with cerebral palsy, Laura co-founded Fighting Chance in 2011 with her brother Jordan, a not-for-profit organization which today supports more than 1,000 adults with disability in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide through the operation of its social enterprises, including Avenue and Jigsaw.
In 2015, Laura and Jordan co-founded Hireup, an online platform connecting Australians with disability with support workers who fit their needs and share their interests. Since its launch, Hireup has facilitated more than 70,000 support connections, provided more than 8.5 million hours of support, saved the users of Hireup around $70 million in support funding, and has revolutionized the way that people with disability access support in the community.
Laura is a graduate of Cambridge University and the University of New South Wales, where she studied history and law respectively. Laura was the recipient of a range of awards while at University, including two Dean's List Prizes for Academic Excellence while at UNSW, and the Anne Jemima Clough and Jessie Forbes Prizes while at Cambridge. In September 2014 Laura was awarded the Australian Woman’s Weekly Woman of the Future, was a finalist for both the NSW Young Australian of the Year 2016 and NSW Woman of the Year 2019, and was a Westpac Social Change Fellow in 2018. Laura was awarded an OAM for services to the disability community in 2021.
Laura is a mother of three and her other interests include politics and global affairs."
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Individual, Individual
Operations and Logistics Coordinator
Serving with distinction on the Board of Trustees, Ibrahim Namoya exemplifies leadership in operational strategy and logistical management, underscored by a steadfast commitment to conflict resolution. His adept stewardship was instrumental in the seamless orchestration of a landmark SRHR festival, successfully hosting over 3000 attendees in a meticulously managed incident-free environment. Additionally his strategic foresight ensured the secured conduct of field operations within regions marked by volatility, maintaining an impeccable record of safety and efficiency.
Beyond his operational acumen, Mr Namoya champions the principles of inclusivity and respect, embedding these values within the organization's ethos and activities. His advocacy for a society where equality and mutual respect prevail is not only a testament to his professional dedication but also to his profound vision for societal transformation.
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Co-Founder, Nuestro Flow
Andrea González is the co-founder of Nuestro Flow, a company dedicated to designing social impact projects, Andrea combines her expertise as a social worker and industrial designer to make significant strides in promoting cultural diversity and gender equality in Colombia.
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Biologist, indigenous to the Kaingang people, international affairs from the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
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CEO, Kenya National Innovation Agency
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Deputy Director, Democracy Delivers Initiative, United States Agency for International Development
Melanie Vant is the Director of Democracy Delivers, an initiative surging resources to democratic openings around the world. Previously she served as the Chief of Staff for USAID’s COVID-19 Task Force, facilitating the Agency's global health and humanitarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 125 countries. Melanie also served as the Chief of Staff for Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's global food security and hunger initiative, and Power Africa, multi-billion dollar Presidential initiative that aims to double access to electricity across sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to USAID, Melanie worked at nonprofits to advance global health equity and economic justice as well as President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Melanie received her MPP in Political & Economic Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the proud mama of two lego-obsessed kids.
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Deputy Administrator for Policy and Programming, United States Agency for International Development
USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman is responsible for USAID’s policy and programming, overseeing the Agency’s Regional and Pillar Bureaus. As Deputy Administrator, she guides USAID’s crisis response, including representing USAID on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council, and oversees Agency efforts to promote food security, global health, democracy, and economic growth, and address the root causes of conflict.
Ambassador Coleman previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management, Reform and Special Political Affairs. She was formerly a partner with McKinsey, the Chief Operating Officer of GiveDirectly, and spent more than a decade as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of Princeton University and received her MPhil and DPhil degrees from Oxford University, which she attended on a Marshall Scholarship.
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Assistant Director, Planning & Research, DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Wellness
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Head of Sustainable Investing, Citigroup, Inc.
As Global Head of Sustainable Investing for Citi Global Wealth,
Harlin Singh works across Citi’s investment divisions to develop
and embed a comprehensive framework along the full spectrum
of sustainability — Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
integration, Socially Responsible, Thematic and Impact investments
— to help ensure the integration of sustainable practices aligns with
Citi’s best thinking on portfolio management, research and asset
allocation. Harlin is an observing member of the Global Investment
Committee and oversees the sustainable investing platform. She is
also a representative on Citi’s Net Zero Task Force to help Citi
reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Management Advisor, Elevate Prize Foundation
Esther Wang is currently Management Advisor at The Elevate Prize Foundation. She was a co-founder of IDinsight, a global non-profit that brings the best data to decisions in global development. From 2012-2024, she served as a Partner, COO, head of fundraising, and interim co-CEO, based in Zambia for 8 years. Earlier in her career, Esther was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and a co-founder of Shokay, a social enterprise in the Tibetan Plateau. She was a Partner at The Bridgespan Group, advising non-profits and philanthropies. Esther holds joint BS/BA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA/MPA from Harvard. She was also an Echoing Green Fellow and a Presidential Leadership Scholar. Esther serves as co-chair of the Alumni Council of the Center for Public Leadership, where she was a fellow, and on the Board of Directors for StrongMinds and Govuka. She advises IDinsight, Agency Fund, Imago Dei Fund, and Mighty Ally. She lives in Kenya with her family of 5.
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Member of the Board, BMW Foundation
Dr. Heba Aguib joined the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt in May 2019 as Chief Executive of the RESPOND accelerator program and has been a Member of the Board since August 1, 2023.
Heba Aguib brings expertise in health tech, R&D, and sustainable innovation. She established the Aswan Heart Research Centre in her home country, Egypt, in 2009.
As a leader of multidisciplinary projects at Imperial College London and TU Berlin, she championed collaborative, solution-driven approaches to advancing cross-sector projects in the fields of urban development, renewable energy, water management, and vocational education.
Based in Munich, Heba Aguib advocates for interconnectedness and a new leadership paradigm with the goal of accelerating innovations and solutions that promote both innovative economies and future proof democracies.
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CEO, The Elders
Alistair joined The Elders, an independent group of eminent global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to help resolve conflicts, address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. He advises Elders on all aspects of their activities and leads the Secretariat team.
Alistair's career spans development, human rights and foreign policy over three decades. He led British government aid programmes in Kenya, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and was a diplomat at the UN in New York and the UK Director responsible for World Bank policy. He has also been a strategy consultant with McKinsey, a humanitarian aid worker with Medecins Sans Frontieres, and a human rights campaigner with Amnesty International. He has lived and worked in 10 countries across 5 continents, including 10 years in Africa and South Asia.
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Minister of ITC, Government of Sierra Leone
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Lead Executive Officer for Health Quality and Innovation, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
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Chairperson, Barloworld Empowerment Foundation Trust
Louisa Zondo is a co-founder of the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism, Chairperson of the Barloworld Empowerment Foundation and former Chairperson of Oxfam South Africa.
A lawyer and social activist, she served as Deputy Executive Director of the Constitutional Assembly during South Africa's transition from apartheid, going on to become Chief Executive of the South African Human Rights Commission in 1996. Along with other members of her family, Louisa is currently involved in the work of the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism established in memory of her son Rikhado 'Riky Rick' Makhado, a well-loved music artist and creative who died in February 2022 from suicide. The efforts of the Foundation focus on mental health and wellbeing; energising artivism; fellowships supporting young creatives; and community engagement. In 2023 she published 'Dearest MaRiky: A Mother's Journey Through Grief, Trauma and Healing' a memoir reflecting on life and her late son.
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Executive, Creative Artists Agency
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Founder, The Conversation Strategists
Nozipho is the CEO of The Conversation Strategists - a niche communication firm that enables her to moderate high-level conversations arounnd the world. Nozipho is the go-to moderator for presidential conversations. She is an alumni of the Universities of Pretoria, Stellenbosch, and London with an academic background spanning politics, international relations, development, and economics.
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Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hannah is currently the interim Deputy Director for Global Health Innovations in the Global Policy and Advocacy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During her time at the Gates Foundation she has held a variety of positions within the Europe, Middle East and East Africa team. Prior to joining the foundation, Hannah led the Health team in a boutique public affairs company working for a variety of clients in the private and non-profit sectors. She has also worked in the UK Department of Education and the European Parliament. Hannah holds a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a LLM from the Brussels School of International Studies.
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Director, Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ghana Health Service (CIP)
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Individual, Individual (PI)
While living in New York City, Mauren currently sits on the Strategic Operations team for Uber where she works on growth and new products. Before Uber, while living in San Francisco, she worked in financial services for Deloitte servicing high-growth startups.
Outside of work, Mauren makes angel investments and funds women's health. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, and attended the University of Southern California graduating in 2020.
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VP of Learning, Resolve to Save Lives
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Managing Director, Results for Development Institute
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Founder and Executive Director, LUUM
Alejandro Torun is co-founder and director of Luum, an Ecommerce accelerator that connects social and environmental impact brands with the largest markets in the world. He co-created the brands Meema of sustainable textiles, and Danta of handmade goods, and has worked with over 50 impact brands distributing their products in North America and Europe. Alejandro is the founder of Baobab, a natural personal care brand in Guatemala, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Sistema B Central America and Caribbean. He previously was president of Sistema de Orquestas de Guatemala, a non-profit organization that brings orchestral music to children and youth, and co-led a project to preserve and promote the work of composer Joaquin Orellana, recording his music and performing Sinfonía desde el tercer mundo, in Athens, Greece during Documenta14. Alejandro has a BA in Economics with a minor in English from The University of Texas at Austin. He was born in Guatemala in 1977.
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Head of Mission, USAID Brazil, United States Agency for International Development
Mark Carrato is the USAID Director in Brazil. He leads the Mission in building on its 60 year partnership with the Brazilian government, private sector and civil society to create sustainable and innovative socio-economic development solutions for conservation and climate change in the Amazon as well as fortifying Brazil’s role in global health security.
Mark was previously the Coordinator of the USG’s Power Africa program—its largest partnership for development, with 200+ public and private partners who have committed $56 billion to double access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the USAID Foreign Service, Mark has also served as the Director of the USAID Office of Central America and Mexican Affairs, Chief of the USAID/Kenya and East Africa Office of Economic Growth and in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Colombia.
Before Going overseas, Mark was the Foreign Affairs Fellow for the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee for Foreign Appropriations.
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Journalist, Clarín
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Seasoned environmental professional with experience working across private, non-profit, and public sectors in multiple countries. Strong expertise and leadership in high-profile, pioneering policy research and development, advocacy, global initiatives. and diplomacy, connecting climate with tapestry of social and economic issues. Adept at negotiating and mobilizing stakeholders for historic, multi-lateral processes and outcomes, including design of the Paris Agreement. Proven track record of amplifying voices and solutions of vulnerable communities and countries, while fostering transformational global coalitions to achieve equitable, democratic and sustainable outcomes. Recognized as one of top 25 most influential women climate leaders on 2019 political agenda by "The Ecologist."
I am currently the Senior Vice President, International at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Prior to that, I was the Director of the Climate Justice Program at OSF.
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Managing Director, Decolonizing Wealth Project
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Chief Executive Officer, P150
Katarina (Kate) Czarniak is Executive Director of P150, a global network of philanthropy advisors. Kate has spent the majority of her career at the intersection of philanthropy and network building. Most recently, she built and led the philanthropy advisory practice at ICONIQ Impact and, prior to that, the Synergos Global Philanthropists Circle. Kate has also spent time in international development and international education, with roles at the Aga Khan Development Network, IREX, and the Council of Europe. Kate lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband and seven-year old son.
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Director of Finance and Operations, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Liz serves as the Deputy Executive Director of HOT, a nonprofit dedicated to community mapping to improve lives around the world. Liz previously worked at Lwala Community Alliance, the World Bank and the National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves on the board of Blood:Water.
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Founder, Blank Paperz Media
"Mirabelle Morah is a communications strategist and a 2D/3D motion designer with a keen interest in how storytelling and digital media can drive awareness, spur action, or shift mindsets. At the age of 17, she established BlankPaperz Media, an online platform that she grew to include more than 200 contributing writers and over 100,000 users. This platform is dedicated to publishing stories of young Africans who are creating innovative solutions and has organized communications workshops to further its impact. Mirabelle also initiated the BlankPaperz GC Fund, which supports young Nigerians by funding tuition fees, educational programs, and fostering creative and entrepreneurial skills.
Previously, Mirabelle served as the Communications Manager for the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF). She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh's Business School, as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar. Her academic and project work focuses on the development of creative social businesses and explores the intersections of technology and artificial intelligence."
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Vice President UK & Managing Director, CI-UK, Conservation International
Jonathan leads the UK office of Conservation International, an environmental NGO focused on securing the health of Earth's ecosystems for the well-being of all people. Jonathan leads on UK partnerships, reforming public sector finance for nature and people, and oversees our European policy work.
He was previously Head of Global Strategy & Operations at the RSPB, Europe's largest conservation NGO, overseeing landscape-scale partnership conservation program delivery in Europe, Africa and Asia. Prior to this he was Head of UK Overseas Territories at the same organisation, where he worked with these Small Island Developing States on large-scale marine conservation, helping to create several of the world's largest marine reserves. He also focused on habitat restoration, policy and civil society capacity-building.
Jonathan also sits on one of the UK Government's Biodiversity Challenge Funds review panels, and is a trustee of the Marine Conservation Society.
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Director of Global Communications, Malaria No More
Vicky Gashe is Director of Global Communications for Malaria No More UK (MNMUK), where she delivers innovative and creative advocacy & communications campaigns to help achieve the end the world's oldest and deadliest disease, malaria. Through the global Zero Malaria brand, Vicky has built campaigns that bring together voices from countries impacted by malaria, creative agencies, high-profile individuals and global NGOs, believing that the only way to tackle the world's greatest problems is through powerful partnerships.
At UNICEF she developed powerful communications campaigns and activity for 7: The David Beckham Fund for UNICEF, UNICEF's Innovation hub and innovative partnerships.
Vicky has a background in business sustainability communications, and spent a decade leading communications for The Prince's Responsible Business Network, - Business in the Community, where she worked with businesses to transform lives and help the planet and communities to thrive.
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Conceptual Artist, For Freedoms
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Partnerships Director, The Asian American Foundation
I've spent the last 10 years working in New York City in media and brand partnerships. Working at Discovery, Fox Corp, Vox Media, and most recently at Gamesquare Esports. I recently decided to make a pivot in my career and focus on supporting initiatives close to my heart. I am now at TAAF (The Asian American Foundation) working with our key clients and partners.
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MIssion Driven Investments Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Susie is a mission driven investor at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She is responsible for developing and executing strategic investments across asset classes that address the root causes of racial inequity and reduce the racial wealth gap to improve the lives of children and families. Susie empowers emerging fund managers and innovative companies to scale impact and build financial value. She brings the perspective of managing investments through multiple boom and bust cycles over the past 25 years, in the US and internationally. Susie is a bridge builder committed to transforming the capital markets through championing diverse leadership and governance. She is passionate about the potential for new modes of financing, and alternative ownership and exit structures to enable companies to sustain and scale impact in the long term. Susie invests in innovations in health equity, climate justice, education, future of work, fintech and access to capital.
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CEO & Publisher, KENGA Digital
Arinze is the Co-founder and Publisher of Kenga, a digital and print publication that creatively showcases African youth culture, featuring works from over 200 creatives worldwide. His commitment to supporting startups addressing Africa's critical challenges led him to The Fund for Africa's Future (also known as Future Africa), where he plays a key role in identifying and supporting investments in what could be Africa's next unicorns. Before his work with Kenga and Future Africa, Arinze was a Content Designer at Meta in London, focusing on designing new product features to reduce the spread of misinformation and sensitive content on Facebook and Instagram. During his time at Meta, he also co-founded EarlyAdmit, a coaching platform aimed at assisting high-achieving students from underrepresented minority backgrounds in gaining admission to the world's top graduate programs. Arinze's contributions to storytelling, venture-building, and social impact have been recognized by RIVET, Africa No Filter, and The Diana Awards.
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CEO, RAPS
Monica Sodre serves as the CEO of the Political Action Network for Sustainability – RAPS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering and developing political leaders. RAPS focuses on aiding elected decision-makers in prioritizing their commitment to democracy and addressing the climate emergency within their decision-making processes. Monica is Political Science Professor with a PhD in International Relations.
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Director People & Programs, 2X Global
Stella is a facilitator, community builder and strategist with over a decade of experience building and leading international teams. Stella is currently Director of People & Programmes at 2X Global, the industry body for gender finance. In this role she leads the People Practice for a growing fully remote global team as well as the teams developed the latest 2X Challenge - which has mobilised over $27 billion in gender-smart investments and the 2X Certification, an independent and universally available certification scheme.
Previous to this Stella was the Head of Programmes for the GenderSmart Investing Summit, a high profile global conference aimed at unlocking gender-smart capital at scale.
Stella is a Founding Fellow at the Bio Leadership Project - an ecosystem of people and projects transforming leadership by working with nature as well as Chair of Trustees for The Visionaries - an education movement equipping educators and young people to lead change with nature.
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Managing Director, Sayuni Capital
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Senior Health Media Adviser, Internews
Ida Jooste is a South African journalist and global media development specialist and media trainer. As senior health media adviser at Internews, a media non-profit working in 120+ countries, she has played a leading role in the organization’s COVID-19 pivot and health literacy work with media partners, helping them make meaning of fast-moving science for their audiences, to produce impactful narratives and to counter misinformation. Through the expansion of the Health portfolio at Internews, this media support has meanwhile broadened out to pandemic prevention, preparedness and response work as well as technical areas such as One Health approaches and the impact of climate change on health. Ms Jooste has deep and long-standing media specialisation in HIV science, sexual and reproductive health rights and gender-related health issues, science literacy and science and crisis communication. She is the winner of some twenty international and national (South Africa) journalism awards, a documentary maker, TV moderator and seasoned news editor. Ida finds satisfaction in working with journalists to craft stories which hold those in power to account to deliver the best that science can offer. Where time allows, she continues to write, including for Internews internal publications and independent media outlets.
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Principal, Constanter
Mr. Bernard Brenninkmeijer has been working for his family business and family philanthropic efforts for the past 30 years. He currently chairs the investment committee of the Argidius Foundation, sits on various other governance and investment committees as well as on the board of FADICA. Previously he was the CIO of the family philanthropic funds where he developed and implemented the responsible investing policy and also chaired the investment committee of the family venture capital fund. Prior to these roles he was an MD at Bregal Investments, working on both private equity fund investments as well as direct investments. Mr. Brenninkmeijer holds a bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Coordinator, Hackeo Cultural
Andrea Ixchíu is a Maya K'iche woman from Totonicapán, Guatemala. Land protector and storyteller. For more than 20 years she has been working in community communication processes to care for the life and territories of indigenous peoples. She is co-founder of the initiatives: Hackeo Cultural, Futuros Indígenas, Festivales Solidarios. Cultural manager, producer and audiovisual director. Consultant at Culture Hack Labs to create narratives for systems change.
Andrea is a Nobel Women’s Initiative Fellow, Ford Global Fellow, Bertha Foundation Fellow, was awarded with the Sakharov Prize Fellowship which honours individuals and groups who defend human rights and freedom of expression.
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Executive Director, LakeHub
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Co-Founder/Board President, Project Street Vet
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Board of Advisor for Collective Impact, Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari, Sustainable Districts Assoc., Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari
Gita Syahrani is a dedicated advocate and convener with nearly two decades of driving impactful collective actions for sustainable transformation within government and market systems.
After serving as the Head of Secretariat of Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL - Sustainable Districts Association) from 2017 to 2023, Gita transitioned to the Advisory Board in January 2024. She currently leads the Executive Board of Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi (KEM - Earth Centered Economy Coalition). Both organizations aim to create success stories around a restorative economy focused on biodiversity, positioning it as a cornerstone of Indonesia's long-term development strategy.
Gita's work has garnered international recognition, including her selection as an Asia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in 2019, becoming the first Indonesian Henry Arnhold Fellow of the Mulago Foundation in 2020, and winning MIT's SOLVE Challenge in 2021. In 2023, she was chosen as an Ashoka Fellow and received the Climate Breakthrough Award, marking her as a notable figure in environmental advocacy from Indonesia.
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Physician Specialist, American Indian Counseling Center
Dr. Andrea Garcia is a Physician Specialist at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, where she spends some of her clinical time at the American Indian Counseling Center. She otherwise has the privilege of focusing on the structural determinants of health for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community through issue areas such as homelessness, placemaking, data equity, narrative change, community defined evidence practices, and policy advocacy.
As a Mayoral appointee for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, Dr. Garcia serves as Chair of the subcommittee on homelessness. She also has the privilege of serving as Vice Chairperson for We Are Healers, a 501c3 that aims to increase the number of AIAN health professionals. Through all of her work, research, and volunteer endeavors, Dr. Garcia is most interested in centering the brilliance and inherent wisdom of Native people as they steward healthy futures for the next seven generations.
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Program Director, We Are Healers
Byron Ninham is Ojibwe and Oneida, born in Wisconsin and raised in Northern Minnesota. For over a decade, he has dedicated himself to teaching and supporting young people and students of all ages in Mille Lacs. Byron finds his greatest joy in helping his relatives deepen their understanding of indigenous languages and culture. He has been actively involved with We Are Healers, providing support and encouragement to future doctors. Byron currently resides in Pierz, MN, with his wife, Amy, and their three children.
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Founder AT4D & Director Innovate Now, Global Disability Innovation Hub
Bernard Chiira is the director of the Innovate Now project, Africa’s first assistive technology accelerator, and the founder of the Assistive Technologies for Disability Trust (AT4D). With a career spanning over a decade, Bernard has developed expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, assistive technology, and venture capital, making a global impact through collaborations across Africa, Europe, the UK, the USA, and beyond. In 2023, he was featured in a Forbes leadership column, heralded as a pioneer in "Disability Tech as a Game Changer for 2023 and Beyond." Bernard was also recognized as one of the 50 Most Fabulous Innovative Leaders by the World Innovation Congress in 2020. Beyond his professional endeavors, he shares his knowledge on various boards and committees, advising on international research collaboration, disability inclusion, and innovation. Bernard's passion and dedication have become a source of inspiration for individuals, startups, organizations, and governments, driving efforts to create a more inclusive world.
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Senior Executive Resident, MasterCard Foundation
Dr. Solomon Zewdu is Senior Executive Resident for Strategy and Planning at the Mastercard foundation on enterprise level social impact investments. Before transitioning to MCF, he spent seven years at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation as DD in the Africa office. He is a Medical Doctor with extensive expertise in global health, resilient health system designs, disaster preparedness response among many other career duties. He coordinated the Pan African SARSCoV2 BMGF investments and now help managed the MCF Saving lives and livelihood partnership. He shapes partnerships in workforce development, Pandemic preparedness, vaccine, therapeutics and diagnostics manufacturing and the full ecosystem. His 26 years career spans across the public and private sector, worked with multi-sectoral ministries, governments, DoD, academia, implementing partners and philanthropy. He is a decorated Lieutenant Colonel of the US Airforce and has run various humanitarian and disaster mitigation missions.
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CEO, WHO Foundation
Anil Soni is a proven innovator in global health who has worked for 20 years in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to expand healthcare access in low and middle-income countries. Before joining the WHO Foundation, he was Head of Global Infectious Diseases at Viatris, working across the pharmaceutical company to accelerate the availability of new treatments. Anil was closely involved in the early years of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, serving as the Advisor to the Executive Director and then Founding Executive Director of Friends of the Global Fight. He later served as CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where he oversaw the rapid expansion of the organization. Anil has been a senior advisor to the Gates Foundation and Born Free Africa. He is an alumnus of McKinsey and Harvard College and serves on the board of The Marshall Project.
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Head of Social Innovation and Corporate Giving, Bayer Foundation
Andrea is responsible for the strategic alignment, impact measurement and reporting of Bayer’s social engagement activities, including corporate giving, corporate volunteering and social innovation, the latter driven jointly with the Bayer Foundation team. She steers a community of social impact leaders in countries where Bayer has a presence, an leads interactions with non-profit organizations, social entrepreneurs and co-funding organizations for building partnerships in the area of health and nutrition. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and a lawyer by training, she has led legal and risk management teams at Bayer before engaging in the area of social impact.
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Deputy Director, Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative
Eszter servs as the deputy director of the Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative (TAI), a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people can access reliable information and have voice, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive. Passionate about advancing informed, safe and effective civic participation at the nexus of economic and social rights, environment and climate justice. Before joining TAI, Eszter worked for over two decades with the Open Society Foundations managing grant making and advocacy work, supporting organizations and networks globally and locally, advancing the rights of the most vulnerable communities such as indigenous and afro communities, women, and informal workers.
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Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics
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Regional Lead, Sattva Consulting
I am a leader in the social impact space with close to 20 years of international experience helping organisations achieve catalytic social impact. My unique point of view stems from having worked at all levels of social innovation, from social enterprises to large foundations and multinational corporations. I’m adept at launching and scaling programmes that achieve deep impact and have a global reach. At Thomson Reuters Foundation I launched and scaled the Trustlaw programme which quickly became the largest provider of free legal assistance to social sector organisations in over 100 countries. At Avanti Communications I launched a pilot in the DRC that reduced infant and maternal mortality through the use of innovative smart glasses, allowing health workers in remote areas to get assistance from specialists. At Sattva Consulting I'm helping European funders deepen their impact in Asia and Africa through a variety of initiatives including climate adaptation solutions.
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State Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
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Chief Marketing Officer, Elevate Prize Foundation
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Secretary General, Grupo de Institutos Fundações e Empresas (GIFE)
Cassio França is a political scientist from Unicamp, master and doctor in Public Administration and Government from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EAESP – SP), with a postdoctoral at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE – LACC). Group moderator, specialized in language ontology. He is secretary general at GIFE.
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Founder and CEO, Georgie Badiel Foundation
Georgie, also known as "The Water Princess," was born in the Ivory Coast and spent her formative years between the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. She is the fifth child among ten siblings. Georgie's early life was marked by her time in the village of Koffikro, where she would wake up at 6 AM daily to accompany her grandmother and female cousins on water-fetching trips. Beyond her philanthropic work, Georgie is a co-author of the children's book "The Water Princess" and the author of "Water Is Here." She finds fulfillment in her entrepreneurial pursuits and cherishes her marriage to the remarkable Chid Liberty.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Taleemabad
Haroon is a teacher at heart and entrepreneur by profession, dedicated to using technology to ensure quality learning gets delivered to the masses.
Along with his team, he built the Taleemabad app and scaled it to 1.5 million learners across Pakistan. Taleemabad's content is also broadcast on national television to an audience of over 8.5 million weekly subscribers. According to a third-party survey, 87% of parents using Taleemabad reported seeing tangible learning gains for their children.
Taleemabad’s now deploying these assets to help affordable private schools across the region do better business and give better education. Taleemabad uses its parent network to give the school additional admissions, contingent on them using the Taleemabad product to achieve a certain benchmark of learning quality. Taleemabad has set up 170 schools in a year and aims to reach 1000 schools by next year.
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Investment Manager, AfricInvest
Jordan has been based in Nairobi for the past 13 years working primarily in the impact investment space, with a focus on healthcare. Prior to AfricInvest, Jordan worked with the Aureos Africa Health Fund and the Abraaj Global Health Fund on investments in the healthcare space across East Africa. She also managed a non-profit empowering marginalized youth across Africa as entrepreneurs in the wellness industry. In her role as Investment Manager with the Transform Health Fund, she supports companies creating access to quality, affordable healthcare products and services for underserved populations across Africa. Jordan is also a yoga teacher and expressive arts facilitator.
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Founder, Meat Less Meet More
I'm Shreya Ghodawat, a sustainability and climate activist and SHE Changes Climate India Ambassador.
As the co-founder of Meat Less Meat More, I curate experiences focused on plant-based and cruelty-free living, bringing together like-minded individuals committed to reducing their environmental impact.
I've recently launched my podcast, Sustainable Tea with Shreya, where I host discussions with change-makers and experts to increase awareness and inspire positive change.
Additionally, I speak at climate-focused events like TEDxOxford and COP28 and engage in panel discussions, advocating for actionable solutions to address climate change and promoting sustainable practices.
Through these engagements, I aim to inspire others to join the movement for a healthier planet.
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Head of Lab, Go to Impact Foundation
Aristiwidya Bramantika is driven by a profound passion for leadership, culture, and their transformative potential.
As a seasoned facilitator, she empowers individuals and teams to excel, fostering collaborative environments where innovation thrives. At Gojek, Indonesia's pioneering decacorn, she spearheaded initiatives to shape and optimize the company's culture. Now, at GoTo Impact Lab, she extends her expertise beyond corporate confines, aiming to empower local communities across Indonesia. Leading the Changemakers Study, she delved into the narratives of 300 Indonesian changemakers, unraveling insights into driving social change at scale. With a vision of inclusive growth, she works to equip communities with the tools and knowledge necessary to innovate and address pressing challenges, ultimately enhancing livelihoods and well-being. Leveraging local wisdom, she seeks to foster solutions that are deeply rooted in the cultural fabric of Indonesia, ensuring lasting and meaningful change.
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Program and Partnership Manager, Build Health International
Devin Nagle joined Build Health International in 2022 as the Program and Partnership Manager, where she supports partnership development and medical oxygen programming. She is focused on working with community-based organizations and governments to achieve health equity through strengthening healthcare infrastructure. Devin has experience working on medical oxygen access, immunization, WASH, and maternal and child nutrition programing in low-income settings including Liberia and Nepal. Devin holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University.
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DG/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
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Dr. Patrick Ulysse is the Chief Operating Officer of Partners In Health. Patrick has over 15 years of experience in health systems strengthening and emergency response, beginning as a physician in his home country of Haiti with the Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). He joined PIH / Zanmi Lasante in 2007 and subsequently served in multiple roles including as Deputy Director of Earthquake Response in 2010 and Regional Director of the Central Plateau and Lower Artibonite. In 2017, he became Executive Director of PIH-Liberia where he led post-Ebola response efforts for two years and has since served in his current role as COO, overseeing global operations across PIH's 12 care delivery and university sites. Patrick holds his Doctorate of Medicine from University of Haiti and Masters in Public Health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
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Individual, Alliance for Sustainability
He has been a sustainability leader in the public, private and nonprofit sectors for 50 years as a director, legislative assistant, consultant, agricultural economist, Natural Step Instructor, speaker and author of Breaking the Pesticide Habit and The Humane Consumer and Producer Guide.
Terry volunteers as President of the Alliance for Sustainability, which he co-founded in 1983 following sustainable agriculture in 45 countries. As CEO of Sustainability Associates, he works with business and institutions to save money, improve performance and become sustainability leaders.
He has been a White House and Congressional aide, Aveda Director of Ecological Affairs and Sustainability, Cargill economist, International Alliance for Sustainable Executive Director, Wall Street brokerage assistant, Minneapolis College of Art & Design adjunct faculty and Sacramento Community Garden Program Co-Founder. He completed his MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics at UC Davis and MBA at Yale.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Gramhal
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Senior Advisor, Pivotal Ventures
John is the Senior Advisor to Melinda French Gates at Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created to advance social progress in the US. As Senior Advisor, John serves as a sounding board and thought partner and leads select strategic priorities on behalf of Melinda.
John previously served as the founding President & CEO of Pivotal Ventures after serving as Melinda’s Chief of Staff for many years. This followed more than 20 years leading strategic initiatives for global companies, including Microsoft, Disney and Starbucks.
A pioneer in social enterprise, in 1997 John cofounded Pura Vida Coffee, an organic fair- trade coffee company with distribution throughout the US. He is an Ashoka Fellow, an honor that recognizes entrepreneurs using business to transform society.
John received his MBA from Harvard University after earning a BA with Honors from Stanford University. He and his wife, Shelly, live in Seattle and have three sons: Jackson, Nick and Matthew.
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Crossbench Peer, British Parliament (House of Lords)
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Co-Founder and CEO, Labhya Foundation
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Senior Director, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
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Chief Officer for Growth & Engagement, Facing History and Ourselves
Dimitry Anselme is the Chief Officer for Growth & Engagement at Facing History & Ourselves. He joined the organization in 1999 after teaching American & World History courses at Brookline high school and at Doherty high school, in Worcester Massachusetts. Mr. Anselme has also served as the High School Principal for the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School in Boston.
During his tenure at Facing History & Ourselves, Mr. Anselme has occupied a variety of leadership roles overseeing Online Learning, Program Staff Development team, Jewish Education, the Partner School Network, International Programming. Since 2018, Dimitry has been leading a Program design & innovation effort to help imagine new products and services. He is spearheading an organizational effort combating contemporary antisemitism in Europe and the US. He has been overseeing the organization’s effort to raise earned revenue.
Dimitry graduated from Clark University and received his Master of Education at the Har
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Karuna Raina is the Director of public Policy & Research at SaveLIFE Foundation and leads SLF’s system-change efforts at both the national and State level.
Karuna has been a development professional for over 15 years, with a special focus on design, strategy and policy advocacy. Before joining SLF, she worked for a number of international organizations in the areas of Environment, Gender-based Violence and Conflict. She is an M. Phil in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi and is a published author.
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Folawe Omikunle is a social entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in Education, Development, Non-profit Management, Fundraising, and Sustainability. She is currently the CEO of Teach For Nigeria, a non-profit organization focused on addressing educational inequity by recruiting young leaders to serve as teachers in Nigeria's under-served schools.
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Director of Innovation & Impact Labs, MasterCard Foundation
I an based in Kigali, Rwanda, where I lead the Innovation and Impact Labs portfolio for the Mastercard Foundation as a space to explore, validate, and scale alternative impact pathways for young women and men in Africa and Canada. I have nearly two decades of experience in contributing to and leading the design and implementation of broad-scale social impact and innovation initiatives. My interests and expertise encompasses applied innovation theory, economics, social research, impact measurement, design thinking, behavioral and management science, digital development, and data science. I try to utilizing this diverse expertise to amplify the role of innovation in transforming societies towards greater equity and widespread prosperity.
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Shantha Rau Barriga is the Deputy Executive Director at WITNESS, an organization that helps people use video and technology to defend human rights. Previously, Shantha was the Founding Director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, where she oversaw research and advocacy on the rights of people with disabilities and older people around the world. She also served as interim co-Deputy Executive Director and head of the Brussels office of Human Rights Watch. Shantha has authored numerous reports, essays and commentaries, and has extensive media experience. Her talk on how to end stigma against people with disabilities is featured on TED. Shantha received degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Scholar to Austria.
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Co-Founder, Future Leaders
Daniella has a professional background in international and human rights law that has positioned her to advise and support non-profit organisations that promote social justice and human rights. She has experience as a public defender in South Africa and as a magistrate in the UK. Her passion and expertise lies in integrating ideas and in bringing diverse groups together around shared goals. She also advises projects in Israel that promote peace building and human rights for all. Currently she is a trustee of ACF, the UK foundation that supports MII, a consciousness-based university in South Africa.
Most recently, Daniella co-founded the Future Leaders Programme - an online leadership programme for young asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, including young mothers. The programme aims to create community, cultivate confidence and help young refugees integrate into suciety.
Daniella is married with three beautiful children and lives in London, originally from South Africa.
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Women in Public Office Strategy Lead, Pivotal Ventures
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Director of Strategic Grants, McGovern Foundation
Nick has been working at the intersection of technology, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector for 15 years. He currently leads the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation’s strategy team, which advances AI-, and data-driven solutions to global challenges through hypothesis-driven grantmaking, partnerships, and ecosystem engagement.
Before he joined PJMF, Nick was a Principal and Climate Lead at Google.org, where he was responsible for a $30M AI-focused climate portfolio. He also led a global five-person team responsible for Google’s employee volunteering programs and launched the Google.org Fellowship, which places Google engineers in residence with leading nonprofits.
Nick is a board member at Path Home, and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nick founded the Portland chapter of Frontline Foods, which raised more than $200K in cash relief for local restaurants. Nick earned a bachelor's from Columbia University and an MBA with honors from the Berkeley-Haas School of Busines
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Founder and Chair, Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative
Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing advocacy campaigns and advising governments for over 30 years. She is the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair and Founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Tzeporah publishes and speaks widely on fossil fuels and climate change. Dr Berman holds an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia and was an adjunct professor at York University for 5 years. In 2019 she was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award of $2 million dollars to develop a bold new global climate strategy and in 2021 she gave a widely viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels.
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Global Director- Equity, Gender & Youth, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
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CFO, Tech Matters
Aaron is an experienced nonprofit professional with 20 years of experience in the sector. Most recently Aaron was a leader at a social enterprise focused on technology, education, and disabilities. Aaron recently joined Tech Matters as CFO, and is excited to continue building software that delivers social impact. Aaron holds a degree in Psychology from Swarthmore College and a MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Chair of our Global Leadership Team, Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH
Suresh K Krishna serves as the Chairperson of the Global Leadership Team at Yunus Social Business. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru, as well as a co-founder and partner of Yunus Social Business India Initiatives. Yunus Social Business, founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and Saskia Bruysten, aims to promote Social Business as an effective means to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The organization provides patient finance to support game-changing social businesses in India, Brazil, and East Africa, addressing critical social challenges in a financially sustainable manner.
Suresh has over 25 years of experience in social business, microfinance & working with low income households.. He was the Managing Director of CreditAccess Grameen, India's largest NBFC-MFI, for over 15 years. He is passionate about social businesses, micro housing, financial literacy, and livelihoods for the poor.
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Jasmine (she/her) is part of the Convenings team, supporting the operations and logistics for Skoll Foundation convenings, including the Skoll World Forum.
Jasmine’s work has been focused on the intersection of the performing arts, entertainment, and social impact sectors. She has produced various events and productions across Broadway, Off-Broadway, and London’s West End.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Jasmine served as Executive Director of the Phenomenal Theatre Fund, a startup nonprofit within Meena Harris’ Phenomenal Media. Previously, she worked with JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions to build the company’s live events and theatre division. She has also held numerous creative and production roles at Tony Award-winning companies and has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jasmine holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and a minor in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University. She is driven by a passion to uplift marginalized voices and build experiences for people to gather in community.
Jasmine is a lover of self-care, cooking, music, and her chaotic rescue dog, Nala. She is originally from Atlanta, GA and is based in Washington, DC by way of Brooklyn, NY.
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Tribal Delegate, Cherokee Nation
I serve as Delegate to Congress for Cherokee Nation, the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. I also serve as Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation Businesses, and Director of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation overseeing federal and state priorities for the Nation and its businesses. Prior to these positions, I spent nearly 20 years in Washington, D.C. serving as the first ever senior policy advisor for the bi partisan Congressional Native American Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, and first ever senior policy advisor for Native American Affairs for U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House Domestic Policy Council where I developed and executed federal policy related to Native Americans.
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PMEL Director, Land of Rights
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Senior Program Officer, Global Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Vice President, Investments,
Kiva
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Executive Director, Acento
Sylvia Aguilera is the Executive Director of Acento Acción Local, which is the first fund in Mexico that aims to promote human rights and social justice at the local level.
For the past 25 years, Sylvia has been working as a human rights defender and has also served as a facilitator for various public conflicts in Mexico. This includes managing lands and natural resources, advancing human rights, promoting the justice system, advocating for victims' rights, and promoting women's rights in different civil society organizations. She has also provided consultancy services on negotiation and human rights to several Mexican and Latin-American organizations, including the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights.
Sylvia holds a bachelor’s degree in social psychology and a master’s degree in peace studies. She received the Omecihuatl medal from the Government of Mexico City in 2004 and was named a World Fellow by Yale University in 2018.
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Editor-in-Chief, The Markup
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Co-Founder & Pledger, Generation Pledge
Marina is co-founder of Generation Pledge, an organization that supports inheritors worldwide deploy their polycapital (economic, social, political, and career capital) towards exceptional impact, before and after inheritance. They are a global network of trusted advisors, impact and positive psychology experts, and peers united in a mission to responsibly steward this period of intergenerational wealth transfer at unprecedented scale. Collectively, they seek to address the most pressing issues of our time and create a world we would be happy to be born in at random.
Marina is also a member of the 4th generation of the Feffer family, from Suzano Group. She actively engages in her family’s governance, participating in the Shareholders board and Arymax Foundation’s board (family’s philanthropic entity).
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CEO & Founder, Mosquera Rosado
Ana Lucia Mosquera is a communication and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) specialist, an activist, and a university professor. As the Founder and CEO of Mosquera Rosado - Communication and Diversity, Ana Lucia leads initiatives to integrate DEI principles into organizational practices. In 2024, she will be a Georgetown University GCL fellow. She currently serves as the Vice-president of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association (ALARA) and is a member of the Global Future Council on Sustainable Tourism of the World Economic Forum.
In 2020, she was a Fellow of the Programme for people of African descent at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, highlighting her significant contributions to DEI and her advocacy for Afro-Latin American communities.
She earned her Bachelor's in Communications from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and holds two Master's degrees: a Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a Master of Liberal Arts in Africana Studies, both from the University of South Florida. Ana Lucia is certified in Afro-Latin American Studies by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. She is also a certified professional in Diversity and Inclusion in ISO: 30415 by the University of Georgia and has a certification in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace from the University of South Florida.
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VP of Sustainability and Policy, Viessmann Foundation
Alix Chambris is leading sustainability at the Viessmann Group since January 2019. She is currently Vice President Sustainability and Impact Investment. Alix has twenty years experience in policy making and the private sector, with a strong focus on energy and climate policy, and sustainability.
She has worked in the European Commission where she drafted regulations on the eco-design and energy labelling of energy related products. Prior to joining Viessmann, she was heading EU Public Affairs for the Danish Group Danfoss. She has been president of EuroACE, the European alliance for energy efficiency in buildings, and vice-president of EU-ASE, the European alliance for energy savings.
Alix holds a master’s degree in Economics from the College of Europe and a master’s degree in German language and civilisation. She also graduated at the Institute of Political Science at Science-Po Strasbourg and at the Marc Bloch University in Polish language and civilisation.
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Incoming CEO, Precision Development (PxD)
Niriksha Shetty is the incoming Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Precision Development (PxD). PxD leverage technology, data science and behavioral economics serving over 10 million farmers across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Niriksha has worked with PxD since its inception, playing a critical role in developing and expanding PxD’s programs as India Country Director and Chief of Programs, building and transition services reaching millions of smallholder farmers to government partners. Niriksha brings over a decade of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based interventions in the agriculture sector. Niriksha holds a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Director, Global Partnerships, Corporations & Foundations,
Room to Read
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Relationship Manager, The Giving Pledge
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Co-Founder & Executive Director, Open Television
Elijah McKinnon (they/them) is an award-winning strategist, entrepreneur and visionary from the future currently residing on planet earth. They are the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Emmy-nominated streaming platform and non-profit media incubator, Open Television (OTV). Over the past decade, they have worked tirelessly to create brave and equitable spaces for intersectional communities to thrive. Through various non-profit and grassroots initiatives, Elijah has raised over $10 million dollars toward amplifying the lived experiences of intersectional communities marginalized by market and society. In 2023, they were selected as a winner of the Elevate Prize and recognized by MacArthur Foundation as an inaugural Arts of Leadership Fellow of the Rockwood Leadership Institute for their fierce commitment to building collective power and sustainable ecosystems.
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Strategic Partnerships Manager, African Visionary Fund
Shamira Lukomwa is a social impact professional who has dedicated her career to advancing transformative, equity-centered social impact on the African continent and within the African diaspora. With over a decade of experience, Shamira has engaged with the social impact space through philanthropy, international development, public policy, and consulting across North America, East, and West Africa.
She holds a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and undergraduate degrees in Global Studies and Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Impact Manager, Solutions Journalism Network
Alec Saelens (he/him) is the Solutions Journalism Network's Impact Manager: He connects the dots across the organization and within our network to ensure we track our activities’ outcomes as well as the impact of solutions journalism on society and the industry. In his former role, he researched the connection between solutions journalism and revenue. He is co-founder of The Bristol Cable, the UK’s pioneering local media cooperative. Before SJN, he was a researcher and coach for the Membership Puzzle Project and an analyst for NewsGuard.
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Regional Manager, Mesoamerica Territorial Fund
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Senior Technical Director, Partnerships and Investments, ACDI VOCA/ AV Ventures
Ovidiu drives AV Ventures' growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by building impactful investment and educational vehicles that support mid-sized ventures in agtech, food systems, renewable energy, blue economy ventures, gender, climate adaptation, access to finance. Ovidiu serves as Director in the Corporate Council on Africa, Board of Directors. He is designer/host of the RootsTofoods.com podcast, a dynamic vehicle to disseminate practical wisdom in business, finance, management and to introduce breakthrough technologies to the next generation of African entrepreneurs. Designed/ led U.S. Department of State’ GIST Initiative a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem in 80 countries across Africa, Middle East, and Asia, won recognition from President Obama and Secretaries Kerry, Clinton and founded LEADERS Foundation the first nationwide organization to restore a vibrant entrepreneurial culture in Romania. MIT Sloan (MBA), Harvard Kennedy School (MPA). U.S. Department of State Speakers’ Program.
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Co-Founder and Team Leader, Evidence and Methods Lab
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Coordinator of the Biodiversity & Wild Health Institutional Platform, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
I began my career studying the parasites of wild animals and prehistoric men in the Serra da Capivara National Park, a World Cultural Heritage Site, which in the last 9 thousand years was transformed due to climate change into a semi-arid ecosystem - the Brazilian Caatinga. The transformation of this scenario teaches us how environmental and climate changes modulate the emergence of new zoonoses and from there I had the opportunity to propose and develop the Wild Health Information System Platform (SISS-Geo).
Now I coordinate the SISS-Geo Platform, which in partnership with the Brazilian Health System and society. We seek the participation of all people in the different Brazilian biomes. So, real-time alerts can assist investigation in the field and provides quality data for the development of sophisticated prediction models that contribute to prevention and control actions, such as the scheduled vaccination of people and the participatory surveillance of zoonoses in Brazil.
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Chief Brand and External Affairs Officer, Blue Meridian Partners
As Chief Brand and External Affairs Officer, Micah serves as the organization’s senior communications leader and brand steward, responsible for building and maintaining the Blue Meridian Partners brand, designing and implementing communications and engagement strategies to help advance our mission, and overseeing communications to both external and close-in constituencies. She is also responsible for leading development of new products, experiences, and institutional partnerships that support capital raising, engage key stakeholders, and allow the testing of market-building strategies.
Previously, Micah worked in brand management at PepsiCo and Kimberly Clark, where she developed business and innovation strategies, led marketing campaigns, and launched new products for both established billion-dollar brands and new brands. Early in her career, she worked at Bain & Company, where she consulted to Fortune 500 companies, and as a portfolio associate at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
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Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
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Executive Director, Fundo Casa Socioambiental
Maria Amalia Souza is Founder/Director of Strategic Development of Casa Socio-Environmental Fund. Her career of 38+ years was dedicated to designing strategies that assure philanthropic resources reach the most excluded communities working on social and environmental justice issues in the Global South. She is on the Board of Directors of AIDA-Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, served for 6 years in the Human Rights Funders Network Steering Committee, and is co-founder of both the Comuá Network - Philanthropy for Social Justice and the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur•Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South. She advocates for urgent resource distribution to the Global South through global lectures and engagement in international philanthropic spaces. In 2023 was honored by Global Landscapes Forum as one of "16 Women Restoring the Earth" and received the Up With People J. Blanton Belk Award for Outstanding Services to Humanity.
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Executive Director, People's Action
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Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Imagine Worldwide
For the last decade, Joe has been dedicated to launching, supporting and leading educational philanthropies. Prior to co-founding Imagine, Joe co-founded The Learning Accelerator and Open Up Resources, two highly successful nonprofits focused on innovation and equity in the U.S. K-12 market. Joe’s earlier leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and RS Investments afford him a multifaceted perspective with which to lead Imagine Worldwide as CEO. He has also served on the boards of the Clayton Christensen Institute, NPX Advisors, Summer Search, New Classrooms, and the New Schools Venture Fund. Joe is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Harvard Business School.
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Principal, King Philanthropies
Midori is a Principal at King Philanthropies, working across both grants and impact investments.
She began her career at Goldman Sachs, where she first supported the management of the company’s liquidity, funding, capital, and allocation of financing, before she moved to the trading floor to structure complex equity derivatives. She then worked at BlackRock on the Public Policy team, with a focus on ESG policy.
Midori received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business with a Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation, her Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
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Advisor, The New Humanitarian
Until Feb 2024, Heba Aly ran the world’s leading source of original, field-based journalism about humanitarian crises, The New Humanitarian. She transformed the organisation from a niche UN project to a hard-hitting, impactful independent newsroom shining a light on forgotten crises and holding the aid sector to account. In 2023, she was awarded the Weintz Humanitarian Award by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, which honors a visionary public figure who has demonstrated superior leadership in a time of humanitarian crisis. Before that, Heba spent one decade reporting from conflict zones in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia as a journalist. She received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for work in northern Sudan. Her TED Talk, "Stop Eating Junk News", drives home the importance of responsible journalism. Today, Heba convenes frank and forward-looking conversations about the future of crisis response, including through the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast.
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Executive Director, WINGS
Benjamin is the Executive Director at WINGS. He has previously led international programmes in fields such as civil societies’ strengthening, sustainable development or post-disaster reconstruction. He has managed international programs at Fondation de France, worked for the International Cooperation Agency of Monaco and several NGOs in Ethiopia, Tunisia and Canada.
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Partnerships Analyst, CEO Office, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
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Deputy CEO, Aflatoun International
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Lumbee Hoop Dancer & Storyteller, Individual
Eric Hernandez, a proud member of the Lumbee tribe, is an esteemed Native American hoop dancer with over 20 years of experience. Mentored by Terry Goedel, Eric's skills took center stage as the lead in Cirque du Soleil's "Totem," touring over 17 countries. A recent TEDx speaker, his mission is to challenge stereotypes and spread ancestral wisdom about Native Americans through the art of hoop dance.
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Founder & President, Rede Mulher Empreendedora
Ana Fontes is a Brazilian social entrepreneur and the founder of Rede Mulher Empreendedora (RME) and Instituto RME. She holds the position of Vice-president on the UN Brazil’s Global Compact Council and is a member of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil’s Economic, Social, and Sustainable Development Council.
Ana also plays a leading role in W20, an engagement group of the G20, and serves as a counselor for Unimed Assist, Avon Institute, and in the management boards of Brazilian universities, UAM/Grupo Anima. Forbes Brazil magazine recognized her as one of Brazil's most powerful women in 2019, and she was featured on the cover of the edition about "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" the following year.
In March 2022, Ana published her first book, "Negócios: um assunto de mulheres - A força transformadora do empreendedorismo feminino," translating to "Business: a subject for women - The transformative power of female entrepreneurship" in English.
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Executive Director, RestoringVision
Pelin Munis, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer at RestoringVision. She has over 20 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, resource mobilization, and advocacy.
Under her leadership, RestoringVision became the most prolific vision-focused nonprofit and leader in addressing presbyopia at scale, reaching 26 million people in 147 countries with 3,000 NGO and government partners.
Before joining RestoringVision, Pelin founded a distribution company operating in seven markets and consulted with NGOs and governments on program development and evaluation. She has been awarded government grants and has published papers in professional journals.
She holds a B.A. in Psychology from The George Washington University, an M.S. in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from University of Miami. She serves on Charity Navigator's Council of Nonprofit Leaders, UN Friends of Vision, and WHO Global SPECS Network Foundation Committee.
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Head of External Relations, 100x Impact Accelerator
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Co-Founder, Black Feminist Fund
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Co-Founder & CIO, Karya
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Chief Sustainability & Growth Officer, Cultivo
Caroline has 25 years commercial experience in general management, strategy and marketing leadership roles based in London, Beijing, Washington DC and Melbourne across the energy, automotive and professional service sectors. She is a Board member of The Soil Association and its Certification business, and a committed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advocate previously leadling Shell’s UK Gender Equality network.
Caroline has a Science degree from the University of Melbourne, a Master’s in Marketing from Monash University and completed the University of Cambridge Business Sustainability Management executive programme. Raised on a farm in Australia, Caroline was also co-founder of a winery early in her career.
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Chief Operations Officer, ZayoHub Mafisa
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Global Climate Strategies, Climate Lead
Frank Nguyen is an Associate on the Global Climate Strategies team at the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), where he curates and delivers high-impact giving opportunities and strategies to donors. Prior to joining CLI, Frank worked as a consultant at Mastercard helping companies ranging from financial institutions to grocers make data-driven decisions. Frank received a BS in chemical and biological engineering and a minor in sustainable energy from Princeton University. He developed his interest in energy and the environment through research projects in alternative fuels and renewable energy and helped start the university’s Energy Association.
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Regional Director, Women's Earth Alliance
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Founder & CEO, Springboard Nigeria
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Executive Director and Founder, Law, Environment, & Natural Resources (DAR)
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Program Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Senior Director, Climate Emergency Collaboration Group
With over 12 years of experience in advocacy, campaigns and mobilization, I use media, social media, advocacy, political strategy and negotiation skills to create positive change in the world. I have developed an ample experience in global environmental talks, having worked in partnership with environmental, grassroots and Indigenous Peoples organizations around the world, but in particular in Latin America and Africa. I have dedicated myself over these years to ensure local voices have a say in global negotiations, and positive policies developed at the top level spaces are streamlined with respect to human rights standards and the protection of nature. In Brazil, I have built a reputation as a leading voice in the non-profit and political sectors, having worked in several campaigns on issues such as anti-corruption, transparency, digital rights, environment and climate change, and human rights.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Brastorne Enterprises
Martin Stimela, the co-founder and CEO of Brastorne, is dedicated to addressing the digital divide that affects 760 million underserved Africans. With a wealth of experience spanning over 15 years in digital transformation, health informatics, and healthcare system strengthening, Martin has demonstrated his expertise through the successful management of US government cooperative agreements and grants aimed at enhancing health systems. Notably, he held the position of Informatics Director for both the CDC and USAID. In Botswana, he played a pivotal role in establishing the Health Informatics Unit at the Ministry of Health and implementing a national health informatics policy. Throughout his career, he has provided consultancy services to prominent telecommunications networks and financial institutions, introducing cutting-edge products and implementing best practices, particularly in areas such as value-added services (USSD), wireless infrastructure, and banking.
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Director, Rivonia Circle
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Executive Director, West Africa Civil Society Institute
Nana Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), has worked with and within the civil society sector for the past 24 years and is a passionate advocate for sustainable development in Africa with the full participation of an effective, efficient, influential and sustainable civil society. Her passion for leading change and challenging the Status Quo on the continent, recently landed her a place on the Avance Media 2020 100 Most Influential African Women List.
Nana is a lawyer by profession and has worked on areas of governance, human rights, philanthropy and capacity development with national, international, continental and regional organisations in Africa.She currently serves on the Management Committee of the University of Ghana School of Law, the AfDB-CSO Committee, the Governing Council of YALI-RLC, the Star Ghana Foundation, OXFAM GB, and Resource Alliance Boards.
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Commissioner, National Commission of Disabilities, Indonesia
Eka Prastama serves as the Commissioner of the National Commission for Disability in Indonesia. With more than 10 years of experience in disability and inclusive development issues and social innovation, Eka focuses on ensuring the fulfillment of the rights of persons with disabilities in Indonesia. His work spans national-global coordination across various sectors, Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR), advocacy for policy and regulation development, as well as conducting research, monitoring, and evaluation. Eka actively engages in areas such as inclusive education, disability-inclusive health, assistive technology, social welfare, disability data, inclusive employment, and the empowerment of children and individuals with disabilities. In his role as Commissioner (2021-2026), Eka is responsible for accelerating disability-inclusive development across all stakeholders, initiating social innovation for organizations of persons with disabilities and universities, and spearheading innovative programs for the Government.
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Co-Founder & Strategy Coordinator, Aúna
Cofounder and strategy coordinator of Aúna, an incubator and accelerator of women leadership in democratic new representation practices for peacebuilding, social and environmental justice.
Mónica graduated from El Colegio de México, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, specializing in social policy and development.
She has a history of cofounding of coalitions, civil society organizations and civic leadership networks tackling systemic problems such as gender equality, sustainable cities, emergency response, education reforms and civic space defense.
She is a published author on sustainable cities, State-society relations, social justice, advocacy, philanthropy and public policies. She also has experience working for the federal and local Mexican governments.
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Executive Director, SOMO, the Centre for Research on Multinationals
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Director, Coastal and Marine Resource Development (COMRED)
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Director, Senior Lawyer, Forest Peoples Programme
Tom Lomax is Director of Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), a leading international NGO focused on indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ land rights, working at the interface of human rights, climate and biodiversity, development, trade and finance. Established in 1990, FPP has a global team of 70 working with indigenous and civil society partners in 20 tropical forest countries across W,C&E Africa, S&C America and SE Asia. Working in solidarity with 60 partners, FPP supports indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ voices to be heard and to meaningfully shape local and global policy and law, to better secure their rights, and decide their own futures. As well as Director, Tom is a practicing lawyer whose legal experience includes over a decade providing legal advice and representation to indigenous and forest peoples (particularly in E and W Africa), supporting them to defend their rights and forests from rights violations and environmental destruction by state and/or business actors.
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Chief Executive Officer, African Women's Development Fund
A pan-African feminist with roots in Cameroon, Françoise Moudouthe is deeply committed to supporting the thriving of African feminist movements. This dedication has steered her career for more than a decade. In the early stages of her career, Françoise helped The Elders with the establishment of Girls Not Brides, a global civil society partnership aimed at ending child marriage. She played a key role in expanding its presence in Africa, focusing on coalition-building and regional advocacy. She also founded Eyala, a bilingual platform that highlights the voices and experiences of African feminists, offering them spaces for learning and solidarity. In January 2021, Françoise took on the role of CEO at the African Women’s Development Fund, a feminist fund that provides resources, support, and advocacy for women's rights and feminist organizations and movements across Africa. Françoise has served on the boards of the Malala Fund, Womankind Worldwide, and WATHI Think Tank, and currently serves on the boards of the Equality Fund and Prospera.
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Co-founder & CEO, Leadership for Equity
Madhukar Banuri is the Co-founder & CEO of Leadership For Equity (LFE) and also the Director of the Centre for Learning Resources (CLR) - a set of leading education organizations based in Pune, India, that helps strengthen PreK-12 government school systems to deliver quality education at scale. With more than 15 years of experience in the education & corporate sector, Madhukar started his education journey as a Teach For India Fellow from the first cohort in 2009. He holds an engineering degree from BITS Pilani and started his career with, Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai. Madhukar is a 2019 Ashoka Fellow & 2015 Acumen Fellow. He has also been a part of national and state-level government committees and supports young education organizations in an advisory capacity. Madhukar's current focus is to strengthen CLR's caregiver program for the first 1000 days of children from underserved communities and to create LFE's centre of excellence focused on pre-service teacher education.
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Board Chairperson, IPRI, Indigenous Peoples Rights International
Adjunct Professor Sandra Creamer AM, and lawyer with an Order of Australia for her leadership for First Nations women and peoples on issues of health, rights and self-determination. Sandra Creamer is Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of Queensland.
Sandra is currently the Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Rights International. Sandra is the Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council to inform the development of the next National Plan to end family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia and support the implementation of the Closing the Gap Target 13. Sandra is a Board Member of the International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI) and is an advisor to the Seventh Generation Fund.
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Executive Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
Priya Shanker is the Executive Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), a leading global interdisciplinary research center and publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Stanford PACS develops and shares knowledge to improve philanthropy, strengthen civil society, and address societal challenges. In her role, Priya sets the vision and strategy to fulfill Stanford PACS’ mission to create a shared space for scholars, students, and practitioners to inform policy and social innovation, philanthropic investment, and nonprofit practice.
Prior to joining Stanford PACS, she spent over a decade working with a diverse array of for-profit and social impact organizations in the US, India, Ghana and China. She earned her MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Commissioning Editor, Rights and Freedom, The Guardian
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Journalist, Foreign Policy
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General Director, ILEX Acción Jurídica
ILEX GENERAL DIRECTOR
Lawyer from the University of Cartagena, specialist in Procedural Law and Private-Economic Law. She holds a master's degree in Environment and Development from the same university, as well as a master's degree with specializations in Critical Race Theory and intellectual property from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her career, she has worked in the private sector, in the judicial branch, in the art and culture sectors in Colombia, and in land restitution and territorial rights. Additionally, she worked at the Los Angeles LGBT Center in California on issues related to young and migrant populations with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
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Coordinator of ISA's Xingu Program, Instituto Socioambiental
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Chief Strategy Officer, Philanthropy Together
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Director, Ford Global Fellowship, Ford Foundation
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Program Strategy Lead, Pivotal Ventures
Celiné leads a team working to support the work of dynamic female leaders of color in the United States through deep trust, innovative grantmaking, the power of convening, and a dedication to continuous listening, learning, and responding to the changing needs of those that hold immense power while also being held back by structural, historical, and cultural barriers.
Prior to Pivotal, Celiné served as the Founder and President of Rooted Justice Solutions, a small consulting firm in which she supported a roster of clients on their philanthropic journeys including work with Moore Philanthropy, Abigail E. Disney, and the Warner Music Group Social Justice Fund. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and joined the Pivotal Ventures team in 2021.
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President & CEO, The Fund for Global Human Rights
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Founder and General Coordination, TINTA
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Executive Director, Spaces for Change
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Director, Journalism & Media, MacArthur Foundation
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Vice President, Communications, Fellows, and Partnerships, MacArthur Foundation
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Publishing and Marketing Manager, Stanford Social Innovation Review
BRIAN KARO is publishing and marketing manager at Stanford Social Innovation Review. Brian has worked in the publishing industry for nearly 20 years. Before joining SSIR, he worked for several successful Bay Area publications, including Red Herring, Sunset, and Yoga Journal. Most recently, Karo worked for Dwell media for over a decade in a variety of leadership roles, including consumer marketing director, senior product manager, and audience development manager, where he developed channel growth strategies for the brand’s community through web-platform adoption, subscriptions, partnerships, and live-event registration. He earned a bachelor's degree in business management with an emphasis in marketing from Sonoma State University.
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Founder & CEO, TransLash
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Senior Director, Health Systems & Global Health Strategy,
Noora HealthArjun is a physician and public health professional with 17 years of experience designing, delivering, and managing diverse care delivery, population health and public health programs. Arjun serves as Noora Health's Senior Director of Health Systems and Global Health Strategy, where he helps lead stakeholder and strategic partner engagement across the health ecosystem to drive policy uptake both nationally and globally. Arjun's prior work spanned healthcare delivery, health policy research, population health management, and program development across global health and clinical care delivery settings.
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner, PLACE
Experienced investor with a particular focus on early-stage investment in the earth observation and space sectors (active). Successful entrepreneur that has built multiple enterprise software companies leading to multiple exits. Co-founder and current managing partner of PLACE a new non-profit US (501(3)c) and UK (CLG) data institute that leverages technology and fund raising to create a self-financing geospatial data trust. Former investment partner at Omidyar Network leading the global property rights initiative.
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Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Brazil, Federal Government of Brazil
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Investment Analyst, Capricorn Investment Group
Brendan Larar is an Associate on the Investment Team at Capricorn Investment Group where he focuses on Portfolio Construction & Management. He joined the firm in 2019. Prior to joining Capricorn, Brendan served as a technology consultant for alternative asset managers. Brendan earned a B.S. in Industrial & Labor Relations and a Master’s in Information Sciences from Cornell University.
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Founder & CEO, Darsel
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Coordinator Gender and Inclusion, Escuela de Robótica del Chocó
Helena is a young African descendant from Chocó. At the age of 25, she is passionate about public service, the empowerment of women, community, and the transformation of the territory. She is co-founder and coordinator of the Innovations Girls program of the School of Robotics Del Chocó, which seeks to empower women through robotics, science, and technology with a component of leadership, entrepreneurship, and female empowerment. She was the first Colombian to be elected to the Ford Global Fellowship program, the flagship program of the Ford Foundation. Awarded as Afrocolombian of the Year 2021, category Young, awarded as Women Cafam Chocó 2022. She is the co-founder and CEO of Quibdó Leadership Academy. She was a consultant at Mckinsey & Company Colombia, becoming the first black consultant of the office in Colombia. And currently, she is a project leader in the Manos Visibles Corporation, bringing training and technological infrastructure in the pacific region in colombia.
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Senior Associate, Philanthropic Partnerships, Pew Charitable Trusts
Jenna Dawkins is a Senior Associate, Philanthropic Partnerships with the Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization striving to serve the public interest by improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life. Previously, Jenna served as the sole Foundation and Corporate Relationship Officer at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Elon University, a Master of Arts in American Studies from the George Washington University, and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Georgetown University. Jenna is on the board of and sings with the Alexandria Choral Society and the semi-professional vocal ensemble, Pro Coro Alexandria, and serves as a Grant Panelist for the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities. She lives in Washington, DC.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-gerhart/
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Holly Cook Macarro is a citizen of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe. She is a change-maker at the highest levels of the federal government, bringing the Indigenous perspective across sectors in her advocacy for tribal communities and justice in Indian Country.
A nationally recognized expert on political strategy and advocacy, Ms. Cook Macarro serves in governmental affairs advisory and consultant capacities for many initiatives.
Holly’s background includes service as the Director of the Office of Native American Affairs at the Democratic National Committee and in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Holly has also served as the national co-chair of the Native Vote initiative at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and in strategic and tribal outreach roles for numerous Senate and Congressional candidates. Holly’s views have been included in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Politico, Forbes, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and other media.
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Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley
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Commander, Akashinga
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President, Demos
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Executive Director, Chapter Four Uganda
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Executive Director / Chairperson, Terra Thamani Africa / Mgeno Conservancy
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APHF Governing Council Member, Africa Public Health Foundation
Dr Lieve Fransen
MD/PHD
Currently Lieve is Director at the Witwatersrand University Health Consortium, in South Africa, member of the VacTask created the Welcome Foundation and Columbia University, working on Vaccine Manufacturing, Board member of the Africa Public Health Foundation, of the African Potential Foundation, and of the FAIR federated data space and Senior Advisor at the European Policy Center.
She is a medical doctor (Gent) specialized in tropical diseases (Antwerp), pediatrics, Infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology (London) and lived and worked in several countries in Africa. In Africa she worked with a range of different private companies and developed major research partnerships.
She defended a PHD in Public Health in Antwerp before becoming director at the European Commission where she remained in a senior position for 21 years.
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Co-Director, Center for Inclusive Policy
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Campaigns Coordinator, FERN
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CEO, Moonshot CVE
YEMI A.D.
(Yemi Akinyemi Dele)
Multidisciplinary Creative
Founder & CEO
Moonshot Platform Inc.
(501(c)(3))
Organization accelerating young leaders with their ideas & projects working towards SDGs agenda.
“My mission is to help people unlock their creative potential so they can work and play together to design a better path forward…because the best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“I’m doing this to remind all the creative kids out there: It
doesn’t matter how you start your journey, but where you aim. We will prove that with imagination, there is no limit to your potential!”
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Chief Executive Officer, Philanthropy Together
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CEO, IDinsight
Becca is the CEO of IDinsight, an advisory NGO that helps global development practitioners use cutting-edge data and evidence tools to improve their impact. Becca was previously COO and Partner at IDinsight.
From 2022-2024, Becca served as a US presidential appointee in the Peace Corps as the Regional Director for Europe, the Mediterranean, and Asia, one of three regional leaders of the $430M US agency. In her executive role, she oversaw 19 country posts and nearly 800 staff.
Becca’s former professional experience includes strategy consulting, evidence-based research, and on-the-ground social entrepreneurship in resource-constrained settings. Becca is a member of the Board of Directors of IREX, a member of the Board of Advisors of Instiglio, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Becca holds a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and an MPA from the Princeton School of International and Public Affairs.
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Co-Executive Director, Derechos Digitales
Jamila Venturini is co-Executive Director of Derechos Digitales, a Latin American-based non-profit organization which defends and promotes human rights in digital environments since 2005. Jamila is a journalist and researcher in Social Sciences with a Masters Degree from FLACSO Argentina. She is the author of books and papers on technology and human rights; and a board member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (Lavits).
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Assistant Director, Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University
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Collective and Intergenerational Trauma Therapist, Facilitator, Trainer and Researcher, Collective Change Lab
Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca is a psychotherapist, linguist, consultant, educator and cultural analyst, specializing in collective, intergenerational and attachment trauma. Her passion for collective healing started with her own healing journey, as a Mexican mestiza, of Indigenous and Spanish roots, which took her from England (2000) and Australia (2004-8) to the mountains of Oaxaca (2004, 2005). As a result of that exploration, she discovered in herself and her country the impacts of shame and collective trauma from colonialism, and wrote a pioneering PhD thesis (2007) which was a written psychotherapeutic session for her country of origin, Mexico. In addition to her private therapeutic practice, Laura has worked with contemporary mystic Thomas Hübl, at the Academy of Inner Science and the Pocket Project, facilitating support groups for people of color and Spanish speakers, and is one of the hosts of the annual Collective Trauma Online Summit, bringing the collective wisdom of Latin American healing voices, to the over 430,000 participants in the 5 editions of the Summit. Laura also works as a consultant and researcher with The Collective Change Lab, where she collaborates on research for The Wellbeing Project, on the presence of trauma in social change systems, and how we can turn them into healing systems. She has also worked in Mexico, Kenya, Bolivia, Colombia and Canada with diverse populations on healing from the collective trauma of colonialism. With Flavia Valgiusti and Gabriela Martínez, she is currently preparing a training on healing from colonialism in Latin America.
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Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation
Andrew Sweet is Vice Pres, Innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation, directing the AI partnerships & strategy portfolio. He joined March 2020 to oversee a $40m effort to support the US pandemic response, unlocking billions of dollars in federal resources for testing and K-12 reopening in the US. He also led a $55m Global Vaccination Initiative to help country partners increase vaccine uptake in their countries.
Previously, he was Assoc. Partner at Dalberg, leading the J’oburg and then the SF office, focusing on strategy, health & energy. Prior to this, he was a presidential appointee at the US Agency for Intl Devt/USAID as Sr. Advisor to the Administrator, to help establish and implement food security & energy initiatives. Before USAID, he was at the Ctr for American Progress, co-authoring policy papers that formed the basis of Pres Obama’s devt agenda. He began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. Degrees: MA Intl Relations, Syracuse Univ; BA Intl Relations, Michigan State
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SVP Innovation, Viessmann Group
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Managing Partner, TheBoardroom X Ventures
Lizzie Biney-Amissah is the Managing Partner of TheBoardroom X Ventures, a newly formed venture investment and advisory arm of The Boardroom Africa (TBrA) Group. She was most recently a Partner at E3 Capital, investing in energy and climate tech in Sub-Saharan Africa, where she most notably led the largest VC fundraise in DRC for Nuru, an off-grid utility, amongst other deals in agritech and commercial & industrial solar. With over 17 years of experience, Biney-Amissah was a Business Development Director at Globeleq, and was the Regional Head of West Africa Operations for EleQtra Ltd/InfraCo Africa. a part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group. Lizzie began her career in New York at GL Group and Coatue Management. Lizzie holds a Bachelor’s (AB) degree from Princeton University and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was an Edward S. Mason Fellow. She is also an Archbishop Tutu Fellow with AFLI.
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Network and Communications specialist, Sakena Fund
Hello my name is Shehab, an incoming college student with a strong commitment to social impact. Passionate about making a difference, ive actively contributed to various non-profit organizations, channeling my energy into community development and outreach. My expertise in social media and networking has allowed me to amplify the voices of these organizations, creating meaningful connections and fostering a sense of community.I’m Eager to continue my journey in higher education, I aspires to merge me academic pursuits with dedication to social change.
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Founder / Chief Investment Officer, Woodbourne Capital
TJ Heyman founded Woodbourne in 2000. He is Chief Investment Officer for the firm. During his 30+ year career in real estate, TJ has acquired, managed, repositioned, or developed over 40,000 multi-residential units in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Heyman began his career at Bain and Company in 1981. He has been involved in Real Estate private equity (Piedmont Realty Advisors, Trammell Crow Ventures) since the late 1980’s.
In the early 1990’s, TJ began buying mobile home parks and dealerships. He was the original founder of Home USA, which went public on the NYSE in 1997 as the largest independent retailer of manufactured homes in the United States.
Prior to forming Woodbourne’s first Canadian Fund in 2007, Mr. Heyman managed a global real estate securities hedge fund for eight years with offices in London, Hong Kong and Boulder.
TJ received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics (with Distinction) from Stanford University.
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Senior Managing Director, The World Bank
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Associate Director - Global Health Financing, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Matiko Riro is the Associate Director, Health Financing at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), leading technical support to governments in Sub-Saharan Africa in health financing reforms as well as strategic partnerships with regional institutions to enhance knowledge exchange across the continent. He is also playing a critical role in building care ecosystems by linking different actors as well as helping healthcare innovators and medical device organizations to navigate digital health systems and the regulatory landscape in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead, Digital Action
Mona Shtaya is a digital rights defender, she is working as Campaigns & Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Action. Mona is also a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) focusing on surveillance and digital rights in the MENA region. Additionally, she’s a non-resident scholar for the Middle East Institute (MEI) in the Cyber Security and Emerging Technology Program and the Palestine-Israel program. She previously worked as the Advocacy and Communications Manager at 7amleh- The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, and as the community outreach specialist and Social Media Specialist at Transparency Palestine, the national chapter of Transparency International. She holds a MA in Social Media and Digital Communication from the University of Westminster.
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COO, We Are All Human
Ana Saldarriaga is the Chief Operating Officer of the We Are All Human Foundation, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to unifying, uplifting, and unlocking opportunities for Latinos. In her role, she oversees the strategy and operations of the Foundation and leads the executive team.
Prior to this role, she served as the Deputy Head for the World Economic Forum Foundations (The Global Shapers Community and Young Global Leaders) where she spearheaded the impact strategy. She was also the first Latin American woman to become the CEO/President of AIESEC, the world's largest youth-led organization with 50,000+ members and 300+ employees.
With an Engineering background, Ana is a Chevening Scholar with a Master's Degree in Public Administration in Engineering and Public Policy from UCL. She is a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
Born and raised in Medellin, Colombia. She has lived in five countries and delivered events in over 50 countries.
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Founder & CEO, HSCL
Nkata is a Medical Doctor & Health Economist with over 20 years experience. He studied Medicine & Surgery at the University of Lagos Nigeria, has an MSc in Health Policy & Financing from the University of London (LSE & LSHTM) and is an Alumnus of Stanford’s LEAD Program. He is Founding Partner of Health Systems Consult Limited (HSCL), a pan African development consulting firm whose clients include the Gates Foundation, USAID, World Bank, GAVI, Global Fund, private firms and governments. He has worked as KPMG’s Health Care Lead for West Africa and FHI 360’s Director for Health Systems Strengthening in Nigeria. Nkata also founded & is Board Chair of HealthOps International. HealthOps in partnership with Oxygen Hub has established a state-of-the-art PSA Medical Oxygen Plant in Enugu Nigeria, with plans to expand to other states. He serves on the board of 2 charity organisations that have been actively involved in human capital development in rural villages.
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Vice President, Africa, Luminate
Toyin Akinniyi is a leader in the international development ecosystem with extensive experience working on governance and social justice issues. Toyin is currently Vice President, Africa at Luminate where she provides strategic leadership for the Africa team and is a member of the Leadership Team. Through this role, she supports people to fully participate in civic and political life, to safely challenge power, and to access accurate, trustworthy information.
Toyin has about 18 years of development sector experience in regional and international contexts. Her strong background cuts across roles in media development, strategy, programme management, communications, research and advocacy, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), grantmaking, civic engagement, and stakeholder management.
Toyin is a Stanford Draper Hills Fellow; has authored articles on key social justice and governance themes, and sits on Advisory Boards.
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Emilie, the Chief Program Officer and deputy CEO of Living Goods, is a dynamic and dedicated leader committed to positive health and social change. Her role involves shaping strategic programming, promoting organizational excellence, and leading global expansion, emphasizing evidence-based impact, wide reach, cost efficiency, and government adoption.
Joining Living Goods in 2014, Emilie's leadership as Uganda Country Director resulted in a remarkable 10x growth in operations and a notable 30% reduction in under-five mortality, supported by a recent Randomized Control Trial in the Community Health program.
With over two decades of leadership across public and private sectors in Africa, Asia, and Europe, Emilie's experience includes impactful roles at CHAI, Mondelez, and Danone. An alumna of EDHEC in Lille, France, Emilie holds an MBA. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, her global perspective and linguistic versatility enable her to navigate and drive change internationally.
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Exeucitve Director, Chipembere Community Development Organization
Dalitso has been working with CCDO since January 2016 and is overall in charge of the organization. Apart from initiating, designing, and implementing activities, he also provides leadership and administrative and financial guidance. He is committed to sustainable social and economic development and envisions a transformed society where rural youth and young women have access to health services and formal education. Women and the youth have access to land and are engaged in Agribusiness programs.
Dalitso is a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow for Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and holds a certificate in Civic Leadership from the Staley School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University in the U.S. He also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of Malawi with specialization in socio-economic and political issues affecting rural communities. Dalitso is also an accomplished project manager. He has also ever worked with the Ministry of Agricul
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, CARE
-CEO Emiritus of Skoll Awardee organisation Barefoot College and Co Founder of Barefoot College International. She is currently an active Board Director of Barefoot College International, whose commitment to leveraging the “Barefoot Approach” towards addressing the pressing challenges of access to energy, economic inequality, human rights & climate change, has been achieved though a dynamic partnership model between people, public and private sectors at global scale.
-Meagan is the 2018 Hillary Laureate for her Global Leadership in the areas of Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Social Justice & Economic Empowerment of Women. An experienced entrepreneur who has successfully led for-profit and not-for profit organisations to scale with an approach grounded in design thinking.
-Founder of Step Up Ltd. a consultancy dedicated to driving better economic models through systems change partnerships.
-Currently Entrepreneur in Residence for CARE
-Former Chief Impact Officer Innoterra
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Founder & CEO, FreeFrom
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Founder, Clinicas del Azucar
Javier Lozano the co-founder of Clinicas del Azucar, a leading healthcare organization focused on providing comprehensive and accessible diabetes care. Son of a Type-II diabetic mother, he saw first-hand the inconvenient and marked inequality in access to specialized diabetes care. In response, he founded in 2010 Clinicas del Azucar "Sugar Clinics" with a mission to revolutionize the way we deliver diabetes care to middle and low-income people. Currently, CDA is the largest private provider of specialized diabetes care in Latam
Javier has been recognized as one of the top 10 innovators in Mexico by the MIT Technology Review and has served as a member of the Global Agenda Councils for “The Future of the Health Sector” and the “Future of Behavioural Science “of the WEF
Javier is an Echoing Green, Ashoka and Schwab Fellow and earned his MBA from MIT Sloan where he was a Legatum Fellow.
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President & CEO, PAI (Population Action International)
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Individual, Individual
A community volunteer with a focus on education. Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Advisory board of The Community Foundation Boulder County; founding co-chair of the School Readiness committee. Founding member of the steering committee for Dream Big, a collective impact initiative to close the education achievement gap in Boulder County. Founder of the Education Achievement Fellowship bringing Stanford students to Boulder to serve at non-profits focused on closing the achievement gap. Founding advisory member of ELPASO (Engaged Latino Parents Advancing Student Outcomes). Past chair and Advisory Council member of Intercambio, teaching English to immigrants. Past chair of I Have a Dream Boulder County. Past chair of Emergency Family Assistance; chair of capital campaign. Member of the Stanford LEAD council and International Women’s Forum. Co-author of Natural Family Living, publisher and editor of "Women's Sports & Fitness Magazine."
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Strategic Philanthropy Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Anastasia "Stazee" Bacigalupo is the Foundations Senior Specialist at Search for Common Ground. In this role, she collaborates closely with Search executive staff to build and steward relationships with foundation partners toward the goal of growing and expanding philanthropic support for Search.
Stazee is a seasoned nonprofit executive with 10+ years experience in fundraising and 20+ years experience working in partnership with underserved, underrepresented and marginalized communities in pursuit of racial, social and economic justice, equality and equity globally and in the United States.
Stazee earned her Juris Doctorate from Whittier College of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She identifies as queer and uses she/her pronouns.
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Membership and Chapters Facilitator, Catalyst 2030
Bram van Eijk is the Chapters and Membership Facilitator at Catalyst 2030 and has spent 15 years serving in multiple leadership roles within systems change organisations. He has led operations and finance, research and policy and advocacy teams. Prior to joining Catalyst 2030 in 2020, Bram was the Co-Director of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), an organisation leading the promotion and implementation of financial education and inclusion for young people around the world. Through it’s efforts, CYFI helped change policy in more than 70 countries on these topics.
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Director of Policy & Partnerships, Open Government Partnership
Alessandro Bellantoni is the Director for Policy and Partnerships. In this role, Alessandro and his team are dedicated to accelerating partnership-wide collective progress in policy areas prioritized in the OGP’s 2023-2028 strategy and in the Open Government Challenge. Previously, he was the Head of the Open Government, Civic Space, and Public Communication Unit at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Throughout his career, he worked in the E-government Unit of the Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, for the United Nations (WFP and ILO), and in civil society.
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Member, The Elders
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who work together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. He was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014-2018, and was outspoken on several prominent human rights abuses and criticised the regimes who perpetrated them, . He also lent his support to young activists and human rights lawyers as a champion for grassroots activism. Before becoming High Commissioner, he played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, chairing the negotiations on the elements of individual offences amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN between 2000-2007 and from 2010-2014, and Ambassador of Jordan to the United States from 2007-2010. In 2021 he was appointed President and CEO of the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York.
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Founder, Duara Education
Victoria Peill is a social entrepreneur and passionate about transforming communities through accessible, high quality education.
She is the founder of Duara Education, which enables female teachers to become entrepreneurs of their own community-based microschools. Duara equips them with skills, systems, capital and support to launch and grow their school, fostering a movement of change from within each communities.
She also runs a community space in Nairobi, called Our WonderHouse, dedicated to the inner journey and authentic connection.
Prior to Duara, she held various roles in education, entrepreneurship, strategy and operations: She co-founded ALX (part of the African Leadership Group), served as Chief of Staff to ALG's Fred Swaniker, consulted with the Boston Consulting Group, co-founded Mentor Me India, and taught in a primary school in Peru.
She has lived in Nairobi, Kenya, for seven years years, and deeply cares about community, courage and wonder.
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Ambassador, Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing
Susan is the author of How to be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas. She has been involved in the NGO world for 40 years. She has worked and volunteered in 70 countries.
!n 1992, Susan went to Bangladesh and was trained in microfinance at Grameen Bank by Prof Muhammad Yunus. From 1992 - 2001, she was a consultant providing microfinance technical assistance and conducting workshops in team building for NGOs, UN Agencies and donors.
Susan created a partnership with Grameen College of Nursing (Dhaka) and Adelphi University, and is on the President's Leadership Council at Search for Common Ground. She has served on the board of the Thomson Reuters Foundation (2018-21), the IRC - UK (2012-18) and remains involved in refugee issues, including hosting refugees. She was Vice Chair of the Carter Center UK Board (2010-14) and co-chair of the Human Rights Watch London Committee (2006-10).
Susan is from Toronto and has lived in New York and in London. She moved to Washington, DC in June 2021.
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Presenter and Text Editor, RecordTV
Rafael Algarte is a journalist graduated from the University of Riberão Preto. During his years as a student, he stood out as an intern at some of Brazil's leading television networks, including Rede Globo, TV Record, and SBT.
Rafael was one of the 35 students selected nationwide to participate in the Geração Futura Program, sponsored by the Roberto Marinho Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. There, he had the opportunity to meet nationally respected professionals in the development of journalism and to produce content for the channel.
In the networks where he worked, Rafael performed a variety of roles within the newsrooms. His experience ranges from news gathering to newspaper layout. After completing his graduation in 2015, he covered numerous topics and editorial areas as a reporter.
Since 2018, he has been working as a presenter for the Record News news channel in São Paulo. Rafael holds a specialization in International Relations from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
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CEO & Founder, Wellthi Technologies
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Programmes Advisor, Independent Development Consultant
*Neema Ndunguru* is a Pan-African Development Practitioner and Project
Management Professional (PMP) with 15 years of experience in overseeing
implementation of national transformation and public sector reform
programmes. In her current role as Programmes Advisor (Independent
Consultant), Neema works with development organisations to provide
evidence-based advisory support through conducting mid-term assessments,
resource mapping, political economic analyses, and strategy development.
Her previous roles, amongst others, have included serving as a Director of
Business Environment Improvement in a Delivery Bureau within the Office of
the President of Tanzania, working as a Project Manager in a pan-African
grant facility where she oversaw financing and implementation of a
portfolio of over 20 reform projects across 8 African countries, and
working in a regional development bank.
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Senior Researcher, Allan & Gill Gray Foundation
Nazia is a Senior Researcher at Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies. She leads the global research capability, manages a portfolio of mission-aligned investments in venture capital funds for Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies Africa, and heads up the Philanthropy Initiative for Employees of Allan Gray. Nazia has 15 years’ experience in Financial Services, including asset management, investment banking and consulting. She spent six years at Allan Gray Limited as a Manager in Group Savings and Investments, where she was responsible for product development, pricing, strategy, and distribution. She previously worked as a Senior Asset Consultant to large institutional Pension and Provident Funds. Nazia is a director on various for and non-profit boards. She holds a Business Science (Actuarial Science) degree from the University of Cape Town, is a CFA Charterholder and has completed an Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Weather Presenter, Televisa
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Weather Forecaster, TV Presenter and Columnist in Natural Sciences, ARTEAR / TN
Meteorology - Biometeorology and Climate Change Orientation - Atmospheric Sciences-University of Buenos Aires
Weather forecaster and TV presenter since 2014 to date for Todo Noticias TN/El Trece, ARTEAR, Bs. As. Argentina
TV presenter and columnist in natural sciences: meteorology, astronomy, climate change, etc.
Writer and Editor since 2018 for Meteored Argentina (Alpred S.R.L.)
Meteorology communicator for social networks.
Environmental Monitoring of the Rio de La Plata at the National Meteorological Service of Argentina, until 2011.
During university study years, co-author of multiple research papers, CONICET-UBA.
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CEO, Karya
Manu Chopra is working on tackling extreme poverty by providing dignified digital work to rural Indians. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Karya, a transformative AI collective that is enabling dignified livelihoods by bringing supplementary income to vulnerable rural populations at scale.
Karya was recently featured on the cover of the Time Magazine for its work in using AI to move communities out of poverty, and Manu was nominated among Time 100 Most Influential People In AI.
Manu graduated from Stanford University in 2017, where he co-founded CS+Social Good — Stanford's first student group focused on technology and impact. He has also taught several tech for good courses in Stanford's Computer Science department.
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Environment Reporter, TV Cultura
Journalist graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Postgraduate degree in Environment and Sustainable Development, and in International Relations. I am currently studying a degree in History to study how the process of exploitation of the environment with the advancement of dominant societies. Reporter specializing in environmental and indigenous issues for 15 years at TV Cultura. I received four grants from the Pulitzer Center Grant and the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund for special coverage of climate issues, deforestation, pressure on indigenous territories and socio-environmental projects in the Amazon Rainforest. Winner of the Communication Specialists Award in the Sustainability category in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Documentary filmmaker and author of the books "Panthera onca- In the shadow of the Forests", "História das Águas- Rio Negro", "Water conservation and culture", among others. Worked as a correspondent for TV Cultura in Washington, USA.
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Youth Liaison & Indigenous Filmmaker, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
Kynan Tegar is a 19-year-old photographer and filmmaker from the Dayak Iban tribe of the island of Borneo, Indonesia. Living in and around the traditional longhouse of his village, he learns directly from the elders, their wisdom and values, their stories of resistance in the face of encroaching deforestation, and the threats to their way of life. Picking up his first camera as an inquisitive twelve year old, he was making his first short films soon after. Working with this new medium he crafts thoughtful and emotive imagery, highlighting the quiet daily lives of the people and the community within his tranquil village. Documenting their traditional knowledge, and highlighting the importance of balance with nature. Through filmmaking, activism, and policy engagement, he amplifies the voices of indigenous communities and articulates the challenges that they face, carrying forward the legacy of his elders, championing the rights of his people.
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Provost Visiting Professor, Muhimbili University, Tanzania
Professor Makani (MD, PhD, FRCP, FTAAS) is a Physician Scientist (MD, PhD) in Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) www.muhas.ac.tz & Provost Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.makani. She is Principal investigator of SickleInAfrica http://www.sickleinafrica.org/
She trained in Medicine (Tanzania), specialized in Internal Medicine (UK), and completed her PhD in clinical epidemiology of SCD (UK). She was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow [Training 2003 – 2009; Intermediate 2012 - 2017], Tutu Leadership Fellow (2009) www.alinstitute.org and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford (2003 - 2016).
She received the 2011 Royal Society Africa Award http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd17odE1YLs on the application of genomic research to improve health and find a cure for sickle cell disease. She is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of UK (FRCP) and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Sciences (FTAAS).
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CEO, Equality Fund
Jess Tomlin is the CEO of the Equality Fund. In this role, Jess leads an effort to resource feminist movements around the world working to change systems, shift power and dismantle barriers. Jess has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia for a range of actors including the UN and the World Bank. Prior to her role with the Equality Fund, Jess led the re-creation of the MATCH International Women’s Fund- Canada’s only global fund for women. Jess was named by the Stevie Awards as 2017's Most Innovative Woman of the Year and is a recipient of the Women of Influence award in 2020.
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Executive Director, Mawred
Helena Nassif is a multi-disciplinary researcher of culture. She is currently the managing director of Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy), a non-profit organization working on supporting the arts and culture sector in the Arab region and across its diaspora. Helena received her PhD in Media Studies from the University of Westminster in 2015. Her career extends culture and media research to years in the non-governmental sector, the development industry, program design and evaluation, grants management, adult training, and television and documentary film production.
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Stephanie Kuyah has dedicated most of her career in the impact, sustainability and access space working with organizational leaders and executive committees to craft strategies and deliver operational excellence.
Stephanie completed her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at Northwestern University, USA. She has a knack for process & systems improvement and an ability to quickly learn systems, processes and modes of operation.
She started out her career at Credit Suisse as an IT Business Analyst in the Service Excellence & Project Delivery department. She then decided to move back to Kenya and started in the impact space at One Acre Fund, an agricultural social enterprise, as a Business Operations Associate. Stephanie is now happy to transition to the healthcare access & impact space as the Chief of Staff to Dr. Angela Gichaga, CEO of the Financing Alliance for Health.
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Founder and CEO, Beyond Zero
Described by TIME Magazine as “one of the most powerful disabled people on the planet,” Eddie Ndopu is perhaps best known for his human rights advocacy with respect to advancing disability justice at the forefront of the international development agenda. An award-winning and internationally acclaimed humanitarian, storyteller, public intellectual, and disability practitioner, Eddie is a thought leader and advocate for social equity, sustainability, and disability-based innovation. A Global Changemaker, Eddie actively champions climate justice, fights global poverty and demands equity for the world’s most marginalized segments of society in his capacity as one of the UN Secretary-General’s 17 official advocates for the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Africa Climate Ventures
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Director of Global Programs Quality and Impact, Obama Foundation
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Senior Policy and Research Analyst, Foreign Policy
Isabel Schmidt is the Senior Policy and Research Analyst at FP Analytics, the research and advisory team at Foreign Policy magazine. Her recent work includes research on population ageing and support for older adults, cybersecurity and hybrid warfare, global health security, and women-led climate change solutions. Isabel is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the University of Bristol. She is based in London.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-schmidt-6a2381121/
Twitter: @IssySchmidt
FPA website: https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/
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Founder--Director, Antara Foundation
In 2003, Ashok left a long career in McKinsey, to establish an HIV prevention program (‘Avahan’) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the goal of stemming the growth of HIV in India. Avahan soon became the world’s largest HIV prevention program, working in six states with a collective population of over 300 million. Avahan used business thinking to achieve scale, working in partnership with almost ten thousand sex workers. The Lancet in 2013 estimated that the program averted over 600,000 HIV infections.
In 2014 Ashok set up the Antara Foundation (TAF), to apply the learnings from Avahan to maternal and child health delivery at scale. In 2018 the state government decreed that key TAF’s innovations be rolled out to every village (46,000 in total) in the state of Rajasthan. Currently, Antara serves almost 400,000 women, in nine districts of Madhya Pradesh, a state that accounts for more than 12% of India’s under-5 deaths.
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Filmmaker/Director, Individual
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Founder / CEO, UpTrade
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Director and Founder, SWB Consulting
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Co-Founder and CEO, Brilliant Detroit
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Founder and CEO, 101Reporters.com
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Professor, Global Health Infection and Immunity, Deputy Director TIBA, TIBA Partnership, University of Edinburgh
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Interim Executive Director, KEMRI-WEllcome Trust Research Programme
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Cofounder & CEO, Soul Forest
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https://www.nicholascalv.com/
Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe is a filmmaker/photographer — most recently, he was a Solutions Storytelling Project fellow, and his film was acquired by AJ+. His central interest is stories and intersectionality; how history, geography, memory and interaction with each other define how we see ourselves, and negotiate meaning of our own existence. A story is especially interesting, as both a human interaction phenomenon in space and time, and just as much a story as a container of conceptual constructs and ideas with which we define our personal and group identities in relation to each other and to the world.What does it mean to be a human attached to the body and the geography you happen to be in? In 2019 Nicholas was a recipient of a Civitella Ranieli Visual Art Fellowship in Italy, and Apex Art Visual Art Fellowship in New York. In 2020 he was selected to take part in a New York TimesPortfolio Review.
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Chief Strategy Officer, Shining Hope for Communities
Mark Laichena is Chief Strategy Officer at SHOFCO, the leading Kenyan grassroots non-profit. Before joining SHOFCO, Mark worked for CIFF (the Children's Investment Fund Foundation) as director leading CIFF's Education and Livelihoods investments in Africa. His prior experience includes regional leadership for Africa at GiveDirectly, and management consulting roles in the US and Kenya.
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Director General and CEO, Nigeria National Health Insurance Agency
Dr. Kelechi Ohiri is the Chief Executive Officer of HSDF, a Healthcare Advisory Firm and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University. He co-founded the Healthcare Leadership Academy (www.hlaafrica.org) and partner at Flint Atlantic - a Social Impact investment and advisory firm.
He previously served as the Senior Adviser to three Ministers (Two Ministers of Health and the Minister of Finance) in Nigeria. In these roles he led the delivery of several large-scale transformation programs in the country, including the Saving One Million Lives Imitative which aimed to reduce maternal and child deaths in the country, as well as the conceptualization and design of the National Social Safety Net Program to reduce intergenerational poverty.
Prior to this, he was an Engagement Manager with the London Office of McKinsey and Company, where he served public and private sector clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also worked with the World Bank Group in Washington DC, having joined through the Young Professionals' Program. His focus was on Social Protection and strengthening Health Systems in countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Dr Ohiri has written policy papers, peer-reviewed publications and co-authored books on health-systems. He has served on expert advisory committees for the Institute of Medicine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank, the Global Fund and the World Health Organization. He also served on the Board of the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and is currently a member of the Program and Policy Committee of the GAVI Alliance Board.
Dr. Ohiri earned a medical degree from the University of Lagos. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree and a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management, both from Harvard University. He is a Desmond Tutu Fellow of the African Leadership Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Artist, Individual
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Executive Director, Twaweza
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Commissioner of Finance & Economic Development, Ekiti State Government
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Program Manager, Kaleka
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Founder and Director General, Media & Tech Task Force / Gama Revista
Paula Miraglia is the co-founder, director general and publisher of Gama Revista in Brazil and the founder of the Media & Tech Task force. She also co-founded and directed for eight years Nexo jornal. Ms Miraglia holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo, where she also completed her master's and undergraduate degrees in Social Sciences. She is a Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia University.
Ms Miraglia sits on the boards of the Center for News, Technology and Innovation, the International Press Institute, the Peregum Black Reference Institute and the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services/BPBES.
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Community Program Director, South Dakota Urban Indian Health
Serene Thin Elk, MA, LPC-MH, LAC, QMHP is a L/Dakota clinical addiction and mental health therapist and mother to four beautiful children. She is a member of the Ihanktonwan (Yankton Sioux Tribe) and Sicangu (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) Oyate in South Dakota and currently works for SD Urban Indian Health as the Community Programs Director. In her current role as a director, she is a part of tiospaye (kinship within an extended family) who are her colleagues and together they seek to integrate both culture and spirituality into community healing models. Her professional and personal passions focus on intergenerational healing along with educating others about historical traumas and how this translates to the present day experiences of Native people.
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Professor, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Juliane Reinecke is Professor of Professor of Management Studies and Sustainability lead at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Research Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, from where she received her PhD. Her research focuses on transnational governance institutions for sustainable business and global value chains, the net zero transition, multi-stakeholder partnerships, collective action, and social movements. She serves as Associate Editor of the flagship Academy of Management Journal.
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Unknown, Individual
Deepa is an impact investor and independent advisor who invests globally and flexibly across the returns continuum. She advises Skoll Foundation on strategy and deployment for a $35M catalytic capital carve-out. More broadly, Deepa advises a range of funders (foundations, endowments, family offices) on impact-first investment strategies and catalytic capital. She has sourced, funded, and supported social enterprises around the world, with a focus on social ventures in South Asia and Africa. Throughout her career, she has translated big ideas into tangible execution, decentralised decision-making, and centered communities standing in their own power.
Her previous experience covers a diverse range of sectors, including Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Omidyar Network, where she was an impact investor, and Netafim, an Israeli ag-tech company, where she designed go-to-market for water conservation technologies and hardware in the Indian ag-tech space.
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President, WomenLift Health
Amie Batson is President of WomenLift Health dedicated to expanding the power and influence of women leaders in global health and catalyzing systemic change to achieve gender equality in leadership. Throughout her 30-year career, she has been a strategic leader in a wide range of global health organizations including most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer and VP at PATH and senior deputy assistant administrator for the Global Health Bureau at USAID. While working at the World Bank for over decade she led work on innovative financing mechanisms that unlocked billions of dollars in new funding for vaccines and health, and led to the establishment of GAVI and the Global Financing Facility. She held a joint appointment to WHO and UNICEF, where she designed and implemented UNICEF’s Vaccine Independence Initiative, a revolving fund for vaccines. Ms. Batson received an MBA from Yale University. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at CGD, a frequent speaker, and author of numerous articles.
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Founder and Chief Executive, Agrolay Venture
Ada is a Nigeria-based entrepreneur, investor & Board Director.,For over 20 years, she has developed a unique blend of public and private sector experiences, starting in investment banking, development finance, and private equity before moving on to public service.
Ada is a strong advocate for small business finance support, youth and women empowerment in business, and climate justice. She focuses her efforts on the food and agriculture sector, where over 50 million smallholder farmers are climate-vulnerable and which holds the most potential for job creation for Africa’s youth. She is the Forbes Africa Business Woman of the Year 2021. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow. She has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Warwick, U.K., and a BSc in Economics (1st Class honours) from University of Hull.
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Freelance Photographer, Individual
I am Mario De Fina, a passionate advocate for visual communication through journalistic photography. Believing in the profound impact of images, I focus on influencing, informing, and narrating compelling stories about climate change.
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Co-Director, Africa Oxford Initiative, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
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Co-founder, Rocket Learning
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Global Strategic Partnership Head, Johnson & Johnson
Lauren Marks
Global Head: Partnerships and External Affairs
Johnson & Johnson Global Health Equity
Lauren leads partnerships and external affairs for Johnson & Johnson Global Health Equity, where she is responsible for developing partnership strategies, and executing insight-driven programs which achieve greater social impact in health equity. Previously, she managed the HIV/AIDS portfolio for Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Contributions group.
Prior to joining J&J, Lauren spent most of her career in government, at the Department of State and USAID. She was the Director of Private Sector Engagement in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, which leads implementation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In this role, she built several multi stakeholder partnerships and spearheaded large-scale innovation competitions to source new ideas to solve public health problems.
She also served as the Health Program/Public-Private P
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Scott is Director of Research at Meedan, an Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. His applied Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning research seeks to achieve more equitable access to quality information online. He also builds open-source tools for fact-checking and facilitates academic-practitioner collaborations.
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Freelance Photographer, Individual
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Principal, The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation
ory and his wife, Elizabeth, established their family philanthropic foundation in 2005 with a focus on social disadvantage, education, and arts. Rory was chair of the philanthropic board of the University of Manchester for ten years (honorary doctorate 2010), hosted poverty summits in South Africa, and has served as trustee and/or chair of The Centre for Social Justice, IntoUniversity and Quintessentially Foundation.
In 2005 Rory and Elizabeth’s foundation donated £1.3 million to the University of Manchester to establish the Brooks World Poverty Institute. In 2016, the institute joined with the Institute for Development Policy and Management to form the Global Development Institute - the largest development focused on teaching and research institute in Europe.
Among other government appointments, Rory was the donor member of the Pearce Review into philanthropy in Higher Education (2012) and was awarded a CBE in 2015. In 2023, Rory was appointed to the Charity Commission board with th
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Philanthropy Manager, Social Entrepreneurs Ireland
Philanthropy Manager with Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, connecting generous individuals to our vision of an Ireland that is the best place to live, work, grow up or grow old in. Please feel free to get in touch.
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Co-Founder, Rocket Learning
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Country Director, People in Need Mongolia
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CEO/Founder, Teach for Senegal
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Co-Founder and CEO, Ripple Opportunities
Skye is the CEO of Ripple Opportunities, matching leading social innovators across all sectors with the next gen of impact talent. Ripple specialises in building the capacity of impact creators by making it simpler for purpose-driven individuals to grow through leadership training, networks and accessing thousands of opportunities like jobs, fellowships, consultations, accelerators + more, while also helping social innovators leverage their resources more efficiently to find the right match for their purpose.
She’s an ex-Airbnber, experienced community builder, music industry dabbler and enthusiastic daydreamer. She previously founded Y Vote, an organisation that galvanised significant increases in youth voter enrolment and participation in the 2016 Australian federal election. Skye’s work on democracy, the purpose-driven economy and the role of civil society in high level decision making saw her recognised as an inaugural Obama Foundation Leader (APAC).
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Director Civil Society and Leadership, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Jamaica is the Civil Society and Leadership Director at the Packard Foundation where she oversees grantmaking in support of strong leaders, organizations, and movements, and a thriving civil society across the Foundation’s goals and geographies in Asia, Africa, South America, and North America. Jamaica is passionate about shifting systems and power to improve outcomes for the environment and people. She believes that durable progress on critical issues will only occur when we invest deeply in the people closest to the problem. Jamaica has worked to support civil society leaders for over 20 years. Before joining the Foundation in 2013, Jamaica spent 11 years at CEA Consulting, where she gained deep experience providing strategic and organizational guidance to nonprofits, foundations, and businesses, with particular expertise in climate change, biodiversity conservation, and food systems. She holds degrees from Brown University and University of San Francisco.
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Skoll AfOx Program Coordinator, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Elizabeth has over 6 years of experience both in private practice and driving key public sector reforms projects. She served as the youngest Reform Leader on Nigeria's Ease of Doing Business initiative led by the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria. Elizabeth advised and led initiatives on legislative, legal, technical, policy, and judicial reforms that created an enabling environment for businesses and investors. Prior, she practiced as a corporate and litigation lawyer. She is also a volunteer advisor at YourY Network- a network community of social entrepreneurs and impact investors.
Elizabeth is currently a Poler Family Oxford Graduate Scholar, studying the Master of Public Policy program at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She is also a graduate of the Impact Lab program organised by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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Founder, MindTravel
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CCO, Co-Founder, OpenFn
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Individual, Individual
To satisfy her insatiable curiosity and problem-solving itch, Virginia translates today’s insights into future-forward solutions as an innovation strategist. She has led innovation, insights, and strategic planning at a range of companies including the design consultancy IDEO, MTV, Electronic Arts, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, etc. Spanning across industries—consumer tech to food to transportation infrastructure—her work has been recognized by Fast Company Innovation, ISDA, IDEA, Peabody, Effie, and the AAA Jay Chiat Planning Awards. In her latest efforts, Virginia is transitioning this experience towards a new (to herself) world of philanthropy and sustainable investing.
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Investments, Capricorn Investment Group
Marie-Céline Damnon is an Associate on the Investment Team. She joined the firm in 2018. Prior to Capricorn, Marie-Céline worked as a consultant at Akoya Consulting. Marie-Céline earned her Master in Management and MSc in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris.
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International Content Coordinator, RecordTV
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Individual, Individual
Suzanne Wright is a former civil litigator and criminal prosecutor. Since 2006, she has been a trustee of the Technical Training Foundation, a private non profit focusing on improving education for children around the world (most recently in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lawrence MA and Los Angeles CA, USA). She is also the CEO of Microwave Engineering Corp, an engineering company located in Massachusetts. Suzanne is on the Board of the California Science Center and the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA).
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Global Health Equity, EMEA, Johnson & Johnson
As Regional Leader, Global Health Equity, Johnson & Johnson for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Stacy Meyer leads our commitment to advance health equity by supporting the healthcare workforce through partnerships and programming funded from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.
Stacy has more than 26 years of healthcare experience within Johnson & Johnson, spanning Europe, Africa, and United States. Previously, she served as Vice President, Africa Implementation for the Global Public Health team at Johnson & Johnson, where she was responsible for driving scale in access to critical medicines and technologies through novel technologies, community engagement and medical education. Stacy and her team collaborated with African governments and organizations to overcome first to last mile delivery challenges across a wide public health portfolio, including HIV, tuberculosis, trauma care and more.
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PhD, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Dr Sugandha Srivastav's research lies at the nexus of the economics of innovation and environmental economics. Her research explores how to bring early-stage technologies to market and the role of R&D support, advanced market commitments and other de-risking instruments. Key research themes include how to decarbonise highly regulated power markets and the design of climate/energy policy in developing countries.
Sugandha is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford, a Distinguished CESifo Affiliate, an Early Career Research Fellow the Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at Oxford.
Sugandha holds a DPhil in Environmental Economics from Oxford and an MSc. in Economics from LSE. She lectures for the MSc. in Sustainability, Enterprise and Environment at the Smith School. Prior to the DPhil, Sugandha worked for several years as an environmental economist at Vivid Economics and ICRIER.
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Founder & Director, Motion Light Lab
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Managing Director, Co-Founder, Flare
Caitlin, originally from Chicago and based in Kenya for the last decade, is passionate about solving the world's largest healthcare problems. Caitlin is co-CEO at Flare alongside Maria and the two of them are looking to massively scale Flare's footprint in Africa and beyond. Two-thirds of the world lacks 911, and they are on a mission to close that gap.
Prior to co-founding Flare, Caitlin worked in management consulting and spent years as a Director of the Clinton Foundation, leading their Malaria work throughout sub-Saharan Africa. She has her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Consulting Director, Vera Solutions
Experience of 20+ years in the field of Development, both in the South, with grassroots organisations, and in the North, with donor/international organisations. Main expertise regards project/program management, including designing, monitoring and evaluating, budgeting, setting up operations, staff recruiting, backing office etc. Also lectured at a MBA programme in Regional Sustainable Development through Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Regarding languages, fluency in English and Spanish, native in Portuguese, advanced level of French and basic Dutch. Special interest in Education and Rural Development in Latin America.
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Climate Accountability Reporter, Associated Press
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Climate Accountability Editor, Associated Press
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Director of Talent & Partnerships, Delta40 Venture Studio
Sidee is a seasoned professional skilled in relationship building and stakeholder management within the venture capital ecosystem. Currently, as the Director of Talent and Partnerships at Delta40 Venture Studio, Sidee is focused on identifying experienced Entrepreneurs, taking them and their ventures through key parts of the due-diligence process and supporting the entrepreneurs with building scalable & sustainable ventures that will drive change at a Pan-African scale. Sidee is also focused on finding the right funding partners for both the studio and the ventures to support with investments and exits.
Prior to Delta40, Sidee played a key role in raising over $400 million in investments and donations for the African Leadership Group. Sidee also managed Key Corporate Accounts at African Leadership Group, driving opportunities to place 2 million young leaders into jobs and leading the highest revenue generating function at ALI in 2022.
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Director, Luminate
Felipe leads Luminate’s efforts in Latin America, managing grants and investments focused on advancing Civic Empowerment, Independent Media, Data & Digital Rights, and Financial Transparency in the region.
Previously, as an Open Government Strategist at the World Bank, Felipe travelled to more than 40 countries around the world, advocating for and advancing efforts to make governments more open and to foster collaboration between state and non-state organisations.
Prior to this, Felipe was a founding member of the Open Contracting Partnership, a Planning Producer at CNN’s Washington bureau and was part of the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations in Switzerland.
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Global Climate and Environment News Director, Associated Press
Peter Prengaman is the global climate and environmental news director for The Associated Press, leading a team around the world dedicated to stories about climate change, from the impact on people to policy debates and green technologies. Prengaman has been with the AP for 22 years and held several roles, from statehouse reporter in Oregon to bureau chief in Brazil. He has covered big stories from more than 15 countries, including hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and ecological disasters, such as the 2010 Gulf oil spill and 2019 tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil. Between journalism assignments and linguistic studies, Prengaman has lived about 10 years overseas, in Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Chile and Morocco. He is co-author of “Dilma’s Downfall: The Impeachment of Brazil’s First Woman President and the Pathway to Power for Jair Bolsonaro’s Far-Right.”
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Assistant to Senior Managing Director, The World Bank
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Executive Director, Climate-KIC
Dr. Kirsten Dunlop is Chief Executive Officer at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private partnership focused on climate innovation. She brings to her role a deep conviction in our capacity to learn and evolve into a climate-resilient society, and her over 30 years of experience catalyzing systemic transformations in a career spanning academia, consulting, banking, and the insurance industry, across three continents. Kirsten serves on various Advisory Boards and is recognized as a leader at the European Commission Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR) expert group. A specialist in experiential learning and cross-disciplinary practice, she holds a Ph.D. in Cultural History from the University of East Anglia and a BA Hons in Art History from the University of Sydney.
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Climate Science Reporter, Associated Press
Seth Borenstein is a Washington-based science writer for The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. At the AP since 2006, his primary beat is climate change. He has covered disasters, hurricanes, the environment, astronomy, physics and the space program.
He is the winner of several journalism awards, including the National Journalism Award for environment reporting in 2007 from the Scripps Foundation, the Outstanding Beat Reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2008 and 2004 and shared the 2010 George Polk Award for Environment Reporting.
A reporter since 1983, Borenstein has covered the environment, hurricanes and the space program at Knight Ridder Newspapers' Washington Bureau, the Orlando Sentinel and the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He is the co-author of three out-of-print books.
He teaches journalism at New York University’s Washington, D.C. campus, has flown in zero gravity and tried out for the Florida Marlins baseball team.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Unlocked Labs
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Consultant, Allan & Gill Gray Foundation
Jimmy Chan spent 25 years in the investment management industry in research and leadership roles. Since 2018, he has been applying his professional skills in the philanthropy sector, researching organisations and managing grant-making programmes in Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies.
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Senior Manager, Private Sector Partnerships and Innovation, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, The
Meredith is a self-proclaimed curious optimist with global experience in technology for development and social impact. In her current role at Gavi, she manages a portfolio of diverse private sector partnerships including partners in the tech/digital health space and she supports Gavi’s innovation strategy. Meredith has a Bachelor's degree in French and Politics from New York University and an Executive Certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Immediately prior to joining Gavi, Meredith served as the Country Director in Democratic Republic of Congo for Viamo Inc., a social enterprise focused on mobile technology solutions. She also previously co-founded VaxTrac, where she led global partnerships and oversaw implementation of biometric based vaccine tracking tools in Benin, Nepal, and Sierra Leone.
Meredith is a certified Zumba instructor and activity enthusiast. She loves outdoor adventures like climbing, kayaking, hiking, and exploring new places,
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Natalia Cañón González is the Director of of Advanced Digital Services. She is responsible for consolidating and leading the development of digital products that respond to the population's needs at the base of the pyramid, such as women, refugees, migrants and victims of the conflict. Natalia has led different social impact initiatives with a technological focus from conception, start-up, and launch, working with multidisciplinary teams and leading other work units. Natalia has more than ten years of work experience in the social, public, and private sectors and studied international relations with a Master's in interdisciplinary Development Studies from the University of the Andes.
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Founder and Co-Director, Open Embassy
Renée Frissen is the founder and CEO of OpenEmbassy. OpenEmbassy enables data driven integration policies and solutions. They work on a just system and welcoming society for all newcomers in Europe, and the Netherlands specifically. OpenEmbassy was a winner of the MIT Solve Competition in Jordan in 2016. Renée developed the idea for OpenEmbassy while volunteering at an emergency shelter for asylum seekers in Amsterdam. Being trained as an action researcher, Renée identified an opportunity to look beyond building tools for integration, focusing instead on an evidence-based method to change the system of integration entirely. Renée studied at New York University and Humboldt Universitat Berlin, and graduated cum laude in cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked in the social domain for over 15 years. She has founded multiple social initiatives and is a public speaker and writer.
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Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Director, Philanthropic Strategies, Fidelity Charitable
Rebecca Miller is Vice President, Donor Effectiveness for the Private Donor Group at
Fidelity Charitable. Rebecca joined Fidelity Charitable in 2020. She partners with Fidelity Charitable’s most generous donors and provides guidance and solutions to meet their philanthropic goals. She uses her knowledge of grantmaking to learn from and center communities, partner with nonprofit organizations, and help donors have impact. Prior to joining Fidelity Charitable, Rebecca was a senior philanthropic advisor at The Philanthropic Initiative. Before that, Rebecca served as a technical advisor on resilience, governance, and partnership at Mercy Corps, supporting programs to develop strong partnerships with local organizations. She has also worked for Hunt Alternative Fund’s Institute for Inclusive Security, which advocates for the full participation of all
stakeholders in peace processes, and managed the organization’s grantmaking
program, as well as Middle East and North Africa program.
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Director, "Rich White Men" project
Garrett Neiman (he/him) is a nonprofit entrepreneur, donor organizer, and activist. Previously, he was the founding CEO of CollegeSpring (college access) and a co-creator of Liberation Ventures (power building toward reparations). In 2023, Hachette published Garrett's debut book, Rich White Men, which NPR Books praised for its direct yet compassionate take on how elites can share power and why that benefits all of us. Currently, Garrett is a co-creator of the Perennial Sunflower Project, a field catalyst that is building infrastructure to strengthen the emerging movement of white men who are partnering across differences for equity and justice.
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Executive Assistant and Strategic Manager,
NOSSASRomulo Silva holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from PUC Minas, a Master's degree in Education from the School of Education at UFMG, and a specialist degree in Cultural Management from the School of Public Policy at UEMG. He is a Hip Hop creator, cultural producer, and popular educator, and has been a researcher and professor at the UFMG Youth Observatory. In the last years he integrated the forum of coordinators of the mandate of Representative Áurea Carolina, doing direct advisory and coordinating "Emenda Geral", public consultation for the allocation of resources of the parliamentary amendments. At NOSSAS, he is an Executive Manager, advising the executive director and developing strategies and partnerships for the institutional team.
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Senior Communications Officer (SMD), The World Bank
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Climate Photo Editor, Associated Press
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Senior Operations Officer, The World Bank
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Client Solutions, Capricorn Investment Group
Jessica Ajoku is an Associate on the Client Solutions & Partnerships at Capricorn Investment Group. Prior to joining Capricorn, Jessica was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division, managing more than $10 billion assets of private clients as the sole analyst across multiple teams. She then worked on the Launch With GS team, Goldman’s billion dollar investment strategy grounded in the data-driven thesis that diverse teams drive strong returns. Jessica earned her Bachelors from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
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Christopher Shires brings a dynamic approach to his role as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at PeerForward since 2015. Hailing from the vibrant city of Chicago, Illinois, Christopher's passion for effecting positive change in youth and families from low-income communities has been a driving force throughout his career.
Drawing on this passion, Christopher has successfully cultivated partnerships with numerous school communities across the Midwest and West Coast, fostering impactful collaborations that aim to empower and uplift students.
In addition to his role as Director, Christopher also serves as a PeerForward Coach, where he actively engages and mentors young adults, equipping them with the skills and tools needed to spearhead campaigns that promote a college-going culture within their schools.
Prior to his tenure at PeerForward, Christopher honed his expertise during a decade-long tenure in financial banking, specializing in management, client satisfaction, and the deve
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Transnational Corruption and Financial Integrity Specialist, UNDP
Søren Vester Haldrup works with transnational corruption, financial integrity, and innovation in UNDP. He leads a new experimental initiative to tackle transnational corruption, deploying innovation and systems thinking to understand and address the issue across its global 'value chain' from where funds are stolen to where they end up. Søren has also worked in UNDP’s Strategic Innovation Unit supporting country offices, global teams, and local partners to apply new approaches to better understand and tackle complex systems challenges. In this role Søren built the ‘M&E Sandbox’ - UNDP’s flagship initiative focused on rethinking monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement for 21st century challenges. Søren has been a board member with Global Integrity, he has worked as a Senior Consultant with Oxford Policy Management as well as with UNDP Tanzania/ Government of Tanzania, International Rescue Committee Ethiopia, and the Danish Institute for International Studies.
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CEO/Founder, Pelebox
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CEO, Amini
Kate Kallot is a world-class technologist who has received sustained global acclaim for her work, most notably for advancing technology access across emerging economies. She has received multiple accolades, including being named TIME100's Most Influential People in AI.
Kate is the Founder & CEO of Amini, an AI startup solving Africa's data scarcity by building its data infrastructure. With over a decade of experience leading AI innovation at global tech companies such as NVIDIA, Intel, and Arm, she has a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that drive social impact and transform communities.
Kate is a recognized expert in the AI field, advising international organizations and governments on the power of AI to accelerate economic transformation.
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Founding President Emerita, Garrison Institute
Diana Calthorpe Rose is Founding President Emerita of the Garrison Institute, a non-profit organization located in Garrison, New York whose mission is to apply the transformative power of contemplation to today's pressing social and environmental concerns, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future.
The Garrison Institute's Program Initiatives develop rigorous, evidence-based ways to apply contemplative methodologies to key social change fields - education, ecology and trauma care - redefining their core issues, connecting them to a larger context of systemic change.
Diana Rose was educated at UC Berkeley and has a professional background in art, design, event production and gallery management. She is an accomplished dressage rider who trains and competes successfully at the highest levels. She is married to Jonathan F.P. Rose, a real estate developer and planner, and has two daughters.
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Climate Video Editor, Associated Press
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President, Climate Leadership Initiative
President of Climate Lead (formerly CLI), where she leads the organization as it builds a model to harness philanthropists’ interest, passion, and generosity to increase philanthropic funding for the most profound challenge of our time. As an advisor to donors and a trusted guide for families working to address the climate crisis, she is focused on building a community to bring new donors into the climate space to fund promising, far-reaching solutions.
Jennifer brings more than 20 years of experience working with philanthropists, corporations and foundations to fund high-impact causes. She also brings decades of experience in community building, philanthropic collaboration and complex problem solving.
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Head of Global Programs, Waverley Street Foundation
Kai is a strategic, values-center leader with over 20 years of experience in environmental sustainability, community resilience, and social equity. As the inaugural Head of Global Programs at Waverley Street Foundation, Kai leads WSF's team in supporting global movements, organizations, leaders, and local communities implementing climate change solutions.
Prior to joining WSF, Kai served as Director of the Global Climate Initiative at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she oversaw the Foundation’s investments to halt tropical deforestation and promote just and sustainable development. During this time she played a pivotal role in leading Forests, People, Climate, a collaborative of philanthropic donors and civil society with a similar purpose. She has managed teams and programs working at the intersection of people and the planet in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Founder, Super Being Labs
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Director, Culture Hack
Mehul leads Culture Hack Labs, where he spearheads initiatives at the exciting intersection of technology, social justice, and systemic change. His approach is grounded in collaboration with activists and Indigenous movements worldwide, aiming to weave together technology and traditional wisdom to forge innovative paths toward a more just and sustainable world. Before this, as Technology Director at The Rules, he played a pivotal role in crafting tools that empower communities to rewrite narratives for social change.
With an MPhil in Social Innovation and ongoing doctoral work in Management Information Systems at the University of Cape Town, Mehul's academic pursuits complement his hands-on work, offering deep insights into how information systems can be harnessed for societal benefit. His focus is on creating systematic, narrative-led approaches to address complex global challenges, blending the analytical with the creative to spark meaningful change.
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Country Director, Global Emergency Care
Steven Kisingiri is the Country Director of Global Emergency Care in Uganda. A thoughtful and innovative strategic professional with over 25 years of experience working with key international and national profit and not-for-profit stakeholders at executive and senior managerial levels to optimise organisations' strategic planning, purpose, and execution. Of these, ten years were spent enhancing transformative culture to drive collaborative solutions that encourage the most vulnerable women and children to embrace their future and growth in ways that have a meaningful impact on them. Steven is experienced in leading the delivery of high-quality program outcomes working with national and international partners and in line with strategic plans while at the same time cultivating and maintaining substantial stakeholder relationships including government. A strategic thought partner to leadership teams, and boards delivering timely, fiscally sound programs that address needs sustainably.
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International Program Director, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Ford Foundation
Tony Bebbington is International Program Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation. He is also Board Chair of the Climate and Land Use Alliance, Chair of the Steering Group of the Trust, Accountability and Inclusion collaborative, and board member of Oxfam America. Previously he served as Higgins Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, USA, Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Management in International Development at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has also held positions at the World Bank, Overseas Development Institute and International Institute for Environment and Development. Tony has done most of his own work in Latin America, with a focus on environmental governance, extractive industries, smallholder agriculture, social movements and non-governmental organizations.
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Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation
Victoria Dunning serves as senior program officer for BUILD at the Ford Foundation. The 10-year, $2 billion BUILD initiative builds institutions and networks through multiyear, flexible funding and institutional strengthening. In this role, she collaborates with Ford’s US, global, and regional program teams in the US, Africa, and India to support strategic, trust-based grantmaking practice; and with grantee partners to increase organizational resilience toward mission impact. Victoria develops partnerships for technical assistance and peer learning. She also co-leads BUILD’s learning and evaluation efforts. Prior to joining Ford, Victoria was executive vice president of The Global Fund for Children, providing grants and capacity-building support to grassroots organizations around the world. Previously, she held roles at the UN Foundation, the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, and USAID Tanzania. Victoria holds a MPH from Columbia University and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.
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Chief Network Weaver, Horizons Project
Julia Roig is the Founder & Chief Network Weaver at The Horizons Project. She has more than 30 years of experience working for democratic change & conflict transformation around the world. Throughout her career she has been called upon to translate between theory & practice, while seeding new approaches, organizing principles, and mindset shifts for social change. After serving for 14 years as President of PartnersGlobal– in 2022 Julia launched The Horizons Project to focus on the intersection of peacebuilding, social justice, and democracy in the US. Julia is the main architect of ground-breaking new research and approaches for more effective Narratives for Peace. She also works with philanthropists, non-profits, and movement leaders to incorporate narrative competency as an essential tool for restoring societal relationships and democratic values. Julia holds a number of trustee roles, including with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the Othering & Belonging Institute.
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Head of Foundation Partnerships, Acumen
Sabrina has over 18 years of experience in fundraising and program development. She joined Acumen, an impact-first investor, in 2019 as Head of Foundation Partnerships to lead and cultivate the organization’s efforts with Corporations and Foundations. Prior to Acumen, Sabrina led business development efforts at Women’s World Banking, securing support from corporations and development aid agencies to create inclusive policies and commercially viable financial solutions for women across the globe. Sabrina holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in Economic Development and Public Policy and is fluent in French, Filipino, and Spanish.
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Director, Old Fire Station
Founding Director and now Associate Director of the Old Fire Station, Oxford, which delivers the Marmalade Festival in partnership with Skoll World Forum.
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Founder and Director, Anthem of Us
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Global Health Advocate, TB Proof
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Professor, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
I am an innovation specialist at the Africa Oxford Initiative (University of Oxford) working at the nexus of research and innovation networks. My work is focused on venture building in health and have a with a keen interest in impact investment and the broader purpose for sustainable futures.
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Special Advisor, Open Society Foundations
Rosalind McKenna is Special Advisor in the President’s Office at Open Society Foundations (OSF), supporting external policy priorities. She was previously advisor to OSF’s Global Advocacy Department, focusing on development / climate finance and global financial architecture reform. She also led OSF engagement with the Global Alliance of Foundations, advancing philanthropic collaboration on key global challenges. Previously, Rosalind was a Team Manager of the Financing Division of OSF’s Public Health Program. Prior to joining OSF in 2014, Rosalind coordinated Amnesty International Ireland's program on economic, social and cultural rights. A graduate of the University of Glasgow and National University of Ireland, Rosalind has previously worked for a UK Member of Parliament and the Scottish Courts Service. She is a member of the European Board of Global Citizen, Advisory Board member of E&K Consulting, Kenya, and a former Board member of Impact Funding Partners in her native Scotland.
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Head of Section, Economics and Statistics Division, and co-editor of The Global Innovation Index, World Intellectual Property Organization
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Founder, Mwanga
Echika is the CEO and Founder of Mwanga - a digital-first and ethical debt recovery and business process outsourcing(BPO) firm that is strategically collecting while making life easier for consumers. Trusted by some of the continent’s leading lenders, Mwanga is on a mission to get at least 5 million Africans out of debt in 3 years.
Her background is multidisciplinary with experience in leading high performing teams across industries .She also started an ed-tech platform called Yapha Academy that delivers employer readiness trainings to early stage professionals in Africa and connects them to global economic opportunities in the BPO space, empowering them to do their best work. From Inception to date, Yapha has been able to engage 1,400+ Africans from 11 Countries in Africa. The goal is to get One million Africans in gainful employment and a stable source of income in 3 years. In addition to her career and business growth, she is involved in a number of social impact organizations
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Individual, Individual
With Maverick Collective, funded five year project in Haiti to reduce child slavery & GBV. Women Moving Millions, served on board, redefining the vision, & long & short term goals; has catalyzed $1 Billion+ for women & girls. Produced Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me. Produced documentary Disclosure. Exec Producer documentary My Name is Andrea. Produced documentary Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free. Funded the Annenberg Reproductive Rights Accelerator; recipients show how women's lives and stories intersect with the ideas of & need for reproductive rights. Exec Producer documentary True Believer. Investor, The Body Agency: provides female sexual health & wellness education & products. Investor, VIVI Life Company/AQ Athletics: mental wellness program & phone app, transforms relationships & performance of high school, college & professional athletes. Investor, Broadstream: online company that finds artists who need amplifying, commissioning them to make what they love.
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Researcher, Saïd Business School
Valentin is a pre-doctoral researcher with The Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners and Impact. He holds a BA in Business and Management and an MSc in Environmental Technology (Business Sustainability) from Imperial College London. As part of his degree, he collaborated with an asset management firm and a major public transportation authority to gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating sustainability into their organisational strategy. Valentin became interested in the tensions that investors face in aligning their portfolios with sustainable objectives and joined the Ownership Project 2.0 to contribute to the creation of actionable, research-based insights to help private capital owners navigate these tensions.
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Director, 32 Degrees East Ugandan Arts Trust
Teesa Bahana is director of 32° East, an independent non-profit art centre dedicated to the transformative power of contemporary art in Kampala, Uganda. As director she has led the development and execution of projects such as the 3rd and 4th edition of KLA ART, Kampala's public art festival, dynamic residency programmes, and international exchanges with partners such as Arts Collaboratory, and Triangle Network, all while nurturing a thriving artistic community.
She is also currently overseeing 32° East's capital project, and has raised over $700,000 to date for the first purpose-built art centre in Kampala. Phase 1 of the centre opened in March 2023 and has since been widely recognised in leading architecture publications. She has been a mentor/faculty on multiple art initiatives on the African continent such as RAW Academy and MACAAL Bootcamp, while also serving on various panels and advisory committees. She is also a trustee of the Localworks Foundation
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Early Career Research Fellow, Oxford Martin School
Dr Mahreen Khan is the senior postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development at the University of Oxford. She is a labour economist focusing on issues of labour mobility, migration, human capital and skills acquisition, and youth entrepreneurship in low- and middle-income countries. Dr Khan has extensive work experience in the international development research and policy. She worked as Senior Economic Adviser for the Dutch government, focusing on issues of labour organization and decent work conditions in the textile sector in Bangladesh. She led the implementation of large-scale impact evaluations while working in Bangladesh, Nepal and Uganda. She also worked at Credit Suisse’s investment banking sector in New York and London. Dr Khan completed her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She holds a Master’s in Applied Economics from the Paris School of Economics, and dual degrees in Economics and Management from MIT.
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CEO & Founder, Adive
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Chief Executive Officer, Alliance For Women and Girls
Dr. Vongai Nyahunzvi is the CEO of the Alliance For Women and Girls (AFWAG). With over 20 years of diverse leadership experience across corporate, government, and non-profit sectors, she has committed herself to leveling the playing field for women and girls. Beyond AFWAG, Vongai serves as the Chief Network Officer and Head of the Africa Region at Teach For All and prior to that has run her own global leadership consultancy for eight years. An acknowledged thought leader, she has authored five books on leadership and created platforms such as a monthly CEO roundtable and the Europe Leadership Awards. For Vongai, empowering women and girls isn’t just a professional pursuit but a deeply personal mission, guiding all her multifaceted endeavors.
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Senior Fellow, Africa, Center for American Progress
Anne-Marea Griffin is an international development specialist who focused her professional life on African affairs, philanthropy and program management. Now a Senior Fellow, Africa at the Center for American Progress she leads in Africa-related priorities that include climate change, democracy and trade and development through Diaspora engagement. Anne recently served as Senior Director, Diaspora Partnerships at UNICEF USA.
Anne has a BA from Harvard, MA from Northwestern, a fellowship at Yale, and Doctorate from the Univ. of Bath, U.K. She lived in Africa for 25 years, the last nine in S. Africa. Anne has experience in think tanks and international NGOs. Her early career was in policy advocacy at TransAfrica, later on Capitol Hill's Foreign Affairs Committee. Anne founded an education NGO promoting scholarships, research and youth work. She has worked for 17+ years with foundations such Ford, Carnegie, Elma, Mastercard, also at USAID, USADF, and Global Health Advocacy Incubator.
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Incoming President, Open Society Foundations
Binaifer Nowrojee is Vice President for Regions responsible for overseeing Open Society's regional programs. Binaifer steers the regional strategy development, capacity-building, & overall performance of our region work. She serves as a liaison across our network, facilitating coordination amongst regions & between our regions & Global Programs, strategic tools, & operations functions to align with overarching Open Society priorities. For more than 3 decades, Binaifer has worked on issues of human rights, justice, & governance, often in politically sensitive operating environments. She has strategic leadership experience at national, regional, & international levels, including through policy research, campaigning, grant-making, litigation, & investment. With deep experience in Africa & Asia, as well as extensive advocacy experience, Binaifer previously served as Open Society’s East Africa Foundation Director, Regional Director for Asia Pacific, & VP for Organizational Transformation.
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Freelance Photographer, Individual
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National Coordinator, Presidential Unlocking Healthcare-Value Chain Initiative
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Student, Gramhal
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Co-Founder, Low Carbon City/Bioectur
Juliana is a transdisciplinary leader motivated by the search of well-being and the generation of a positive impact in the social and natural capital.
She has led recognized projects for the public, private and academic sectors, in Colombia and internationally, and she has been a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Low Carbon City, Bioectur, among others. Low Carbon City is a citizen-led world movement building collective solutions to tackle climate change. Bioectur Is a biodiversity action network for Latin America.
She has 15+ years experience promoting sustainability, climate change, biodiversity action and regenerative development agendas. Her leadership has been recognized and awarded by organizations such as Ashoka, Echoing Green, UNESCO, KOICA.
She hold a degree in Finance and International Relations, a postgraduate degree in Political Studies, a Master's in Environmental Projects, and a Master's in International Studies.
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Strategic Partnerships Manager, Khushi Baby
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Philanthropy Associate, GiveWell
Charlotte is on the outreach team at GiveWell. She communicates with donors and peer organizations about GiveWell's research, grant recommendations, and giving funds.
Before coming to GiveWell, she taught in a variety of contexts. She has a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and an M.Ed. in Education from Johns Hopkins University.
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Founder and CEO, One Degree
Rey Faustino is an entrepreneur, innovator and fervent advocate for educational equity. Rey wrote the first business plan for One Degree for a graduate school final project in 2010 to ensure that all families have access to services they need to overcome poverty. Over the last decade, Rey devoted his energy to low-income families and students as a teacher and subsequently a leader in educational nonprofit organizations. Previously Rey was the site director at BUILD, a college access nonprofit organization, where he designed and deployed business incubators and led eleven staff to propel low-income
minority youth to attain a college education. Rey is an Echoing Green Fellow, and an Education Pioneers Fellow. He received his B.S. in Business Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California and his Master in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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CEO, Global Director of Partnerships, Aga Khan Foundation
Matt Reed is the Global Director of Institutional Partnerships for the Aga Khan Foundation, responsible for coordinating AKF’s strategic partnerships with government, multilateral, foundation and corporate partners worldwide. He has been CEO of AKF in the UK since 2016.
Matt has worked with the Aga Khan Development Network since 2009, serving as Director of Programmes at AKF (UK) in London and as CEO of AKF (India) in Delhi. Previously, he has worked at the Getty Research Institute, the Salzburg Seminar, the MacArthur Foundation, and Keck Graduate Institute at the Claremont Colleges.
Matt Reed has a Ph.D. in European History and an M.A. in European Studies from Claremont Graduate University. During his graduate work, he was affiliated with the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. His B.A. is in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.
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Director, Doc Society (UK)
Sandra Whipham is one of the five co-directors of Doc Society.
Sandra heads up the Democracy Story Unit, which will bring storytellers into an ecosystem with academics, activists, journalists and social scientists to think together about what narratives about democracy are most needed and most effective.
Sandra also works on the partnership between Doc Academy (Doc Society's schools offering for documentary film) and Into Film, which elevates documentary film’s role in education to inspire active and empathetic young citizens.
Outside of Doc Society, Sandra is on the Interim Board of the newly formed Documentary Film Council, a new sector-wide organisation for the UK's independent documentary film industry. Designed in collaboration with filmmakers and organisations across the documentary sector, the DFC's mission is to enable effective, coordinated action to address the key issues facing our sector.
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Partner - Global Community, Praxis
After spending a decade in the CPG world, learning sales, marketing, market research, retail marketing and market demand analysis, I entered the rural development scene in Asia, by choosing to live and work among vulnerable communities. I've worked among 3 different rural communities in Asia, founding start-ups and growing enterprises to create sustainable, holistic jobs.
Following 12 years of entrepreneurial start-up work, I co-founded JoyCorps, a 501c3 that exists to provide redemptive entrepreneurs with the resources, coaching and opportunities they need to see their ventures succeed.
I am currently the Partner for Global Community at Praxis - an engine for Redemptive Entrepreneurship. I have a great desire to utilize the experiences and knowledge I've gained over the past 20 years to come alongside of Founders and Builders in their journey.
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Climate Amazon Correspondent, Associated Press
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Reporter and TV Producer, SBT
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Climate News Editor, Associated Press
Dana Beltaji is the climate news editor for The Associated Press. She oversees dedicated climate coverage for the team in Africa, Asia and Europe, the intersection of climate and agriculture in the U.S. and the reporting of the annual U.N. climate conferences, or COPs. Dana joined the AP as part of the organization’s initiative to create a dedicated, global climate team in spring 2022. Previously, Dana worked in radio and television production at the BBC and Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, working on daily news programming as a reporter, producer and editor for eight years. She’s currently based in London.
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Head of Development Ð Foundations & Corporations, Saïd Business School
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Accounting, Capricorn Investment Group
As the Finance and Operations Manager for the Sustainable Investors Fund and Capricorn's European products, I oversee a wide range of critical functions. My work extends to intricate partnership structuring and tax optimization strategies for our burgeoning Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business. Additionally, I play a pivotal role in managing the Anchor portfolios for Jeff Skoll entities, including Sequoia Holdings, The Skoll Foundation, and The Skoll Fund, ensuring their alignment with our strategic vision.
Since joining Capricorn in 2015, I've dedicated myself to enhancing our fund's performance and operational efficiency. My anticipation for attending the Skoll World Forum stems from my eagerness to connect with like-minded professionals and explore innovative solutions that align with our mission of sustainable investment.
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Present and Journalism Manager, SBT
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Senior Program Analyst, Crown Family Philanthropies
I am a philanthropy professional currently working with the Crown Family Philanthropies (CFP), where I contribute to impactful partnerships aimed at implementing community-based solutions that enhance healthcare accessibility in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining CFP, I spent time at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai conducting research on the connections between environmental justice and global health disparities. Prior to that I served as a consultant for the UNDP in The Gambia.
I am passionate about advancing health equity, promoting equitable giving practices, and exploring the intersection of health and human rights in resource-limited settings.
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Co-Founder, NextWorld
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Regional Sales Manager & LatAm Partnerships, Associated Press
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Ashleigh Gardere, PolicyLink Executive Vice President, brings vision to life through PolicyLink programs, activating common and uncommon partners to develop a shared national equity agenda. She is a pioneer in inclusive economic growth. She works effectively across government, private, and nonprofit sectors to create the civic infrastructure for a coalition broad enough to redesign the legal and regulatory framework of the United States to work for all.
Recognized by Living Cities as one of the nation’s Top 25 Disruptive Leaders working to close racial wealth gaps, Ashleigh is an expert in economic and workforce development, public policy, organizational leadership and culture change, and performance management for large-scale systems transformation.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from New York University and a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow.
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Reporter, O Estado de S. Paulo
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Deputy Editor, Valor Economico
I have been working as a professional journalist since 1990 and have worked for the main Brazilian news outlets, including Folha de S.Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, Jornal do Brasil, and O Globo. In digital media, I worked for over 11 years in real-time news service at Agência Estado, part of the Estado Group. I joined Valor Econômico in June 2011 to work on digital platforms, website, and real-time news, and later on the print edition in the International section. Since May of last year, I have held the position of deputy editor in the International section.
I graduated in Journalism in 1989 at Cásper Líbero College in São Paulo. I have a postgraduate degree in International Economic Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Postgraduate Program (Unicamp-PUC/SP-USP).
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Organizer & Curator, TEDxAmazônia
Rodrigo is CEO and founder of Profile, a communication agency that since 2013 tells stories of people and brands that inspire evolution working exclusively with sustainability, positive impact, and regenerative projects. Profile is a certified B Corporation, a pioneer in the communications industry in Brazil.
Rodrigo co-organized TEDxAmazonia in 2010 and now holds the license for the iconic event that came back to life in November 2023. He also served as an ambassador for TED in Latin America. In 2020, Rodrigo launched the book Humanos de Negócios, an outcome of the project of the same name launched in 2018 to tell stories of leaders who are (re)humanizing the business world. He is 47 years old, married, has four children, and has been surfing since he was 12.
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President, Strickland Global Leadership Institute
Anthony leads the Strickland Global Leadership Institute in its creation of vocational training and cultural enrichment centers around the world. Prior to joining SGLI, he was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he worked on a project designing methods to open communication and build trust in small groups, particularly in classrooms. Anthony graduated from Harvard Law School and has a BS in Business Administration and an MS in Applied Psychological Methods, both from Fordham University.
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President & CEO, Interaction
Tom Hart joined InterAction as President and CEO in December 2023. InterAction convenes over 165 Members working in international development and humanitarian relief to drive policy changes and act collectively to serve the world’s poor. Tom works closely with the U.S. government, United Nations, and other partners to advance Member priorities.
Before InterAction, Tom was at the ONE Campaign since 2003, serving most recently as acting CEO and then President. He has experience fighting to end extreme poverty, a deep knowledge of how to make change happen, and an undying commitment to enhancing foreign aid. Prior to serving as acting CEO at ONE, Tom was the North American Executive Director, overseeing advocacy in the U.S. and Canada, as well as ONE’s global campaign against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before ONE, Tom was the Director of Government Relations for the Episcopal Church, USA, and an aide to Senators Alan Cranston and Jay Rockefeller.
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CEO/Founder, Native Renewables, Inc.
Suzanne Singer (Diné) co-founded Native Renewables with a vision to provide energy access for tens of thousands of Hopi and Navajo families who live without electricity. Her engineering background provides the technical foundation to develop programs that promote tribal energy independence, offer affordable off-grid solar energy solutions, and build a solar workforce. Prior to Native Renewables, Singer was a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and an intern with Sandia National Laboratories’ Tribal Energy Program. Singer is the winner of the 2019 U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Entrepreneurship Award, and a 2021 Echoing Green Fellow. She was also featured in the book, “Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers.” She earned a PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
Robert Schultz is a Partner of Capricorn Investment Group. Prior to Capricorn, he was the Co-Founder and Partner of Greentech Capital Advisors, an investment bank and asset management firm focused on creating a more efficient and sustainable global infrastructure, which was sold to Nomura in April 2020. Prior to Greentech, he was a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Fund Services and before that was a Managing Director and Head of Alternative Fund Services, North America for HSBC. Rob is a Chartered Accountant and received his Bachelor of Commerce, with Honors, from Queen’s University in Canada. He is a Director of Help for Children which is global foundation for the prevention and treatment of child abuse.
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Managing Editor, Nation Media Group
JAMES SMART
Managing Editor, Newsroom Production | NED Fellow |Chevening alumni
James Smart is a broadcast journalist leader in television, audio production, and new media.
His current assignment as Managing Editor, Newsroom production at Nation Media Group sees him oversee journalism production an all platforms; television, newspaper, radio and online.
He has previously worked as a news anchor and talk show host, conceptualizing top current affairs shows in Kenya #TheTrend, a program focused on young people and current events, #newssources which integrated journalists’ opinions with current affairs and #KTNLivewire.
As a producer, he has produced one of the top crime podcast series #Casenumberzero that investigated the disappearance of a former journalist in Kenya in a captivating series that has over 1 million listens across platforms. Other recent productions include #ParadiseLost- the story of former TV King and his struggles with life, #Acountryofgamblers- the story of how Ke
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Associate Director, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
Natasha Joshi is a development sector professional who has worked with multilateral organisations, foundations, and governments across India, USA, Mexico, and Singapore, and currently serves as an Associate Director at Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. She holds a degree in human development and psychology from Harvard University.
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Founder, Stroika
Yelena Litvinov is the co-founder of STROIKA, Inc. -- an organization working to reverse the tide of rising authoritarianism by building, resourcing, and connecting resistance movements around the globe. STROIKA's mission is to enable collective global action against the “authoritarian toolkit.” We work in partnership with movement leaders and donors to develop the strategies & tools for inoculating our societies against rising authoritarianism, and for making the progressive resistance more effective and wide-reaching.
Previously, Yelena was at the Open Society Foundations, supporting civil society in the Eurasia region and globally, and he founded STROIKA to help break down the silos he saw firsthand in human rights philanthropy and social justice work. A passionate movement builder, strategist, and social justice coach, Yelena has also brought his expertise to non-profits and private foundations in the immigrants’ rights, queer, racial justice, and feminist movements.
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Content Editor, TV Globo
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Board Chair, Project Redwood
Ken Inadomi is the board co-chair of Project Redwood, a social philanthropy fund founded and managed by alumni from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Project Redwood provides funding, expertise, and connections to social entrepreneurs globally who are applying innovative and scalable solutions to fighting extreme poverty.
He is also former co-chair of the Yale Alumni Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as well as the founder and chair of the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA), a nonprofit that mobilizes and leverages Yale’s impact community to advance the greater good. Ken organized YANA's founding in 2011, inspired by the vision of a global network of mission-driven alumni dedicated to working together, giving back, and changing lives.
Ken entered the nonprofit world in 2008 shortly after hearing rock legend Bruce Springsteen holler, "Nobody wins unless everybody wins,” and then reflecting on Hillel the Elder's provocative question, "If not now when?"
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Co-Architect, Blis Collective
Trevor Smith (he/him) is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on topics such as racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change. He is the Co-Founder/and Executive Director of the BLIS Collective, an organization sparking radical collaboration and alignment across Black, Indigenous, and progressive social movements to repair, decolonize, and transform culture. Previously he was the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, a field builder fueling the movement for Black-led racial repair, where he is building the ‘Reparations Narrative Lab’ (RNL). The RNL is a first-of-its-kind creative space designed to build narrative power behind reparations. He is also the creator, curator, and editor of a newsletter titled Reparations Daily (ish), now a publication of the BLIS Collective.
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CEO/Founder, FreeCap
Tanay Tatum-Edwards is the founder and CEO of FreeCap Financial, Inc., a data provider of social justice investing criteria. Before FreeCap, she developed a lifelong commitment to using investment strategies to create systemic social change while working in asset management. Tanay has multiple loved ones impacted by mass incarceration and is committed to using her expertise to address it. Prestigious fellowships, including Echoing Green, Fulbright, Halcyon Incubator, and Roddenberry Foundation, have supported her work.
Tanay regularly shares insights from FreeCap’s research at events, including SOCAP, Confluence Philanthropy, and Yale University and her thought leadership has been spotlighted in major news outlets, including MarketWatch. A foodie, NBA fan, and lover of hip-hop, Tanay received an M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where her classmates elected her commencement speaker, and a B.A. from Vassar College, where she served as student body president.
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Senior Reporter and Producer, Center for Investigative Reporting
Nate Halverson is an Emmy Award-winning senior reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting, covering business and finance with an emphasis on the global food system.
He has reported across the world, including Russia, Guatemala, England, Zambia, China, and Venezuela, and on investigative topics ranging from financial fraud and organized crime to uncovering internal documents that helped result in a $155 million settlement with a tech company.
He lives in San Francisco, where he plays ice hockey, forages mushrooms, and hikes the backcountry.
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Reporter, TV Globo
Science, health, and environment reporter at g1 - TV Globo. Journalist with a Bachelor's degree from UFPE - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, pursuing a Master's degree in Science Communication at Unicamp - Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
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Reporter, Valor Economico
I am a journalist with a postgraduate degree in Economic Analysis from Fipe/USP, and in International Information and Emerging Countries from the Complutense University of Madrid. I have been working as a reporter for Valor Econômico since 2016. From 2016 to 2020 I used to cover International news, geopolitics, internacional trade and global markets. Now, since 2020, I write about Brazilian macroeconomics, Brazilian foreign affairs and public policies, including Education, Health System and Climate and Environment issues such as natural disasters and solutions suggested by specialists to adapt cities and business to new sustainable models. I also write news about Amazon deforestation and its consequences.
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Reporter, O Estado de S. Paulo
Paula Ferreira is a journalist in Brasília. Her work revolves around comprehensive coverage of public policies related to environment, education, human rights.She graduated in Journalism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and later obtained an M.A. in Communications at the same university.
For the past six months, Paula has been a reporter at O Estado de S. Paulo. Her recent journalistic endeavours have covered significant national issues, including the Amazon Summit in August 2023, and international issues, including COP-28, in Dubai, when she wrote about climate negotiations, interviewed authorities, foreign scientists and activists.
Before that, she was a reporter of O GLOBO for nine years. Her journalistic portfolio includes coverage of three election cycles, and she was O GLOBO’s primary reporter for the Covid-19 pandemic. Paula has been honoured with multiple awards, including the ExxonMobil Award, the most honourable award in Brazilian journalism.
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Director, The Steele Foundation for Hope
Board member with the Steele Foundation for Hope
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Consultant, Associated Press
Sarah Nordgren is a news leader with deep background in U.S. news, climate and other subject areas. She has spent most of her career at the Associated Press, most recently as Deputy Managing Editor in charge of editorial partnerships and several news departments. Her current work as a consultant, with AP and other organizations, works at the intersection of news media and philanthropic funding, identifying and delivering productive collaborations.
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Co-Founding Partner, Stroika
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Senior Vice President, Pew Charitable Trusts
Priya Bery is senior vice president for partnerships, leading resource mobilization initiatives and helping to develop large-scale collaborations with individuals and organizations that share the goal of making a positive difference for the public.
Previously, Bery was chief executive officer of the Tarsadia Foundation, a family foundation investing in food and housing security, advancing mental health and well-being, and building inclusive economies for women and marginalized communities.
Prior to that, she was vice president for purpose and social entrepreneurship at TOMS, overseeing their social investment portfolio. Bery was also head of public affairs and partnerships at Virgin Unite, where she led advocacy strategy and helped incubate collaborative funding initiatives including The Elders, Carbon War Room and B-Team. Early in her career, she spearheaded the business response to the global AIDS pandemic with then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard C. Holbrooke.
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Entrepreneur, Individual
Founder of Timeless Design & Mano Plus
TEDxPetalingStreet - Curator/ Entrepreneur/ Traveller
Jessie is an entrepreneur, having been in the furniture industry for over thirty two years, she is an avid observer; she also visualizes what possibilities lie ahead. Through her observation as an entrepreneur especially in retail, this innate strength has made her gained recognition by her peers.
Jessie loves to explore, experience and enjoy every process in business and life. Hooked on ideas worth spreading, She got to know about TEDx. While watching a TED and TEDx talk on YouTube in 2011, that sparked a passion in her heart, and her vision to share local ideas to the world, connect people and create and impact so peoples’ lives are enriched, began.
As curator of TEDxPetalingStreet, the annual event is now 10 years old, with the latest event recently concluded in October 2022. Debuted in 2013, Jessie along with TEDx volunteers have faithfully organised TEDxPetalingStreet annually on the
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CEO/Founder, Safe Access
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CEO/Founder, Subul Impact Outsourcing
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Associate Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships, Center for Native American Youth
María Samaniego is the Associate Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships at the Center for Native American Youth. Prior to CNAY, she served as the inaugural Deputy Director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative where she focused on building a strong foundation and scaling the organization. María has held several roles with Voto Latino and Occidental College’s Neighborhood Partnership Program where she led education, civic engagement and leadership development initiatives utilizing data driven best practices to improve access to opportunities in underserved communities. Maria currently serves on the Advisory Council for Support Latino Business Day, is an alumnus of the HOPE Leadership Institute, the Schusterman Foundation’s Reality Program and is a Hispanic’s in Philanthropy Líderes Fellow. In 2020 she was awarded with an Aspen Institute Staff Achievement Award and in 2019 was named 40 under 40 in Washington, DC by Prospanica DC.
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CEO, CassVita
Pelkins is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of CassVita – a social enterprise that leverages technology to eradicate food insecurity and create prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa. CassVita has invented a novel biotechnology for increasing the shelf-life of cassava from 3 days to 18 months, enabling cassava farmers to get real value for their crops. CassVita partners with thousands of farmers in West Africa and has been able to increase their earnings by as much as 400% by minimizing post-harvest losses.
Pelkins earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a joint MS/MBA degree from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with honors and was supported by the Soros Fellowship.
Pelkins is fluent in English and French, holds three patents, and was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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Program Manager, Climate & International, Associated Press
Daniel is currently the Program Manager, Climate & International, at the Associated Press (AP), where he manages grants to support the AP’s climate team and all international news priorities.
He was the Engagement Manager at the World Resource Institute’s (WRI) Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) initiative, where he managed grants to green entrepreneurs in Latin America. He was also Global Policy Manager at the International Organization for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), where he promoted bamboo policies and smallholder livelihoods throughout the Global South. Before, he was a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State, with political and consular tours in Jakarta, Beijing, and Toronto as well as an environment tour on the Canada desk at DC headquarters.
He has a bachelors degree from Harvard University, a masters degree from Princeton University, a postgraduate certificate from the University of Cambridge, and speaks Spanish and Mandarin.
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CEO/Founder, Helen's Daughters
Keithlin Caroo is a young Saint Lucian changemaker championing the cause of gender inequality and rural
development across the Caribbean. Her impact is most visible through her non-profit, Helen’s Daughters,
currently operating in Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Established in 2016, Helen’s Daughters offers advocacy, capacity development and improved
market access to thousands of rural women across participating islands.Ms. Caroo’s passion for agriculture - cultivated from her upbringing in a farming household - is supplemented by an education in International Relations. She gained a deeper appreciation for the role of agriculture in a thriving society during her five-year tenure at the United Nations. Her continued work in the empowerment of the Caribbean’s rural women has earned her international recognition. She is a One Young World Ambassador, a Forbes Island Innovator, an Ashoka and Echoing Green fellow and the recipient of an MBE.
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Film Director/Producer, Author, Lecturer, Individual
Joanna Lipper is an award-winning British-American film director, producer, writer and lyricist, with a PhD in Women's Studies. Based in the UK, she runs Vertumnus Productions. With a focus on socially relevant, transnational feminist themes and a commitment to creating authentic, ground-breaking roles for women onscreen, this company is at the cutting-edge when it comes to engaging global audiences with films that inspire timely and provocative conversations. She is developing and attached to direct several book-to-screenplay adaptations including a musical feature film adaptation of the novel Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo. As a Lecturer at Harvard in the Department of African and African-American Studies, Dr. Lipper taught Using Film For Social Change. She was recently a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and an Academic Visitor at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.
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Foundation Coordinator, The Steele Foundation for Hope
Jennifer Newell has served as the Foundation Coordinator for the Steele Foundation for Hope since December 2021. In this role, she works closely with the Foundation team and board members to manage the Foundation’s operations, coordinate strategic initiative work and support the Foundation’s portfolio.
Prior to this role, Jennifer has held various leadership roles in the Financial Services, Retail and Education sectors.
Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Studies from the University of New Hampshire.
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Co-Founder; Co-Director, Embrace Race
As Co-founder and Co-director of EmbraceRace, Andrew Grant-Thomas (he/him) leads efforts to support parents, educators and other caregivers to raise children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race so that US multiracial democracy can thrive. He is dad to Rio and Lena, life partner to Melissa, and a long-time racial justice researcher and advocate. In stops that include the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, and the Proteus Fund, Andrew has worked on issues from PK-12 segregation to redistricting, immigration to the criminal legal system, and implicit bias to structural racialization. He champions efforts that can make a meaningful difference for real people and communities—not 100 years from now, but in his lifetime and the lifetimes of his 13 and 16-year-old children. Andrew earned his BA (literature) from Yale University, and his MA (international relations) and Ph.D. (political science) from The University of Chicago.
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Initiative Manager, Saïd Business School
Currently responsible for the operations and administration of the Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners and Impact, housed in the Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School.
I manage research activities, overseeing the project's collaborations and our twin deliverables: peer-reviewed academic research, and catalysing positive impact amongst family offices, family businesses, and other private capital organisations in making meaningful impact towards addressing the SDG's.
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Senior Director, Partnerships & Innovation, Luminate
David has more than 20 years experience creating and supporting organisations that use technology to drive social impact. David currently leads Luminate’s partnership and innovation work. In this role he develops Luminate's collaborations with other funders and works to expand the ways in which Luminate has impact. Prior to joining Luminate, David was the Founder & CEO of Phandeeyar, a tech hub in Yangon, which spearheaded the development of Myanmar’s startup and social innovation ecosystem. Previously, David co-founded Purpose, a global social impact agency, which uses technology to build movements and harness New Power. A civic tech pioneer, he co-founded Avaaz, the world’s largest online citizens’ movement, now with more than 50 million members, and GetUp, a technology-enabled movement that has more members than all of Australia’s political parties combined.
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Co-Founder, Project Abhaya
I am Ishika Panta- a Computer Science and Information Technology student but as someone deeply connected to the social fabric of Nepal. I am the co-founder of Project Abhaya, an initiative dedicated to eradicating violence against women. Additionally, I have organized TEDx for the past four years consecutively as the Licensee in Nepal, creating platforms for impactful ideas and conversations. Furthermore, I have served as an executive member at the National Youth Council Model United Nations, as the First Secretary General in the first-ever national Model United Nations, contributing to youth engagement and diplomacy in the 77 districts with over 500+ youth of the country, which consisted of 60% female participation.
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CEO, Adara Group
Madeline Vaughan is the Chief Executive Officer of Adara Development, an international development organisation with expertise in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and remote community development (RCD).
Madeline joined the Adara team in 2013. Most recently, she held the position of Senior Programmes Director, where she worked across Adara’s MNCH, RCD, and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) streams, leading programme strategy, planning, design and implementation, and served as a key member of Adara’s Global Leadership Team.
Madeline has extensive experience in leadership and international development. In 2019, Madeline was selected by Chief Executive Women (CEW) as one of their 2019 ‘CEW Scholars’ to undertake an Executive Education course at Harvard Kennedy School. Madeline also holds a Master of International Public Health from UNSW, which she was awarded ‘With Excellence’, and a Bachelor of International Relations (Hons 1st) from the Australian National University.
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Founder & Executive Director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
Lori Villarosa has been a trailblazer at the intersection of racial justice & philanthropy for more than 30 years, working with thousands of funders at the community level, regionally, nationally& internationally to increase resources to combat systemic racism. As the founder & executive director of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), she works with a diverse board of racial justice leaders & movement partners to significantly shift grantmaking practices through labs, direct consultations, coaching, research and through PRE publications, such as Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide. Prior to launching PRE, Lori was at C.S. Mott Foundation for 12 years. In addition to deep work within every region in the U.S., she has presented & partnered with racial justice NGOs and grantmakers globally, including in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa & the UK. She has been published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Alliance & more.
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Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps
As Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna leads a global team of 6,000+ humanitarians, who provide immediate relief and help communities forge new paths to prosperity in the face of disaster, conflict, poverty, and climate change, reaching tens of millions of people in over 40 countries.
Tjada's previous work includes roles at CARE, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security, and McKinsey & Company.
Tjada earned a B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard. When she’s not working, Tjada enjoys reading and spending time with her husband and two sons.
To learn more about what Tjada is up to as CEO of Mercy Corps, please visit her social media pages on X and LinkedIn.
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Partner, Non-Profit Portfolio, Praxis
Sara is the Partner for the Nonprofit Portfolio at Praxis, an organization supporting early-stage, Christian founders, leading innovative ventures aimed at the major issues of our time. In college, Sara moved to the South Bronx to live among and learn from families in the poorest neighborhood in the United States. In 2012, she founded A House on Beekman to empower the next generation of the South Bronx to reach their full potential; under her 10 years of leadership, the organization raised $10M and was recognized for its exceptional programming. Prior to joining the Praxis team, she led large teams at Accenture focusing on organizational health, business design, and operations strategy. Sara lives in Austin, TX, with her husband Brad and their 3 children.
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Co-Director, Color Congress
Sahar Driver is Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director of Color Congress, an ecosystem builder for organizations in documentary that are led by and serve people of color. She is a veteran doc impact strategist, field builder, and researcher. Her career has focused on social & cultural transformation through nonfiction storytelling. She has led impact campaigns and strategy for over two-dozen documentaries, independently and with Active Voice. She has designed and led impact trainings and grantmaking programs to support impact producers and filmmakers of color with Firelight Media. She worked with Doc Society to update the second edition of their Impact Field Guide and wrote the 2019 Impact Hi5 case studies. She is on Picture Motion's Advisory Board, was a 2022 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow, and a 2021 Rockwood/JustFilms Fellow. In 2020 she authored the Ford Foundation commissioned report: Beyond Inclusion: The Critical Role of People of Color in the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem.
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CEO, Represent Justice
Daniel K. Forkkio is the Chief Executive Officer of Represent Justice. As a career nonprofit executive with over sixteen years of prior experience in nonprofit and advocacy work, Daniel leads the organization’s social impact efforts through strategic audience and community engagement as well as partnerships. Prior to joining Represent Justice, Daniel served as the Fulfillment Fund’s CFO and COO where he provided leadership and oversight to the organization’s operational activities, aiding in business decisions geared towards improving sustainability while maximizing impact. Daniel has also worked for The Raben Group in Washington D.C. overseeing the operations of 8 separately-managed nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors. Daniel has also worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a multi-billion dollar conservation grant maker, and notably aided in the development and design of the reporting infrastructure for a variety of major funding sources.
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Senior Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations, Obama Foundation
Libby has over two decades of professional experience in fundraising, cause marketing + corporate social responsibility, previously working in the non-profit and for-profit spaces developing transformational social impact programs. She currently leads corporate and foundation relations for the Barack Obama Foundation, working with board members, foundation leadership and cross-departmental teams to cultivate, develop, and steward our institutional funding partners. In addition, she leads a team responsible for shaping our institutional funding strategy, which includes the groundbreaking campaign for the Obama Presidential Center.
Libby has an M.A., Communications, from DePaul University, and a B.A., Media Studies, from the University of Southern Maine, and resides in Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Chief Executive Officer, Social Ventures Australia
Suzie Riddell is Chief Executive Officer at SVA. She draws on her extensive experience in the social purpose and commercial sectors to lead SVA’s systems change agenda. Suzie has led the development of innovative education and employment ventures, securing philanthropic seed capital and demonstrating impact to win scale funding from government. She has built SVA’s Practice Area and Policy & Advocacy capabilities. In 2022, Suzie was selected to participate in the inaugural Social Impact Leadership Australia program, a capacity building and leadership program designed specifically for leaders of for-purpose organisations.
Prior to joining SVA, Suzie was a consultant at Bain & Company. Suzie holds a Bachelor of Accounting (University Medal, First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Master of Philosophy (International Relations) from the University of Cambridge. She is a Director of Community Council for Australia, a Non-Executive Director of The Observership Pro
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President, Bluemind Foundation
Marie-Alix de Putter is the Founder and President of the Bluemind Foundation, a pioneering organization dedicated to fighting mental health stigma and providing care across Africa. She established the foundation in July 2021 following the murder of her husband and her personal journey grappling with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Guided by the mantra "Mental health is health," Marie-Alix has steered the Bluemind Foundation to remarkable heights.
Under her visionary leadership, the foundation's flagship program, Heal by Hair, has garnered widespread recognition and impact, as evidenced by major media coverage in The New York Times, BBC World, and Voice of America. Heal by Hair touches the lives of over 53,000 women annually.
Bestselling author and producer, Marie-Alix has earned prestigious accolades, including the esteemed Desmond Tutu Fellowship in 2023 and the Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award in 2021. In 2022, she was honored as the Best Woman Leader of Africa.
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Coordenadora Executiva, Pacto pela Democracia
Flávia Pellegrino is the executive director of Pacto pela Democracia. Over the past decade, Flávia has built and coordinated networks within Brazilian civil society dedicated to important social and political causes such as the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as the defense of democracy and human rights. Flávia holds a degree in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil) and a master’s degree in Political Science from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France). Prior to her work in civil society organizations, Flávia worked as a journalist in Brazil and France, coordinated projects in the education sector, and taught politics at a popular prep school in São Paulo.
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Partner, Camber Collective
Ben is a Partner and Global Health Sector Lead at Camber Collective, a consultancy serving the social impact sector. Ben brings expertise in several sectors including vaccine development and delivery; maternal and newborn health; childhood infectious diseases; nutrition; and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Ben is also deeply committed to the lifelong work of learning/unlearning about race, racism, whiteness and the patriarchy, and consistently putting these ongoing learnings into practice in his personal and professional life. Ben is the co-founder of Maisha Meds, a Kenya-based health technology company. Ben earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a certificate in Social Innovation and Public Management. He also holds a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Hong Kong. Ben lives in Paris with his wife, two daughters, and their dog Cosmo.
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CEO and Founder, TechLit Africa
Nelly Cheboi grew up in poverty in rural Kenya, struggling with basic sustenance and education. Cheboi ultimately received a scholarship in America, worked odd jobs to support her family and discovered her passion for computer science. She came up with a plan to end intergenerational poverty. Leverage the digital economy to provide more opportunities for rural African to make a living. Her organization, TechLit Africa up-cycles old computers to teach digital skills in primary schools. She is on Forbes 30 under 30 list and also the CNN Hero of Year 2022.
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Hudson, a Saturday morning poet and aspiring fly fisherman, has spent his career focused on economic mobility. His current area of study is financing models for skills and apprenticeship pathways that lead to good jobs in quickly changing labor markets.
Before Oxford, Hudson was the co-founder and Executive Director of PelotonU, a Texas nonprofit focused on college degree attainment for working adults in the United States. Over eleven years he and his team built a model that supported over 4,000 students enrolling in college while ensuring they had a 5x chance of graduating compared to their peers.
Prior to PelotonU, Hudson co-founded a political advocacy startup and helped launch a rural community development organization in Guatemala. He holds a Public Policy degree from Vanderbilt and a Certificate of Journalism from the University of Massachusetts online. When not working, you can find Hudson outside with his pup, Wendell, or planning his next mountaineering expedition.
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Chief Executive Officer, EverFree
Kelsey Morgan is the dynamic force behind EverFree as its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. With 15 years of experience in the anti-trafficking space, Kelsey honed her expertise in creating transformative programs for human trafficking survivors, elevating evaluation standards, and fostering collaborative efforts to fortify the movement's impact. She founded Willow International in 2010 and merged with 10ThousandWindows in 2021 to launch EverFree, a global nonprofit dedicated to developing data-driven solutions that equip the global movement to end human trafficking. Concurrently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Kelsey is the co-creator of the Freedom Lifemap, a groundbreaking model that will enable the anti-trafficking sector to better understand vulnerabilities and deploy evidence-based, survivor-led solutions.
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Executive Director, USA, Amnesty International
Paul O’Brien is the Executive Director at Amnesty International USA, a human rights organization of 240,000 members and 125 staff since April 2021. Paul developed AIUSA’s strategic framework, rebuilt its leadership and redesigned AIUSA’s member engagement. In his career he has done human rights research and advocacy in more than 50 countries, including most recently Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Before Amnesty, Paul co-led Oxfam’s worldwide influencing network’s advocacy efforts during the Covid pandemic and led Oxfam America’s advocacy with the US government and corporations. He has been an advisor to the President of Afghanistan, the Africa Policy Advisor for CARE, and an organizer in Nairobi’s informal urban settlements. He was the President of the Echoing Green Foundation, a litigator in New York for Cravath, Swaine and Moore. He has a JD from Harvard Law School. Before joining Amnesty, he published “Power Switch” How We Can Reverse Extreme Inequality.”
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Editor-At-Large, Folha de S.Paulo
Patrícia Campos Mello is an editor-at-large at Folha de S. Paulo, the leading newspaper in Brazil. For over 25 years, she has been covering international relations, technology and human rights, and has reported from over 50 countries. She has been awarded the Columbia University Maria Moors Cabot award, the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists; the Vladimir Herzog Special Award for Democracy and Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross Prize for humanitarian journalism, the King of Spain Journalism Prize.
Since 2014, she has been covering disinformation and influence operations. The stories led the Judiciary branch in Brazil to change electoral regulations. She is the author of the best-selling book ""A máquina do ódio"" (Companhia das Letras), about disinformation campaigns by populist leaders in Brazil, India and the US.
She was the Washington correspondent for the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper between 2006 and 2010. She covered the 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections; the war in Afghanistan in 2009, the 9/11 attacks in New York in 2001. Patrícia has a degree in Journalism from the University of São Paulo and a master’s from New York University. She was an associate researcher at Columbia University in 2021/2022, working on a project about internet regulation and electoral disinformation. In the last few years, she spent time in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Turkey, Lebanon and Kenya reporting on conflict and refugees, and she was responsible for the project Mundo de Muros (World of Walls) that depicts the migration crisis in four continents. She was the only Brazilian reporter to cover the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, in 2014 and 2015. She covered the COVID pandemic in Brazil, reporting from public hospitals and shelters for homeless population.
She is the author of "" Lua de Mel em Kobane"", a book about Syrian refugees who resisted the Islamic State siege in Kobane.
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project Evident
Kelly Fitzsimmons is the Founder & CEO of Project Evident, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of evidence for greater impact. Kelly founded Project Evident in 2017 to make data and evidence work in favor of practitioners and those they serve.
A frequent speaker and writer, Kelly recently co-edited Next Generation Evidence: Strategies for More Equitable Social Impact (Brookings Institution Press) and co-authored “Inspiring Action: Identifying the Social Sector AI Opportunity Gap.”
Prior to Project Evident, Kelly served as Chief Program and Strategy Officer at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) and co-founded Leadwell Partners and New Profit Inc. Kelly is a Leap Community Ambassador and a member of Results for America’s Invest in What Works Federal Standard of Excellence Advisory Committee and EDSAFE AI Alliance’s Steering Committee. A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Kelly holds an MBA from Boston University.
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Co-Founder, Acora Partners
Catherine St-Laurent is co-founder of Acora Partners, an impact strategy and advisory firm. Catherine is a global, multilingual executive with two decades of experience leading philanthropic and communications strategies. Named one of PR Week’s “40 Under 40” and most recently as one of Inc.’s 2023 Female Founders, she brings a unique blend of media acumen and narrative expertise. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex as well as founding Executive Director of Archewell Foundation. Prior to this, Catherine spent a decade working with Melinda French Gates shaping her public profile and launching Pivotal Ventures, her investment and incubation company.
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Regional Director, GiveDirectly
Lydiah Wangechi is GiveDirectly’s Regional Director covering Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Before becoming regional director, Lydiah served as the country director for GiveDirectly Kenya.
Before joining GiveDirectly, Lydiah was the Interim CEO of Ongoza, an accelerator program that provides a blend of tailored technical assistance, peer community, and investment readiness support to young entrepreneurs in Kenya.
Lydiah has more than ten years of extensive experience in international development and has experience working in six different African countries.
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Partnerships & Operations Manager, Cross-Border Impact Ventures
Tasha Noronha, Partnerships and Operations Manager at CBIV, has a decade of experience in project management, stakeholder engagement and administrative roles across the real estate industry and global health and development ecosystem. Prior to her role, she was at the Grand Challenges Canada Foundation, where she was responsible for supporting the operationalization of the Foundation and nurturing of key relationships with a priority on key funders, strategic partnerships and prospective new partners for Grand Challenges Canada programs. Tasha previously held an Analyst position with the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace alongside CBIV’s founders, which mobilized $46M in equity and non-dilutive financing by its close. She has also conducted primary research on the barriers to effective healthcare for women living with epilepsy in Northern Uganda. Tasha graduated with High Distinction from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor's in International Development Studies.
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Founder, Public Private Strategies
Rhett Buttle is an entrepreneur, advocate, and one of the most trusted leaders at the intersection of business and policy in Washington, DC. He has worked for President Biden, Vice President Harris, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in government and campaign roles. Rhett is the founder of Public Private Strategies (PPS) and President of the Public Private Strategies Institute (PPSI), which works to bring together the public and private sectors to build coalitions, activate campaigns, and create strategic partnerships to drive policy and market outcomes. In these roles, he advises leading policy makers, foundations, nonprofits, and corporations. In addition to PPS and PPSI, he has helped found the Small Business Roundtable, Small Business for America’s Future, and the Next Gen Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a regular contributor to Forbes, where he writes on the intersection of bu
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Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative
‘Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African non-profit working on digital inclusion and digital rights through offices in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In August 2022, he was appointed as a member of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) High-Level Leadership Panel by the United Nations Secretary-General. Originally trained as an Electronic and Electrical Engineer at Obafemi Awolowo University, he completed Executive Education programs at Lagos Business School, Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Santa Clara University and INSEAD. 'Gbenga is a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow and Ashoka Fellow. He served on Nigeria's Presidential committees on Harmonization of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Sectors (2006) and Roadmap for the Achievement of Accelerated Universal Broadband Infrastructure and Services Provision (2013).
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Founder & Executive Director, Emerging Leaders Foundation Africa
Caren Wakoli is the Founder and Executive Director of Emerging Leaders Foundation (ELF-Africa), a non-profit organization that exists to empower, support, and accompany young women and men to achieve meaningful, dignified, and impactful participation in governance, economy and public affairs at all levels of society. She is a consummate storyteller and believes in the power of stories to advance authentic and empathic leadership for change in society. She is a passionate champion for wellness and well-being. Her commitment to leadership and development work continues to be acknowledged, with recent honours including recognition among the "100 Most Influential African Women" by AvanceMedia and inclusion in the list of the "Top 100 Women Career Women in Africa" by 9to5 Chick. In 2018, Caren was recognized by President Barack Obama for her work in promoting dignity and ending poverty through the empowerment of youth leaders as positive agents of change.
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Head of Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, World Economic Forum
Daniel Nowack is Head of the Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. With 100+ members, representing over 100,000 social entrepreneurs, the Global Alliance is the largest multi-stakeholder coalition for social entrepreneurship, focused on mobilising the private and public sector to support social entrepreneurship and innovation. Before joining the Forum, Daniel was Managing Director at Yunus Social Business (YSB), a philanthropic venture fund for social businesses in LATAM, Africa and India, co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. he also served in various roles in startups and the impact ecosystem. He connects the dots between science fiction and social fiction. He is a former CFO to various startups, a founding member of a German faith-based investment club, a mentor for Google Launchpad and Founders Institute as well as a lecturer at TU Munich, University RheinMain & Fresenius Uni
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Student, Letters to Strangers, SBS
Diana Chao is a first-generation Buyi Chinese-American immigrant from Southern California. Diana founded Letters to Strangers (L2S) when she was a sophomore in high school after bipolar disorder and a blinding eye condition nearly ended her life. By beginning to heal through letters, she discovered that writing is humanity distilled into ink. Today, L2S is the largest global youth-for-youth mental health nonprofit, impacting over 35,000 people annually on six continents and publishing the world’s first youth-for-youth mental health guidebook for free. L2S also operates the first toll-free 24/7 pan-African mental health hotline out of its Liberia office. For this effort, Diana was honored by two U.S. Presidents at the White House, named a 2021 Princess Diana Legacy Award Winner, 2020 L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth, and Oprah Magazine's 2019 Health Hero.
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Senior Associate, Health Finance Coalition
I am a Senior Associate at the Health Finance Coalition (HFC) focused on the health sector and the climate-health nexus. Prior to joining HFC, I worked in management consulting for nearly 3 years across multiple sectors including off-grid solar, agriculture, e-mobility, and WASH. I worked with foundations and private companies to support in strategy, operations and finance. Before that, I worked in investment management and analysis where I provided the basis for investment decisions on listed financial services stocks across different countries in sub-Saharan Africa. My academic background is in economics, finance and investments.
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President , Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Marissa Tirona is President of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, where she leads the organization’s efforts to move money and power to immigrant, migrant, and refugee communities. Previously, she was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, where she managed a multi-issue, multi-country portfolio as part of Ford’s flagship program designed to strengthen organizations and networks core to the global social justice infrastructure. Before joining Ford, Marissa led the Blue Shield of California Foundation’s efforts to address, prevent, and ultimately end domestic violence. Earlier in her career, Marissa was the program director for a national workers’ rights organization and an employment attorney at two national law firms. She currently serves on the boards of the Foundation for Child Development, the United Philanthropy Forum, and Change Elemental. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Marissa is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Santa Clara University School of Law.
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Executive Director, Uganda National NGO Forum
Over 25 years of continuous experience in development work. Prior to joining UNNGOF as the Executive Director, I was working as a Governance Advisor with ActionAid Denmark. I also worked as the Programme Coordinator of the Civil and Political Rights Component of DANIDA Human Rights and Good Governance Programme in Uganda.
Key areas of knowledge include: strengths and weaknesses of Civil Society Organizations in East Africa and the common challenges CSOs face on the Continent; Promoting strategic and constructive dialogue between Civil Society and Government based on comparative and competitive advantage; Negotiations with donors – especially in providing conceptual clarity while providing the necessary pushback; Leveraging membership infrastructure and nurturing strategic partnerships for membership cohesion.
I am currently a member of the Re-Imagining INGOs (RINGO) Social Lab – a group of Practitioners reimagining INGOs through disruption, innovation and systematic thinking.
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Executive Director, DOCA (Documentary Africa)
MOHAMED Saïd Ouma is a renowned filmmaker, cultural operator and executive director of DocA- Documentary Africa. Mohamed is also engaged in "The African Heritage Project", a program which aims to restore fifty African films of historical, cultural and artistic significance. He has cut his professional teeth as a festival manager for the International Film Festival of Africa and the Islands (FIFAI) from 2004 to 2015 where he managed to coordinate support for the festival from the Municipality of Le Port- Reunion Islands and the national film governing body (CNC) His latest film, Red Card premiered at IDFA 2020.
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Group Director, Africa Practice
Richard is a Board Member, Group Chief Commercial Officer &; Managing Director for
East Africa at Africapractice, a Pan African Strategic Advisory Firm .
Richard is a Senior Stakeholder Advisor to business and government leaders particularly in the Infrastructure, Energy and Extractives Sectors; and is particularly proud of his role as co-facilitator in the initial strategy workshops that led to the formulation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the continent’s current strategic vision document.
Richard is a frequent contributor to both print and electronic media on Pan African issues and has spoken at conferences, and facilitated panel discussions on a wide range of subjects. In his role as Chair of the African Hydrogen Partnership Advocacy Taskforce, Richard is increasingly seen as an authority on the potentially catalytic role of Green Hydrogen in the transformation of Africa.
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Founder & Executive Director, Worth Rises
Bianca is one of the nation’s leading experts on the prison industry and the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national organization working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of impacted people and communities. She is a leader in the national movement to make prison and jail communication free, which has saved families more than $300 million and generated two billion additional minutes of call time to date. Bianca also leads the #EndTheException campaign to end prison slavery. She has wreaked havoc on the prison industry, blocking mergers, inspiring divestment, limiting access to capital, and removing prison profiteers from the boards of cultural institutions. Her work has cost the prison industry and its investors billions, and saved communities tormented by incarceration millions.
Bianca is an Elevate Prize Winner, and holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Managing Partner, Cross-Border Impact Ventures
Annie Thériault, Managing Partner at CBIV, has been immersed in impact investing, venture capital, royalty financing, and capital markets throughout her career. As a venture capital investor and venture advisor, she worked with high-impact companies to mobilize more than $100 million in non-dilutive capital. Annie was previously a director on the boards of several North American venture-backed companies, is an advisor to crowdfunding fintech company FrontFundr, and, prior to the launch of CBIV, was Chief Investment Officer at Grand Challenges Canada. 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. She also has a master’s degree in Business Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Chemistry from Mount Allison University.
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Founder/Executive Director, Vision Powered Ventures
Kristin Hayden is the lead coach, consultant and connector-extraordinaire at Vision Powered Ventures LLC. With over 20+ years’ experience in leadership for various organizations, she first founded OneWorld Now! and was recognized as a leading social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow. She then supported next-gen women step into political leadership with IGNITE National and served as Interim CEO of ReflectUS, a coalition of the leading women’s political organizations. She now focused her energy on working with feminist leaders, philanthropists and next-gen clients who want to align their vision, values, and money conversations. She also facilitates group workshops on Vision around the globe. Kristin is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), high-energy public speaker and the host of OUR MONEY POWER, a podcast for women standing in their money power. She is currently a Senior Advisor for Women Moving Millions, a donor collaborative focused on empowering women and girls globally.
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CEO, Africa College Foundation
Tahirih T Danesh focuses on increasing enjoyment of socioeconomic rights and development in private and third sector entities. Particularly passionate about young marginalised and minority communities, she is a serial civic entrepreneur, an advocate of the United Nations Global Compact Principles and a member of The 30% Club.
Raised and inspired by some of the most impactful figures who helped shape the rise of her native Iran, following her escape to the west, she has lived and worked with a third of the world's cultures. She is the CEO of Africa College Foundation, the UK presence of an education revolution reshaping Africa lead by the legendary Dr. Taddy Blecher.
She seeks and welcomes opportunities to promote learning and earning through spoken and written words, but remains most passionate about elevating shared consciousness through practical approaches to complex processes.
Tahirih Danesh holds a PhD in law.
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Managing Director, Community Impact & Corporate Responsibility, UBS
Jamie Sears is Managing Director, Co-Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, US, responsible for the corporate and client philanthropy business in the region. She joined UBS in 2012 and was the architect of the region’s corporate citizenship strategy.
Her previous experiences include holding senior programmatic roles at Goldman Sachs Office of Corporate Engagement launching the 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses initiatives, NYU Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship, and at Teach for America. She has a life-long commitment to advancing equity and has been on the ground floor of launching and growing multiple high-impact initiatives of over $1B in aggregate for leading cross-sector organizations.
Jamie has a Master of Public Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Spanish from Penn State University. In her free time she loves building her elementary school child’s library, startups, and testing recipes.
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Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Nighat Dad is the founder and Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation. She is a member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Board on AI (HLAB) and a founding member of Meta's Oversight Board. Her organization works on the cutting edge of the intersection of human rights and technology. Nighat has won numerous accolades, including the Dutch Human Rights Award, and has been a TED Fellow since 2017. She is a staunch advocate for digital rights and women's rights for the global majority.
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Based in the Amazon, co-creator of a volunteer firefighting brigade, which in November 2019 was accused of setting fires. I was arbitrarily arrested in an attempt to criminalize NGO's environmental activities in Brazil. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50580152
Holding a Bachelor's degree in Economics and specialized in sustainable finance, I founded businesses in eco-tourism and have worked in the financial markets, at KPMG and Investment Banks for 12 years. I also participate in the community association for tourism and established a social-business involved with organic waste composting.
I joined NESsT in 2020 and worked to foster income generation from sustainably managed forest products, offering consulting and incubation to cooperatives and community associations in the Amazon.
In 2023 I joined Conexsus to lead the Innovative Finance practice, dedicated to create financial mechanisms and solutions for bioeconomy impact businesses
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Director of Strategic Initiatives, IDinsight
Meg Battle is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at IDinsight. In this role, she directs a portfolio of cross-regional projects and oversees IDinsight's Catalytic Fund and other internal grant making.
Previously, she served as IDinsight's Southeast Asia Regional Director. Her current clients include the Philippines Department of Health, CARE International's Impact@Scale team, BMGF, UNDP, and UNICEF.
Before IDinsight, she spent six years working in community development in Cambodia and worked as a public health strategy consultant in Boston.
Meg has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and International Studies from the Boston College Lynch School of Education and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Chief Executive Officer, Lily hospitals Limited
Am an Occupational Health Physician by training, and currently the Chief Executive Officer, of Lily Hospitals, and Managing Director of Mofmed Medical Solutions Limited, both in Nigeria. I have keen interested in healthcare systems transformation, with over two decades experience in senior leadership position.
I hold a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree (MBBS) from the University of Ibadan, a Master of Science (MSC) in Occupational Medicine from the University of Manchester United Kingdom (UK), and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Jack Welch Management Institute(JWMI), Strayer University in the United States of America(USA), graduating as a Welch Scholar. I also hold a certificate in Enterprise Management, from the Enterprise Development Center(EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University Lagos, and am an alumnus of the Stanford University SEED Transformation Program.
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USA Board Chair, Mary's Meals
Jacob Allen is Managing Director of Cicero Social Impact, which partners with global leaders to maximize their impact through strategy, monitoring and evaluation, and performance improvement. At Cicero and, previously, at the Bridgespan Group, he has worked with hundreds of leading organizations in the US and around the world to drive meaningful societal and individual change at scale, including Goldman Sachs, Prudential Financial, the George W. Bush Institute, the Clinton Foundation, Junior Achievement, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Nature Conservancy, and many more. He has particular expertise in improving educational outcomes and connecting learners to economic opportunity. Jacob currently serves on the international board of Mary’s Meals, which provides a daily meal in school to 2.5 million children living in desperate poverty around the world.
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Chief Executive Officer, Tilting Futures
Erin Lewellen is the CEO of Tilting Futures, an educational nonprofit that equips young people to create meaningful impact on global issues. She founded the organization's innovative flagship program, Take Action Lab, and launched a systems change strategy with higher education institutions, educational nonprofits, and partners to identify best practices, build a robust evidence base, and integrate credit-bearing immersive global learning into curricula as a global standard. As a leader, Erin cultivates a culture of equity and inclusion, earning the organization a top spot on Outside Magazine's “Best Places to Work” and recognition in COLOR Magazine as an inclusive workplace. Erin regularly authors articles about her work and life to publications such as Fast Company and NBC. Erin previously served as board chair for Oakland Leaf and is on the advisory board for Rising Sun Center for Opportunity.
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Global Network Lead, Obama Foundation
Nada Zohdy is the Global Network Lead (Deputy Director, Global Programs) at the Obama Foundation. She is a democracy advocate and network builder, with a decade of experience in the social impact sector and 15+ years experience as a community builder (particularly organizing Muslim American communities). From 2015-21, she led and grew all aspects of the social enterprise the Open Gov Hub, facilitating daily resource sharing and collaborations between 60+ organizations, working together to make governments more open and accountable globally. She was also civic engagement consultant for international institutions (ex: World Bank), funders (ex: Democracy Fund) and global NGOs (ex: Open Government Partnership). She began her career at the Project on Middle East Democracy, supporting local Arab civil society organizations before, during, and after the Arab Spring. Nada has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Michigan State University where she was a Truman Scholar.
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Chief Strategy and External Affairs Officer, Nia Tero Foundation
‘Aulani Wilhelm is Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. She brings to Nia Tero decades of experience collaborating with Indigenous communities, bridging culture, community, and science to drive innovations in ocean policy and conservation. ‘Aulani joins our team after serving as the Assistant Director for Ocean Conservation, Climate and Equity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior Vice President for Oceans at Conservation International where she co-led the Blue Nature Alliance, a global partnership. ‘Aulani has played a pivotal role in shaping the emerging field of large-scale ocean conservation, leading the establishment of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site in Hawai’i. ‘Aulani is a Mellon Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University’s Center for Imagination at the Borderland. She holds an MS degree from Stanford University and a BA degree from the University of Southern California.
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Co-founder, She's the First
Christen Brandt is an impact advisor, author, and founder who works with entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and philanthropists to create tangible impact strategies, from transition planning and organizational design to building new initiatives. Her book, Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In, is a guide for readers to integrate impact into their everyday life. Christen is also the co-founder of She's the First, an international NGO dedicated to ensuring girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard, and has been featured for this work by the United Nations, Drew Barrymore Show, the White House, and more.
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Founding Managing Partner, E&K Consulting Firm
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Founder and Creative Director, Cuíca Agency
Laila Zaid is the founder and creative director at Cuíca Agency, a non profit, white-label communication agency focused on promoting climate action by leveraging the distribution power of digital influencers. Cuíca has established a strategic partnership with the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) and is currently funded by the Institute for Culture, Communications and Impact (ICCI) and Instituto Clima e Sociedade (ICS), two important brazilian regranters.
Laila became a leading digital influencer on climate issues in Brazil, reaching over 1 million monthly views across various platforms. Beyond her advocacy, Laila is a successful actress with notable roles in TV shows, movies, series, and plays. In 2021, she authored a sustainability guide for children, adopted as educational material by several schools. Since 2022, Laila has been a columnist at Um só Planeta, Brazil's largest environmental editorial. She spoke at TEDx Countdown in 2021 and currently serves on the advisor
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Nick Wambugu is an award winning Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Drone Operator and Co-founder at Folklore Films. An alumni of Cinemadamare Film Institute in Italy 2015 and 2018. Previously he has also been nominated and won at the Cinemadamare Film Festival 2018 for Best Short Documentary DEMLA which he produced and directed in Sicily, Italy. He was the Drone Operator for Student Academy Award Winner and Academy Oscars Nominee Film “Watu Wote” in 2017, as well as the Drone Pilot for Sundance 2020 Softie Documentary film that won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award. He has also worked in 3 Feature films with the BBC AFRICA EYE Series as a Director and Cinematographer. His latest Personal project film is a Documentary feature film on BBC Africa Eye-STREET DREAMS- where he was the Producer, Director and Cinematographer. In 2023, he became a Video Consortium fellow, where he worked with VC on a Short film 'ROOTED IN TRUST' which he the was Director and Producer.
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Tim Hansen is Chief Executive Officer of Videre. He is a lawyer and engineer with two decades of experience across strategic development, human rights law, peacebuilding and project management. As an engineer, Tim has built and managed operations across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Sub Saharan Africa. As a lawyer, Tim has provided advice to several Pacific states and self-determination movements, advising on international human rights law, international humanitarian law, interactions with the United Nations and on engagement with negotiation and dialogue processes.
Tim was previously Chief Operating Officer of peacebuilding organisation Conciliation Resources, working with people impacted by war to develop creative solutions for sustainable peace. Prior to that he was Operations Director at Reprieve, working to end the death penalty and challenging human rights abuses through strategic litigation. Tim has also co-founded an NGO providing electricity and wifi in informal refugee camps.
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Co-Founder, Solid
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Visual Artist & Artivist, Individual
Daniel Arzola (he/they) is a Venezuelan artist and LGBTQ+ activist, renowned for his "Artivism," using art to address human rights, diversity, and equality. His project "No Soy Tu Chiste" gained global recognition and went viral during 2013-2014 for challenging stereotypes against the LGBTQ+ community. Madonna noticed and featured Arzola's work in her Art for Freedom project in 2013. Arzola's art is exhibited worldwide, and he has a permanent display at the Carlos Jáuregui station on the Buenos Aires subway, the first LGBTQ+ subway station in Latin America.
Beyond art, Arzola actively promotes his theory of "Artivism" through conferences and workshops at universities in Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. His colorful and bold style has made him a prominent figure in LGBTQ+ film festivals globally since 2015, designing posters for festivals in The Netherlands, Chile, Uruguay, Albania, Kosovo, and the Faroe Islands. In 2017, Arzola was awarded
a Trailblazer Honors Award from Logo TV and VH1. Currently residing in Minneapolis, he serves as a Senior Graphic Designer for the University of Minnesota.
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Executive Director, Institute for Culture, Communications and Impact (ICCI)
Marco Kelson Kertzman is executive director at the Institute for Culture, Communications and Impact. ICCI is a brazilian regranter dedicated to promoting climate action, justice and democracy through strategic communications.
ICCI believes that cultural interventions and strategic communications are crucial elements in advancing our cause areas and, to that end, leverages philanthropic resources to support organizations equipped to shape public opinion and effectively influence decision-making in favor of climate, justice and democracy.
Prior to joining ICCI, Marco worked in financial markets for over 20 years, having dedicated the later part of his work to climate-related investments. He also led his family office's philanthropic grant program with a special focus on climate engagement and advocacy for climate-related public policy.
He is a member of The Impact and Generation Pledge and a board member at Food to Save - a foodtech company working on reducing food waste.
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Senior Partnerships Manager,
NamatiJulia works on Namati's Resource Mobilization team to cultivate relationships with foundation partners to advance environmental and social justice with grassroots partners globally. Before joining Namati, Julia spent more than seven years working on fundraising and communications for high impact international organizations. As Development Director for the dZi Foundation, she was passionate about raising funds to support community-led development initiatives in rural Nepali communities. Julia has also spent time as an outdoor industry editor, wilderness leader, and was a Princeton in Asia fellow based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Julia received her B.A. from Colorado College and her Masters in Public Administration from University of Colorado Denver.
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Founder & CEO, Braven
Aimée Eubanks Davis is the founder and CEO of Braven, a national nonprofit focused on ensuring that underrepresented college students are able to put their education to work and land strong first jobs upon graduation. Since 2013, Aimée has led a talented team of regional executive directors as well as the heads of product, technology, development, external affairs, and staff to ensure the best possible experience for Fellows. In partnership with university and employer partners, Braven is providing a systemic, sustainable, diverse talent strategy for our nation; to date, Braven has served more than 7,000 college students in Chicago, the Bay Area, Newark, New Jersey, New York City, and Atlanta. In 2024, Braven added its most recent higher education partner -- Delaware State University.
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Founder, Yunus & Youth
Cecilia is the founder of Yunus & Youth, a global social enterprise supported by Muhammad Yunus that has worked with over 5,000 young leaders to build, develop, and expand social ventures that promote economic advancement and reduce unemployment in their communities. Before this, she was the Investments Lead at the United Nations Children’s Fund, overseeing the investments of UNICEF's Venture Fund and CryptoFund where she led a team of technology, businesses and industry experts who sourced and managed a portfolio of 85 investments in 36 countries.
Cecilia is a Fulbright Scholar from NYU, and an Obama Scholar from Columbia University. She has lived and worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, England, Germany, Spain and USA, and periodically writes articles articles on social entrepreneurship and its intersection with technology (eg. impact measurement of technology investments, using blockchain for financial inclusion).
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Director, Vale Foundation
Flavia Constant is Director of Private Social Investment at Vale, President of Vale Foundation and Vice President of the Strategic Council of the Vale Cultural Institute. She joined Vale in 2019, and has worked for 20 years developing projects for poverty eradication, education, income generation, environment, research and knowledge, heritage and culture. From 2007 to 2019, she worked at Roberto Marinho Foundation, in the development of Education and Culture projects (Telecurso, Legal Apprentice, Museum of the Portuguese Language, Soccer Museum, Museum of Tomorrow), among others. Her trajectory also includes companies such as Claro, Nimbi and Shell. Flavia Constant has a master's degree in History, Cultural Goods and Social Projects at CPDOC/FGV. Postgraduate in Data Intelligence and Bachelor in Administration at UFRJ. She has specializations degrees at Fundação Dom Cabral, Schumacher College and Ibmec
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Senior Vice President, Global Programs, Mozilla Foundation
J. Bob Alotta is a veteran movement builder and executive working at the intersection of technology and communities.
Prior to joining Mozilla, Bob led the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a global foundation based in New York City that provides critical resources to LGBTQI+ activists and artists around the world. Over eight years, they quintupled the global footprint of the organization which makes more grants in the global majority than any other funder in their sector. Bob specifically strengthened movements by adding extra support for digital security, data use, and internet freedom to otherwise “non-tech” grants. As chair of the Global Philanthropy Project, Bob helped secure the largest bilateral and multilateral investments to date for LGBTQI+ communities worldwide. Bob was an early architect of the “feminist internet” and the creator of CommsLabs, bringing queer human rights defenders and technologists together. Bob builds bridges between the LGBTQI+ and digital rights worlds.
Now serving as Senior Vice President of Global Programs at Mozilla Foundation, Bob brings their experience as a movement strategist to leverage the organizations’ programs to shift power back to people instead of “big” tech. Through the lens of trustworthy AI, Bob has launched the African Innovation Mradi, the Data Futures Lab, the Mozilla Technology Fund, the Creative Media Awards, and a second phase of the Responsible Computing Challenge, as well as myriad fellowship and grant-making cycles. Bob helps Mozilla fellows and awardees become stronger community organizers and leaders; and grows the diversity and geographical scope across our programs, with an emphasis on expanding our work outside North America. Bob serves as the executive producer for both MozFest and of the award-winning podcast, IRL.
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Global Network Associate, Obama Foundation
MJ is a transformational leader and retired D1 athlete who holds a master’s degree in international relations with a focus on gender and health studies. Her bachelor's degree is in human nutrition, foods, and exercise, with a minor in leadership and social change. MJ excels at non-profit communications, project management, and population health advocacy. MJ current works for the Obama Foundation as the Network Associate, co-leading the Obama Leadership Network.
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Director, Philanthropic Collaboration, Co-Impact
Yasmin Madan brings over 20 years of hands-on experience to her role at Co-Impact. As Director and US Lead, Yasmin leads on the cultivation and stewardship of relationships with funding partners and broader network of philanthropists.
Her previous career spans the commercial and social sectors in rapidly evolving and dynamic countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America regions. She is experienced in strategy development and program implementation for range of programs across health, education, and economic opportunity. She has worked in over 30 countries and helped nurture strong partnerships with non-government agencies, social and private sectors, and all levels of government.
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Project Researcher, University of Oxford
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Field Researcher, Natural State
Margaret is passionate about wildlife, community work, and the use of technology in conservation and community development. Her work in community development focused on community interactions/engagements, overseeing community projects and service delivery, community policy formulation to act as a roadmap for community engagement, and conducting a social survey. She holds a BSc in Environmental Conservation and Management and a diploma in Community Development. Margaret strives to enhance her natural history skills, delving into species and bird identification, and contributing to camera trap and acoustic monitoring.
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Board Member, Oxygen Alliance
Amarpreet Rai is the Managing Director of Sanrai International and a Board Member at the Oxygen Alliance. Sanrai International is focused on equalizing access to medical equipment no matter where you are located with offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The Oxygen Alliance is dedicated to creating a resilient and sustainable healthcare infrastructure built on robust systems for maintenance and repair of medical devices in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Amarpreet is passionate about making healthcare and technology accessible for everyone, ensuring everyone has access quality medical products.
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Managing Director, SORMAS Foundation
Dr Pilar Hernandez is one of the two Managing Directors of the SORMAS Foundation. She has over 15 years’ experience working on programmes for the control of infectious diseases, with special focus in Pandemic Prevention and Response, Digital Health, and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
She has provided technical assistance to ministries of health and regional institutions across several countries in Africa and Latin America and led teams for effective implementation. She is currently responsible for the project’s portfolio and business development at the SORMAS Foundation.
She has a bachelor’s degree in human biology from the University of Barcelona, Spain, an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and a PhD in molecular diagnostic methods for infectious diseases from the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany.
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Founding Advisory Board Member, Keseb
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Founder & Executive Director, Rise Up
Denise Raquel Dunning, PhD, MPA, MA
Founder and Executive Director, Rise Up
Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning is passionate about investing in girls and women to transform their lives, communities, and countries. She is the founder and executive director of Rise Up, which advances gender equity, education, health, and economic opportunity globally through training, funding, and connection to a global network. Since 2009, Rise Up’s powerful network of 800 leaders has successfully advocated for over 185 new and improved laws and policies, positively impacting more than 160 million people around the world.
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VP of Development, Echoing Green
Kate is an experienced nonprofit executive specializing in fundraising, operational management, and leadership of social impact and cultural organizations.
As a fundraiser, Kate has raised millions of dollars for NYC-based and national organizations such as The Public Theater, ICP, and FoodCorps. She has led annual giving, campaign, and endowment fundraising programs, provided interim management services for development departments, and managed teams responsible for fundraising from individual, foundation, corporate, and government sources. In each of her engagements she has implemented effective operational tools and systems for tracking, reporting, and managing fundraising pipelines.
Kate started her professional life as an attorney, and her nonprofit leadership experience is underscored by five years of legal practice. Kate holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, cum laude, and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.
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Journalist - Freelance, Individual
I'm a freelance journalist based in London.
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Chief Operating Officer, Solar Sister
Olasimbo Sojinrin is a dedicated social entrepreneur and activist with over 17 years of experience advancing women's economic empowerment, combating energy poverty, and addressing climate challenges. Starting January 2025, she will serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, leading a dynamic network of women entrepreneurs delivering clean energy solutions to underserved communities in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kenya. Under Solar Sister’s mission-driven efforts, over 11,000 women entrepreneurs have been empowered, with more than 1 million clean energy products distributed, impacting over 5 million lives in Sub Saharan Africa. Simbo holds a Master’s in Public and International Affairs, a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Lagos, and a certificate in social entrepreneurship from INSEAD. Simbo is also the current President of Women’s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON).
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My name is Sabrina Porcher, I'm Brazilian and I live in Rio de Janeiro.
I'm graduated in Business Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, I also have an MBA in Marketing Research in the Université Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France, and an MBE in Social Responsibility and Third Sector, in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
I started my professional life in the marketing area, working in large companies and multinationals such as Tetra Pak and L'Oréal, in Paris. About 13 years ago I made a career transition to the Social Impact area and since then I have been supporting the development and innovation of social initiatives in Brazil.
I currently lead a team of 6 women in the Expansion area of the Dara Institute. Our work is to disseminate the intersectoral methodology for combating poverty, the FAP (Family Action Plan), to other organizations and territories nationally and internationally.
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Co-Director, Digital Democracy
Jen Castro is a community organizer and artist now living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal, Canada), as part of the Kichwa-Mestiza diaspora. She has been using digital and analogue tech to bring communities closer to where they want to go. Her work has largely centered on reframing projects to uphold dignity and traditional ways of being in communities whose rich cultures and histories are generally overlooked or imposed on by uninvited external forces. Jen’s work is rooted in analysis of how industry, migration, displacement, and social constructs intersect and impact both communities and individuals working towards social and climate justice. This engagement with the grassroots was forged in community-based artistic practices and storytelling. While living in Montreal, she is focused on adapting materials and methodologies for learning to use digital tools and thinking about technology, and is driven to expand explorations of cross-cultural communities through language, technology, and art.
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Assistant Director, World Intellectual Property Organization
Marco M. Alemán, studied law at the Javeriana University (J.D., 1991) where he also obtained a Corporate Law Certificate (L.L.M., 1996). He then obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Research at the Alcala University (Spain, 2006), and a Ph.D. in Law (2011, Cum Laude).
Mr. Alemán practiced as an IP Attorney from 1991 to 1995. He was then appointed Head of the Colombian Industrial Property Office, from 1995 to 1998, and was invited as a Fellow Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany in 1998. He joined WIPO in 1999 as Senior Program Officer, Office of Cooperation for Development (from 1999 to 2006). He was then appointed Deputy Director in the Division for Public Policy and Development (from 2006 to 2009), Deputy Director of the Patent Law Division (from 2009 to 2013), and went on to be Director of the Patent Law Division (2013 – 2020). He currently holds the position of WIPO Assistant Director General.
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Director, Latinamerica Strategy and Development, Apolitical
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Chief Marketing & Engagement Officer (CMEO), Alight
Alight (fka American Refugee Committee) exists to walk alongside those who – by sheer circumstance – find themselves on the long and arduous journey of displacement. Deeply co-creating with communities and integrating human-centered design into our work for more than a decade, our 2,300 humanitarians across 20 countries understand experiences of the displaced better than anyone and deliver high quality services worthy of their humanity. Zohra is the Chief Marketing & Engagement Officer at Alight, guiding how the organization shows up in the world through its brand, marketing/comms, and partnerships with like-minded foundations, corporations, and other do-gooders who want to make the world a better place for and with the displaced.
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Executive Director, TransCap Initiative
Dominic Hofstetter is the Executive Director of the TransCap Initiative. The TCI's mission is to build the field of systemic investing, a new investment logic for funding systems transformation. He initiated and incubated the TCI when he was the Director of Capital and Investments at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative, where he was responsible for building the organization’s nascent investment function. Before joining EIT Climate-KIC in 2015, Dominic had worked as an entrepreneur at the renewable energy start-up Electrochaea, as a private equity investor at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and as a finance professional in the institutional asset management division of Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an MSc from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
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DPhil Student, Saïd Business School
Kevin Miner is a doctoral candidate in Management Studies at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, and a researcher at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. His research centers on themes of social impact and hybrid organization. In 2023, Kevin joined the Oxford community after leaving his role at McKinsey & Company in Washington, D.C., where he served clients from both the private and public sectors. His educational background includes an MPhil in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Virginia.
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I am Roshan Jose, the Associate Director of Projects at SaveLIFE Foundation, Delhi. With 4+ years at SLF, I lead initiatives for safer roads, combining my roles as an architect, transportation planner, and road safety expert. My interdisciplinary approach, rooted in academic prowess and hands-on experience, enables me to identify and solve challenges within road safety.
Prior roles at IIT Kharagpur involved crucial contributions to Road Safety Audits in West Bengal. My academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Infrastructure Design, and an M.Tech. in Infrastructure Planning Design and Management. I bring expertise in infrastructure, transportation, and road safety and am trying to create safer roads for all.
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Executive Assistant to Professor Marya Besharov
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AI, Research and Strategy Lead, Local Development Research Institute
Leonida is an entrepreneur and researcher working at the intersection of AI and development. She is an experienced data scientist, published in several peer-reviewed journals and a sought-after global keynote speaker on the opportunities of data, AI and emerging technologies to improve inclusive access to financial services, promote climate-smart agriculture, good governance practices and the achievement of sustainable development goals. She leads the Accountable and Inclusive AI practice at the Local Development Research Institute, a non-profit think-tank whose work contributes to the efforts of African countries to end extreme poverty, hunger and reduce inequalities. Her current research includes designing models and frameworks that support accountable and inclusive AI. She is also building an AI Early Warning System to support climate-smart agriculture practices in smallholder farming in Africa.
She holds a BSc. in Actuarial Science and a Masters in Business Analytics and Big Data.
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Associate Program Director, Sharing Strategies, Sharing Strategies
Aaron is the Associate Program Director for the Sharing Strategies and Uncommon Collaborations initiatives at Dalberg Catalyst. He joined Dalberg Catalyst from Dalberg Advisors and has over a decade of strategy and global development consulting experience with a variety of clients, including multinational corporations, foundations, NGOs, governments, and international organizations.
Prior to Dalberg, Aaron was an Associate Director at FSG, a leading social impact consulting firm; worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey; and helped build and run an HIV/AIDS clinic with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in rural Mozambique. Aaron has lived and worked extensively in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and has traveled to over 70 countries. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French.
Aaron holds degrees from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Harvard College.
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Chief Operating Officer, Halogen Foundation
Timothy Low is the Chief Operating Officer at Halogen, a nonprofit organisation that seeks to support young people from all walks of life to realise their fullest potential. We provide youth with equipping, mentorship, and incubation opportunities, and we focus on building strong foundations so that they can lead themselves, lead others, and lead change in their world. Prior to Halogen, Tim managed a deep-tech venture builder, built EdTech products, and is a career facilitator of leadership and entrepreneurship.
Outside of work, he is optimistic about bringing communities together to make hyperlocal impact, and spends much of his time exploring and learning about disruptive technologies that can be applied into the social impact space such as web3 and generative AI.
Tim holds a Masters in Blockchain Technologies, is an RPG fanatic, and is a husband to an educator and dad to two beautiful girls.
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Regional Press Officer, Africa, Bolt
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Read to Rise
Taryn Lock is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of literacy non-profit organisation READ to RISE which promotes youth literacy in under-resourced and challenged communities in South Africa.
Previously Taryn worked in business as a management consultant and was a senior strategy analyst at one of South Africa's largest financial services companies. In 2013, she quit her corporate job to follow her passion for literacy and social development.
Taryn was named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in 2014, she is a member of the inaugural 2018 Obama Foundation African Leaders Program and she was ranked 49th on the Top Most Influential Young South Africans in 2018.
Taryn also runs a publishing company Theart Press, is the Founder of Proudly Chinese South Africa and is a children’s book illustrator. She is passionate about creating positive social change through literacy, social development and art.
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CEO, Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Dr Sall is a virologist and expert in high consequences pathogens. He is currently the CEO of Institut Pasteur de Dakar and Chairman of The Pasteur Network.
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Regional African Business Lead, Anthology Inc
Ntathakusa Portia Nkehli is currently serving as a Regional Business Lead (Africa) at Anthology Inc. She has extensive experience in the ICT sector in Africa and has served in various roles and capacities throughout her 17-year career.
Portia is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) through which she wrote a paper on Business Ethics, focusing on the relationship between Personal Moral Philosophies and Courage when business leaders are placed in Morally Intense situations.
Portia is very passionate about access to education in Africa and particularly the advancement of young scholars from disadvantaged communities to achieve their maximum potential through access to various training, mentorship, and coaching ventures. She was admitted to the 2019/20 Class of the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa programme whose founding patron is the Former 44th President of the United States of America (USA), Barack Obama.
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Executive Director, SHAPE-SEA
Joel Mark Baysa-Barredo (he/him/his; they/them/theirs) considers himself a Southeast Asian queer-feminist academic activist, and is an Obama Foundation Leader for Asia Pacific 2022. They pursued an International Master’s Degree in Human Rights at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University (Thailand). They are currently the Executive Director of the Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research/Education in ASEAN/Southeast Asia Programme (SHAPE-SEA), a regional programme working to build a culture of human rights and peace through applied research, education, informed policy advocacy, and intersectoral partnerships. Apart from being a member of advisory bodies of regional organizations such as the ASEAN Youth Forum, Joel actively takes part in several international and regional advocacy and academic exercises with the aim of helping realize sexuality-embracing, youth-driven, rights-centered societies.
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National Commissioner (Deputy Chairperson), Public Service Commission
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Co-Director, Youth Climate Justice Fund
Nathan (he/they) is a 24-year-old climate justice & LGBTQI2S+ advocate. He is the co-Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the largest youth-to-youth participative fund on climate and environmental issues. Nathan served as the youth advisor to Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020-2023. He founded Generation Climate Europe - the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level. Nathan was also the co-chair of the youth pre-COP26 and is a former Board member of the European Environmental Bureau and Youth and Environment Europe. He seats on the Advisory Board of the Goals House and the young leaders forums of both IKEA and Ørsted. He is also a 776 Foundation fellow awardee. In 2020, he was nominated with 5 other young European for the “Young European of the Year 2020” award. He graduated from Sciences Po in France and has a MA in environmental policy and regulation from the London School of Economic
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Director of Funder Alliances, Gary Community Investments
Emily has spent her career connecting people, ideas, and capital in service of sparking meaningful partnerships and advancing audacious goals. As the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Gary Community Ventures, she designs and leverages engagement opportunities with aligned funders to create collaborative, breakthrough solutions.
A career fundraiser, Emily has worked with investors across the country to deepen direct-service efforts, drive systems-level change, and advance policy solutions that improve the lives of Coloradans. At Gary, that work has included leading fundraising strategy and execution for Prop 123, the first successful ballot measure in the U.S. to create a statewide solution to the affordable housing crisis. Prior to Gary, Emily was a Managing Director at Teach For America, leading Colorado communications and corporate partnerships. Emily began her career as the Executive Director of a small, birth-justice and advocacy organization based in Arizona.
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Steve Larson is Chief Operating Officer at DDD, responsible for leading the company’s business operations globally, executing DDD’s business strategy and ensuring operational excellence company-wide across operations, client solutions and delivery, IT, and real estate. Steve’s background includes 25 years of experience in the BPO industry, including leadership roles in operations, human resources, technology, and finance.
Steve graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with dual degrees in human resources and finance. He holds a Global Professional of Human Resources (GPHR) accreditation from HRCI, received his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) from the Six Sigma Global Institute, and completed the Lean Executive Program from Lean Consulting Associates.
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Faculty, Presencing Institute
Martin has worked at senior levels in business, government and civil society and specialises in Leadership and Organisation Development. He serves as Senior Faculty of the Presencing Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Said Business School, Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Core-Faculty for the Leadership Academy of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values.
Between March 2005 and May 2008, Martin served as Special Consultant to the President of Zambia. Martin plays the role of Thinking Partner to Government Ministers and Chiefs of Staff to Heads of State.
Martin is the author of the bestseller Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela (2006). Other books he has aurthored are: It’s How We End That Matters: Leadership Lessons from an African President (2009); and Driftology: How to Access Life’s Greatest Opportunities by flying on the wings of others (2015). His academic and professional qualifications include Organisation Development and
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Vice President, Impact and Influence, EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation
Nisha is the Vice President of Impact and Influence at EMpower, where she is dedicated to amplifying the voices of girls, financial inclusion, and gender equity. She leads efforts to capture and communicate learnings across 15 countries, influencing broader change in programming and philanthropy. In her role, Nisha fosters collaboration to influence the sector through evidence-building, co-learning, and sharing.
Nisha joined EMpower in 2012, holding various roles during her tenure. Before this, she worked at Deutsche Bank and Barclays. She is a TedX speaker and a proud Board Member of Fos Feminista.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from IIT Delhi, with research focused on non-traditional livelihoods and gender equity. Nisha also holds an MSc in Gender, Development, and Globalization from LSE and a BA (Hons.) in International Politics and Women’s Studies from McGill University. Nisha is a fierce champion for girls and finds joy in engaging with their dreams for the future.
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CEO, Civic House
Mario, a leading social entrepreneur, co-founded Civic House, Kubadili, Donar Online, Nilus and led Wingu, revolutionising Latin America's civic society. At Civic House, he heads 120+ professionals across four countries, focusing on funding, innovation, and strategic advice to combat inequality. Kubadili accelerates cultural change in NGOs and governments worldwide, boasting 100+ coaches and impact in 11+ countries. Donar Online, Latin America's top fundraising platform, has supported 3,500+ non-profits to raise over $83M. Nilus, initially a non-profit, significantly reduced food waste, benefiting social kitchens. As Wingu's former Executive Director, Mario's efforts trained 60,000+ individuals, enhancing 2,000+ non-profits with over $4M in grants. He's also President of Mexico's Non-Profit Technology Civil Association, promoting digital transformation and collaboration across the sector, and has been part of the Board at the Civicus Alliance for the last 3 years.
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Software Development, Critical River Inc
Software Engineer at CriticalRiver, specializing in Salesforce solutions, CRM Analytics and data management. Committed to delivering innovative solutions for streamlined processes.
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Program Manager, Alliance of Democracies Foundation
Richard Walakira is a Program Manager at the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, where he oversees the foundation’s initiatives on advancing technology for freedom and democracy. In this capacity, Richard established and now directs a democracy and technology entrepreneurship fellowship. He also leads the foundation's democracy tech hackathons in Georgia and Moldova and sits in the advisory group of Tech for Democracy, a Danish-government-led effort that strives to make technology work for, rather than against, democracy. Outside of his professional work, Richard is a political rapper. He is known as Bana Mutibwa in Uganda, where he grew up, for utilizing his music to advocate for political causes.
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Managing Editor, The Anzisha Prize
Didi is an accomplished multi-platform communications leader with a strong digital content, marketing, and communication strategy background. As Managing Editor at Anzisha Prize, she leads communications and media strategy to build brand awareness and amplify young African entrepreneur stories. With accreditation from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (UK) and a Master's Degree in Journalism, Didi brings a wealth of journalistic expertise to her work. She is also a published author, known for her insightful writings on the African experience and the journeys of young entrepreneurs.
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Nayana leads the Programs at Breakthrough. She comes with over two decades of experience in the development sector. She has a Master’s in Social Work from University of Delhi and has worked on rights of Dalits and Tribes in the grassroots in India. Nayana is a passionate gender rights worker who has had the opportunity of working with reputed philanthropies such as IKEA Foundation and Tata Trusts as Grant Manager overseeing multi-state/multi-country grants. She has developed, implemented, managed, monitored, and evaluated programs with focus on marginalised groups in Asia and Africa. She has also been a trainer-facilitator focussing on human rights in an international human rights’ organisation. She has always pushed the boundaries of her formal job-description and walked the extra mile to get most out of each development intervention that she has led.
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Chief Financial Officer, COMACO
Prudence Muchinouta is a qualifiedChartered Accountant (CA ZM; FZICA; FCCA; ACMA, CGMA) and a PhD student, Currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Community Markets for Conservation Limited, a pioneering social enterprise that focuses on incentivizing the conservation of natural resources, Prudence has showcased exceptional leadership skills and strategic acumen.
Her deep commitment to environmental sustainability has driven transformative initiatives that position her as a visionary in her field.
Prudence's leadership extends beyond her professional responsibilities. She is an active member of the Rallying Cry Network, where she passionately supports climate and gender-responsive agricultural enterprises in Africa.
Furthermore, Prudence is a valued member of the 2X Forum, a Global Forum comprising 18 influential members who serve as a long-term engagement pillar.
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Chief Executive Officer, Judith Neilson Foundation
Simon Freeman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Judith Neilson Foundation and the Judith Neilson Family Office. Simon has over twelve years’ experience across philanthropy and private family offices, and has been heavily involved in the formation, management, and strategic development of a number of major Australian foundations, including four years as the inaugural CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation.
During his time in philanthropy, he has overseen the allocation of over $300m worth of funding commitments to a range of causes. A Chartered Accountant, Simon moved to Australia from the UK in 2004 while working for Deloitte and has worked for a variety of financial institutions in the banking and investment management industry. He is also a volunteer Director of Whitebox Enterprises, a leader in the development of large-scale jobs-focused social enterprises in Australia.
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Director of Africa Programmes, Judith Neilson Foundation
Upenyu is passionate about people, partnerships, improving the lives of the world’s poor and vulnerable, and addressing systemic inequity.
Raised in Zimbabwe, Upenyu has over 15 years’ experience in strategic leadership and program management in the international development and not-for-profit sector. She has leveraged her cross-sectoral/cultural experience, leading teams and working with partners in the design, implementation and quality assurance of programs and partnerships in over 45 African, Asian, Pacific and Latin American countries.
Focussed on realising synergistic impact across the sector and strengthening it, she's also worked with and consulted for over 300 partner organisations and sat on various committees of the Australian and New Zealand development peak bodies.
Upenyu is the Head of Programs for the Africa portfolio at the Judith Neilson Foundation (Australia based) and is an Advisory Committee member for the Australian International Development Network.
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Chief Operating Officer, Judith Neilson Foundation
Peter is the Chief Operating Officer at the Judith Neilson Foundation, having overall responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of the organisation as it embarks upon an ambitious phase of growth. With extensive experience in planning and executing risk-aware growth strategies, Peter brings expertise from his work within the financial services, asset management and startup innovation ecosystems.
Peter has led business performance monitoring and assessment across six continents, driven continuous improvement initiatives across the Asia Pacific region, and helped unite a global ecosystem of capital allocators from 96 countries to accelerate social and environmental impact. Peter is passionate about problem solving and presenting new strategic initiatives to founders and executive teams, to help bring impact strategies to life. Peter believes that capital, people, creative thinking and a bias for action can drive exponential impact for people and planet.
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CEO/Founder, Chaku Foods
Nikki is a Ghanaian-American entrepreneur innovating at the intersection of food, agriculture & technology. She is the Founder and CEO of Chaku Foods. Based in her home country of Ghana, she is building an AI based platform that maps African farmers land and predicts crop-yields in order to efficiently collect crops post harvest, which alleviates poverty and mitigates against climate change. Prior to founding Chaku, she worked on solving global payment challenges at Visa Inc. across US, Africa, Middle East and Central Europe. Her experiences gave her inspiration and critical skills needed to leverage technology to solve pressing problems facing shareholder farmers back home in Ghana, with plans to scale to thousands more farmers throughout the continent. She received her MBA at Harvard, where Chaku Foods won the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) in 2021. She is a 2023 Mulago Rainer Fellow. She enjoys reading, running, weight-lifting and hiking.
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Head of Programs, Judith Neilson Foundation
Candice Van Doosselaere, Judith Neilson Foundation's Head of Programs, Australia
Candice looks after the Judith Neilson Foundation’s partnerships and programs in Australia, seeking to foster partnerships with and support individuals and organisations working to co-create a world where everyone can live with dignity and thrive.
Candice has spent 15 years working in impact driven roles, including over ten years across the not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors in Australia, with previous experience working in Development and Cooperation for the European Union’s External Action Service in China.
Born in Mexico to Belgian parents, Candice grew up in the USA and Belgium, and has lived and worked in six countries across four continents. With master's degrees in Law and Human Rights, Candice’s career has been guided by her passion for social justice, equity, diversity and sustainable development.
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Head of Communications, Judith Neilson Foundation
Rosie is the Head of Communications for the Judith Neilson Foundation, overseeing the Foundation’s strategic communications and storytelling. With over 15 years’ experience in strategic communications and stakeholder relations, Rosie brings expertise from her work in the international development sector and government relations across Asia Pacific, Africa and Australia.
She has led communications teams across a range of international development programs in governance, disaster recovery, conflict prevention and media strengthening for international donors and United Nations programs. Rosie's passion lies in collaborating with partners to share stories of sustainable change and community impact. She believes in the power of storytelling to inspire and drive positive transformations.
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Managing Director, Sall Family Foundation
Marina has over 30 years of experience in conservation, sustainable development, and philanthropy in Latin America, especially in the Amazon region. She is the Managing Director of the Sall Family Foundation, supporting organizations worldwide that contribute to transformative change at the nexus of the environment, public health, and livelihoods. She has been working in the philanthropic sector for more than a decade at several foundations mainly on issues regarding indigenous peoples, conservation, and climate finance. Moreover, she has worked as a policy maker, professor, and researcher while living in the Amazon for 11 years. She received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Ph.D. from the Yale School of Environment.
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Founder, Refugee Can Be
Bio
Chantale Zuzi is a junior at Wellesley College and the founder of Refugee Can Be, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing secondary education, livelihood, and leadership training for girls from the Rwamwanja refugee camp in Uganda. As someone who sought refuge in this very camp due to ongoing violence in her home region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chantale understands firsthand the deprivation, fear, and misery experienced by tens of thousands of displaced individuals.
During her time in the comp, Chantale become an advocate for young refugee women, she also took on the responsibility of representing the needs of those facing challenges due to albinism and severely limited vision. She served as a liaison between the camp's United Nations workers and these marginalized groups.
In September 2018, Chantale embarked on a new chapter in her life when she immigrated to the United States. Despite facing numerous obstacles, she completed high school in just three years
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Founder & Managing Director, LIfT (Lead Institute for Transfromation)
Lalaina is a citizen empowerer, a strong believer of people power and non-formal education practitioner for almost 30 years.
Founder of LIfT (Lead Institute for Transformation), an organisation facilitating leadership development, advancing social equity and raising mental health awareness, she is also a Social & Citizen Engagement Specialist at the World Bank. Prior to that, she has dedicated 13 years with Liberty 32, a Malagasy volunteer-based organisation working in democracy building and civic engagement, as a co-founder then Executive Director. She serves on various initiatives advocating for youth effective representation. She is a Community Exchange Program (CEE) mentor towards cultivating the global next generation of talent in civil society.
Lalaina graduated in economics from the University of Antananarivo, then went onto complete further at King’s College London and SOAS, University of London. She is an Obama Leader, an Archbishop Tutu Fellow and a Mo Ibrahim Scholar.
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Partnership Specialist, Inter-American Foundation
Matt Clausen leads the Inter-American Foundation’s (IAF’s) efforts to identify, develop, implement, and manage partnerships with private companies, foundations, academia, and other institutions to bring greater technical and financial resources to bear to achieve IAF’s grassroots development goals. Prior, Matt was President of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Before that, he spent 15 years in senior leadership at Partners of the Americas, building, supporting, and leading grassroots and cross-border partnerships, including the Obama Administration’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund, an award-winning public-private partnership. Matt is also a decades-long advocate for impactful volunteering worldwide, serving in various volunteer board leadership roles; he himself served as a volunteer English teacher in Ecuador. Matt received an MA in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Swarthmore College. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his family.
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Speaker Director, Mensen Met een MIssie
Rick van der Woud is director of Mensen met een Missie, a catholic organization funding and servicing a network of strong individuals worldwide: peacemakers who work locally -and many times on an interfaith basis- in conflict-prone areas, like Iraq, Colombia, the Philippines, and DR Congo.
Rick is an experienced political strategist and adviser with a demonstrated history of working with political and faith based organizations, as well as the broader civil society.
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Chief Executive Officer, Old Fire Station
Clara is the CEO of the Old Fire Station, a centre for creativity in Oxford that shares a building and a deep partnership with homelessness charity, Crisis. She is an artistic producer, theatre-maker and facilitator whose career has taken place at the intersection of the arts and social justice. Her experience as a white South African growing up during apartheid in a profoundly unequal society motivates her determination to contribute to the dismantling of systemic prejudice and the amplification of under-represented voices, perspectives and identities. She is passionate about storytelling, connection, creativity and community. For nine years, Clara was the Head of the Market Theatre Laboratory in Johannesburg, a division of the world-famous Market Theatre. The Market Lab aims to nurture the development of young artists and create innovative new plays that express the lived realities and concerns of young South Africans.
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CEO, HealthAI
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health, a Geneva-based organization striving to enable and improve access to inclusive, impactful and responsible regulation in the areas of Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with focus on healthcare.
• Founder and President of UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, a global platform of current and former members of parliaments, congresses, and senates, present in more than 90 countries. UNITE is an official partner of the World Health Organization.
• Global Ambassador of the ‘G20 Health & Development Partnership’ aimed at advising and advocating G20 countries on health policies aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Chair of the Center for Global Health at NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS)
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Development Manager, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Irena Schneider leads fundraising at the Center for Countering Digital Hate. CCDH’s mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online. Social media companies deny basic human rights and civil liberties by allowing hate and lies to spread on their platforms. CCDH holds them accountable and responsible for their business choices by highlighting their failures, educating the public and demanding change from platforms and governments to protect our society.
Irena holds a Ph.D. in political economy from King's College London. She is passionate about building philanthropy and community in support of science and liberal democracy.
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Managing Director, Sall Family Foundation
Megan joined Sall Family Foundation (SFF) in 2023 and currently leads a majority of SFF's grantee partnerships across public health, energy, and environment.
Prior to joining SFF, Megan was Chief of Staff and SVP of communications for a publicly traded education technology company that aimed to increase access to high-quality education around the world. Megan has also held development and events roles for local and global non-profits, worked as a marketing and strategy consultant and spent two years based in Ghana overseeing corporate services and county operations for an African technology company.
Megan received a BS in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, two children and three dogs. In her spare time, Megan enjoys filling her walls with art, listening to audio books, walking, and hosting game nights.
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Managing Director, Programs, Inter-American Foundation
Currently the Managing Director of Programs for the Inter American Foundation (IAF) where he leads a team of 45 individuals across 27 countries and a $148 million portfolio of more than 400 grants. Previously, served as a Director in Chemonics’ Latin America team where he designed an alternative development that has supported more than $400 million in public investment and a new anti-corruption program in Peru.
Early in his career, Mr. Jacobs spent four and half years in grassroots development in Namibia and Armenia and was awarded a prestigious Sargent Shriver Fellowship in 2001. Experience working on five continents in more than 30 countries, specialized in economic development and innovative finance with broad technical experience in value chains, public private partnerships, agriculture,SME finance, grassroots development and local capacity strengthening.
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Mayor, Freetown City Council
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE was Mayor of Freetown from May 2018 to February 2023 and was recently reelected to serve for a second term. A finance professional with over 25 years of private sector experience in strategic planning, risk management consulting and project management, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr adopted an inclusive, data-driven approach to addressing challenges in the city. She championed the 4-year Transform Freetown plan which detailed 19 concrete targets across 11 sectors and covered issues ranging from tackling environmental degradation to facilitating the creation of jobs for youth. Annually published Transform Freetown reports that document progress made against targets can be found at https://fcc.gov.sl. AkiSawyerr’s notable achievements include the construction and operation of Freetown’s first ever wastewater treatment plant, the digitalization and expansion of the city’s property rate system, the creation of over 3,500 jobs for youth and women, the planting and tracking of 970,000 trees as part of the #FreetownTheTreeTown 1m trees target and securing the ongoing feasibility study for the introduction of a cable car system for the city.
Aki-Sawyerr was featured by Time Magazine in the inaugural Time100 Climate List 2023, the Time100 Next
2021 List and by the BBC in the BBC 100 Women 2020 List. A Chartered Accountant with an MSc in Politics
of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a BSc Hons in Economics from Fourah Bay
College, Aki-Sawyerr is also the Co-Chair of C40 Cities.
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Executive Director, Abaarso Network
Harry Lee is the Executive Director of Abaarso Network, a nonprofit system of schools in Somaliland, East Africa. Abaarso Network students became the first in their country in more than 30 years to matriculate to US universities and were featured on 60 Minutes, in the New York Times, and at the Clinton Global Initiative. Harry helped to build the coed boarding school of Abaarso, as well as Barwaaqo University for Women, and founded Kaabe, a scaling system of Montessori schools in Somaliland. Harry earned a Master’s in Education from Harvard University and Bachelor’s Degrees in Foreign Affairs and Psychology from the University of Virginia.
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Director - Africa Region, Pandemic Action Network
Aggrey Aluso is the Director, Africa Region for the Pandemic Action Network (PAN) and the Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA). He is also the global policy lead for PAN. He is currently overseeing the operationalization of RANA to emerge as a vibrant and effective advocacy Hub to champion Africa centric, globally facing Resilience agenda encompassing the interconnected issues of Pandemic Preparedness and response, climate change and its impact on health as well as galvanizing and enhancing African voices in shaping global health governance issues.
Previously, he worked as a senior manager at the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, leading the Health and Rights program, where he provided thought leadership in advancing advocacy (directly and through grant making) in addressing the structural and systemic barriers that hinder equitable access to health as democratic right. During the COVID pandemic, Aggrey led the OSF Africa team in its response.
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Board member, PHF
Patricia is the director and board member of foundations active in the areas of mental health in sub-Saharan Africa, ethics and governance, environmental sustainability, and social impact investments in domains such as poverty alleviation and regenerative agriculture. She is passionate about prevention of mental health issues among vulnerable youth, approaches to healing trauma, community care models, awareness raising, promoting positive masculinity and capacity building.
She has participated in various training courses in the mental health space and has provided direct services to people on hotlines and hospitals. Patricia completed a DAS in Strategic and Operational Philanthropy from the University of Geneva, holds a Master in Computer Science and a Bachelor in Economics from Stanford University.
She has lived and worked in the California Silicon Valley software industry, as well as in Hong Kong and Mexico. She currently lives in Switzerland.
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Founder and CEO, Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences
Kyaw Thu Htet is the founder and CEO of Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS), an 11-year-old social enterprise based in Myanmar (Burma) helping food producers including farmers produce safer, better-quality products more sustainably and improve their market access. Kyaw is also the founder and director at Center of Sustainable Agri-food Initiative Development (CSAID), a multi-stakeholder collaboration platform for resilient food systems. He is also chairing the executive board of Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) Myanmar convened by UN World Food Program (WFP) and is a member of Strategic Advisory Group of UN Nutrition. He was an Aspen Ideas Festival Fellow in 2023, Asia-Pacific Leader selected by The Obama Foundation in 2022 and awarded as ASEAN Under 40 during ASEAN Business Award in 2023. Kyaw is a TEDx speaker and appeared in many regional and global events including side events of UN Food Systems Summit 2021, COP28, ASEAN Climate Summit and TED Countdown Summit 2023.
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Amanda Millerberg is a philanthropist focused on the three areas of self-reliance, social impact innovation, and strengthening families through supporting women and children. Amanda is the director of philanthropy for the Millerberg Giving Fund. She chairs the “Show-Up” service initiative for Utah’s First Lady, a group focused on illuminating and increasing service throughout Utah. She is an active member of PSI’s “Maverick Next” collective that seeks to advance health and reproductive rights throughout the world. She serves on a variety of boards and councils in Utah. Amanda is an active volunteer in her local community and works hard to invite and share serving opportunities with her family and neighbors. Amanda holds a degree in Human Development and Family Sciences from BYU and a master’s degree in Sociology from ASU. She was a child development specialist for Mountainland Head Start before taking time out to play, cook, read, hike, and travel with her five children.
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Individual, Individual
Elizabeth “Liz” Reiner is an associate in Glaser Weil’s Entertainment Department. Liz represents a variety of actors, writers, directors and producers. She specializes in contracts related to distribution, acquisition and production agreements in film and TV.
Liz’s experience prior to joining Glaser Weil included working at an internationally recognizable film studios, movie production company and talent management firm which has familiarized her with all aspects of entertainment law.
Liz earned her J.D. from Loyola Law School, where she was a founding member and president of The Women in Entertainment Law Society. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.S. in political science.
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Member, Women Moving Millions
S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, a global organization that campaigns for legal and systemic change to address violence and discrimination against women and girls. She has been widely recognized by Forbes 50 over 50:Impact, CARE (Impact award), Columbia Business School (Social Enterprise award), American Bar Association and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor among others.
For 25 years, Mona has leveraged her corporate experience to launch, lead or advise over 90 mission-aligned organizations to create a gender-equal world. She is the former Board Chair of Women Moving Millions and serves on the Executive Council of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, as well as the Advisory Board of Gucci CHIME. Creating and resourcing inclusive communities is at the center of her strategic approach, which she believes is the key to unlocking sustainable organizational growth. To date, she has catalyzed over $1 billion for social change.
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Founding Partner, Total Impact Capital
John A. Simon is a Founder and the Managing Partner/CEO of Total Impact Capital (TOTAL), an impact investing firm that structures, markets, and manages financing vehicles for underserved communities. The firm focuses on investments in basic human needs such as health, water, and food. Prior to starting Total Impact Capital, Ambassador Simon was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he co-authored More than Money, a report on impact investing as a development tool. Previously, Ambassador Simon held a variety of posts in the US federal government, including serving most recently as the United States Ambassador to the African Union and the Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the predecessor to the US Development Finance Corporation.
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President, Fusion Venture Partners, LLC
Stace Lindsay has worn many hats and played many roles during the past 30 years – strategic advisor, investor, author, teacher, executive, entrepreneur, moderator and board member. He has been fortunate to work and live throughout Latin America, Africa, India, the Middle East and China. The thread that holds his work together is a deep passion to work closely with leaders and organizations that seek greater perspective and clarity on the challenges they face and a strong desire to cultivate the courage needed to make the lasting change they desire.
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Fund Advisor, Ansara Family Fund at The Boston Foundation
Currently a Senior Fellow in the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, Karen makes grants with her husband, to address global health systems, women’s empowerment, and deep poverty, especially in Haiti. To inspire more international philanthropy, in 2008 Karen launched what is now the Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID Global), a national network of 350 philanthropists, foundations, advisors and impact investors investing to solve global problems. After the 2010 earthquake, Karen cofounded the Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation, now the Haiti Development Institute (HDI). In addition to serving as Board Chair of NEID Global, Karen serves on the boards of MCE Social Capital, Women Moving Millions, Groundswell International, and Build Health International (founded by her husband, Jim), and as Board Emeritus for HDI. Karen is a graduate of Wellesley College (Pol. Sci.) and Andover Newton Theological School (MDiv). Karen and Jim live in Essex, MA and have 4 adult children.
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Managing Director, Health Finance Coalition
Colleen is a leading global health finance expert specializing in start-up organizations, high performing teams, and blended finance. As Managing Director of the Health Finance Coalition, she leads in the design, launch and scaling of high impact investment opportunities focused on balancing financial returns and significant impact. Through a capital stack approach, Colleen develops new investment mechanisms and improves attractiveness of existing opportunities. Her work spans public and private sectors. Colleen has also worked at MedAccess, a health focused social finance organization, as the Chief Markets Officer responsible for sourcing and executing transactions and helping to develop the new organization. Having worked at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Colleen also has deep market shaping and public sector experience. Colleen has also done healthcare finance for Lehman Brothers and holds an MBA from Yale Univeristy, School of Management.
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Managing Director, Philanthropy for Impact
Maciej Kuziemski is a Managing Director of Philanthropy for Impact, Central European initiative aiming to increase region's democratic resilience through systemic philanthropy. Maciej is a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Technology and Democracy Expert Group of the Stefan Batory Foundation, and a board member of the Coalition for Polish Innovations and Harvard Club of Poland.
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Founder and CEO, Wagner Foundation
As the Founder/President of the Wagner Foundation, Charlotte Wagner envisions a community where everyone is valued equally and empowered to shape the lives they aspire to lead. Rooted in a commitment to addressing social and historical disparities, the foundation collaborates with like-minded organizations, advocates for change, and convenes thought leaders. Health equity and shared prosperity are primary focuses, coupled with a broader commitment to fostering global cultural transformation.
Beyond her philanthropic leadership, Charlotte plays a significant role in the arts and public service. She serves on President Biden's Advisory Committee on the Arts, is the President of the Board at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, and holds positions as a Trustee on the Boards of VIA Art Fund and Partners In Health. Charlotte's influence extends to the Tate North American Acquisitions Committee and the Leadership Council at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.
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FOUNDER/CEO, New Nomad Institute
Badruun Gardi is a social innovator, creative strategist, and educator from Mongolia.
He is founder of the newly established New Nomad Institute, a research and action institute that aims to uncover the enduring knowledge of nomadic societies and apply those learnings towards addressing the climate crisis, particularly in the areas of climate migration and adaptation.
Badruun is also co-founder of GerHub, a nonprofit social innovation firm that develops creative solutions to the challenges caused by rapid urbanization in Mongolia.
Badruun is a member of the Climate Migration Council and serves on the boards of Arts Council of Mongolia, Mongolia Education Initiative, and Smart Air Mongolia. He has previously served as a trustee of The Asia Foundation. He is a 2022 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a 2023 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Badruun holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and communication from Stanford University.
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Deputy Director, Wagner Foundation
Caroline Easley joined the Wagner Foundation in 2015 and currently serves as the Deputy Director, overseeing grantmaking activities across its 3 focus areas of Health Equity, Economic Prosperity, and Cultural Transformation within the Foundation's geographic regions of North America, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. She works closely on the foundation’s strategy development through building deep partnerships and seeking collaboration to address root causes and support systems-level change. Caroline served on the steering committee for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)'s Boston Chapter from 2018-2021. She comes to the Wagner Foundation from the advertising/marketing industry, serving as an Account Supervisor focused on digital strategy at the Boston-based Hill Holliday. Caroline holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications with a minor in Business and Spanish from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Founder and Principal Consultant, Melinda B. Wolfe & Associates
Melinda Wolfe has served as Chief People Officer and led talent and DEI initiatives at companies including GLG, Pearson, Bloomberg, American Express and Goldman Sachs. She works with leadership teams to optimize strategy and culture through engagement, productivity and profitability. She began her career at Merrill Lynch, managing billions of dollars of finance transactions.
Ms. Wolfe holds several leadership positions in the non-profit sector. Currently, she chairs the board of the ZanaAfrica Foundation and serves on the boards of Echoing Green, Coqual, W.O.M.E.N. In America, Generation W and the National Education Equity Lab. She previously served on the NYC Mayor’s Commission on Women and on advisory boards for several academic institutions including Barnard’s Athena Center, Duke University, Washington University and Columbia’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she also taught as an Adjunct Faculty Member.
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Chief Executive Officer, Sanergy
I am a Strategic and Results oriented Executive with over 20 years of professional experience driving organisational success across diverse industries in the African continent. My main areas of competence are in General management, Business transformation, Sales and Marketing Excellence , Operations management and P & L accountability in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry.
I have served the last two years as Managing Director of Fresh Life which is part of The Sanergy Collaborative.
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Jen is the Marketing and Communications Director at Skoll Foundation. She works with the team to increase the impact of the Foundation’s marketing, communications, storytelling, and audience- and network-building work.
As a strong believer that stories inspire us to create the world we want to see, Jen focuses on sharing the path we need to take to get there.
Jen has led strategic communications for organizations large and small. She's led digital campaigns for national and international nonprofits. At petition platforms Change.org and Care2 she worked with everyday people to tell their stories, gain support, and win advocacy campaigns.
Before joining Skoll Foundation, Jen was the Marketing and Communications Director for democracy nonprofit RepresentUs. There, she designed narrative change and policy awareness campaigns to make corruption a top issue in the United States.
Jen received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied social science and new media. She lives in California, where she enjoys exploring the outdoors and making art.
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Chief Executive Officer, Ygap Ltd
As the CEO at ygap, I am responsible for leading the strategic direction and stewarding key partnerships to ensure sustainable organisational growth. ygap's vision is an equitable and sustainable world, achieved through locally-led entrepreneurship that works for everyone. ygap has local staff working on the ground and partners in Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, the Pacific Islands and Australia.
ygap's tailored programs support local entrepreneurs to embed social, economic and environmental sustainability into their businesses that solving the world's most pressing problems.
Mark started his career as a management consultant with Accenture working across multiple continents supporting both Government and private sector clients for six years before pivoting to the for-purpose sector with World Vision where he led the Social Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (SEED) unit.
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Vice President, Europe, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
As RPA’s Vice President in Europe, Alex works to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world by assisting European philanthropists, foundations and corporations through a combination of advisory, project hosting, and research.
After a career in strategy consulting with Monitor Group, and as the Director for the Inter-American Development Bank in Europe, Alex focused on building regional networks of social investors: He is a co-founder and board member of Latimpacto, and earlier supported the establishment of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance and of AVPN’s Representative Office in Mainland China. He also facilitated a WEF-led consortium to unlock financing for MSMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Alex is a national of Spain and Germany, holds Law and Business Administration degrees from the U. Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown U., Washington, DC.
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Aman is an Executive Assistant and HR Administrator, offering essential support to the Chief People Officer and the broader Talent and Culture (HR) team at The Skoll Foundation. In this role, she serves as a liaison with other ELT Support Members and encompasses core HR administrative tasks.
Aman is well-acquainted with the Jeff Skoll Group, having previously served as an Executive Assistant and Operations Administrator at Capricorn Investment Group for six years. Prior to her time at Capricorn, Aman worked in Client Services across various family offices in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she earned her B.A. in Communications.
Beyond her professional commitments, Aman finds joy in traveling, exploring new restaurants, and spending time with family and friends.
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Director, Future Forward at the New York Womens Foundation
Recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Dr. C. Nicole Mason is President/CEO of Future Forward, a policy and research center committed to building women’s political, economic, and social power and influence in the U.S. and globally. Before Future Forward, she served as the President/CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Mason was also the youngest person and woman of color to lead IWPR - one of the major inside-the-Beltway think tanks in Washington, D.C.
At the pandemic's start, she coined the term she-cession to describe the disproportionate impact of employment and income losses on women. Dr. Mason is the author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America.
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Lead - Programme Management Unit, Barefoot College Tilonia
Jaswanth has been an active member of the Barefoot College community since 2016. For three years, he contributed to scaling Barefoot's water initiatives across rural areas in India. In his pursuit of a deeper understanding of social and environmental issues related to water, he earned an MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management from the University of Oxford. Upon completing his studies, he returned to India to take on broader responsibilities at Barefoot College.
Currently serving as the Lead - Program Management Unit, Jaswanth manages a team dedicated to addressing developmental issues in the areas of water, health, solar, education, and rural livelihoods. With more than seven years of practical and academic experience, he is an integral part of the leadership team to replicate and scale-up barefoot solutions to help communities living in remote and last-mile villages
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Community Lead, Greenwood Place
Alaina Patterson is the Community Lead at Greenwood Place. Prior to joining the team, Alaina led the Principal Giving team at the International Rescue Committee for three years, where she worked with passionate individuals and their families to support refugees and asylum seekers in over 40 countries. Alaina has a decade of experience working within the charity sector having started her career at the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Throughout her career, Alaina has been an advocate for diversity and inclusion strategies that create meaningful change for staff and clients alike.
Alaina has served as a trustee for a local psychotherapeutic children’s charity. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Leeds.
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CEO and Founder, Impact Toolbox
Segun Fatudimu, founder of Impact Toolbox, is an accomplished social impact and youth development leader with expertise in scaling social impact, impact measurement and training new social entrepreneurs. With over a decade of experience, he has worked in diverse sectors like healthcare and education, consulting for organizations like the American Red Cross and city governments. He holds a Bachelor's in Dental Surgery, a Civic Leadership certificate, and a Masters in International Development and Policy from the University of Chicago. He is a Mandela Washington Fellow and an Obama Foundation Scholar. Segun also serves on nonprofit boards and is currently an International Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
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Global Program Director, Mongabay
Willie Shubert is the Global Program Director for Mongabay. He leads its global non-profit newsroom through the management of Mongabay’s portfolio of grants-funded journalism projects. Willie oversees news bureaus in Indonesia, Latin America, India, Africa and the United States as well as Mongabay’s video and investigative programs. He has collaborated with hundreds of journalists to craft in-depth stories and co-create media projects, which have amplified the voices of people living closest to hotspots of environmental change. Previously as the Senior Program Officer for Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, Willie managed programs throughout Asia and led the network’s global technology initiatives. Willie started his journalism career at National Geographic Magazine, where he coordinated translation for the magazine’s local language editions. He holds a degree in Geography from Humboldt State University with concentrations in cartography, environmental economics, and Chinese studies.
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Development Team, Critical River Inc
Salesforce Professional supporting SKOLL FOUNDATION from past 5+years.
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Executive Director, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University
Brigit Helms is Executive Director, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, the premier university-based social enterprise accelerator dedicated to eliminating poverty. For 30 years, she has created and delivered solutions to social and environmental challenges in 45 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, in both the private and public sectors. Helms is the author of Access for All: Building Inclusive Economic Systems and a board member at the AlphaMundi Foundation and BRAC USA.
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Co-Founder & Director, Conserve Global
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience working to advance conservation and social change in Africa. He holds an MSc in ecology and has extensive experience in protected area management. Andrew worked as CEO of both Welgevonden and the Sabi Sand Private Nature Reserves in South Africa before joining African Parks firstly as Operations Director and then as Conservation Director. Andrew then joined Conservation International as Vice President of Strategy and Programs for Africa before resigning in March 2020 to lead the development of Conserve Global to address the crisis unfolding around neglected protected areas beyond national parks.
Andrew believes firmly that conservation can and must be part of the solution with respect to Africa’s development agenda and is committed to promoting the value of the continent’s wildlife and wild places as a source of enduring value for her people. Conserve is on a mission to solve people problems through inclusive conservation.
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Design Director of Social Change, Compassion Revolution
Amy is a creative brain, with decades of brand, design and communication experience. Her offering at Compassion Revolution is in finding extraordinary ways to embed compassion with design for the workplace including artefacts, processes and interventions, and helping to articulate organisational values and then bring them to life. Her creative approaches are in merit of supporting behaviour change, new habits and ritual.
Her creative practice meaningfully connects high level thinking to visual communication. A very human human, Amy brings great understanding of Storytelling for Impact, Graphic Scribing, Co-design Practice and Design & Systems Thinking.
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General Secretary, International Youth Parliament
Thokozile Nhlumayo is the founder of the #NotTooYoungToLead Movement, a global movement aimed towards holding governments in Africa accountable on the number of young people they have in office. She also serves as Secretary General of the International Youth Parliament, an organization of 45 countries that advocates for young people’s meaningful engagement in political, leadership, and decision-making capacities. The African Union acknowledged the International Youth Parliament as one of the top 70 institutions contributing to Africa’s leadership and political growth. Thoko also launched the LGBTQ+ Political Leaders Program in South Africa, Botswan and Namibia, which seeks to achieve full equality for LGBTQ+ people by building, supporting, and advancing a diverse network of LGBTQ+ public leaders. Thokozile’s passion for advocating for the inclusion of young people in leadership roles was developed by her own experiences of being denied public office opportunities due to age and gender.
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Portfolio Manager and Head of Family Office Solutions, Brown Advisory
Tom Geddes is a Partner and member of the Executive Team at Brown Advisory, a private, independent investment management and strategic advisory firm with clients in all 50 states and 44 countries. Tom serves as head of the Family Office business, working with large, complex clients on their long-term strategic and financial goals. Tom is extensively involved in the community, serving on the National Advisory Council and Executive Committee of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, an initiative dedicated to improving outcomes for boys and young men of color across the United States. He also serves as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and as Chair of the Board of MedStar Harbor Hospital, among other activities. Tom holds degrees from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, as well as Cambridge University (England) and Johns Hopkins University. Originally from the United Kingdom, Tom now resides in Baltimore, MD.
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Founder & Executive Director, White Ribbon Alliance Kenya
I am a thought leader championing global reproductive, maternal, and newborn health equity, gender equality, women's economic empowerment, and accountability. I am in addition an accomplished policy advocacy strategist, movement builder, and women rights defender with over 17 years of experience leading high-impact teams and diversifying portfolios in Africa and globally, aimed at improving the lives of women and girls and thus promoting social justice, equity, and accountability. I am a collaborative advocate who has successfully implemented policy change strategies across multiple sectors—health, gender, and human rights topics across different groups and geographies. I am especially passionate about the work of women rights organizations (WROs), specifically towards advancing women, girls, and youth voices as the essential agents for transformative and sustained change at the individual, community, and policy levels. am a thought partner for women leaders, author and a founder
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Director of Development & Strategic Partnerships, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Dana Bruce is the Director of Development and Strategic Partnerships at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC). She joined USGLC in 2016 with over ten years of non-profit management experience. Dana served as a managing consultant for then-Governor Nikki Haley’s One South Carolina Flood Fund where she developed the protocol to manage and distribute funding to the disaster relief organizations. Dana was the Executive Director for the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) Palmetto Chapter in Columbia, SC for over seven years. Dana holds a graduate degree in international relations from the University of South Carolina and an undergraduate degree in Spanish from Wofford College.
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Research and Media, Alliance for Rural Democracy
Tshepo Nnini Fokane is a researcher with more than 10 years experience in community development and resilience building. She was born into a family with strong ties to the land. She is a social justice activist and development practitioner, with an MPhil (Land and Agrarian Studies) from University of Western Cape. In her current role, she works on policy and law related capacity building and training programs in order to amplify rural voices from below.
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Head of Product Strategy & Investor Relations, Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH
Mr. David Berners is an investment professional that is driven by his passion for
sustainability, entrepreneurship, and investments to create a World of Three Zeroes - Zero
Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions. He currently holds the
position of Global Director - Product Strategy & Investor Relations at Yunus Social Business
Funds, a Berlin-based Impact Venture Capital Fund that invests in developing countries. In
that capacity, David and his team structure innovative impact investment solutions in close
collaboration with Investors around the world. He designed and led major impact investment initiatives in the fields of Sustainable Food Systems and Waste Management.
Prior to YSB, David spent over a decade in Corporate Strategy Consulting across EMEA,
specializing on Investment- and Wealth-Management and, in particular, sustainable
investing.
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Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Peter Sands has been the Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since March 2018.
Between 2015 and 2017 Peter was a Research Fellow at Harvard University, dividing his time between the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Peter was Group CEO of Standard Chartered PLC from November 2006 to June 2015, having joined the Board of Standard Chartered as Group CFO in May 2002.
Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Peter was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co.
Peter has served on various boards and commissions, including the UK’s Department of Health, the World Economic Forum and the International Advisory Board of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Peter graduated from Oxford University with a First Class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He also received a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, where he was a Harkness Fellow. Peter, who grew u
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Founder and CEO, Compassion Revolution
Mary has worked closely with health improvement leaders in many countries across the world to contribute to Australia’s healthcare system reform and bring about global improvements to social care systems.
Mary founded Compassion Revolution in 2016. The aim of her work is to cultivate a living awareness of compassion as a more systematic and whole-hearted way of living and working. Compassion Revolution was designed to embroider compassion, kindness and respect into the fabric of high quality service delivery by prioritising human and planetary flourishing to build cultures that are caring, safe and inclusive of everyone.
In 2026 she was awarded a prestigious Westpac Foundation Social Change Fellowship.
Mary has been the Executive Producer of five international Compassion Revolution Conferences and has built deep connections with compassion practitioners all over the world.
In 2021 Mary published her book Compassion Revolution: *Start Now; *Use What You Have *Keep Going.
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Environmental Activist & Executive Producer, Individual
Walelasoetxeige Suruí (Txai Suruí) - Climate activist; young leader of the Paiter Suruí People; Coordinator of the Indigenous Youth Movement of RO; General Coordinator of the Ethno-environmental Defense Association - Kanindé; Second Councilor at the State Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents of Rondônia; Volunteer at Engajamundo; Academic Law; Counselor at WWF Brazil. Adviser to the UN Global Compact. Columnist for Folha de São Paulo.
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Board Chair, Vote Run Lead
I am a doer, a maker, a leader. I am a Six Sigma Black Belt. Over the last 23 years, I have helped clients and agencies bring innovation and rigor to their practice. Clients range from megacorps to non-profits, and a wide range in between. I am happiest when I am working on enterprise-level service design projects, experience overhauls, and bringing health and happiness to design and engineering teams. I run a tight ship and have zero tolerance for bad behavior, convoluted architecture, short-sighted data models, sloppy writing, or dead weight. Healthy teams lead to the very best work of our lives — it is what makes or breaks us.
On any given project, I am deeply involved from inception to release, and have been described as the unrelenting force that holds the entire project and its people together. I live in New York City with my husband Matthew, and my two children, Owen (13) and Alastair (11). When I am not with them, I do humanitarian work at the border.
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CEO, Open Collective
Pia is a Democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder & CEO at Open Collective, a platform that enables communities around the world to raise and spend funds in full transparency. Collectives on her platform raised +135M, effectively unlocking access to impact funds around the world. She is also co-founder and President of The Open Source Collective, a non profit that provides a financial and admin home for +3000 open source projects around the globe granting them access to project directed funding from companies, individuals and non profit organizations. Pia is also co-founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator backed California non profit dedicated to developing technology for democracy around the world.
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Secretary General, Centre for Global Pluralism
Meredith Preston McGhie is the Secretary General for the Global Centre for Pluralism overseeing global programs to advance respect for diversity. Previously she mediated and advised a range of peace processes across Africa as the Regional Director for Africa with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and with the UN. She advised Kofi Annan during the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation in 2007/8. Through more than 20 years in Africa, she helped establish peace processes in Nigeria and Somalia, and facilitated and supported mediation processes in Sudan and South Sudan, among other contexts. Her work spans a range of issues, including electoral conflicts, disarmament and demobilisation, and inclusion in peace processes. She continues to contribute to policy discussions on peacemaking globally, including teaching peace process design. She began her career working with the Naga in North East India and ethnic minorities in Myanmar.
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Director of External Affairs,
MedicAs Director of External Affairs, Jeff oversees global philanthropic, corporate, and institutional relationships, as well as external communications initiatives. Jeff has over a decade of private, non-profit, and government sector experience in development, communications, operations, and project management. He holds a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an MPH in Community Health Sciences from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, during which he completed field work in Bangladesh. Jeff is passionate about global health, health equity, and strengthening health systems. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Director of Partner Relations, Nobel Prize
Jessica O’Mary is currently Director of Partner Relations at the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden. Her expertise and interests lie in philanthropy, education, and equality. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and previously worked in the nonprofit sector and higher education in the U.S., before relocating with her family to Stockholm. While in Sweden, she worked as Vice President of External Relations at the Stockholm School of Economics. In her free time, Jessica is a board member of Storasyster, an organization that supports individuals who have been subjected to sexual violence. She feels passionate about ensuring that all individuals have the support they need to succeed, including access to high-quality education.
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CEO & Founder, Baobab Circle
Dr Precious Lunga is the Founder of Baobab Circle whose award winning Afya Pap digital platform is delivering affordable health services to over 250 000 people in Kenya and Uganda. Dr Lunga has made it her life’s mission to ensure that technological advances improve the health of even the most marginalised communities.
She was advisor to the Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and to the AU special envoy on COVID-19 vaccines. Previously she was at UNAIDS Geneva, where she played a pivotal role in advancing the implementation of HIV prevention programs. Additionally, she served as strategic advisor to the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, supporting impactful initiatives throughout Africa and India. She has a doctorate in neuroscience from Cambridge University and trained as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Lunga is a Yale World Fellow.
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Founder, Meron Circular Innovation
Karl Satinitigan is building a portfolio of initiatives for the circular economy, civic engagement, and the startup ecosystem. He is the founder of Meron, a B2B circular tracking platform, and of Work in Progress, a sustainability consulting firm. He is also Managing Director for Strategy at WeSolve Foundation. He previously served as Director at the Office of Senator Bam Aquino at the Senate of the Philippines where he co-designed policies including the Philippine Startup Law. He graduated with an MA in International Development and Policy from the University of Chicago as an Obama Scholar.
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Nigeria Country Manager, Oxygen Hub (Initiative of Institute for Transformative Technologies)
Ijeoma is the Nigeria Country Manager for Oxygen Hub - a social enterprise working towards increasing access to affordable medical oxygen across Sub Saharan Africa. Ijeoma oversees a total of 9 medical oxygen plant operations managed by local partners (within the public and private sector). Ijeoma has over 12 years’ experience within the healthcare landscape and has worked for organisations such as PwC, Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA), US Oncology Network and Houston Department of Health.
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Senior Advisor, Pasteur Network
Jessica is currently a Senior Advisor to the Pasteur Network, leveraging her consulting skills from her time at Camber Collective (where she is currently still a Senior Advisor), and supporting Pasteur in developing their strategy. She has worked for the last 15+ years in global health, with experience in pharmaceutical strategy and research as well as consulting project work focusing on the Social and Behavior Change (SBC) aspects of global health - essentially trying to understand how to motivate positive behavior changes in health by a deep understanding of someone's needs, attitudes, and beliefs.
Jessica is especially passionate about work in mental health, migration, and gender. She has previously worked for Monitor Group as a manager for 5 years, as well as Synovate as a researcher. She has an MBA from Thunderbird and HEC and a BS in International Business from the University of Maryland.
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CEO/ Founder, Sunshine Cinema
Sydelle Willow Smith, born in Johannesburg, is an accomplished stroyteller and impact strategist, known for her focus on migration and belonging. Her impactful career includes collaborations with National Geographic, The New York Times, and social movements in Southern Africa. As the Executive Director of Sunshine Cinema, co-founded 7 years ago, Smith leads a solar-powered cinema network across South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, engaging over 100 young media entrepreneurs in promoting local stories and social dialogue. Sunshine Cinema received prestigious awards, including the DIFF Access to Cinema Award and the British Council Beyond Borders Award.
Smith's photographic work, exhibited globally, explores identity and settler colonial histories. A Global Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, she holds a master's degree in African Studies from the University of Oxford and graduated cum laude in Visual Anthropology and Film Production from the University of Cape Town.
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Executive Director, Amandla.mobi
Koketso Moeti has a long background in civic activism. She currently serves as the Founding Executive Director of amandla.mobi, which challenges injustice by bringing people together in critical moments to take targeted, coordinated, strategic action for a just and people-powered South Africa.
In 2023 Koketso was announced as an inaugural Keseb Democracy Fellow. She is also a Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold fellow; inaugural Collective Action in Tech fellow, Atlantic fellow for racial equity; inaugural Obama fellow and an Aspen New Voices senior fellow. She is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's ‘Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution‘ initiative, part of Witness’ Board of Directors and a founding reference group member for the Civic Tech Innovation Network.
When not working, Koketso can be found writing and has been published by Project Syndicate, The Guardian, City Press, Mail & Guardian and Al Jazeera, among others.
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Director of Litigation and Advocacy Partnerships, Earthjustice
Jeremy Orr is an attorney and organizer that specializes in environmental and civil rights law, working to ensure that communities facing environmental burdens have access to justice. Currently serving as the Director of Litigation & Advocacy Partnerships at Earthjustice, Orr previously held the position of Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he worked on their Safe Water Initiative. Additionally, he is a faculty member at the Michigan State University College of Law. Mr. Orr has held various government appointments, currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Michigan Environmental Rules Review Committee. He recently completed a 6-year tenure as a member of the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. In 2022, he served as the Senior Fellow in Residence at Boston College Law School's Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy. And in 2023, Mr. Orr was named to the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation Leaders USA program.
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CEO, Cinereach
Jennifer Strachan is the CEO of Cinereach where she leads a creative team toward an ambitious goal: to harness the transformative power of story to inspire greater curiosity, agency and empathy. Her career, spanning over 30 years, is marked by her status as a nationally-recognized leader, speaker, strategist, and an Emmy Award-winning storyteller. Her extensive leadership experience covers a broad spectrum of media, including television, radio, digital content, documentary and series production. Prior to Cinereach, Jennifer contributed her expertise to both commercial and public media including NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Founder & Executive Consultant, Islex Consulting
Shama Amalean Skinner is an entrepreneur and executive working at the intersection of sustainability and consumer markets. She is the former chief operating officer of Thinx Inc, the revolutionary period and incontinence underwear company. At Thinx, she played a key role in launching, growing, and ultimately selling the company to a publicly listed corporation — effectively catalyzing the mass adoption of a reusable product in a category dominated by single-use disposables. Shama is an engaged consultant, board member, and advisor to innovative start-ups, venture funds, and nonprofit organizations. She is deeply committed to advocating for gender equity and helping solve the climate crisis.
In 2020, New Zealand’s Hillary Institute named Shama an Edmund Hillary Fellow, and in 2023, the Obama Foundation named her an Obama USA Leader.
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Coordenadora Política, Mulheres Negras Decidem
I am an accomplished International Relations professional with a Master's degree in Political Science, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in International Political Economy. My research focus has centered on the BRICS group since my undergraduate studies. Having served as the Head of Diversities at the Municipal Secretariat for Policies and Promotion of Women in Rio de Janeiro, I contributed significantly to public sector initiatives. Since 2018, I have been an integral member of the "Mulheres Negras Decidem" movement, where I assumed the role of Political Coordinator in 2022. My dedication to advancing research, coupled with a rich background in public service and leadership within advocacy movements, defines my commitment to fostering positive change in international relations and gender equality.
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Chief Operating Officer, Echoing Green
Sharyanne McSwain is Echoing Green’s Chief Operating Officer. She joined the organization with more than 30 years of financial services and business operations experience, working in nonprofit management, financial engineering, financial services marketing, and municipal finance.
At Echoing Green, Sharyanne oversees all aspects of the organization’s internal management and administrative systems supporting the Finance, Operations, Communications, Human Resources, and Programs teams.
Sharyanne received an MBA from INSEAD in France and received a BA in Urban Studies from Mount Holyoke College. She is an active alum at both of those institutions, having served in board roles. She also serves on the board of several nonprofits, including Airbnb.org and Aide et Actions. Sharyanne lives in Brooklyn where she spends her free time tending her roof garden and collecting art.
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Contributing Editor, Inside Philanthropy.com
Liz Longley is an American writer, editor and philanthropic advisor. She is a contributing editor of Inside Philanthropy, a digital media site, where she primarily covers global giving.
Previously, she held executive communications roles for leading global financial services and media companies, while directing their corporate and foundation grantmaking and ESG work.
A New Yorker, Liz graduated summa cum laude from New York University in 2010 with a B.A. in international studies.
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Founder and Director, Needlab
Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes is an Obama Leader, founder and director of Needlab, a nonprofit organization that works to solve habitat and resilience problems in cities and rural areas. Needlab works with communities worldwide to develop human and environmental-centered architectural design solutions. Needlab's mission is to research, build, and advocate for dignity in design and self-sufficiency in communities. They have completed projects on four continents - directly impacting communities by working with and for them.
She is the youngest architect to participate in “Barcelona Design Week”, and one among the three selected architects to display sustainable housing solutions at the 1st UN-Habitat Assembly. She spends most of her time drafting human and environment-
centered design solutions with communities around the world. She is driven towards achieving the UN SDG's by making sustainable design solutions reachable to all and teaching graduate students at NYU and Pratt in NYC.
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Founder, HyaPak
Joseph Nguthiru is a climatech engineer passionate about sustainability, and transforming livelihoods through impactful innovation. The Presidential Awardee for the best innovator in Kenya, his works include designing the solar dryer being used to revive the country’s pyrethrum farming, smart roads, and AI solutions for forest protection, among others.
His current initiative is HyaPak; a startup tackling plastic pollution by creating biodegradable alternatives from the invasive aquatic weed, water hyacinth. HyaPak was recently awarded the best innovation in Nature, Food and water systems at COP28, and has been listed among the top 30 startups in Africa by the Yale Africa Startup Review.
Beyond HyaPak, Joseph spearheads community-driven initiatives on river cleanups and forest restoration activities.
Joseph is also an Obama Foundation Leader and part of Meta’s Top 25 Under 25 Young Climate Prize.
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Executive Director, Tambourine
Ari is the President of Tambourine, a philanthropy focused on global health, neurodegenerative diseases, and emotional wellbeing, alongside a range of other issues. He was previously the Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy at Pinterest, as well as Vice President, Chief Program and Strategy Officer at The Kresge Foundation.
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Co-CEO, Artemis Agency
Sarah is an expert in philanthropic strategy with expertise in bridging the public sector with celebrity and entertainment. As Co-CEO of The Artemis Agency, Sarah advises nonprofit, for profit, and celebrity clients on public/private partnerships, organizational strategy, performance measurement, and corporate social responsibility.
Prior to Artemis, Sarah led the global philanthropic efforts for WME/IMG, working with high-profile clients to create robust charitable initiatives. As the Director of the WME Foundation, Sarah established the programming for the organization’s domestic grantmaking, and its partnership with the Compton Unified School District.
Sarah served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Georgia before earning her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from USC. She currently sits on the boards of Bridge USA and the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Sarah lives in West Hollywood, CA where she serves as Chair of the city’s Human Services Commission.
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Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, United States Department of State
As the U.S. State Department’s first-ever Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, Desirée [dez-ee-RAY] Cormier [cor-me-YAY] Smith works to ensure U.S. foreign policy, programs, and processes advance the human rights of members of marginalized racial, ethnic, and Indigenous communities, including people of African descent. The Special Representative is honored to build global partnerships to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and xenophobia around the world – not because the United States has solved these challenges, but because these are global scourges that require coordinated and sustained global solutions.
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Chief Development and Communications Officer, StrongMinds
Rasa Dawson is the Chief Communications and Development Officer for StrongMinds. She has extensive experience in fundraising, campaigning, advocacy, building constituencies, and elevating brand awareness. Prior to joining StrongMinds, she worked at Oxfam America and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Rasa holds a Master’s of Science in Conservation Biology from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a BA in International Development from Clark University.
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President & CEO, Urban Ingenuity
Bracken Hendricks is a Partner with J.M. Forbes & Co. a 185-year-old investment advisor and family office in Boston, MA. As co-founder of Urban Ingenuity (UI), a clean energy financier and project developer, he serves as chair of the Working Power Impact Fund. Working Power is scaling local ownership of justice-centered clean energy assets with frontline communities of color and labor unions, to rapidly deploy 100MW of community solar, and $300M in capital investment in climate resilient assets. With Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, Bracken is co-author of "Apollo’s Fire" (Island Press). Previously, he co-founded two non-profits: Evergreen Action and Apollo Alliance (now Blue Green Alliance), and he has advised President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative, Vice President Al Gore, and shaped legislation on economic stimulus, infrastructure, jobs, cities, and climate resilience. He has a master’s degree in public policy and urban planning from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Politize!
PhD in Management (2023), Master in Management (2018) and Bachelor in Public Administration (2015) from the State University of Santa Catarina (Udesc Esag). Career focused on the third sector, social management and citizenship. Co-founder of the Brazilian Head and Neck Cancer Association (ACBG Brasil) and Politize! - Civic Education Institute and Executive Director in both organizations. Fellow of several programs, networks and prizes: Movimento Choice (Artemísia/2013), Guerreiros Sem Armas (Instituto Elos/2014), Social Good Brasil Lab (2015), Red Bull Amaphiko (2017), Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI/2017), Facebook Community Leadership Program (FCLP/2018), One Young World (OYW/2022), Folha Empreendedor Social Award (2022), Forbes Under 30 (2022), Democracy Fellowship Cohort (Keseb/2023), MIT Solve (2023), Innovators Under 35 (MIT Technology Review/2023) and Rede de Líderes Fundação Lemann (2023).
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Directrice Executive & Fondatrice, SpeakUpAfrica
Yacine Djibo founded Speak Up Africa in 2011 to discover and implement effective, sustainable solutions to the most challenging problems facing the African people.
Speak Up Africa is an African-led, Senegal-based organization dedicated to building an Africa where growth and sustainable development are driven by Africa’s own citizens.
Yacine currently sits on the Board of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Nexleaf Analytics and the Faecal sludge Management Alliance (FSMA).
Previously, Yacine was the Senegal country director for Malaria No More, where she developed and managed its national program to mobilize political commitment, funding and innovation to end malaria.
Prior to devoting her career to the global health, Yacine worked in the private-sector in the areas of strategic management, business administration, finance and real estate.
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Laissa Malih is a Laikipiak Maasai, the first female filmmaker in her community with interests in documenting, linking, amplifying, and scaling up youth and women voices across diverse indigenous cultures in Kenya and the world.
She has a 7 year experience as a filmmaker since the year 2017, in 2019 she assumed a position as a Head of programs in a community based organisation called Maasai Cultural Heritage.
In 2020 her Documentary RIVER OF BROWN WATERS which became an official selection of Film Africa was screened in various film festivals in Kenya and the UK.
In 2022 she worked and produced a documentary called ‘MY FGM STORY’ featuring as a main character to help explore why FGM and child marriages are still taking place in Kenya.
In late 2022 she has worked on producing a documentary that she features as the main
character of the story as an example on how culture, heritage and sacredness of the Maa
community is an important aspect of life for their life and livelihoods.
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Counsel, Protect Democracy Project
Farbod Faraji currently leads Protect Democracy’s efforts to advance structural changes to our democracy through litigation and other forms of advocacy. While at Protect Democracy, he has worked on efforts to re-enfranchise citizens previously convicted of felonies and prevent state and local voter intimidation efforts. Before joining Protect Democracy, Farbod was a Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, where he worked on a range of impact litigation cases in the areas of racial justice, immigration, and national security. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jacqueline Nguyen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Farbod holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Stanford University.
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Director General, Africa CDC
Dr. Jean Kaseya is the first Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is a public health physician with a master’s degree in Epidemiology and Community Health and over 25 years of national and international experience. His extensive career includes leadership roles with WHO, UNICEF, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, CHAI and others, equipping him with exemplary experience in managing public health programmes, policy development, negotiation, coordination, and grant management. Dr. Kaseya's expertise spans political, strategic, and technical realms and his association with significant organizations coupled with international roles reflects his strategic leadership and impact. At the helm of Africa CDC, Dr Kaseya leads the delivery of core functions and objectives, shaping initiatives that enhance global health security across Africa through improved disease surveillance, health system strengthening, and crisis response.
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Executive Director, Pathos Labs
Romain Sepehr Vakilitabar is the Executive Director of Pathos Labs, a non-profit focused on building initiatives that leverage the power of entertainment and media to shift dominant narratives.
One initiative is PopShift, which has intimately introduced 250+ of Hollywood’s influential TV writers to the world's leading experts on variety of social issues to use television to catalyze new prosocial behaviors and communicate new ideas to millions of people.
In 2024, Pathos Labs is teaming up with 8 influential media and storytelling organizations (such as MTV and Participant) to work together, as a coalition, to mobilize new narratives that can help rebuild faith in democracy.
Romain was awarded the "Erase the Hate" fellowship from NBCUniversal for his effort to eradicate hatred in America, he is a fellow at Stanford's Polarization and Social Change Lab, he spoke at the world's biggest TEDx event, and has been featured in several best-selling books and academic journals.
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President & CEO, Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group LLC
Katherine Jacobs, CEO of NPAG, leads a global portfolio of executive search and talent strategy engagements and manages the strategic development of NPAG’s business lines and structures. A trained psychologist with 25 years of search and transition experience both in the U.S. and abroad, Katherine guides organizations through leadership transitions and team builds in a way that centers learning, growth, strategy, and equity for the organization and leads with humanity, trust, and mutual benefit for individuals and networks. Katherine’s early career experiences as a Fulbright scholar studying Viktor Frankl as well as her doctoral work (Ph.D. Georgetown) in managing cultural diversity were important roots to her study of and contributions to leadership, liberation, and human centered systems in the social sector. Katherine is a proud mom of two teens, classically trained cellist, and live music enthusiast.
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Founder and Executive Director, Open Supply Hub
Natalie Flournoy Grillon is Executive Director of Open Supply Hub, an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains. Championing access to open data and transparent practices, Natalie has worked for a decade to launch innovative solutions to complex problems in global supply chains. Previously, she co-founded Project JUST, an online platform to help bring transparency to fashion supply chains and empower consumers to shift their purchasing behavior and has launched the sustainability programs of changemaker brands, Another Tomorrow and CHNGE among others. She is an Acumen Fellow, a Return Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of Georgetown University (BS) and Cornell University (MBA).
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Co-founder and Executive Director, Integrity Institute
Sahar was born in Israel to two refugees from Iran, and grew up in Rochester, New York. During a four year stint at Facebook, he worked on the civic integrity team, which protected elections and deepened civic engagement worldwide. Before that, he ran the data for fundraising at Wikipedia, and founded two prosocial startups.
Since then, Sahar became a fellow (now affiliate) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He's a member of the advisory committee of the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice, a StartingBloc fellow, and a Roddenbery Fellow.
Sahar is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Integrity Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his beloved.
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Chief Advancement Officer, Touch Health
Allison Howard-Berry serves as Chief Advancement Officer for Touch Health, an organization based in Tanzania that designs and delivers innovative programs that break down the barriers to health access in sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging a 20+ year career in global health and development, Allison leads Touch Health's external affairs and partnerships portfolio. Touch Health's signature programs include the multi-country 'm-mama' emergency transportation system for pregnant women and newborns, as well as health-systems strengthening initiatives across three core pillars: Rural Patient Access, Healthcare Workforce, and Hospital Excellence.
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CEO, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
Sophie Otiende defines herself as a feminist, teacher, and survivor advocate for human trafficking survivors. Over the past nine years, she has focused on creating ethical standards for the protection of survivors of human trafficking, developing systems for grassroots organisations addressing the issue, and training and developing curriculums for both protection and awareness of human trafficking. Her advocacy for standards of care and survivor engagement has made her a renowned and sought-after international speaker. She is passionate about ethical engagement and storytelling of survivors of trafficking. She firmly believes in a future where empathy, harmony, and trust can be seamlessly articulated in processes and systems in institutions.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery and the founder of Azadi, a survivor-led initiative in Kenya that focuses on providing long-term and community-based care to survivors.
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Entrepreneur/Philanthropist, Cinereach
Philipp is a principal at Stray, an aspiring systemic investor and immersive experience champion that aims to utilize awe to promote narrative shifts. He’s currently obsessed with transformation capital and catalytic impact investments. He also founded and chairs the board of Cinereach, an independent film company in New York that finances and produces films, including “Marcel the Shell with Shoes on” and “After Yang.” In addition, Phil is a Trustee of the Sundance Institute.
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Program & Impact Director,
MeedanI’m the Director of Programs at Meedan. I also lead the organization's Impact and MEL team. I ran since 2011 the Check Global program, working with independent media organizations and human rights activists in over 30 countries across Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa/Western Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. I’m also a writer and researcher on media depictions on conflict and on the role of archival records in identity building processes, focusing primarily on post-revolution and conflict countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Palestine. I was, until late 2022, a Reader in Media & Cultural Studies and Associate Director for External Funding and Research Development at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (Birmingham City University).
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Chief Executive Officer, Pro Mujer
Carmen Correa is the Chief Executive Officer of Pro Mujer, a social enterprise that has been working to advance gender equality in Latin America for more than 33 years. Carmen has more than 30 years of experience in management, strategic planning, project implementation with focus in sustainable development, promoting entrepreneurship and impact investment in Latin America. Before joining Pro Mujer, Carmen worked as Program Director and Country Representative at Avina Foundation in Uruguay. Previously she was the Executive Director and COO of Endeavor Uruguay, and she occupied various positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington DC and at the Organization of the American States in Uruguay.
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Chief Partnerships Officer, The Global Good Fund
Nazlin Bhimji is Chief Partnerships Officer at The Global Good Fund, where she leads consulting engagements with corporate, nonprofit and philanthropic partners to deliver tangible social impact results. Additionally, she leads the design and delivery of online content specific to the needs of social entrepreneurs. She currently serves as a Mentor-in-Residence on Social Innovation at George Washington University and is a National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Adjunct Instructor. Previously, Nazlin was Director of Programs where she led recruitment, program delivery and impact measurement of several leadership development fellowships and managed strategic partnerships with multiple stakeholders. She has extensive global experience working with nonprofits, businesses and international organizations on business development, organizational strategy, program development, CSR and sustainability.
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Head of Investments, Heading for Change
Natalie is Head of Investments at Heading for Change, a donor advised fund launched by Suzanne Biegel & her husband Daniel Maskit to make catalytic investments and grants that accelerate proven solutions to the climate crisis and advance gender equity. Natalie brings 15 years of private market fund investment experience across asset classes, geographies and investment strategies. Her track record spans impact and commercial fund investments in diverse sectors ranging from tech and tech-enabled businesses, agriculture & forestry, FMCG, financial services, infrastructure and climate. She has served on countless investment advisory boards and was an inaugural member of the Workers Counsel and the Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee of a Dutch based emerging markets impact investment manager. She is a passionate advocate and champion of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice for all and is committed to co-creating a world where all people and planet thrive.
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Chief Impact Officer, TIKO
Serah Joy Malaba is a seasoned leader in public health. She has over 17 years of planning and executing ambitious initiatives in Africa spanning from HIV, Community Health, Digital Health, Reproductive Maternal and Child Health, Adolescent and Young People, Private and Public Sector interventions.
She has exceptional talent in initiating and cementing strategic partnerships with funders, non-profit organizations and government agencies. She works as the Chief Impact Officer at Triggerise, where she leads global operations across six counties, oversees marketing, the funder portfolio as well as monitoring, evaluation, research and learning. She previously worked at Population Services International, Living Goods, Partners for Health and Development in Africa and Global Communities.
She holds a Master of Public Health degree, a Global Executive Master's degree in Business Administration - Health Leadership and Management and is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Health
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CEO, TIKO
Benoit Renard is the co-founder and CEO of Tiko (formerly Triggerise), a next generation African non-profit, that uses smart technology and data-driven insights to break through the barriers to access women health services, with verifiable results. Tiko is present in 6 Sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia) and has delivered more than 680,000 services to 390,000 unique users in 2023. Benoit co-founded Tiko 10 years ago, and looks after the overall strategy, R&D and stakeholder management, while promoting a culture of permanent iteration and entrepreneurship within the organization.
For the past 20 years, Benoit has been iterating on several impact models, mixing marketing, business, aid and technology to increase the shared value at community levels, in diverse non-profit and for-profit organizations, in Europe and Southern Africa. Benoit holds a Master of Science in Management degree from HEC School of Management in France.
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Owner, Buena Vida Specialty Coffee
I am helping lead the re-shaping of the coffee industry. Representing farmers and soil, I am helping promote farmer prosperity and heal the soil through regeneration. I work on creating bank loans for farmers at Bank of Development rates and developing a technical assistance manual as well as a network of agronomists to help convert as many coffee farms as possible to regenerative agriculture. I am on the board of advisors of the documentaries Kiss The Ground and Common Ground to help further regeneration. ! I help create a platform for collaboration to bring like minded people together, ones that are action oriented and no green washing. I help create traceability tools!! Regeneration is what we have to focus on to mitigate climate crisis and guarantee a healthy future for planet and people. I also help ran @futbolxmipais foundation that uses soccer to engage, inspire and empower children from vulnerable communities in Costa Rica to make better life choices.
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Chief Impact Officer, Nobel Prize
Owen Gaffney is a writer, optimist and chief impact officer at the Nobel Prize.
He is the author of Earth For All: A Survival Guide For Humanity (2022) and Breaking Boundaries (2021). He leads the Earth4 All initiative and is co-founder of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative. Owen has spent 20 years working in Earth system science focusing on on concepts such as the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points and the Great Acceleration. He lives on the Stockholm archipelago and has a consultancy, Planetary Stewardship. He is thinking about ideas that confer the greatest benefit to humanity.
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Executive Director, Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation
Dr. Benjamin W. Wachira is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Executive Director of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation, an NGO that supports governments and emergency healthcare providers across Kenya to save lives by strengthening the emergency healthcare system. He is also a member of the National Emergency Medical Care Steering Committee in the Ministry of Health and a former President of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to enhancing emergency healthcare systems in Kenya, Dr. Wachira has spearheaded numerous impactful projects to fortify the nation's emergency healthcare infrastructure. His dedication extends beyond administrative roles, as his passion for the field is evident in his leadership of emergency care research in Kenya, contributing to a wealth of widely published work supporting emergency healthcare systems development in low- and middle-income countries.
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Co-President & Co-CEO, One Drop Foundation
Ernenek currently serves as Co-CEO of the One Drop Foundation.
Prior to this role, he lead the Lazos de Agua program, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of One Drop's portfolio of projects in Latin America, including building complex multi-stakeholder alliances, leading the design and operational execution of projects, and managing a multi-disciplinary team of professionals. Ernenek also held two other positions at One Drop, Project Development Manager and Project Manager for India.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Ernenek worked for Oxfam, where he spent three years working directly in the field as a consultant implementing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), rural economic development and food security projects in Honduras and Haiti. Ernenek also previously worked as Program Director for the EDUCA Foundation, a Mexican organization dedicated to supporting schools that benefit underserved children and their families throughout Mexico.
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Partner, McKinsey & Company
Sarah is a leader in McKinsey's philanthropy practice, where she serves foundation and philanthropic LLC clients on topics ranging from expanding women’s economic power in STEM, to increasing women’s participation in income-generating activities, to advancing women into top leadership roles, to reducing the unpaid care burden.
Sarah has shaped nearly a billion dollars in gender-equity related philanthropy, working with clients to develop their strategies by understanding what moves the needle on the social outcomes they want to see and where they have a comparative advantage in relation to other actors. Sarah has also led a wide range of public-facing mixed-method research efforts pertaining to gender equity.
Sarah has a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in Political Science from Columbia University.
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CEO, Pop Culture Collaborative
Bridgit Antoinette Evans is a thought leader, artist, and culture change strategy designer in the pop culture narrative change field. Fifteen years of work at the intersection of pop culture storytelling and social justice has evolved into a vision for a new field in which creative and social justice leaders work together to popularize narratives, stories and experiences that build widespread public yearning for a pluralist culture in which everyone belongs. Through Fuel | We Power Change, the creative consultancy she founded in 2008, Bridgit has designed long-term culture change strategies in partnership with many of the nation’s leading movement organizations; and in 2015, was named a Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow in recognition of her innovation. Bridgit has been invited around the world to speak about her methodologies; and in 2017, was appointed CEO of the Pop Culture Collaborative, a donor collaborative resourcing the U.S.-based pop culture narrative change field.
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Founder & CEO, The CAFE Group
As CEO of The CAFE Group, Liz Thompson provides support to Leaders of Color whose proximity to education allows them to create meaningful and relevant solutions. Liz grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing development and credits her parents, family and a strong community for shaping her values and vision. Liz and her husband, Don, are also co-founders of Cleveland Avenue, an investment firm whose name reflects the street they both grew up on in their childhood. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and adds value as a Director on various local and national boards.
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News and Information Credibility Lead, Google
Mevan Babakar is a social entrepreneur, and writer. She is the News and Information Credibility Lead at Google, working to tackle misinformation globally.
In 2023 Mevan was selected by the Obama Foundation as an Obama Leader for Europe.
Mevan was previously deputy CEO of Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity where she worked on the problems mis/disinformation for seven years. She founded Full Fact’s automated fact checking team which built AI technologies to help scale the work of fact checkers. This work went on to win the Google AI Impact Challenge. The tools that were developed are now being used by fact checkers around the world. Mevan also sat on the board of the International Fact Checking Network, which oversees 300 fact checking organisations worldwide.
Outside of Full Fact, Mevan was CEO at Democracy Club which empowers voters and everyday democracy in the UK. She also launched the UK’s first ever National Voter Registration Day which has since registered millions of young people to vote. In 2020 Mevan founded Level Up, a voluntary mentoring program that connects UK tech professionals with early career developers in Iraq and Syria.
Mevan serves as trustee for the UK for UNHCR, the UK arm of the UN refugee agency, which helps protect refugees around the world.
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Director of Communications, Together for Girls
I'm Director of Communications for a small international NGO which works in partnership with both much larger global organisations (WHO, UNICEF, CDC) and on the ground local partners to end violence against children. Our approach is to use data and evidence to drive advocacy and action. We help governments measure and categorise the levels of violence through comprehensive surveys and devise action plans and interventions based on that data. It works. Subsequent studies show very large drops in violence against children. I've also been a Comms Director now in global reproductive health care with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and basic education provision with NewGlobe. Prior to that I was a journalist, and was an editor and senior manager in BBC News for 18 years, latterly working across all its World Service language services.
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CEO, If Not Us Then Who
A multi-award (19+) winning documentary filmmaker and social impact producer who has traveled the world creating environmental campaign videos, investigative exposes, and participatory media for over 25 years. From investigating the tiger skin trade in remote Tibet, discovering a never before filmed stoned face in the Peruvian jungles, filming with an ex-South African paramilitary in his private reserve in Mozambique, or training frontline indigenous activists across 3 continents, my travels have allowed me to witness what it takes to save the planet.
Founder and Executive Director at ‘If Not Us Then Who’, a US-based charity that uses strategic communication techniques to support the demands of indigenous and local communities across the tropical forest regions.
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Director/Founder, The Voices & Faces Project
Anne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and the founder of Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project), a global testimonial writing program which seeks to share stories that witness to gender-based violence and other social injustices. The author of "Lived Through This" (Beacon Press), a critically praised memoir documenting Anne’s multi-country journey listening to the stories of sexual violence survivors, Anne’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, and the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, among other publications. Anne is the co-founder of World Without Exploitation, the US-based national coalition to end human trafficking; and serves as board president at Justice for Migrant Women. The recipient of numerous awards for her work using story to create social change, Anne explores the intersection of music, gender, and culture as a music critic for New City Chicago.
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Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Jacob’s Ladder Africa
Sellah Bogonko is Co-Founder & CEO of Jacobs Ladder Africa (JLA), a youth focused organization on a mission to activate 30 million jobs in the green economy in Africa by 2033.
JLA is spearheading workforce readiness for the green economy in Africa through research aimed at building the Africa Green Knowledge Hub, an early-stage start-up incubator focused climate tech and development of bespoke programmes in partnership with local government in climate smart agriculture and biochar production. We also run the Africa Climate Ambassadors Programme aimed at increasing the range and number for voices advocating for climate opportunity narrative in Africa.
Sellah is also the founder of Zinduka, an apolitical youth centric and culture shaping platform which empowers young Kenyans to meaningfully engage and participate in democracy and nation building. In 2024, Zinduka is set to launch a platform that will amplify bold ideas from Africa by Africans.
Sellah is a tri-sector athlete having worked in private, public and in non-governmental sectors. She is a holder of a BA degree in Business, an Msc in public leadership and is currently undertaking an Msc in Sustainable Development at University of Sussex. She also undertaken various Public Policy programs including from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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Head of Creation and Strategic Partnerships, Instituto Beja
Maria Affonseca Vogt is the Global Representative and Institutional Developer for Instituto Beja.
Maria is a firm believer in the power of collaboration among sectors bringing together different pools of capital to build a resilient future based on new values and actions aligned with the 21st century.
With more than 17 years of experience in the Wealth Management industry, she started her career in São Paulo and moved to Europe in 2008.
Pursuing a sustainable and inclusive society, she navigates and rethinks philanthropy at Instituto Beja.
Maria earned a Bachelor in International Relations from PUC São Paulo and holds a Masters in Wealth Management from INSPER. She also earned a Business Sustainability Management & Supply Chain Management certificate from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability.
She lives in Zurich with her partner and their two boys.
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Director, Collective Change Lab
Juanita, Director at the Collective Change Lab, is dedicated to transforming inequitable systems through collective change practices. She has collaborated with organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and UTEC, Inc., guiding systems actors in exploring narratives and identity and fostering authentic ways to transform power dynamics.
Juanita was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She earned her law degree from Los Andes University before immigrating to the U.S. to study Philosophy at Boston College and to practice the martial art of Aikido. Raising two teenagers in a bi-racial and bi-cultural home, she leverages her immigrant background to embrace complexity, navigate "spaces in between," and prioritize empathy and compassion in her professional and personal life.
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I am a finance professional with over 12 years of experience across Social Impact & Financial Services: Financial & Operations Strategy Development, Practical Accounting, and Accounting Advisory.
I am leading our high-performing financial and operations team to deliver significant process improvements and cost savings in our kitchen models. We aim to feed 1m public school-going children daily by 2027. My technical expertise includes financial strategy development, risk management, and internal control implementation.
I aim to create and add value to every organization desiring excellence, innovativeness, leadership credentials, quality output, and professionalism in their finance, operation, and accounting departments.
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CEO, Rhia Ventures
Erika Seth Davies is the CEO of Rhia Ventures, a social impact organization that advance reproductive and maternal health equity by intentionally leveraging capital to center the needs, experiences, and perspectives of historically marginalized people in decision-making. She is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience in development and fundraising, program design, collaboration and partnership management, and racial equity advocacy. Erika is the Founder of The Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL), a venture that centers racial equity in impact investing and works to shift capital to address the persistent racial wealth gap. Her most significant role is that of mother to Ethan and Evelyn.
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Acting Executive Director / Director of Programs & Strategy, Accountability Counsel
Lani Inverarity is the Director of Programs & Strategy at Accountability Counsel, a powerful group of human rights lawyers creating a global financial system that prioritizes people and our planet over profits. They hold trillions of dollars in international investments accountable to human rights and environmental standards, and equip communities to demand justice in remedy in Haiti, Mongolia, Kenya, and beyond. Accountability Counsel uniquely combines community-driven strategies for justice, with research and policy advocacy to catalyze systemic change for a more just financial system.
During her time at Accountability Counsel, Lani directly supported hundreds of displaced Haitian farmers to negotiate a historic agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian Government. Prior to joining Accountability Counsel, Lani received a Masters in Law from Yale Law School, and was a constitutional and human rights litigation expert within the New Zealand Government.
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Angel Charley is a prominent Indigenous leader who has tirelessly worked to halt violence against Native women and girls. As a Pueblo of Laguna and Navajo Nation member, her work is grounded in Indigenous knowledge and values. As an experienced executive director she champions increased visibility for Indigenous issues. Appointed to the New Mexico Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Taskforce in 2019, her advocacy is recognized by the New Mexico State Senate and through her involvement with the White House Gender Policy Indigenous Women Trilateral Workgroup. Charley has also delivered expert testimony before Congress. Beyond her advocacy, she is a respected board member of various organizations targeting gender-based violence and social justice and holds a Liberal Arts degree from the University of Hawai’i.
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Executive Director, Community Health Impact Coalition
Millions of community health workers (CHWs) globally—70% women—are not salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied.
Dr. Madeleine Ballard is CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition, a global movement making professional community health workers the norm by changing guidelines, funding and policy. Her work alongside the Coalition has been featured in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Lancet Global Health. Through research, advocacy, and organizing with community health workers, she's driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions—including those who provide it.
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Co-Founder, Disability Impact Fund
Disabilty Impact Fund is a general partner in the ATX Impact Fund. ATX is an assistive technology fund focused on improving access to assistive products in lower and middle income countries (primarily India and Southeast Asia), fostering product and distribution innovation and large scale impact, and delivering meaningful returns.
We are currently raising capital of $25 million for the fund. We are also raising $5 million in philanthropic grants for capacity building within our portfolio and our pipeline.
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Liviya is the Head of Fundraising for Food for Education, a social enterprise that is creating a blueprint for scalable, replicable, and cost-efficient school feeding in Africa. Liviya's career has focused on fundraising for social enterprises and strategy consulting for businesses in East Africa across multiple sectors, including education and skills building, health, social protection, and agriculture.
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Co-CEO, Avanti Fellows
Vandana Goyal is currently co-CEO and Trustee of Avanti Fellows, an award-winning nonprofit based in India focused on putting low-income students on a path towards professional success through competitive test preparation in STEM. As co-CEO, she has overseen Avanti's growth with co-founder/co-CEO Akshay Saxena from 1,000 students in 2019 to reaching 30,000 students across seven government school systems pan India. She was formerly CEO of The Akanksha Foundation; under her leadership, Akanksha became one of the largest networks of public-private partnership schools in India, currently 26 schools serving over 13,000 students and 10,000 alumni. In 2012, Vandana was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. In 2015, she was honored by the Government of the USA’s AmeriCorps program as one of their outstanding alumni.Vandana serves on the Board of Directors of Avanti Fellows, Avanti Fellows USA, Kizazi, Vipla Foundation and as an advisor to The Akanksha Foundation.
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Founder, me too.
For more than 30 years, activist, advocate, and author Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the ‘me too.’ Movement, which has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world, and the me too. International nonprofit organization, founded in 2018. Her New York Times bestselling books You Are Your Best Thing and Unbound have illuminated the power of healing, vulnerability, and storytelling in the movement to end sexual violence.
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Investor & Board Member, Individual
San Francisco-based angel investor and co-founder with Merrick of the startup studio Flashpoint. He has served on the boards of early stage companies in logistics and cyber security, and currently sits on eight nonprofit boards in the areas of poverty, media, and education.He has a Master’s of Arts degree in International Economics and Politics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Secretary General, Club of Rome
Carlos Alvarez Pereira is Secretary General of The Club of Rome. He is an Aerospace Engineer and a former lecturer and researcher in systems dynamics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), as well as an entrepreneur in the digital sector in Spain, Switzerland, France and Germany. He created and chaired until 2020 the Innaxis Foundation to develop research on complex systems and responsible innovation. He now works for the emergence of a civilizational shift towards equitable wellbeing on a healthy planet. Carlos advises the UNESCO Chair of Global Understanding for Sustainability and the International Bateson Institute, as well as the SWEET EDGE project on energy transition in Switzerland. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK´IT), and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).
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CEO and Co-Founder, Rashak Farms Agro Allied Limited
Rahmah Aderinoye is a social impact entrepreneur with a keen interest in Agriculture – crop production and food processing value chain. She leads a team of young and vibrant individuals working together to creatively solve Nigeria’s food insecurity challenges. Rahmah’s professional career spanned the Non-profit sector – the American Heart Association, UNICEF, among others – and Entrepreneurship. A 2013 Resolution Project Fellow. Her work epitomizes unalloyed commitment to the achievements of SDG 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8,9,10, 11.
She continually demonstrates the passion and tenacity to provide economic opportunities to women, youths, and Persons Living with Disabilities (PWLD), by ensuring that they are empowered and financially included. Through Rashak she has supported over 5000 farmers, merchants and Women Processors through various agric intervention programmes like the Outgrowers Scheme, Women Miller Scheme and Commodities Aggregation, among others.
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CEO, Unchained At Last
Fraidy Reiss is a survivor turned activist. She was 19 when she was forced to marry a stranger who turned out to be violent. She lost all sexual and reproductive rights, forced to have unprotected marital sex and to have two children. When she finally escaped that marriage, her family shunned her.
Fraidy rebuilt her life and founded Unchained At Last, an NGO that combats forced and child marriage in the United States through direct services and systems change.
Fraidy’s research and writing on forced and child marriage have been published extensively, making her one of the foremost experts on these abuses in the U.S. She has been featured in books (including as one of the titular women in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s The Book of Gutsy Women), films and countless TV, radio and print news stories.
Through Unchained, Fraidy has supported some 1,000 survivors as they fled forced marriage. She also leads a national movement that has banned child marriage in 10 U.S. states – and counting.
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Executive Director, Climate Breakthrough
Savanna Ferguson is the executive director of Climate Breakthrough, a global philanthropy that supports leaders around the world to pursue ambitious and innovative endeavors in climate action through the Climate Breakthrough Award, a multi-million-dollar, multi-year, flexible grant. Savanna’s background in climate strategy and years assessing talent prepared her uniquely for this work, initially supporting the creation of, and then leading Climate Breakthrough. Prior to Climate Breakthrough, she spent nearly a decade building her expertise by working with major environmental nonprofit and foundation clients at CEA Consulting. Savanna holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and writing and minors in geology and biology from Whitman College, and a Master of Fine Arts in writing from the University of San Francisco. You can read more about her writing at savannaferguson.com
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Co-Founder and President, Energy Peace Partners
Dave is the President and Co-Founder of Energy Peace Partners, an organization that supports renewable energy as a tool for peace. He has been involved in international conflict prevention and resolution efforts since 2001, with a focus on the Horn of Africa. Dave spent six years with the International Crisis Group, before moving to Humanity United to launch and run a track-2 initiative focused on South Sudan’s looming independence referendum. He served as an advisor to African Union High-Level Panel on the Sudans (AUHIP) during the negotiations around state separation. In 2016 he founded the Program on Conflict, Climate Change and Green Development at UC Berkeley’s Renewable Energy Lab (RAEL), which led to the launch of Energy Peace Partners in 2017. EPP supports renewable energy development in fragile states through a mix of pioneering research and an innovative financing mechanism called the Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-REC).
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CEO, Mary's Meals
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow OBE, is founder and CEO of Mary’s Meals, a global charity providing meals for over 2.4 million of the world’s poorest children. This daily meal attracts children to the classroom, where they can gain an education and a route out of poverty.
In 2002, while in Malawi, he met a young boy Edward and asked him what he hoped for in life. “To have enough to eat and to be able to go to school one day,” he said. Edward’s words inspired a mission to bring hungry children to school by providing Mary’s Meals. Working in partnership with some of the world’s poorest communities, Magnus now leads a mission that works in 18 countries
A CNN Hero for his work in 2010, Magnus was also named one of Time magazine's ‘100 most influential people in the world’. His first book The Shed That Fed A Million Children, was a Sunday Times bestseller and is now fully updated as The Shed That Fed 2 Million Children. A second book, GIVE: Charity and the Art of Living Generously followed in 2020
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CEO, OceanMind
Nick Wise is a technology and sustainability expert who for the past decade has applied advanced technology such as cloud computing, satellites, and artificial intelligence to tackle global-scale challenges. As CEO and founder of OceanMind, Nick applies the most advanced technology to protect the ocean from damaging human impacts. As one of the founding members of Climate TRACE alongside Former Vice President Al Gore, Nick applies advanced technology to inform emissions reductions in the maritime sector. As a DRK Social Entrepreneur, GLG Social Impact Fellow, sustainable finance advisor, and member of the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, Nick advises and mentors boards, business leaders, and entrepreneurs on managing climate, nature, and social risks in their supply chains.
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CEO, GoodWeave
As CEO of GoodWeave International, Jon Jacoby is dedicated to ending child and forced labor in global supply chains. He previously led global grant-making at the Open Society Foundations advancing business respect for the human rights of vulnerable workers and communities. There he co-founded Funders Organized for Rights in the Global Economy (FORGE) - a donor collaborative that has mobilized $250M from private foundations and governments - and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights representing over $13.5T in investor influence to bolster corporate human rights due diligence. Jacoby managed US and global teams at Oxfam and co-led its successful Behind the Brands campaign and index addressing major food and beverage companies' social and environmental impacts. He co-authored the "Virtuous Circle" report on globalization, trade, and labor standards at the Center for American Progress and appeared on BBC, CNN, PBS and CNBC. Jacoby holds an MBA and MIA from Columbia and a BA from Harvard.
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Chairman/CEO, Creative Projects Group, Social Impact Entertainment
William Nix is the CEO of Creative Projects Group® and a Producer with extensive experience in the entertainment, media, sports, and intellectual property fields. He is a Founding Member/Co-Executive Director of the SIE Society, and a Partner in the social impact investment advisory firm of LOHAS. Will is a member of the Producer’s Council of the PGA and also a lifetime voting-member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as a member of the Television and Recording Academies. His production work involves both traditional media and multiple content-delivery platforms, technologies and genres. He studied Film, Television and Digital Production at UCLA and majored in English Literature, with minors in Media Studies and History at Georgetown University. He holds degrees from NYU Law School in Competition, Innovation, and Information law, and Columbia University’s School of Law, Parker School of Comparative Law. See also: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-nix-a026592
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Head of LGT Philanthropy Advisory, LGT Bank
Nina Hoas is a seasoned philanthropy advisor, drawing on over 25 years of experience working in the international development and wealth management industries. Nina joined LGT in 2021 and leads the bank’s advisory services for UHNWI and families on how to realize their philanthropic aspirations.
Previously, she spent ten years with UBS advising private clients from Europe and the Middle East, encompassing the full spectrum from developing a philanthropic strategy to investing for social impact; and on topics ranging from disaster relief to sustainable development and social entrepreneurship. Earlier in her career, Nina worked with the UN, where she led humanitarian programs in West Africa, coordinated a multi-stakeholder development operation in South-East Asia, and supported displaced populations in the Maghreb. She also worked for the Global Fund, encouraging private sector support for innovative approaches in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Founder and President, Public Rights Project
Jill Habig is the Founder and CEO of Public Rights Project (PRP), a national legal nonprofit dedicated to helping local government officials use their considerable–but often untapped or misused–power to advance civil rights and democracy. Jill has been named an Ashoka Fellow, Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow, and Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur for her work building PRP. Previously, Jill served as Special Counsel to Kamala Harris in the California Department of Justice, advising the Attorney General on key legal and policy initiatives including civil rights, healthcare, and education. In 2015, she led the creation and launch of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s Justice and managed its work. Jill began her legal career in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office working on the landmark trial challenging Proposition 8 to establish marriage equality. She was previously a Lecturer at Yale Law School and is currently a Lecturer at Berkeley Law.
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President of the Board, School of Public Life (Közélet Iskolája)
Tessza Udvarhelyi is a cultural anthropologist and environmental psychologist by training and is living in Budapest, Hungary. She earned her PhD at the City University of New York. She has co-founded multiple grassroots organizations including the housing advocacy group The City is for All and the actvisit school The School of Public Life. She has also worked as a public servant at the Municipality of the 8th district of Budapest as the head of the Office of Community Participation. She is a member of the Ashoka network and was an Obama Scholar.
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Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Civics Unplugged
Thanasi Dilos is 21, and the co-founder of Civics Unplugged, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to equip high schoolers with the training, funding, and community they need to become civic innovators. To date, Civics Unplugged has graduated over 4,000 Fellows from all 50 states and 74 countries, and raised over $4m to support youth-led, tech based initiatives that strengthen democracy.
Outside of Civics Unplugged, he is a core team member at the Design It For Us Coalition, which organizes to create a safer space for kids online. He is also a National Geographic Explorer, and a co-founder at Gotham Labs, an impact tech lab that has raised millions for special causes and advised government agencies on emerging technologies.
He lives in Queens, NYC and enjoys redbull (sugar free).
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CEO & Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Imran Ahmed is the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. He is an authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. He regularly appears on the media and in documentaries as an expert in how bad actors use digital spaces to harm others and benefit themselves, as well as how and why bad platforms allow them to do so. He advises politicians around the world on policy and legislation. Imran was inspired to start the Center after seeing the rise of antisemitism on the left in the United Kingdom and the murder of his colleague, Jo Cox MP, by a white supremacist, who had been radicalized in part online, during the EU Referendum in 2016. He holds an MA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Imran lives in Washington DC, and tweets at @Imi_Ahmed.
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Executive Director, AFC
Alexander Roque, with 20+ years in the non-profit sector, excels in community and business development, fundraising, and communications. Recruited by the Ali Forney Center in 2011, Alex launched the agency’s first in-house Development Department, tripling the budget, enhancing program capacity, and introducing impactful initiatives.
Before AFC, Alex led field development for a health charity, mobilizing a national fundraising model for research and family services. Earlier, he spearheaded programs for youth in foster care. Alex contributed to the Center for Anti-Violence Education, addressing issues like sexual harassment, assault, domestic violence, and discrimination. In 2018, he joined Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation board, supporting global youth mental health initiatives.
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Executive Director of our US Enterprise, Alight
Nasra A Ismail - Biography
Nasra Ismail is the U.S Executive Director of Alight and a member of the board for RefugePoint. At Alight, she leads a team to build and expand welcoming communities for newcomers to the United States.
With a career spanning two decades, Nasra’s journey has taken her across the globe, from leading public policy in Washington D.C. to delivering humanitarian aid in East Africa and shaping social justice movement strategy in philanthropy. A first-generation immigrant to the U.S., Nasra champions interconnected communities founded on principles of equity and inclusion, all working towards a shared future. Nasra has held distinguished leadership roles at premier organizations including the U.S Millennium Challenge Corporation, Care US, Oxfam International, Co-Impact, and GivingTuesday. She is also the founder of Generative Connections, a global consulting firm, which promotes collaboration efforts between grassroots communities – with a focus on communities of
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CEO, Check My Ads
Claire Atkin is co-founder and CEO of Check My Ads, the adtech industry's first watchdog. As a leading brand safety advocate, she is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 brands, government officials, journalists and industry leaders. Her work to build new sustainable standards in digital advertising while dismantling the ad-funded disinformation economy has been recognized in New York Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, WIRED, El Pais, and more.
As a brand safety advocate, she holds the surveillance adtech industry accountable for abuses against advertisers and consumers in Check My Ads’s popular newsletter. She has received Adweek’s Young Innovators Award, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Media Agency.
Her work intersects the economics of digital marketing, media, and disinformation to expose where how resources .
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CEO, EIDU
Arne is a dynamic and visionary leader with a proven track record in entrepreneurship, strategic investments and fostering technological advancements.
Arne is CEO of EIDU, where he has led the organization to meaningful scale in Kenya - today EIDU is reaching 250K active learners with ambitions to reach nearly 1M in 2024. Arne is a Board member and investor in Merantix, an AI investment platform engaged in building, scaling and investing in machine learning companies, and previously co-founded Wimdu, an online platform offering a diverse range of private accommodations worldwide that operated >$100M gross revenue with 300 FTEs, scaled to 15+ countries and raised $90M in funding.
Arne is an angel investor in 10 startups, a Founders Pledge member, father to 3 young children and deeply passionate about solving the global learning crisis.
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President and Board Chair, Natural State
Jonathan Baillie is Co-Founder of NATURAL STATE. Baillie was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at the National Geographic Society where he oversaw grants, impact initiatives, National Geographic Labs, explorer programs, and the international team, initiating several ground-breaking collaborations across regions and sectors to conserve and monitor the natural world. Before National Geographic Society he was Director of Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London where he built and oversaw a portfolio of conservation projects in over 50 countries, and gained a reputation for developing innovative, cross-sectoral collaborations to support conservation at scale. He holds an Honours BA in geography from Queen’s University in Canada, a Master’s Degree in conservation biology from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in biology from Silwood Park, Imperial College London. Baillie has been a visiting professor at the University of Oxford since 2009.
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Co-Founder & Director, SIC4Change
Borja Monreal, SIC4Change co-founder and CEO, leverages technology for social good, focusing on malnutrition, food security, and youth employment in impoverished regions. With 15+ years in developmental work, he's influenced policy and projects globally, collaborating with governments, NGOs, and international bodies like the FAO and UNDP in places like Angola, Malawi, Guatemala, Perú...
Monreal serves as an adjunct professor at IE University, teaching on Innovative Social Policies to Tackle Poverty. He is a prolific author with five books on social matters and contributes to El País on topics of migration and economic progression. His research tenure includes a position as Research Officer at SOAS University of London, investigating industrial strategy and labor dynamics in Angola and Ethiopia.
His education includes a Master's in Globalization in SOAS, an MBA, an MA in International Relations, and he's pursuing a Master's in Philosophy.
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Executive Director, Development Innovation Lab, University of Chicago
Ben Krause is a social sector leader, international development professional, humanitarian emergency responder, and PhD development economist. For more than two decades, he has been identifying and implementing impactful programming with marginalized communities and local governments across more than 30 low- and middle-income countries as well as in the US. Ben has a record of launching, rapidly building, and strategically leading highly collaborative, diverse, and dynamic organizations; crafting and implementing evidence-informed development policy; and designing and writing causally-identified, policy-relevant research. Today, Ben is at the University of Chicago where he launched and serves as the founding Executive Director for the Development Economics Center which is dedicated to using the tools of economics to develop innovations with the potential to benefit millions of people – especially in low- and middle-income countries.
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CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Natalie Madeira Cofield is a former presidentially appointed expert on small business and has been named one of the most powerful women in business by Entrepreneur Magazine…
An award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, political appointee, and economic activist, Natalie has provided some of the nation's most prominent CEOs of billion-dollar organizations, executives of global brands, senior advisors to the White House, mayors of leading national cities, and community activists and leaders with inspiration, insight, and advisement.
As a presidentially-appointed Assistant Administrator of the Small Business Administration, she advised on the deployment of $1.2 trillion in funding and was directly responsible for supporting the deployment of more than $200 million in funding to eco-systems and entrepreneurs throughout the country during the greatest economic crisis in modern history.
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Executive Director, Betty and Jacob Lafer Institute
Inês Mindlin Lafer – with a degree in Psychology, post degree in psychoanalysis and in Human Rights and master in Public Administration, Inês is working for more than 20 years on the public and nonprofit field. Since 2011 she leads Instituto Betty e Jacob Lafer, a grantmaking family foundation, which she also helped to create. She founded Confluentes, an initiative to increase individual donations to strategic causes and to create a network of people committed with social change in Brazil. She is Chairperson of GIFE’s Board (the Brazilian association of Institutes, foundations and companies) and also board member of other NGOs such as Casa do Povo, Fundação Ema Klabin e Instituto Tomie Otake. Inês actively participates in forums and events centered on social change and has been a featured speaker on topics like the Future of Philanthropy, Donor Culture, Strategic Philanthropy.
She is partner of Shoshana, a Jewish restaurant in a cool and traditional neighborhood in São Paulo.
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CEO, Wild Lives Foundation
Rachel Rivera is the COO of Wild Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization launched by Jody Allen and focused on climate, marine and wildlife conservation, arts and culture and other philanthropic initiatives.
Rachel serves on the boards of Sealife Response, Rehabilitation and Research (SR3), an organization dedicated to improving the health and welfare of marine wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, One Earth Philanthropy, an organization dedicated to accelerate collective action to solve the climate crisis through groundbreaking science, inspiring media, and an innovative approach to climate philanthropy and as an ex officio member to Washington Wildlife First, an organization dedicated exclusively to monitoring and reforming Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. Rachel is additionally a member of the leadership team at Daughters for Earth, a global movement, co-founded by Jody Allen and Zainab Salbi, of women and girls working to fight the climate crisis.
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Executive Director, Ariadne Labs
Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH is the executive director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He leads Ariadne Labs’ efforts to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions to make health systems more safe, equitable, and integrated, improving the lives of over 98 million patients in 2023. He has also served as a senior policy advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation for 12 years, designing the largest tests of combined Medicare primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the US. He was a core founder and vice chair of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, an 8-year partnership with WHO, World Bank, Gates Foundation, and others to strengthen primary care globally. He is a practicing primary care physician, and serves on the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security with members of Congress, and the NASEM standing committee on primary care.
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Co-Founder, Tech4Dev
Oladiwura Oladepo is the Executive Director and Co-Founder at Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (DBA Tech4Dev), a non-profit that creates access to decent work and entrepreneurship opportunities and platforms for Africans through digital skills empowerment and advocacy, and has directly impacted over 120,000 Africans.
She is championing gender equality and contribution change for Women through her initiative Women Techsters that aims to empower 5 million women across Africa by 2030 with digital and technology skills for increased economic power. The initiative has reached over 100,000 women across 22 African countries through digital skilling and advocacy.
Oladiwura has a Master of Advanced Management from Yale School of Management.She is a Waislitz Global Citizen Prize Awardee 2022, JCI Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Nigeria 2022 , Female Innovator of the Year 2023, AfriTech Awards, and United Nations Solutions Summit Solution Maker 2019.
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Individual, Individual (PI)
Lenore England was born and raised in Washington, DC. Her parents were actively involved in and thrived with their endeavors for numerous charitable organizations. Their work, as well as the work of previous generations of other family members, formed the framework for her philanthropic work today.
After a 25-year career as a librarian and library associate, Lenore now applies “distilled” innovation to her philanthropy as of 2017. She supports ten nonprofit organizations in the Washington, DC area and London with ideas, initiatives, and projects, from fundraising to newly established programs to innovation hubs, both on an individual and collaborative basis.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Kheyti
Kaushik has spent the last 15 years building scalable social enterprises building rural livelihoods in India. He is the Cofounder and CEO of Kheyti, an organization helping smallholder farmers battle climate change through its "Greenhouse-in-a-Box", a low-cost greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services that protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7 times more food using 1/50th the water.
Before launching Kheyti, Kaushik spent five years as a leadership team member of B-ABLE, a social enterprise that connects school dropouts to mainstream careers through high quality training and placement services.
Kaushik is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. Kaushik is a winner of the prestigious EarthShot Prize and the Elevate Prize. He is an Acumen India Fellow and a DRK Foundation Entrepreneur.
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Founder and CEO, Marea Verde
Mirei Endara de Heras co-founded and chairs the board of Marea Verde since 2020, a Panama nonprofit addressing global plastic pollution through local action. She also chairs the Fundación Smithsonian in support of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's science advancement mission in Panama. She has served in the Panamanian government twice, as the first Minister of Environment (2014-2017) and as Administrator of the Panama Environmental Authority (1994-1999). Mirei is a Fellow of the inaugural class (2005) of the Aspen Institute’s Central America Leadership Initiative and a McNulty Prize 2023 winner. She is a member of Audubon Americas Advisory Committee, Biomuseo, the International Women’s Forum Panama and Women’s Corporate Directors-Panama.
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Ed is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006 he has devoted his professional energies to improving equity, accessibility, and credibility in online environments. Ed has led strategy and project definition on open source software development focused on human-in-the-loop approaches to translating, verifying, investigating and fact-checking digital content, with recent focus on the particularly pressing challenge of enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to improve information circulating in closed messaging environments.
Ed is a member of the PAI (Partnership on AI) AI and Media Steering Committee and the Logically Facts Advisory Board. Recent projects include: #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler; Confirma 2022 Brazil Election project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), National Science Foundation Co-Insights, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s global fact-checking program.
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Candace Brady, Vice President of Development at Benetech, supports the organization's mission to provide educational equity through transformative technology, programming, and outreach. Candace is an experienced philanthropy leader with over 20 years in non-profit management within higher education and cultural organizations, raising transformative funds for scholarships, access for underserved students, sustainability projects, and expanded campuses. Prior to joining Benetech, Candace served as the inaugural Vice President of Advancement at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum.
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Board Chair, Survivor Alliance
Gina Reiss is social entrepreneur and executive leader with three decades of organizational and fund raising experience in the nonprofit sector at the state, national and international levels. She has raised millions for human rights, social justice causes and has worked across many cultures, global complexities and managed diverse teams across the US, South East Asia and East Africa. She has led major issue-based advocacy campaigns, public policy efforts on Capitol Hill and is the Founding Director of the Girl Up Campaign at the United Nations Foundation. Fast Company selected Ms. Reiss among their 2012 “League of Extraordinary Women.”
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President, Instituto Beja
Graduated in Law from Mackenzie University, Master in Banking Law from IBMEC-SP, with specializations in Private Bank from IBMEC-SP and Corporate Law from Getúlio Vargas Foundation, she also completed the Impact Investing Program at the CSP - University of Zurich. She has practiced Law for the São Paulo Stock Exchange, at BBA Creditanstalt Bank and at the Consenso Family Office, and has worked as Wealth Planner at the Private Bank, and Head of Legal for Capital Markets and Corporate departments of Itaú Unibanco Bank. Furthermore, she was a partner at the banking department of Law Firm Veirano Advogados, has been the COO of Pedro Alberto Fischer Single Family Office, and founded BEJA Institute in 2021.
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Founder and President, Transparentem
Ben is the Founder & President of Transparentem, an organization that advances the well-being of workers and communities by exposing hard truths to those with the power to transform industries.
Previously, Ben was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He served as Special Assistant to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and worked as a Research Associate for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His more than 50 chapters, monographs, and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, Time, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Policy.
Ben’s first book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press; 2008), was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. The World Economic Forum recognized him as a Young Global Leader in 2011. Ben graduated from Wesleyan University.
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Executive Director, Safe Online
Marija is the Executive Director of Safe Online. Overseeing a robust USD 100 million investment portfolio, she strategically channels resources into tech, capacities and research to combat digital threats to children, especially online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA). A fierce advocate, Marija ensures children's digital safety is a keystone in global policy discussions on sustainable development and frontier technologies. She firmly believes in and champions the position that online privacy and safety are both essential and achievable. Before her role at Safe Online, she honed her expertise with the End Violence Global Partnership and UNICEF across diverse regions working on issues at the intersection of innovation, research, partnerships and system reform. Marija holds an MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University, Netherlands.
Marija is passionate about building and working with diverse teams. when free, she likes to paint and listen to jazz.
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Associate Director, The/Nudge
With 20 years of experience across finance, education and tech sectors and a deep passion for digital advocacy and social enterprise. I am part of the global development team at The/Nudge Institute building and managing our support base in Singapore & US.
Prior to The/Nudge, Shaily has been working in the space of digital safety in roles across Meta, TikTok and her own venture Blue Phish. Prior to that, she worked in the education sector, both investing and operating different education platforms in India. She has an MBA from The Indian School of Business and is an computer and electrical engineering graduate from McGill
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Executive Secretary, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
Juan Carlos Jintiach Arcos, current Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (AGCT), recently nominated as a candidate for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, belongs to the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Partner and active member of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers of Ecuador - FICSH, member organization of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon - CONFENIAE, Former coordinator of International Cooperation of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin - COICA , Former Parliamentary Advisor to an Amazonian Indigenous Congresswoman, former Coordinator of the Interfederal Committee of indigenous organizations such as: FICSH, NAE and NASHE.
He studied Natural Resources Management – Environmental Control and Environmental Administration at the University of San Francisco de Quito – Ecuador, an International Diploma from the International Training and Training Center for Indigenous Peoples at th
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Managing Director, General Atlantic
Kara Medoff Barnett has deep experience leading companies through times of rapid change. She has built new capabilities for organizations in financial services and live entertainment and guided heritage brands through digital transformation and geographic expansion. In October 2023, Kara joined General Atlantic—a leading global growth equity investor—as Managing Director and Head of the General Atlantic Foundation. Previously, Kara served as a Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at First Republic Bank and founding Managing Director of the First Republic Foundation. In these roles, she rallied First Republic’s people and resources to strengthen nonprofit organizations providing opportunity in housing, education, and the arts. From 2016-2021, Kara led American Ballet Theatre (ABT) as Executive Director, advancing innovation and inclusion at America’s National Ballet Company and stewarding an 80-year-old performing arts institution through the pandemic with no layoffs.
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Executive Director, Survivor Alliance
Minh Dang, MSW, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of Survivor Alliance, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on building sustainble communities with by, of, and for survivors of slavery and human trafficking. She is also a Research Fellow and Lead in Survivor Scholarship and Wellbeing at University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab. Minh Dang recently earned her Ph.D in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Nottingham School of Politics and International Relations, studying the wellbeing of survivors of slavery and human trafficking. For her scholar-activism, she earned the Vice Chancellor’s Medal in 2020.
Prior to returning to academia, Minh was Team Manager at Linde Group and Co-Principal Investigator for a community-based research study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Justice, evaluating an anti-trafficking task force in San Francisco, CA. Minh’s public service career includes serving as a Presidential Appointee to the first ever
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President and CEO, Confluence Philanthropy
Dana Lanza, Co-Founder, President and CEO
Dana co-founded Confluence Philanthropy in 2009 with an ambition to accelerate the flow of private capital to environmental and social equity challenges. Today Confluence is a membership network of private, public, and community foundations; family offices; individual donors; and their values-aligned investment advisors representing more than $95 billion in philanthropic assets under management, and over $4 trillion in managed capital. Dana previously served as the Executive Director at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) where she provided networking services to over 250 grantmaking organizations from across North America and Europe. As a director, Dana worked with the Rockefeller Family Fund and led a then 20-year-old EGA into an independent 501c3 organization. Dana also served as the first Director and Board Advisor to The Swift Foundation, making over $4 million in grants internationally for indigenous communities and climate
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Founder and CEO, Wajamama Wellness Center
I am the founder and CEO of WAJAMAMA, a passionate advocate for social impact, and a dedicated provider of family and women's health care. With over 16 years of experience in primary health care, maternal and child health, public health, business development, and leadership, I have had the privilege of making a difference both in the United States and in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Through WAJAMAMA in Zanzibar, I have led transformative projects aimed at contributing to the advancement of women's health. One notable achievement is the introduction of the Centering-Based Group Prenatal Care Model, which has thus far shown promising results in improving maternal health outcomes. I have also played a key role in enhancing health-care workforce training by spearheading the establishment of Zanzibar's first-ever high-fidelity simulation center, aimed an ensuring that future generations of health care professionals are well-prepared to meet the needs of their communities in the archipelago.
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Executive Director, Watsi
Mackinnon Engen is Executive Director of Watsi.org. She is a global health and humanitarian leader with 20 years of service. Mackinnon has overseen surgical programs reaching 1+ million patients worldwide.
Previously, she worked for the United Nations, local and international nonprofits, and in academia across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. At the UN, she worked to ensure more timely and community-led humanitarian assistance reached those most in need as well as helped to coordinate the Secretary-General’s response to the Global Food Crisis.
She has firsthand experience with how access to safe surgery can determine one’s life outcomes. At 30, during a routine annual visit, her doctor found early signs of cancer. With a leading team of oncologists and insurance coverage, she was able to urgently access surgery. Mackinnon has dedicated her life to making sure others around the world can access this same life-saving care, regardless of where they live.
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Director of Fellowship, Keseb
Andrew leads Keseb’s Democracy Fellowship program. He is an experienced campaigner, funder and strategist, specializing in accountable government and the strategic and operational challenges faced by social purpose organizations. Previously, Andrew was the Director of Financial Transparency at Luminate, a philanthropic organization, and was responsible for a global program that supported campaigns tackling corruption & illicit financial flows.He also worked at Omidyar Network, providing support to groups working on open government, natural resource governance & tax justice, and established & led ON’s UK program.
Andrew has supported the boards of several social impact organizations, including as a director for Open Data Manchester and a member of the advisory board of Open Contracting Partnership. He has recently joined the board of Finance Uncovered. Andrew was the advocacy manager at Publish What You Fund and began his career in publishing, international development and lobbying.
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CEO, Effective Institutions Project
Ian David Moss is a strategist, philanthropic advisor, and social entrepreneur whose mission is to help leaders make smarter decisions for a better world. Over the course of more than two decades, he has partnered with dozens of grantmaking foundations and philanthropic families to design impactful programs, allocate resources effectively, and collaborate productively toward a thriving future.
Ian is CEO of the Effective Institutions Project, a philanthropic advisory and research organization that invests in societal leadership to address major global challenges. All told, his work has guided the distribution of more than a quarter billion dollars in grants and spending to improve people’s lives worldwide. Ian holds BA and MBA degrees from Yale University and is based in New York.
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Director, The Life Story Initiative
Lena Sinha is the inaugural director of The Life Story Initiative, a philanthropic organization aimed at opening exit ramps and closing on ramps to exploitation in the sex trade. Guided by a steadfast commitment to creating a safer, more abundant world for those at the intersections of multiple broken systems, Lena’s career has centered around communities whose historic marginalization puts them at highest risk for violence and exploitation. .
Lena has advocated for and with survivors of exploitation and sexual violence for over a decade. She has worked extensively with women and girls in the sex trade across a variety of direct service and philanthropic organizations. Lena has also provided insights to federal, state, and local government agencies, playing a pivotal role in shaping policies and programs to benefit and engage those affected by exploitation and trafficking.
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Co-Founder, Catapult Film Fund
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff is co-founder of Catapult Film Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides early-stage funding to help important, moving, and artful documentary films to get off the ground. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in San Francisco and with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She later received a MA in Museum Studies and worked with museums in the San Francisco Bay Area. She gravitated toward documentary film to combine her interests in policy and creative visual storytelling. Lisa has executive produced numerous documentaries including Art & Craft, When God Sleeps and the Academy Award-nominated shorts Extremis and Life Overtakes Me, as well as narrative films including Burn Country, Fruitvale Station (Co-EP), Loves & Taxes, and The Outside Story. She is president of the board of Catapult Film Fund and serves on the boards of SFFILM and the photojournalism nonprofit Catchlight. Lisa is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Interim President & CEO, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
Lyle Matthew Kan (he/him), a leader in social justice philanthropy, is the Interim President and CEO of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.
He previously held leadership roles at CHANGE Philanthropy, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and Stonewall Community Foundation. He has served as a strategic advisor to the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, and the Queer Youth Fund at Liberty Hill Foundation. An expert on trends, gaps, and opportunities in social justice grantmaking, he is well known for his reports and infographics on the scale and character of Asian American/Pacific Islander, LGBTQ, and racial justice grantmaking. He is also a co-creator of the Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey and Report.
Lyle is a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City and an advisory council member for The City University of New York (CUNY) LBGTQI Student Leadership Program. Lyle holds a B.A. in individual
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CEO & Co-Founder, Generation Pledge
Sid is a learner, dad, husband, facilitator and social entrepreneur.
He is the co-founder and CEO of Generation Pledge, the first global community of inheritors from ultra high net wealth (UHNW) families built around a pledge. Pledgers commit to using economic, social, political and career capital for impact, and to donating at least 10% of their inheritance within the first 5 years of inheriting. Pledgers join a community of like-minded and receive world class advisory services, fueling their journey towards transformative impact with their different forms of capital.
Alongside his team, he has also launched Polycapital Academy, an academy that will offer world class impact education to wealth holders and wealth adjacent professionals.
In addition to his work at Generation Pledge and Polycapital Academy, he has taught positive psychology as a hobby for over a decade. A fun fact is that he met his wife at a flash mob while dancing to “Baby Got Back.”
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Co-founder and President, ArtLords
Omaid Sharifi is an artivist who co-founded and presides over ArtLords — a collective of self-styled artivists who create street art in Afghanistan and around the world. A former fellow at Harvard University, Omaid is an active board member of CIVICUS, a worldwide alliance that focuses on strengthening citizen action and civil society.
In his role at Pen America’s ARC, Mr. Sharifi spearheads programs dedicated to protecting artists at risk globally. With a career spanning over 19 years, he has demonstrated exceptional skill in planning, designing, and implementing a wide range of projects not only in Afghanistan and South Asia but also in various other international locations. His commitment to the arts and civil society is evident through his extensive involvement and leadership in these areas.
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Senior Editor, Semafor
Prashant Rao is Senior Editor at Semafor, responsible for the Flagship daily global newsletter, all climate coverage, and the breaking news team. He was previously International Editor at The Atlantic, Deputy Europe Business Editor at The New York Times, and Iraq Bureau Chief at AFP. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, and lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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Co-Founder and CEO, 1000 Days Fund
Zack is the Co-Founder and CEO of the 1000 Days Fund, an NGO run by activists and driven by the unrelenting belief that the only true scalable solution to stunting prevention is to provide mothers with access to trained and confident community health workers. In just five years, 1000 Days Fund has trained 54,000 CHWs and facilitated more than 480,000 in home malnutrition screenings, slashing stunting rates by as much as 55% in 1000 Days districts. Prior to founding the 1000 Days Fund, Zack worked for the World Bank. He is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and served proudly as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania. Originally from Iowa, Zack lives with his wife and their 3 girls—Audrey, Sienna and Emma—in Bali. They enjoy making salsa, searching for starfish at low tide, NYT Spelling Bee and cracking dad jokes.
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Managing Partner, ImpactFull
Kristine Michie is Managing Partner of ImpactFull, Inc., creator of Provocative Joy Retreats, and Host of the celebrated PlayFull Podcast: Bringing Fun to the Serious Work of Changing the World. Her firm’s product offerings for the change sector include new twists on old approaches, including Board Development & Delight, Provocative Joy meeting facilitation, and Better Together, project management for giving circles. With more than 60 years of combined impact in the sector, ImpactFull's team benefits from young interns and colleagues with fresh perspectives working alongside agile and experienced professionals who’ve worked with brand name NGOs and philanthropies for decades. In only 2 years, Kristine's podcast has attracted a loyal audience with 300+ downloads monthly and rating in the Top 5% of all podcasts. Kristine is also a published author and sought-after public speaker who uses all these occasions to lift up the voice of others.
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Diana has over 20 years of experience, working with international organizations in development and public health programming. At Health Care Without Harm, she oversees the global climate program and the implementation of the organization’s climate strategy, while leading the international climate action policy work. She has lived and worked in South Sudan, Thailand, Myanmar, and Ethiopia and has provided technical assistance to organizations working in West and Southern Africa and Latin America.
Prior to her work with Health Care Without Harm, Diana's experience focused on monitoring, evaluation, learning, and management roles in resilience to climate change, food security, infectious diseases, and immunizations. She holds a Master of Arts in International Development from George Washington University and a Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Interim CEO, OneVoice Movement
Will serves as the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and its signature initiative, the OneVoice Movement.
He previously worked at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation where he worked as the Director of Fundraising and Community Advancement for over seven years.
Prior to this, he worked as the Executive Director of The Slingshot Fund, a project of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies for six years. Will lives in Northampton, MA with his wife Rachel and two young children Max and Aya.
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Co-Founder, Gigafact
Chandran Sankaran is founder and CEO of Gigafact, a nonprofit, tech-forward network of local newsrooms that fact-check claims on social media. He has also founded Repustar, an incubator of technologies to strengthen societal immune systems against online misinformation. He is a judge for the annual Mirror Awards for excellence in media industry reporting.
Sankaran has previously been a successful Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, having built two companies that helped change how corporations manage their supply chains and financial management processes. He graduated from Yale University with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He received an undergraduate engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras where he was the recipient of the Governor’s Medal.
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CEO & Managing Partner, SIMA Angaza Distributor Finance Fund B.V.
One of the longest serving impact asset managers, who is known for innovation and field building. As Managing Director, Global Social Investment Funds for Deutsche Bank and now as CEO of SIMA Funds, I have created more that 15 pioneering impact funds and managed asset more than $2 billion.
SIMA was created with a vision to present a new generation of impact asset manager with a culture of transparency and inclusion is unique in the industry. Our business model is also one of kind as we are only impact asset manager that has created 3 operating companies. assan Ghar Finace is an affordable mortage finance. Company that make loans as low as $4,500 for 20 years and we have zero deliquency We also created a education finance company and first of a kind US crowd funder called Sow Good Investment that pay good returns for international impact investing. We are proud of SIMA Impact Foundation that work at the nexus of impact investing & philanthropy.
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Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation
Dr. Robert J. Williams is the Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation, UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research, and the Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
His work has led to revisions of EU policy on access to archives that relate to the Holocaust and other mass atrocities from Europe’s twentieth century, as well as stronger European measures in the fight against antisemitism. He regularly advises and has produced work for several intergovernmental organizations, foreign governments, and sectors of the US government.
His research specialties include German history, US and Russian cultural policy, and contemporary antisemitism. He recently published a coedited volume on antisemitism, The Routledge History of Antisemitism. Currently, he is writing a monograph on efforts to restore the reputations of persons and organizations complicit in the Holocaust.
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Development and Communications Manager, Winrock International
Michelle is a dynamic, multi-lingual professional with over a decade of non-profit development and communications experience. Prior to joining the Wallace Center, she was Development Director for a New Orleans-based non-profit organization that provides the city’s youth pathways to success through culinary and hospitality-based training.
Michelle spent years studying and working within the U.S., France and Egypt. She worked as a consultant for a social purpose corporation working with global health foundations and wrote articles focusing on the intersect between pharmaceutical industry and global health. While working as a program officer at a journalism non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., she planned fellowships and conferences in Denmark, Turkey and Germany.
Michelle earned an Master of Arts in Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She speaks Malayalam, French and conversational Arabic.
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Co-Founder, Liberation Ventures
Aria Florant is Co-Founder and CEO of Liberation Ventures (LV), which is building the power to win federal, comprehensive reparations for Black Americans. Prior to LV, Aria has been a researcher, management consultant, organizer, teacher, and nonprofit practitioner. All of her work drives toward a singular mission: building a world where all people’s whole selves belong. She is rooted in a Black feminist ethos, loves a good Cabernet, and calls Colorado and East Palo Alto home.
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Executive Director, Legado
Majka Burhardt is the Founder and CEO of Legado, an organization that works alongside Indigenous and local communities to design and implement solutions that benefit both their communities and landscapes—an outcome they call Thriving Futures. Legado began in the mountains of Mozambique where the Queen of Mount Namuli, Adelina Jassisone, challenged Majka to build an organization that considered all aspects of her community’s thriving, not just conservation. Today, it partners with local and regional organizations to support over 126 communities across Mozambique, Peru, Kenya, and Indonesia to create their own holistic Thriving Futures. Majka's diverse background blends her career as a professional climber, author, and anthropologist into her passion for leading teams to approach complex challenges with innovative solutions.
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President and CEO, Last Mile4D
Harrison is the founding President and CEO of Last Mile4D and a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Advance International Studies. Manages health projects in the world’s remotest areas. She is a Women's Rights Advocate who uses intersectionality of social change and technology to prevent gender-based violence. Her background is in health, social protection, policy development, education curricular and training for change.
She received her Fulbright Scholarship to draft a comprehensive cancer control policy for the Republic of Georgia that led to establishment of LM4D. She has a proven track record of designing and implementing customized health/safety protocols for communities on a global scale, enabled by her signature VPack4Development technology that is used in Kenya to prevent Female Genital Mutilation. She designed regional programs for civil society organizations in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, and Africa to further their advocacy skills on women’s and girls’ rights.
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CEO / Co-Founder, TeachUNITED
Heather is the Co-Founder and CEO of TeachUNITED with programs operating across the US, Latin America, and East Africa. With 20+ years of experience in public and international education, her mission is to ensure millions of children in rural and remote communities receive a high quality education.
Prior to TeachUNITED, Heather was a founding school principal launching a nationally recognized, pioneering K-12 hybrid school. She is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur and Cordes Fellow, where she participates in a portfolio of social innovation and global education leaders. Heather has been a featured speaker including the keynote at Digital Learning’s Inaugural Conference, a finalist for the Global MindED Inclusive Leader Award, and published as a case study education leader by the Christensen Institute, Evergreen Education, Project Tomorrow, EdWeek, and Forbes.
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Manager, African Food Changemakers
I have 20 years’ experience and a record of excellence in HR management, change engineering, and organizational development. I hold a bachelor's degree in Engineering (B.Eng) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a post-graduate degree (P.GD) in Communication from the National Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos. I have certificates in Entrepreneurial Development from the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC), Pan Atlantic University as well as in Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Social Enterprise. I also have a Professional Certificate in Organizational Development (PcOD) from the World Academy for Research and Development and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Nexford University, Washington D.C. I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) of Nigeria, a certified Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR), a John Maxwell certified speaker, trainer, coach, a seasoned writer, and counsellor.
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Program Director, Food Nature Climate Dialogue, Climate and Land Use Alliance
Originally from Brazil, currently based in London and working globally. Graduated in Journalism & Social Communication, Julia worked in newsrooms for almost a decade before taking on leadership roles in environmental NGOs in Brazil and in the UK. The main focus of her work is connecting local issues with international audiences, and developing inclusive strategies to platform marginalized voices. As a Latin, queer, migrant woman, she has supported different movements working in the intersections of rights and environmental issues. Julia led national and international campaigns on forests, indigenous rights, democracy, energy, and oceans before joining the Climate and Land Use Alliance as Director for their Global communications team.
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Chief Programs and Strategy Officer, Love146
Erin Williamson serves as the Chief Programs & Strategy Officer for Love146. She is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and operation of Love146’s US Survivor Care and Prevention Education programs. Erin has over 20 years of direct service, program management, and applied research experience in the fields of social service and criminal justice, with particular expertise in the areas of human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. She has a Masters in Public Administration and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Erin also sits on the US Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children & Youth in the United States.
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President and CEO, United Way Worldwide
Angela F. Williams is the President and CEO of United Way Worldwide where she has created a vision for the 135-year global organization that is focused on building equitable solutions from the ground-up. She has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and corporate sectors including at Easterseals and YMCA of the USA. She served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Angela earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a juris doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master of Divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. Recognized for innovative leadership, Angela was included in the NonProfit Times’ Power and Influence Top 50, Inside Philanthropy's 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy, and Forbes List of Women Over 50 Creating Social Change at Scale.
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Executive Director, InternetLab
Francisco Brito Cruz (Chico) is the Co-founder and Executive Director at InternetLab, a Brazilian think tank focused on human rights and technology. Over the past decade, the organization has been actively engaged in research and dialogue to shape transformative initiatives. Francisco holds a PhD, a master's, and a law degree from the University of São Paulo School of Law (FDUSP). During his time at FDUSP, he founded and coordinated the Hub for Law, Internet, and Society at the University of São Paulo (NDIS-USP) from 2012 to 2014 and 2016 to 2019. Additionally, Francisco served as a visiting student researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California – Berkeley in 2013.
As a prominent legal scholar and policy thinker in Brazil and Latin America, Francisco specializes in platform regulation, election integrity, the internet, and trust and safety.
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Activist, Pacific Climate Warriors
Suluafi Brianna Fruean is a Climate Activist, who has been leading environmental projects since learning about the effects of climate change and noticing the changes to her island of Samoa as a child. At just 11, she became climate organization 350.org’s youngest country coordinator, and at 16, she became the youngest winner of the Commonwealth Youth Award. Growing up in the climate movement Brianna has been involved in all areas of climate justice, from grassroots to government.
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Interim CEO, Media Democracy Fund
Jacquelyn Mason is Director of Programs at Media Democracy Fund, a non-profit funding intermediary which operates as a catalyst for an open, secure, and equitable internet. Her background as a mis- and disinformation specialist includes her position as Senior Investigative Researcher and Special Projects Manager at First Draft, where her research focused on disinformation affecting Black and Latinx communities. Previously she worked at TED Conferences on projects geared towards information disorder, at her alma mater New York University conducting user experience research, and as an editor of photography at media service organizations such as Meredith Corporation and NBC Universal. She holds a Masters of Fine Art from Parsons School of Design in Art, Media, and Technology, as well as a Master of Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Integrated Digital Media.
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Executive Director, Rise Education Fund
Mary-Pat Hector was born in Atlanta and graduated from Spelman College and Georgia State University. She began community organizing at the age of 12. At the age of 18, she was one of the youngest community leaders to advise President Barack Obama on criminal justice reform in the Oval Office. By the age of 19, she became the youngest woman to run for public office in the state of Georgia, losing by only 22 votes, which prompted her to found Equity for All, an ecosystem to train young leaders to run for office and seek equal representation opportunities.
Hector serves as CEO of Rise, an organization that trains and hires students to organize campaigns focused on eliminating tuition and fees, expanding financial aid, ending student hunger and homelessness, and getting out the vote. More than 250,000 students and supporters from colleges and universities nationwide lead the organizations to work.
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President, HBCU Founders Initiative
Marlon's professional career spans higher education, foundations, Fortune 500s, and startups. The driving force behind all of his career choices has been a desire to create positive social impact. In 2018, Marlon was named CEO of Nex Cubed, an investor that creates and accelerates frontier tech companies with an emphasis on digital health and fintech. To date, the Nex Cubed portfolio consists of 80+ startups with an aggregate value of $500M and over 60% of the startups are led by female and minority founders. In an effort to increase Nex Cubed’s impact, Marlon led the launch of the HBCU Founders Initiative, a 501c3 organization designed to inspire entrepreneurship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since 2021, in partnership with corporations such as Costco, Microsoft and Ally, as well as the Skoll, UNCF and Walton Family Foundations, over 1,200 students and alums from 80+ HBCUs have participated in its acceleration programs.
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Health Reporter, The Wire
I have been a journalist for 15 years now covering various development issues. Health, science and pharma has been my major areas. I have written extensively on public health covering it not only from policy making at the highest levels of the country but also hitting ground and going down to the level of villages. I also covered all aspects of Covid-19 pandemic. I have worked with a leading English daily, Times of India, a health and science magazine, Down To Earth, a news agency, ANI, and currently I am working with a non-profit newsroom, The Wire. In my stint as reporter, I have also covered for a short while agriculture, water and sanitation and gender issues. I have been invited as a speaker on various journalist, academic and many civil society forums to speak on the work that I have done. My stories have been reproduced by various publications.
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Design Director, IDEO.org
As a Design Director at IDEO.org New York, Ademide applies strategic thinking and experimentation to help teams understand the market context and systems IDEO.org works in, ensuring design solutions are market ready, financially viable and sustainable.
Prior to IDEO.org, Ademide worked for Accenture in Nigeria, with experience spanning from Strategy Formulation and Planning to Business Transformation, Implementation, and Project Management. She has also consulted for the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, and the NYU Furman Center for Housing and Urban Development Policy.
Ademide holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry with Management from the University of Warwick and a master’s in Public Administration from New York University. She is a major coffee snob, and can usually be found indulging in a good cup while listening to episodes of the latest trending podcast.
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Barbara Brakarz is the Executive Director of Conexsus, the Institute for Sustainable Connections. Barbara has over 22 years of experience with environment, climate and sustainable development projects. Prior to joining Conexsus in October 2023, she worked at the IDB (Inter American Development Bank) for 8 years, first as the Climate and Sustainability Specialist in Brazil and later as Amazon Initiative Coordinator in Brazil. She has also worked at the British Embassy in Brasilia, as International Climate Fund Coordinator and then International Programs Director. She worked for the The Nature Conservancy in Brazil as Public Policy and Financial Institutions Specialist and then Conservation Leverage Coordinator for the Amazon. Previously, she worked for four years at the World Bank in Washington DC in the Sustainabe Development Department in environmental projects with Brazil and other Latin American countries.
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Jennifer Njuguna, Esq., she/her, is Co-CEO of Common Future--a national US organization advancing racial and economic equity by powering community led solutions. She is an expert in operations, strategy, governance, the future of work, and social/racial justice. She assumed the role of co-CEO after serving as Chief Operating Officer at Common Future since 2021, during which she implemented a suite of equitable internal initiatives including a 4-day-workweek and compensation audits. Jennifer is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE)/Global Fellow with the Atlantic Institute and an attorney who is passionate about strengthening organizational practices and exploring solutions that promote broad racial, economic, and social justice. Jennifer has a J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was an AnBryce Scholar, and she has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She is from Oakland, CA, and resides in NJ with her husband and two sons.
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Director and CEO, Barefoot College Tilonia
I joined as Director and CEO of the Barefoot College in June, 2023 after 25 years of working in the area of social accountability, transparency, monitoring and evaluation and governance with a specific emphasis on social audits. I hold a Master's Degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay with a specialization in Urban and Rural Community Development and a Diploma in Human Rights from the ISHR, Columbia University, New York. I began working with a grassroots movement Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Rajasthan in 1998 and was part of the movement for the Right to Information and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. After 7 years of working with MKSS, i joined the Government of Andhra Pradesh to set up the first independent social audit society. I worked with the GoAP and Telangana for 18 years and for 13 years i headed the Social Audit Society. I have also worked internationally as a Technical Assistance Provider in Social Audits
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Woubzena is a Program Manager in the Executive Office at the Skoll Foundation. She primarily supports the Executive Office and the Alliances team, including pursue and execute catalytic opportunities.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Woubzena worked as the Community Investment Manager, at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to increase local giving within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Her work in the non-profit sector has varied from direct service to foundations to higher education with organizations such as AmeriCorps, Wikimedia Foundation and Stanford University.
Woubzena graduated with an M.A in African Studies from UCLA. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She enjoys cooking Ethiopian food, playing volleyball, watching Stanford Football, figuring out how to be better at woodworking, knitting/crocheting and spending time with her friends and family.
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Debra Aroko is a Kenyan filmmaker and impact producer with a deep passion for telling stories that capture the nuanced realities of communities struggling to survive and thrive in the face of a global climate crisis. Her work seeks to highlight the challenges they face while also exploring the resilience and hope that sustain them. She is a firm believer in the of power storytelling and its ability to bring hope and catalyze positive change. Debra serves as a producer/impact producer at the Solutions Storytelling Project, overseeing the production of 19 short documentary films from across the African continent. The project connects African filmmakers with social innovators to create solutions-focused films that inspire positive change in their communities. Debra is committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities across the continent and around the world. Through her work, she hopes to inspire others to take action and work towards creating a more sustainable and just
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Zoe is an Analyst under Portfolio and Investments. In this role, she identifies high impact and strategically aligned investment opportunities, while also serving as a thought partner and collaborator to grantees and the wider ecosystem of stakeholders.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Zoe worked at ClimateWorks Foundation, managing two clean energy grantmaking portfolios that drive country-level transitions away from fossil fuels toward a clean energy economy in both developed and emerging market and developing economies. Zoe has worked across various issue areas in the climate and social impact space with a focus on Africa, Asia and the United States, and has partnered with government, the private sector, philanthropy and civil society partners to achieve sustainable economic growth and prosperity for all.
Zoe holds a Master’s degree in International Development from The George Washington University with a concentration in private sector development and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a minor in humanities from Midwestern State University. She was a 2022 Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellow and currently serves on the Equity and Climate Justice Working Committee at the National Adaptation Forum. In her free time, Zoe enjoys traveling and food tours and tries to have a consistent and active lifestyle.
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Jessica Goldstein leads the Skoll Foundation’s convenings strategy and implementation. This includes the Skoll World Forum, a global annual gathering with our growing network to collaborate and advance solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Previously, Jessica spent more than two decades at NPR as an award-winning journalist working on a range of platforms, including radio, podcasts, and video. She circled the globe covering environmental stories from climate change in Antarctica to the health of the orangutan population in Sumatra. Beyond the newsroom, Jessica created NPR's hugely successful Tiny Desk Contest and many other extensions of NPR content, including the How I Built This Summit and live productions of NPR shows on stage.
Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She loves swimming in lakes, identifying plants when hiking and dancing to all music. She is a bread-baking enthusiast and cherishes gathering family and friends around the table for her home cooked meals.
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Shellie joined the Skoll Foundation in 2023 and is serving as the Program Coordinator for the Portfolio & Investments team. She brings with her a unique and supportive perspective inspired by Skoll’s mission to invest, connect, and champion social innovators to transform the world.
Before joining Skoll, Shellie honed her skills in higher education at Santa Clara University, supporting students to find their career path where their values, interests, and skills intersect. Additionally, she successfully bootstrapped and ran a small business in the Bay Area for 20 years.
When not at work, Shellie enjoys traveling with her family, animals of all kinds, museums and searching for the best croissant around (always accepting suggestions!).
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Cristina Guerrero joined the Skoll Foundation in 2023 as Grants Manager supporting the grants management team in advancing the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking practices. Previously, she was with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors for six years in a variety of roles including advisory client services as well as operations and grants management for RPA’s sponsored projects and donor advised funds. Cristina has previously worked in development for the Chicago Foundation for Education and for the Partnership for Public Service. Cristina has also served as a teaching assistant with City Year Chicago through AmeriCorps.
Cristina received an M.A. in public policy studies from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and holds a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College.
Cristina enjoys traveling, reading, running, and spending time with her dog, family, and friends.
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Director of Partnerships, Segal Family Foundation
Susan Davis is a connector of people, dots, and opportunities. She is the Director of Equitable Giving at the Segal Family Foundation, a social impact funder and advisor transforming how change happens in Africa. She has three decades of leadership roles in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds. Susan has evaluated or supported international development activities in almost 30 countries. She has advised more than 300 donors, impact investors, and nonprofits on effective and equitable development. She is a Practitioner in Residence at the Institute of Leadership and Social Impact at Georgia Tech, where she co-designs and co-teaches a course on effective and responsible social innovation. Previous roles include USAID's Global Waters Chief of Party and the Global Coordinator for Agenda for Change, and founder and Executive Director of Improve International.
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Managing Director, Wezesha Impact
James S. Katumba, from Ugandan, is a co-founder and the Managing Director of Wezesha Impact. Wezesha Impact equips youth in Africa with the skills and tools for dignified and fulfilling work.
James S. Katumba has a bachelor’s degree with Education from Makerere University and also pursued the Fulbright Hubert Humphrey Fellowship in Education Administration, Planning, and Policy at Vanderbilt University. He is an Acumen East Africa Fellow, a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and as well a Past President (2022/2023) of the Rotary Club of Nabbingo. James is certified as a Master Trainer for the UN-ILO's entrepreneurship programs and UNICEF's UPSHIFT youth social innovation program.
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Supervising Producer, Freethink
Erik Spink is the Executive Producer of partnerships at Freethink Media Inc, a partner of the Skoll Foundation. Erik has produced films, television, educational programming, and digital campaigns globally. He has had a strong focus in healthcare and cultural storytelling.
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Delta40 Venture Studio
Lyndsay Holley Handler has over 21 years of experience building, leading, and investing in high-impact businesses in Africa. Currently, Lyndsay is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Delta40, an investment group and venture studio investing in, building & scaling life-changing technology ventures in Africa. Lyndsay is also an Operating Partner at Equator, and is a Board Director for SunFi, PowerUp and Giraffe Bioenergy.
Before this, Lyndsay was CEO of Fenix International, a clean energy and fintech company that delivered life changing products to 5 million low-income customers in 9 countries across Africa with a team of over 1,000 employees. In 2018, ENGIE, the world’s largest independent electricity producer, acquired Fenix and Lyndsay worked with ENGIE to further scale ENGIE’s business across Africa.
Lyndsay has a BA from Stanford University and lives in Kenya with her husband and two children where they bike, hike and kayak as much as they can.
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Vice President, Africa, The Rockefeller Foundation
William is Vice President, Africa for the Rockefeller Foundation, leading all of Rockefeller’s work on the continent. He has experience in development across public health, food & agriculture, energy transition & climate finance. He also represents the Foundation at events that bring Governments, the private sector, and development professionals like himself together to try to build partnerships that essentially help African Governments deliver on their development agendas.
William spent 20 years in the private sector working for a global multinational. He and his family lived in 5 countries and he has experience living and working in Europe, North America and Africa.
William was born and educated in Kenya where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree and in the United States where he obtained his MBA. He is married and has 3 adult children.
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Deputy Vice President Partnerships and Development, Hispanics in Philanthropy
Brenda is a dedicated advocate for reproductive justice and a leader in philanthropy and non-profit work. Born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, Brenda developed a passion for social justice early on, inspired by the stories of resilience and strength within her community. Brenda spent 15+ years in the nonprofit sector working in the reproductive justice movement and the advancement of Latine leaders. Fueled by a desire to make an impact across the Americas, she now leads Hispanics in Philanthropy’s partnerships and fundraising efforts. She is a board member of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Brenda deeply values the quality of her relationships across all areas of her life. Her unwavering dedication, compassionate approach, and strategic leadership have made her a respected leader. She continues to inspire positive change, making strides toward a just future where reproductive justice is a reality for everyone and a thriving Latine community exists.
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CEO, African Leadership Academy
Hatim oversees all elements of African Leadership Academy as Chief Executive Officer, stewarding our mission to identify, develop, and connect Africa’s future leaders.
From 2016 to 2022, Hatim led the Academy’s Diploma Program as Dean of the Academy, enabling the rich community of faculty and staff in bringing our leadership learning program to life. He has represented ALA’s work at conferences and convenings across the continent as well as in Singapore, Japan, the US and at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Hatim first joined ALA in 2009 as a Teaching Fellow in the African Studies Department, which he served for three years. Between 2012 and 2016, Hatim was back in his formative home of Cairo, Egypt. With two partner educators, he founded Symposium, a school services and consulting company. He left his executive position in 2016 to return to the Academy as Dean. Hatim holds a BA from Harvard and an MA from Teacher's College, Columbia.
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Lena Slachmuijlder is the Co-Chair of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, which brings together technologists, academics, policy advocates and peacebuilders to incentivize the design and deployment of technology for social cohesion, rather than polarization and violence. She has 30 years of experience working for peaceful social change, starting as a journalist with anti-apartheid media in South Africa, and pioneering creative media tools for peacebuilding over the last two decades, including sitcoms, game shows and reality TV. She has led peacebuilding trainings on five continents for civil society actors, journalists, artists and security forces. Lena is a graduate of Stanford University, an alumni of Amsterdam's THNK School for Creative Leadership and Ashoka awardee. In 2020, Lena gave a TEDx talk entitled ‘The Vaccine to End War’. She lives in Brussels with her husband and two step-children.
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Spring Impact Director, Spring Impact
Emma is Managing Director at Spring Impact, a non-profit that helps mission-driven organisations to scale their impact. Previously, Emma founded and led the Global Distributors Collective, an alliance of over 200 organisations that deliver beneficial products to low-income households around the world. She is a co-founder and former Executive Director of Pollinate Group, a multi-award winning last mile distribution enterprise in India and Nepal; an experienced trainer in social entrepreneurship and innovation; and has worked with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) focusing on development finance and innovation. Emma is a Trustee at the climate change charity Ashden and at the investment fund Postcode Innovation Trust.
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Community & Initiatives Specialist, Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, World Economic Forum
Katerina manages the community of more than 100 member organisations at the WEF Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, the largest multi-stakeholder coalition in the social enterprise sector hosted by an international organisation. Apart from her community role, she leads the Alliance's work on Social Procurement, Circularity and Racial Equity. Before joining the Global Alliance in 2021, she led European Horizons, a global youth-led policy incubator. Katerina holds a Master's Degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris.
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Individual, Individual
I currently work as the Marketing Director for Switch Creative, a boutique branding agency in Dallas, TX. My largest client account is Autside, a social enterprise selling outdoor games with a portion of sales benefiting nonprofits supporting the Autism community. Prior to Switch, I served as the Marketing Manager for The Family Place, the largest domestic violence agency in Texas. In my free time you'll find me sewing, cooking, or doing other hobbies your grandma probably enjoys.
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Portfolio Manager, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Through my 17 years of professional experience in the private and non-profit sectors, I had the opportunity to work in marketing, external communications, and partnerships management functions at an international level across different regions. My professional objective is to improve the collaboration between the private, public, and philanthropic sectors to drive positive change in society.
For the last nine years, I have worked in global resource mobilization and partnership development from a range of sectors in support of International Organizations like UNICEF, and since May 2022, I have been working at the Global Fund to build and maintain strategic partnerships with the private sector.
In my various roles, I have established and maintained strategic relationships with the private sector (business, foundations, and HNWI) while helping build global capacity and multistakeholder coordination to advance progress in complex issues.
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Travel Companion of Norma Rodriguez (Skoll Staff), Individual
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Co-Founder, Connected Women Leaders
An economist with degrees from Harvard and Tsinghua; a pro-democracy activist who lost both parents to her country's democracy struggle; and a former member of her state's cabinet in charge of the MDGs and trade and investment portfolios; Hafsat believes women's equal engagement in the economy and governance systems at all levels will lead to a better world.
She is one of 50 Councillors of the World Future Council, a Special Envoy to Africa for Women Political Leaders, a member of BMW Foundation's Responsible Leaders Group, Vital Voices 100 and an alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Young Global Leaders.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Moleskine Foundation
Adama brings a unique hybrid background in management and cultural studies to his work designing and leading creative institutions focused on generating a more equal, just, and free society. Under his leadership as CEO, the Moleskine Foundation built a unique network of creative changemakers worldwide focused on solving some of the pressing global issues through creativity, arts, and culture. Adama graduated from the University of Milan and started his career in East Africa, working on rural development, then moving to Geneva to focus on social innovation with the United Nations. He obtained a Master in Public Management from the Bocconi School of Management and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Geneva. He is a curator of cultural programming, public speaker, and writer covering creative leadership, racial equity, and education. His efforts lie in exploring and leveraging the intersection of creativity, culture, and social change.
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CEO, iProbono
Mariam is the CEO of iProbono, a global social justice organisation with a mission to enable people to access their rights in pursuit of a just society. A human rights lawyer, with an interest in asylum, migration and child rights, she leads governance and programs at iProbono. Mariam is currently based in London and has lived and worked in South Asia over the past decade. She a Trustee of UK based charities the Royal Drawing School and Reunite, international centre for child abduction.
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Managing Director, Water Access Rwanda
Christelle Kwizera, 30, is an award winning Rwandan social entrepreneur and climate activist. She founded Water Access Rwanda, a social enterprise dedicated to creating innovative and convenient safe tap water infrastructure in rural and peri urban areas. Currently, it employs 96 people, serves 126,000 users, and is scaling its INUMA safe water mini-grids at pace of opening a new one every single week to serve 1,500+ users each, with 178 households connected at home.
Christelle founded Water Access Rwanda a year before graduating Magna Cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering while 20 years old, and recently completed a MSc in Climate Change Finance and Investment with distinction from University of Edinburgh. Beyond her full time dedication to solving the water crisis, Christelle serves in different boards and commissions dedicated to youth, shared value, and climate change. She has won multiple prestigious awards for her work, including a Global Citizen prize, and Africa Business Heroes.
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Janene Yazzie
DIRECTOR OF POLICY & ADVOCACY
Janene Yazzie (She/Her), is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She has over 12 years of experience as a community organizer and human rights advocate deeply rooted in local community issues. Beginning from her community Tsé si’ áni, in Diné Bikéyah, she has worked on the intersections of climate change, water security, food security, energy development, and nation building with indigenous communities and indigenous-led organizations in the US, Canada and Latin America.
Working at the local, national, and international levels of governance, she has built expertise in advancing Indigenous Peoples rights through policy and facilitating rights-based approaches to development through holistic, place-based solutions. She has a background in International Policy and Human Rights
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CEO, One For Democracy
Taylor Holden is the CEO of One for Democracy, a network of more than 150 donors and funds that is unlocking resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time. One for Democracy has moved over $170 million to impact elections and policy since its founding.
Her experience spans political campaigns, policy advocacy, and philanthropy, most recently advising a range of high net worth families on their approach to impact. This work has resourced hundreds of community-based organizations impacting elections and public policy including initiatives to restore voting rights; increase pathways to justice for survivors of sexual violence; increase wages; modernize elections; implement civilian oversight over law enforcement agencies; and much more.
Taylor has been published by The New York Times and Harvard Law and Policy Review and serves on the Board of Directors of Everybody Votes and New Era Colorado.
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Executive Director, Global Health Informatics Institute
As the Director of Oxygen Alliance, I lead our mission to revolutionise healthcare in LMICs by advocating for the maintenance and repair of biomedical equipment. We collaborate with Ministries of Health, NGOs, manufacturers, and academic institutions. Our goal is to forge a resilient, sustainable healthcare ecosystem.
So far, our footprint extends across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Ghana.
Key to our strategy is to empower Ministries of Health with data-driven decisions. We’ve also cultivated a community of practice among biomedical engineers through professional societies, enhancing knowledge transfer and best practices. In academia, our focus is curriculum enhancement and a specialized journal, preparing graduates for real-world biomedical challenges.
We’ve evolved into an ecosystem enabler with innovative tools: educational webinars, a forthcoming biomedical engineering app, and academic institution case study resources.
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Director, Communications, Movilizatorio
Angela Serrano has been a youth leader for 7 years and is in charge of El Avispero, a Mobilization network with more than 140,000 young people, activists and organizations leading advocacy and communication campaigns, building bridges and connections between decision-makers and citizens.
Winner of the Turner Prize for Social Transformation awarded by the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Colombian delegate to the One Young World youth summit for Bogotá in 2017 and mentor of the LISA 2021 and 2022 acceleration program. Angela is an industrial Designer by training from the Pontifical Xaverian University in Colombia and master candidate for gender studies in the University of York under Erasmus Mundus Scholarship with complementary studies in digital strategy, digital marketing, community management and business innovation
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Chief Program Officer, Dalberg Catalyst
Jordan is a senior executive and serial entrepreneur and in the field of social impact through systemic change. As Chief Program Officer at Dalberg Catalyst, he stewards a portfolio of catalytic, global initiatives, which span 25 countries and contribute widely across the SDGs. He co-founded Catalyst's newest platform: Integral, a strategic base for system orchestrators and a platform for transformative philanthropy. Previously, Jordan was a Partner at Dalberg where he co-led the firm's Inclusive Economic Growth service line and oversaw the Dalberg Group's global operations. Jordan holds a masters degree in international business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelors degree in mathematics from MIT.
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President & Founder, Solid'Africa
Isabelle Kamariza is the Founder and President of Solid’Africa, a Rwandan social enterprise, founded in 2010 whose primary goal is to provide meals to low-income patients in public hospitals as food is not covered by public health insurance. Through five programs, the organization provides three medically-tailored meals, hygienic products and other services with the goal to accelerate patient recovery process, preserve patient's dignity and promote equity. She was the recipient of the Young African Women Leaders Forum Award, a CYRWA (Celebrating Young Rwandan Achievers) awardee. In 2018 she was recognized by the Queen Elizabeth II as the 55th Point of Light Awardee. She is the 2019 Segal Family Foundation’s System Innovator Awardee. She is also an Aspen New Voices Fellow and a One Young World Ambassador. Most recently, she has been the recipient of the Forbes Woman Africa Social Impact Award 2021.
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Managing Director, Clinton Foundation
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Senior Technical Advisor, Health Systems, Population Services International
I work with PSI’s Health Systems Accelerator department shaping stronger, more resilient, and more consumer-powered mixed health systems, supporting country efforts to develop innovative and cost-effective primary healthcare and digital ecosystems.
I have extensive experience working with donors such as FCDO, USAID and WB/GFF, UN development and humanitarian partners, supporting Ministries of Health and country platforms build resilient health systems that are responsive to shocks. In recent years, I have focused on supporting fragile states, galvanizing government support and buy-in and working collaboratively with high-level stakeholders to pilot and scale-up primary health care and health financing models, landscaping and analysis of health systems, community and local governance structures, as well as building capacity of governments to accelerate HSS and UHC goals through development of health sector strategic plans and data to action frameworks.
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Programmes Manager, CIPESA
Ashnah coordinates multi-country projects promoting the use of ICT in democratic processes and for citizen participation, including training for citizen journalists, mainstream media and government officials. She holds an MSc in Informatics with a major in Electronic Government (Örebro University, Sweden) and a BSc in Computer and Management Sciences (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), and has work experience from Spain, UK, and various African countries. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Global Partners Digital (GPD), International Media Support (IMS) and the Internet Freedom Fund – an initiative of the Open Technology Fund (OTF).
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Founder, President and CEO, Creative Reaction Lab
Antionette D. Carroll is a serial social entrepreneur having founded Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB) and the Institute of Equitable Design and Justice (Institute) and co-founded Design + Diversity LLC and &Design LLC. As the President and CEO of CRXLAB and the Institute, she’s pioneered the groundbreaking and award-winning problem-solving framework Equity-Centered Community Design™ (ECCD™)(recognized as a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist in Urban Design and General Excellence) and a new leadership model called Redesigner for Justice™. Through this capacity, Antionette has received several recognitions and awards, including being named a PepsiCo and Doritos Solid Black Changemaker, Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Roddenberry Fellow, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, ADCOLOR Innovator, SXSW Community Service Honoree, Camelback Ventures Fellow, Essence Magazine Woke 100 and more.
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Social Innovation lead, Yellowwoods Investments
Siven Masalamoney (“Siven”) is an Executive Lead: Youth Livelihoods and Early Childhood Development at Yellowwoods Social Investments in South Africa. He is responsible for the design of social impact initiatives that can deliver significant and enduring change.
Siven is passionate about solving the intractable problems of poverty; working with incredible leaders driving social impact and building platforms for significant social transformation. Over the last decade he has fulfilled this passion working on the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and the SmartStart ECD social franchise platform.
He previously worked as a behaviour change consultant, radio and TV broadcast manager, adult educator and zoologist.
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Director, Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact for Sub-Saharan Africa, Johnson & Johnson
Anthony Gitau is a Graduate of Egerton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. He is the Director Global Health Equity Sub Sahara Africa at Johnson and Johnson with a mandate to deliver the Global Health Equity mission to advance equitable access to quality care in resource-limited settings, strengthened by J&J’s commitment to nurses and community health workers. He was previously Director East Africa at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Country Head Novartis Social Business, Maternal and Child Health Director at PSI Kenya and manager access to medicines and key accounts at Sanofi for Eastern Africa. Anthony has more than twenty years of experience and knowledge of the Pharmaceutical, Impact Investment and development sector in Africa.
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Founding Director, Accelerating Appalachia
Saraday Evans founded Accelerating Appalachia (ACAP) to marry her years of work in sustainable economies, environmental protection, and social justice into a program to accelerate a regenerative, socially-just economy. Saraday is a thought leader in regenerative regional evonomies, a specialist community planning, sustainable economies, geology and hydrogeology with a US Presidential commendation for her work to build healthier people and places in the southern Appalachian region - a region known as a global biodiversity hotspot as well as the most impoverished region in the US. When Saraday’s sustainable economy program for high unemployment counties in North Carolina lost its funding, she launched Accelerating Appalachia to continue the important work of regenerating a regional resilient economy in food, fiber and forest products, restoring the people and place of one of the most biologically diverse, yet poverty-stricken and over-extracted, regions in North America: Appalachia.
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CEO, The Collective Future Fund
Aleyamma Mathew is a nationally known expert on the intersection of gender and economic justice. With over 25years of experience in the philanthropic and advocacy sectors at the local, state, and national levels, she has led advocacy, grantmaking, capacity-building, and campaigns for economic policies to protect women’s rights, safety, and economic security, with a focus on women of color, immigrant and refugee women, and low-wage women workers. Aleyamma is the Executive Director of the Collective Future Fund, a philanthropic intermediary fund that brings together social justice movements, survivors, and donors to heal, resource, and mobilize toward a future free from violence. CFF funds women of color and gender expansive-led organizations that are work to end state, workplace, and interpersonal violence by centering and supporting survivors in the US and transnationally.
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Academic Visitor, Saïd Business School
Alona Revko is an Academic Visitor within a program funded by the British Academy. Her current research focuses on stakeholder relationships and the development of social entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEE). Alona Revko is also a professor at Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine. She has over 10 years of experience teaching various courses for Ukrainian master students, including Social Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Leadership and Administration, Sustainable Development of Society, etc. Alona has international experience in social entrepreneurship and sustainable development, participating in study visits to social enterprises and scientific internships in different European countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Georgia. The outcomes of her research are reflected in more than 80 publications.
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Lecturer & Course Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Dr Laurence Wainwright is a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment and Course Director of the MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. A teaching and learning oriented academic, Laurence has been lecturing, facilitating and supervising at universities across Australia, Sweden, the United States, and United Kingdom since 2011.
Laurence’s research interests and teaching areas are multidisciplinary and diverse. They include sustainability and corporate social responsibility; mental health impacts of climate change; strategy, management, leadership; and precision psychiatry, psychopharmacology and drug repurposing. In addition to his primary role in the Smith School, Laurence is a Skoll Early Career Research Fellow in the Saïd Business School, Research Fellow at Green Templeton College and a Contributor Researcher and Facilitator in the Department of Psychiatry.
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President, Global Alliance Of Impact Lawyers
Constanza serves as President of GAIL (Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers), a community dedicated to utilizing the practice of law to positively influence people and the planet, while accelerating the just transition.
With her extensive experience in businesses seeking to make a social and environmental positive impact, Constanza advices on the development complex structures aimed at enhancing sustainable finance with a ESG focus (environmental, social governance). She also specializes in structuring corporate governance models for purpose-driven companies, sustainable procurement (public and private) and value chains under a Business & Human Rights approach. Co-founded Keidos, a women-led consultancy firm committed to transform the world through solutions that enhance the positive impact of organizations from a legal perspective. She is also a member of iitos, a multidisciplinary services firm focused on venture-capital.
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Director of Philanthropy Partnerships, Climate Breakthrough
Jessica is Director of Philanthropy Partnerships with Climate Breakthrough, a global grantmaking organization that supports extraordinary leaders to pursue ambitious, innovative climate change mitigation through multi-million dollar, multi-year, flexible awards. In her role, Jess works closely with other climate philanthropy organizations to increase resources for novel, large-scale, long-term efforts to reduce carbon emissions. She also coaches and supports recipients to develop their own fundraising capacities. Jess has 20+ years experience at a variety of international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, TechSoup, Fair Trade Certified, and the International Rescue Committee. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and has lived for nearly a decade in Latin America, mostly Brazil. Jess was a Fulbright Scholar in Rio de Janeiro and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She lives in California's state capitol Sacramento with her family and ancient beagle mutt.
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Founder & CEO, Clean Start Solutions
Teresa Njoroge is the Founder and CEO of Clean Start Solutions, a Social Enterprise that fundamentally equips and empowers vulnerable children, girls and women, who mostly due to poverty related issues end up in conflict with the law or imprisoned within the justice system in Kenya. She seeks to prepare children of imprisoned mothers, the young girls and women for the forbidding journey of reintegration back into society after prison.
A Social & Criminal justice Reforms and System Change Influencer, Teresa believes that justice begins where inequality ends. In her commitment to social justice change, to cut the high rates of recidivism, help reduce systematic legal and societal barriers and grow the nations restorative justice programs, Teresa has been in the forefront through her advocacy work as an ardent advocate working at the intersection of poverty and the justice system to decriminalize poverty, by providing alternatives to custodial sentencing of petty, survival crimes.
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Managing Partner, PLACE
Driven by a passion for more equitable access and use of location data Denise takes pride in her work across data ethics, diversity, inclusion, and the geospatial profession. As Managing Partner - PLACE Trust, she is keen to expand the work of PLACE to ensure that high-resolution imagery is made accessible to governments and a broad range of trusted and responsible organisations throughout the world. She is a co-author of the Locus Charter, fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a member of the Global Advisory Board at Location Based Marketing Association, an advisor for Women+ in Geospatial assisting in the partnerships program and Chair-Emeritus of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) UK and remains on council leading ethics. Denise holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Politics from Monash University in Australia and a Masters of Science in Sustainability from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
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Project Manager, Solutions Journalism Network
Ashley Hopkinson is an award-winning journalist, newsroom entrepreneur and leader dedicated to excellent storytelling. Ashley is currently the Health Equity Initiative Manager for The Solutions Journalism Network where she oversees five U.S. newsrooms’ public health coverage. Ashley also leads SJN’s first Journalists of Color fellowship dedicated to supporting emerging media leaders of color. Prior to joining SJN, Ashley served as a reporter and editor for 15 years amplifying social issues including health, education, social justice and immigration. In 2019, she became the founding editor for The American South, USA TODAY’s first regional vertical, distributed in 30 publications. Ashley also held key leadership roles as a Senior Editor for The Desert Sun and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism at Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism. In 2021, Ashley earned the prestigious Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award for editing on a grand prize series.
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CEO, Youth Business International
Anita Tiessen is Chief Executive Officer of Youth Business International, which leads a growing global network of 50 enterprise support organisations with a passion for empowering underserved young people (18-35) to start, scale and sustain their businesses. Anita has extensive experience in international development, human rights and leading global networks. Before joining Youth Business International, Anita was CEO of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, a global movement of 150 country members, where she grew the organisation’s reach and impact; Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF UK; and Head of Communications at Amnesty International’s global headquarters.
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Founder, Shequity
Pauline Koelbl is the Founder and Managing Partner of ShEquity Partners (“ShEquity”), an investment firm with the purpose of advancing Africa's climate transition and gender-inclusive future. ShEquity is dedicated to gender-smart, climate-conscious businesses in Africa and driving systemic change.
Pauline’s passion for inclusive growth and sustainable development is at the core of her work. Having lived, studied, and worked across three continents (Africa, Europe and North America), Pauline is strategically well positioned to serve as a bridge between the global south and the global north.
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Jeanette Hernandez recently started a new role as Senior Coordinator for the Portfolio & Investments team. She sits across 4 SLTs: Justice & Equity, Community Support, Pandemics & Health Systems as well as Inclusive Economies. This new role allows Jeanette to be closer to the awardees and to the work Skoll does globally in addition to learning about issues she is extremely passionate about.
Prior to joining Skoll, Jeannete worked as a career Executive and Legal Assistant, where she honed her meticulous attention to detail and strong team-player ethos skills. She dedicated 6 years of her time at Discovery, working with their consumer products team where she demonstrated exceptional proficiency and commitment.
Jeanette moved to Florida during the Covid Pandemic, though she will always be a NYer (Brooklyn Standup!) in mind and heart!
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Water For People exists to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.
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Partnerships Lead, Atlantic Institute
Katherine is a partnerships builder, ecosystem catalyst and community weaver, dedicated to advancing an equitable world and a more just future. As Partnerships Lead for the Atlantic Institute she leads on a strategy to catalyze the global equity ecosystem through collaboration with value-aligned organizations and networks.
Katherine previously held leadership roles within UK government policy, international diplomacy, European civil society and higher education organizations. Prior to joining the Atlantic Institute she was the founding director of the Cultural Institute | King's Culture at King's College London where she led a team working at the interface of the university and London's vibrant cultural sector, advancing arts and creativity as a catalyst for health and social change.
Katherine began her career directing theatre and opera and continues to advocate for the transformative power of individual and collective creativity as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Joint Executive Director, Reprieve
Maya Foa is the Joint Executive Director of the legal non-profit, Reprieve, an organisation dedicated to fighting extreme human rights abuses through a combination of strategic litigation, advocacy and policy work. Maya leads of a team of 45 lawyers, investigators and campaigners who work globally to end the use of the death penalty, torture, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings. Maya has worked on hundreds of cases and campaigns, was described by CBS news as the "woman behind the shortage of execution drugs" in the United States, has been listed by Richard Branson as one of his most inspiring people, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including being nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2018.
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Chief Operating Officer, Unlock Aid
Amanda Arch has spent her career at the intersection of entrepreneurship, social impact, and scaling new innovations. She started her career at Microsoft where she helped to launch the Global Social Entrepreneurship Program and later co-founded Kasha, which is Africa's leading platform for digital retail and last mile distribution of health products and services. She now co-leads Unlock Aid to help front line innovators get access to the resources required to maximize their impact and ensure we are on track to achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Zenysis Technologies
Jonathan Stambolis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zenysis Technologies, a Silicon Valley company that builds big data software that helps developing countries deliver healthcare in a truly data-driven way. Previously, Jonathan represented Australia at the United Nations in New York with responsibility for global health, humanitarian and development affairs. During this time, he negotiated the groundbreaking 2011 United Nations Political Declaration for HIV/AIDS, the international political framework for the global AIDS response. He also served as an Adviser on Global Health to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.
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Chairman of the Department of Community Development, Department of Community Development, Abu Dhabi
H.E. Dr. Mugheer Khamis Al Khaili is the Chairman of Department of Community Development (DCD) H.E. brings over 20 years of experience in government work having held several senior positions in various fields including education, health, strategy and policy reform.
HE obtained the Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of his contributions to strengthening education relations between UAE and Japan.
Dr. Al Khaili holds a number of executive memberships; he is a member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, the Executive Committee of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and the Complaints and Grievances Committee.
Dr Mugheer is the Chairman of the Wellbeing Committee of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council.
Dr. Mugheer Al Khaili holds a PhD in Business Administration (2005) with dissertation on corporate citizenship and an MBA (1999) from Ain Shams University of Egypt.
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Marco van der Ree is a founding Board Member of Conexsus and was interim Executive Director for most part of 2023. He is a strategic, passionate and innovative executive leader and social entrepreneur with 25+ years of global sustainable development experience.
He founded Brokering Solidarity in 2015, building partnerships and engagement for sustainable development. He also worked from 2018-22 in executive management roles with EIT Climate-KIC, the Global Reporting Initiative, and TNC Latin America. In 2019, he was senior consultant for the 10-year Amazon Fund evaluation.
He started his career in Brazil in 1996 with ISPN, a socio-environmental NGO, he spent 17 years with UN organizations (UNCDF, UNDP, UNOPS, UN Volunteers). As UNV Chief Partnerships he led the global Volunteer Action Counts campaign for Rio+20, with 64 million volunteer actions.
Marco is a Board Member with multiple organizations, OLBIOS, GFB, KCIC and Green Light District.
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Managing Director, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust
Niniola Williams is a public health professional leading projects, initiatives, and teams to improve community health and build resilient health systems prepared for epidemics and emergencies. She is passionate about reducing the burden of infectious diseases and increasing health security through interdisciplinary approaches.
Niniola currently leads Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust, a public health organization building a network of health champions who are preventing diseases and saving lives through education and training, community engagement, emergency planning, and policy change. DRASA – founded in memory of Niniola’s aunt who prevented a major epidemic by diagnosing and containing the first case of Ebola in Nigeria – is addressing health system gaps while honoring Dr. Adadevoh’s legacy of protecting public health.
Niniola is a member of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), a two-time TEDx speaker, and an Acumen West Africa Fellow.
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Board Member, School of Leadership Afghanistan
Mati Amin is the co-founder of SOLAx, an online academy dedicated to expanding education for Afghan girls globally. He leads the development of both SOLAx’s curriculum and online platform to ensure accessible education. Mati is also a board member of SOLA, the first and only all-girls boarding school for Afghan girls.
A seasoned edtech entrepreneur, Mati previously sold his language learning company to a prominent U.S. publisher. He is passionate about leveraging technology to catalyze significant change and dismantle barriers to education. Mati is the Global Fellow at Echoing Green and serves on the Business Advisory Board of Akagera Medicines, the only African-owned biotech company focused on neglected infectious diseases.
He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Williams College, a master’s degree in finance from Babson Graduate School of Business, and a Master of Education from Harvard University.
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co-Executive Director, Digital Action
Alexandra Pardal is co-Executive Director (interim) of Digital Action, a global movement-building organisation to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats. Alexandra is currently focused on Digital Action’s stewardship of the Global Coalition for Tech Justice, a global platform accountability movement to protect people and elections from tech harms in over 55 countries across the world. Alexandra has over 20 years’ experience in international non-profits and politics, leading campaigns, investigations and policy reforms. Her campaigning has resulted in a range of impacts including reforms of a billion-euro EU trade and development programme and financial restitution to communities in Africa.
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President and CEO, Delta Philanthropies and Higherlife Foundation
Elizabeth Tanya Masiyiwa is a prominent leader in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. She believes in and is passionate about the transformative power of education in communities.
As the President and CEO of Delta Philanthropies and Higherlife Foundation, Elizabeth oversees the philanthropic efforts of the Masiyiwa family.
In 2016, she founded Akello, an African company that uses technology to provide learning and teaching resources to students and classrooms across the continent.
In 2020, Elizabeth established the Simba Preparatory School, an early childhood center in Domboshava, Zimbabwe, to showcase a better model for early childhood education in rural areas.
Elizabeth is a non-executive director on the boards of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe, two of the largest listed companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. In 2023, Elizabeth was appointed Commissioner of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
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CEO, Advantage Health Africa
Abimbola Adebakin is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT), Pharmacist, management consultant and tech innovator who drives performance improvement in African healthcare. She is the Founder/CEO of Advantage Health Africa, enabling access to quality and affordable healthcare in Nigeria through market access and pharma distribution, leveraging technology and aggregation.
Formerly COO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, she is the Public Relations Secretary of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) and a Board Member at the Safe Medicines Foundation.
She is a Master Trainer with the Institute of Directors (loD) Lagos, mentors for WIMBIZ and Google StartUp, and serves as Program Director of The Pharmacists Leadership Stimulant Programme, promoting career stability for young pharmacists.
Abimbola's achievements have earned her prestigious awards including the Bayer Foundation Women Empowerment Award (2021), Google Black Founders Fund (2021), i3 (2022), SheWins Africa (2024)
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Founder & President, Manos Visibles
Master in Philosophy of Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, SPURS/Fullbright Fellow in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale World Fellow; an industrial engineer from the Universidad Autónoma de Colombia.
Paula was Colombia's Minister of Culture (2007 - 2010), the first- Afrocolombian woman to hold a cabinet position in the country history. Founder and President of Manos Visibles, one of the largest ethnic leaders network in the Americas. She has been member of the Board of of the Ford Foundation, in which has acted as Program committee chair; Author of two books "El Poder de lo Invisible" (The Power of the Invisible) and “Soñar lo Imposible” (Dreaming the Impossible) with Penguin Random House. She has received several awards: Black Excellence Award (2020) in the U.K., Global Fairness Award (2019), World Economic Forum, MIPAD, Governments of Mexico and Colombia, among others.
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Senior Manager of Award Selection, Climate Breakthrough
Michaela Koke is the Senior Manager of Award Selection with Climate Breakthrough, an initiative that provides large, multi-year, unrestricted awards to exceptional leaders with high-risk, high-reward strategies for mitigating climate change. In this role, she leads the candidate sourcing and selection process, manages a network of scouts and strategic partnerships, and supports overall org strategy. Prior to working with Climate Breakthrough, Michaela worked with CEA Consulting, where she focused on advising philanthropic clients on climate change mitigation and resilience strategies. Michaela has also worked with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in addition to roles in research and environmental philanthropy. Michaela has a master’s degree with distinction in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School.
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CEO, reach52
Edward is the founder and CEO of reach52; an organisation on a mission to the 52% of the world that lack access to essential health services.
The reach52 model runs health promotion campaigns and makes affordable healthcare products available exclusively in rural areas, across seven countries in Asia and Africa. The tech-enabled approach works with health workers, pharmacies and local government to improve health access and outcomes.
Would be great to connect here!
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Associate Director, Discovery & Insights, The Audacious Project
Angelina is an Associate Director of Discovery & Insights for the Audacious Project - an initiative housed at TED. In the role, she leads cycle operations and diligence for the team’s inspiring work identifying and cultivating a pipeline of bold leaders and ideas that could change the world. Prior to Audacious, Angelina directed operations for a large-scale U.S.-based civic engagement campaign registering millions of people of color to vote. Prior to that, she was a senior project manager for Chemonics International and Panagora Group implementing international development programs in global health, supply chain solutions, and women’s economic empowerment for USAID and the Global Fund. Her expertise is in scaling social impact projects and catalyzing stakeholders to take action towards human advancement. Angelina holds an MA in International Affairs from American University and a Bachelor’s of Social Work from Clark Atlanta University.
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Co-Director: Programmes and Partnerships, Well Grounded
Kitty joined Well Grounded in April 2023 as Co-Director: Programmes and Partnerships. In her role, Kitty is responsible for coordinating the development and delivery of Well Grounded’s programmes supporting civil society organisations working for community-based forest governance in the Congo Basin region.
Kitty’s experience supporting community-led conservation was previously centred around the Western Indian Ocean region, including many years based in Comoros and Madagascar.
A central thread through her work to date has been supporting organisational development and leadership within programme teams, community-based organisations and civil society networks, and she is passionate about shifting power in the sector towards local organisations and leaders.
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Head of Young People Portfolio, Elton John AIDS Foundation
Lindsay is a Senior Portfolio Manager at the Elton John AIDS Foundation where she oversees their health-related grant giving and impact investing efforts, with a particular focus on young people. Previously she led the health portfolio at the Larry Ellison Foundation and was a Senior Director at The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. She is neonatologist and paediatric infectious disease specialist by training. Lindsay has an MD from Cambridge University, a MSc in International Health Policy & Health Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Yale College.
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Chief Evangelist, Societal Platform
I am the Chief Evangelist at Societal Thinking. Societal Thinking is an approach to realise exponential social change. Social change becomes exponential when it induces a domino effect of more and rapid changes towards building a better society. This systemic approach was developed through many “Do-Think-Do” cycles with change leaders across the globe. The “Do” cycles involved co-exploring, designing and building missions that create impact at population scale and the “Think” cycles helped distil the learning into a set of core values, design principles and frameworks that are open for everyone to use and build upon.
As the Chief Evangelist, I am responsible for simplifying our knowledge and sharing them with the wider audience.
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Co-CEO, Imagine Worldwide
Rapelang Rabana, co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, is deeply committed to education and skills development in Africa. Imagine operates across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing tablet-based learning programs to develop literacy and numeracy skills in millions of young children. Backed by a strong body of evidence of impact, Imagine’s programs demonstrate the role adaptive education technology can play in closing the literacy gap, where traditional approaches are not enough to match the enormity of the foundational learning crises.
Featured on the cover of ForbesAfrica magazine before the age of 30, named Entrepreneur for the World by the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Rapelang holds a B. Business Science (Computer Science) and an M.Sc from the University of Cape Town.
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Founder and Managing DIrector, Greenlight Ventures NZ
Venture investor & philanthropist. (Former senior commercial and public law counsel.)
Jennifer’s background includes having been a senior litigation partner in a major NZ law firm, lead counsel at the NZ Bar, and chair of various entities including the NZ branch of the maritime law association of Australia and NZ. She was lead counsel in high profile international insolvency litigation and complex cross-border maritime work and was a regular speaker on cross-border commercial law panels in the US and Asia-Pacific region.
Greenlight Ventures NZ which she founded holds an extensive portfolio of seed investments with global impact. Over 50 ventures have been backed covering cleantech, fintech, medtech and sustainability. Many are directed towards democratising access.
Jennifer has held a variety of governance roles.
She was named Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 by APAC Entrepreneur magazine and received a Women Empowerment Principles Leadership Award for 2021-2022 in London.
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Co-Founder, Kaivalya Education Foundation
Manmohan Singh is CEO of Aspirational Bharat Collaborative, Kaivalya Education Foundation.
Aspirational Bharat Collaborative is a one of the largest 'hyper-local collaboration' with 1000+ non profit organizations, 30000+Volunteers, Local Media, and several community leaders with a common purpose to improve lives of 100+ million population across 150 districts in India.
Manmohan is a Co-founder of Gandhi Fellowship, Kaivalya Eductaion Foundation -an initiative of Piramal Foundation. He has been working in public health and eductaion for more than 2 decades. He loves to bring people together from government, civil society and corporation for a common cause.
He is a science graduate, and a post graduate in Conflict Analysis and Peace-Building from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is an acumen fellow and an Aspire Circle Fellow.
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Executive Director, AFLAMUNA
Jad Abi-Khalil, a devoted contributor to the Arab film industry, has actively produced and directed documentaries since 2000. As a member of AFLAMUNA (formerly known as Beirut DC), a cultural association for Arab Cinema, he has held several key positions and has been the executive director since 2021.
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Chief Strategy and Impact Officer, Obama Foundation
Tina Tchen is an Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Impact Officer for the Obama Foundation. At the Foundation, she is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Foundation’s strategy. Tchen also oversees the Girls Opportunity Alliance, the Obama Foundation program that works to empower adolescent girls around the world through completing their education.
Tchen is an attorney, activist, and lifelong advocate for women and girls. She served in the Obama White House through both terms, and was an Assistant to President Barack Obama, Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women Girls. At the White House, Tchen spearheaded the first-ever White House Summit on Working Families, helped form the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, and led the Administration’s effort to promote education for adolescent girls worldwide, including Mrs. Obama’s Let Girls Learn Initiative.
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Reporter and Feature Writer, The Observer
Carole Cadwalladr is a journalist for the Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom. She worked for a year with whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her investigation into Cambridge Analytica, which she shared with the New York Times. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price.
Cadwalladr's work has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019. She is the co-founder of non-profit, the Citizens, that seeks to hold big tech to account through a combination of investigative journalism, campaigning and storytelling.
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CEO, Social Innovation Canada
For 25 years, Andrea Nemtin has led complex organizations and initiatives focused on creating positive social and environmental change through strategic philanthropy, media and arts, social innovation and impact investing.
Previous to her role at Social Innovation Canada, Andrea served as the founding CEO of the Inspirit Foundation, Executive Director at Rally Assets, and President of PTV Productions. She has served in governance and advisory roles for numerous organizations and is currently a board member for the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority and Advisor to Boann Impact. Andrea was recognized in 2017 with a Governor General’s Meritorious Service Award for her contribution to inclusion in Canada.
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Director of Collaborative Philanthropy and Institutional Development, Lemann Foundation
Camila Anker is the Collaborative Philanthropy and Institutional Director of Lemann Foundation in Brazil. She joined Lemann Foundation in the beginning of 2020. Prior to joining the Philanthropy sector, she worked for 18 years in the private sector, leading Investor Relations, Finance and Communications departments for several Brazilian listed companies in the infrastructure pulp & paper and mining sectors. She is an Economist with MBA in Finance and Investor Relations from the University of São Paulo. Camila is also the mother of 2 wonderful children.
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Chief Innovation Officer, Solutions Journalism Network
Ambika Samarthya-Howard (she/her) is SJN’s Chief Innovation Officer: She leads on innovation and technology, leverages communication platforms for the network strategy and creates cool content. She has an MFA from Columbia’s Film School and has been creating, teaching and writing at the intersection of storytelling and social good for two decades. She has produced content for Current TV, UNICEF, Havas, Praekelt.org, UNICEF, UNFPA, Save the Children, FCDO, Global Integrity and Prism.
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Co-Founder, Mundo Común
Isabel Cavelier Adarve is a Colombian writer, potter, story-teller and weaver dedicated to emerging the new culture that will help us navigate through the Anthropocene. She is based in Bogotá where she lives and works. She has served as a diplomat for Colombia, as as University professor, and currently leads a global network of influence on climate chance politics. She is also the founder of Mundo Común, an new endeavour weaving a system of care for the climate community, as a means to re-imagine our human identity and our responses to the climate crisis.
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Co-Founder, Return to Heart
Sarah Eagle Heart Biography
Sarah Eagle Heart (Oglala Lakota) is an Emmy award winning storyteller and entrepreneur whose perspective is rooted in her experiences growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Ms. Eagle Heart is an internationally accomplished executive with a diverse background in tribal, corporate, and non - profit organizations focused on cultural education, advocacy, and healing with a unique vantage point and desire to shift culture and amplify impact.
Ms. Eagle Heart currently focuses in the areas of education, entertainment and energy with True Enterprises. She co-founded Zuyá Entertainment with Twila True and will direct her first documentary feature in 2023. She also supports tribal relations and business development with TrueAnarock on renewable energy. Ms. Eagle Heart is also a co-founder and strategic advisor to Return to the Heart Foundation, a non-profit focused on supporting innovative Indigenous women-led initiatives.
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Executive Director, Reset
Ben Scott is CEO at Reset, a global initiative to realign technology markets with democratic values around the world. Reset works with philanthropy, governments, and civil society to fight against digital threats to democracy. Before starting Reset, he spent a decade in Washington, including as Policy Advisor for Innovation to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He coordinated the technology policy advisory group for the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign. His career also includes years in Europe, where he co-led a German technology policy think tank -- the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) in Berlin. He was also a Senior Adviser to New America in Washington DC. He holds a PhD in communications and serves on the Board of the Open Technology Fund.
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Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Kunle Apampa is Head of Client Solutions at Capricorn Investment Group, one of the largest mission-aligned investment firms globally managing $9B+ in assets on behalf of families, foundations, and institutional investors. Kunle is responsible for the institutional growth of Capricorn as a purpose-built Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO).Prior to joining Capricorn, Kunle was Vice President at Goldman Sachs Imprint, an ESG & Impact Investment platform within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Kunle spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs, holding several leadership roles within the firm’s Global Markets division as well as the Finance division. Kunle holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering, specializing in Energy, Environment & Economics, from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Kunle is based in New York City.
Kunle serves on the steering committee of Intentional Endowment Network, the membership committee of Confluence Philanthropy.
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Executive Director, dZi Foundation
A powerful advocate for social and economic inclusion, progress, and sustainability, Wende joined dZi as Executive Director in 2021 and brings over 20 years of experience with a variety of international organizations in WASH, female indigenous-led education, sustainable development, and multi-sectoral partnerships. Wende oversees dZi’s strategic planning, fundraising, team development, public relations, and financial management while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration rooted in dZi's core values of equity, integrity, and partnership. She holds an M.A. in International Development and her work, study, and travels have taken her to 55 countries around the globe.
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Chief Programme Officer, Tenure Facility
David Kaimowitz is Chief Program Officer of Tenure Facility. Former manager of the Forest and Farm Facility at FAO, director of Natural Resources and Climate Change at Ford Foundation, and Director General of Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR). Agricultural economist. Interest in grant making, tropical forests, Indigenous Peoples, grassroots organizations,, land tenure, rural development.
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Associate Director, Discovery & Insights, The Audacious Project
Max is an Associate Director on Audacious' Discovery & Insight team, which leads sourcing, organization evaluation, and diligence.
Prior to Audacious, Max has been a consultant and coach for social impact entrepreneurs and funders. His experience across a wide range of industries has included developing go-to-market strategies and investment theses, conducting market research and due diligence. Max also practiced strategic foresight at Omidyar Network in areas such as blockchain, surveillance, and digital third places to help inform thesis development. Max has also worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and in-house at Morgan Stanley's Children's Hospital, assisting the management team in executing strategic projects to increase efficiency and quality of care. Max holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Rice University.
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Co-founder, FRESH Speakers
Vanessa Valenti is CEO and co-founder of FRESH Speakers, a next generation speakers bureau and training institute focused on creating more inclusion and equity in thought leadership. She is also co-founder of the award-winning blog Feministing.com.
Over the last decade, Vanessa has worked with a range of social change institutions across the globe, including the Aspen Institute, TED, UN Women, the Clinton Foundation, Planned Parenthood and more, producing content development and curation, and delivering speaker coaching and storytelling.
She has won several awards for her activist work and Feministing, including the Hillman Prize for Exemplary Reporting that Fosters Social and Economic Justice. She was also the recipient of the TED Residency, where she explored solutions to inspire minds to redesign thought leadership.
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Program Officer, TEDx
Education: BA. Business Administration
Summary:
A seasoned Media and Communications and business development professional with extensive experience spanning various sectors, including international development, post-conflict humanitarian response, and livelihood. Proven track record in establishing and leading media and communications departments in both international and local organizations. Skilled in Marketing, Social Media Management, Rebranding, Photography, and Documentary Filmmaking. Proficient in conveying complex information to diverse audiences through formal and informal channels. Experienced in representing Iraqi youth on international platforms, including the World Youth Forum and the United Nations Arab Youth Conference.
Work Experience:
1. Communications and PR Manager
B.E.P.P, Erbil
October 15, 2022 – March 31, 2023
2. Entrepreneurship Program Officer
Blumont International Organization
November 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022
3. Communication Specialist
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Executive Director, Wandikweza
The Malawian woman, Mercy Kafotokoza is the founder and Executive Director of Wandikweza. She trained as a midwife and nurse, and completed a master’s in public health. She learned the importance of community-based health care during her time as a Nurse/Midwife at one of the biggest referral hospitals in Malawi. As a nurse she developed standard operating procedures and as a midwife she worked in a very busy hospital assessing and prioritising patients.
Mercy has built Wandikweza on the shoulders of community health workers who work in their own communities providing timely care at thedoorstep. They have an immediate impact in their communities and delivers health services at a low cost per person without access to expensive high technology. Not only do they provide basic health care, but their ongoing presence in the community changes attitudes towards health.
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CEO, Ubongo
I am an accomplished Chief Executive Officer with over 20 years of progressive experience in capacity building, business development, fundraising management, and scalable operational strategy development.
I have a proven track record of driving corporate growth and scalability, notably in managing operations, facilities, and program management for global entities.
As I am an advocate for childhood development, being the CEO of Ubongo has given me the capacity to facilitate the growth and expansion of edutainment directed at the youth to encourage early adoption and increased retention of information
in both the formative and developmental years.
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Former Member of United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2020-2023, United Nations SG Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2020 - 2023
Archana Soreng belongs to Khadia Tribe from India. She is the Former Member of the First United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2020-2023. She is a Climate Justice Advocate working on reclaiming spaces and amplifying the Perspective of Indigenous Community in the Climate Justice Discourse. As a Young Indigenous Women, she has been working across Global, Regional and National Level on Connecting Indigenous Youth, Research and Documentation on the Indigenous Knowledge and practices with respect to Climate Justice , Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation. She has been working on Climate Justice with an Intersectionality of Land and Forest Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is also working on making sure that Climate Finance and Climate Philanthropy is accessible to Young people and Indigenous Peoples
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Áurea Carolina
Executive Director at NOSSAS, Brazil’s largest civil engagement platform.
Áurea is a nonprofit executive and former politician who was a council and congresswoman from the state of Minas Gerais - the most voted woman in the state - where she led important initiatives in culture and gender, racial and environmental justice. In 2019, she was recognized by Most Influential People of African Descent as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Black People in the World in Politics and Governance.
Áurea was part of President Lula da Silva’s transition team, working on policies for the Department of Culture.
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Partner and Co-Head, Asia and Africa, Bridgespan Group
Pritha is a Partner and Co-Head, Asia and Africa at The Bridgespan Group, where she also serves as the head of the India office. She advises philanthropies/ donors, governments, nonprofits, and the private sector on a wide range of global development opportunities. Her work has ranged across strategy, business plans, operating models, and partnerships for social impact initiatives in over 25 countries in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Pritha has led and co-authored knowledge reports and articles on strategic and collaborative philanthropy, a more resilient Indian NGO sector, community driven change, and public health, among others.
Prior to Bridgespan, Pritha established and led the New Delhi office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, where she co-led the Global Health and Nutrition practice. Previously, she was a Director and India office head at Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA), UK; and earlier as a financial specialist at the World Bank.
Pritha holds
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Skoll Scholar 2022, Saïd Business School
Asha Scaria is a statistician by training, and a social entrepreneur by practice. Asha has been working at the intersection of rural women employment and sustainable fashion for five years. Without having any work experience or background in fashion, she has built a company called Swara - Voice of Women, which creates jobs for women in rural India who suffer from systemic injustice. Though it has been quite a trial by fire, Asha is proud that Swara has grown organically and has survived and even grown through two incredibly harrowing waves of COVID so far. Asha feels humbled and honoured to have been recognised by Google - SheThePeople as the Social Impact Entrepreneur of 2020, under the Digital Awards.
Prior to starting Swara, Asha was a Gandhi fellow placed in rural Rajasthan. She worked with the headmasters of four government schools to improve the learning conditions of 1500 students. Asha has a Bachelor of Sciences in Statistics from St. Xavier's College.
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Manager, Partnerships, Schmidt Futures
Ronit is the Director of Partnerships at Schmidt Futures.
Schmidt Futures is a charitable organization that finds and connects talented people across fields, generations, and geographies to harness their collective skills for public benefit
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CEO, Learn to Play
Priyanka Handa is a social entrepreneur, mother and author transforming how the world educates, protects, and cares for young children. Inspired by play and informed by African communities, she founded Learn To Play, a social impact business providing playgroups, parenting programmes and teacher training across Africa.
With an emphasis on sustainability, social & emotional wellbeing and ensuring every child accesses their right to quality early childhood education, Priyanka believes that being happy and healthy is the foundation for learning. Using two decades of teaching experience and leading multiple early childhood organisations, she’s developed models for early learning in various contexts that include private preschools, rural settings, employer supported childcare in farming communities as well as emergency and crisis settings. She’s created diverse curricula, training courses and innovative parent outreach including the most sustainable and scalable approaches to education.
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Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Saïd Business School
Kate built her career in alumni relations, development and advancement in Higher Education over two decades, holding leadership roles at the universities of Exeter and Aberdeen and as Director of Development and Alumni Relations at St Hugh's College, Oxford and Worcester College, Oxford where she was a Governing Body Fellow, before joining Oxford Said in November 2022, as Director of Development and Alumni Relations.
Kate leads the Development and Alumni team at Said Business School, who work hard to nurture lifelong mutually supportive relationships between alumni, supporters and the School and also to connect donors with impactful projects e.g. from supporting world-leading research, to establishing scholarships to enable students with the most academic potential to take up their place at University.
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Executive Director, Center for Digital Resilience
Holly designs systems to encourage community resilience. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Center for Digital Resilience. Operating with high-risk civil society in over 20 countries, CDR fosters regional hubs for community resilience by building sustainable and innovative tools, systems, and coalitions.
Holly also co-founded Security First, working on an app to make digital and physical security advice more accessible to human rights activists. She previously worked at Crisis Action where she launched and led the Emerging Powers program, and also helped set up Videre where she framed the need for safer, more effective video documentation and helped to launch projects around the world.
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Queer African Network
Okong'o Kinyanjui is the Co-Founder and Executive Director, of the Queer African Network (QAN), a mobile application designed to ensure that every LGBTQ+ person of African heritage, both on the continent and in the diaspora, has access to the resources and meaningful connections they need to thrive. He has built a comprehensive digital platform and information hub that globally crowdsources opportunities, transnational alliances, and affirming content for LGBTQ+ persons of African heritage. His work on QAN garnered diverse support, including from Echoing Green and Numun, recognition from the Obama Africa Leaders Program and NGO-CSW at the UN, and his TED Talk on the subject has amassed over 1.4 million views. By being able to gather safely in community, he has created a space that allows his community to radically re-imagine a future beyond crisis and negotiating their existence. He aspires to continue expanding our collective imagination and invest in innovative solutions.
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Deputy Dean and Associate Professor in Retail Marketing, Saïd Business School
Jonathan is Deputy Dean for External Relations at the Said Business School.
He is also Associate Professor in Retail Marketing and Deputy Director of the ESRC’s Consumer Data Research Centre.
Jonathan’s teaching and research focus primarily on the retail sector. He is particularly recognised for his scholarship and expertise in the areas of electronic commerce and omni-channel retailing, innovation and entrepreneurship in retailing, retail productivity and skills, and the role of place in marketing and retailing.
He is a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Ascendance
Harsha is a successful 20-year-old social entrepreneur; a 3 times TEDx speaker and International Conference speaker; and recipient of the Diana Award for Young Changemakers in 2019. In 2022, she was recognised on Prestige Malaysia's 40 Under 40 Most Inspiring, Successful, and Influential young people.
She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ascendance – an international youth movement that has impacted over 50,000 students across 26 countries that brings entrepreneurship education to mainstream curriculum.
Harsha is also the author of the book ‘The Makings of A Teenage Entrepreneur’, which was released in 2021. She is currently and undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, an ivy league university in the United States where she also serves as the Vice President of Finance at the Wharton Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Club.
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Founder, The Human Trafficking Legal Center
Martina E. Vandenberg is the founder and president of The Human Trafficking Legal Center, an organization dedicated to providing pro bono counsel to trafficking survivors.
Vandenberg has spent more than two decades fighting human trafficking, forced labor, rape as a war crime, and violence against women. Vandenberg has represented victims of human trafficking pro bono in immigration, criminal, and civil cases. She has trained more than 5,000 pro bono attorneys nationwide to handle human trafficking matters. Prior to founding the Human Trafficking Legal Center, Vandenberg practiced law at a firm, focusing on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, First Amendment litigation, and pro bono human trafficking cases. A former Human Rights Watch researcher, Vandenberg spearheaded investigations into human rights violations in the Russian Federation, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, and Israel.
The HumanTrafficking Legal Center fights to end forced labor in global supply chains.
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President and CEO, Outrider Foundation
Robert K. Elder is the President & CEO of Outrider Foundation. He also serves as a voting member of Outrider's Board of Directors
Elder is the author or editor of 20+ books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications.
He previously served as the Chief Digital Officer at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Executive Director of Digital Product Development & Innovation at Crain Communications.
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US Director of Sentinel, Broad Institute
Al Ozonoff PhD CPPS is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Senior Advisor to Dr. Pardis Sabeti, and Chief of Staff of the Sabeti Lab. In these roles, he provides administrative leadership and senior scientific expertise across the full range of lab activities and research. He provides further programmatic support as the U.S. Director for the Sentinel Program.
Al’s graduate and post-doctoral training was in mathematics and biostatistics. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications throughout more than 20 years of research experience.
As a leading expert during the early phases of the pandemic, Al led the Clinical and Data Coordinating Center for IMPACC, a national immunophenotyping study of COVID-19 funded by the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIH/NIAID). In 2016-17, he was one of 12 Harvard Medical School Fellows in Bioethics.
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Founder, TogetHER for Health
Kathryn Vizas is an attorney who, after 24 year practicing law in both law firm and corporate settings, changed her life’s direction and was drawn to the fight to improve women’s health. As an advocate for change, particularly focused on primary care and preventable diseases affecting women, she joined PSI’s Maverick Collective in 2014. With PSI, Kathryn worked on a project in Uttar Pradesh, India, expanding community based screening for cervical cancer, a preventable diseases that nevertheless kills hundreds of thousands of women each year. At the conclusion of the PSI project, Kathryn started TogetHER for Health, in order to focus the world’s attention on cervical cancer prevention. Kathryn’s belief was that the disease could in fact be eliminated, with sufficient leadership. Since 2018 that has been TogetHER’s sole mission. In addition to being the Founder, Kathryn serves as the organization’s Chief Strategy Officer.
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Chief Strategy Officer, Connective Impact
Shelly Helgeson has made relationship-building for impact the cornerstone of her career.
As the Chief Strategy Officer at Connective Impact, Shelly forges groundbreaking collaborations between funders and implementers to drive transformative change. Representing a network of 250 global changemakers (and growing!), Connective Impact is breaking down barriers that impede true partnerships and unlocking new support to create lasting change.
Shelly is also a passionate communicator specializing in projects that give voice to historically silenced communities, including: “My Reincarnation,” “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” and “Voices of Tibet.”
In the ever-evolving global development landscape, Shelly's dedication to authentic relationships and storytelling is a testament to the enduring power of empathy and genuine connection.
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CEO, Wildlife Conservation Network
Dr. Jean-Gaël Collomb is the CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), an organization investing in the best ideas to ensure wildlife and people coexist and thrive through a global network of diverse conservation organizations, projects, and people. Inspired by a venture capitalist model, WCN identifies conservation entrepreneurs, providing them with the resources, networking and support needed to expand their impact on the species and communities they serve. JG started his career in Gabon in a primatology research station and has over 25 years of experience specializing in the intersection of conservation and development, with prior positions with the World Resources Institute and Wildlife Conservation Society. He holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the University of Florida, focusing on the effects of tourism on rural communities in northeastern Namibia.
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Impact Lab Director, Livelihood Impact Fund
Jana Kinsey is a the Impact Lab Director at the Livelihood Impact Fund, where she supports a growing portfolio of dynamic doers who are committed to improving the lives of the global poor.
Prior to joining the Livelihood Impact Fund in January 2023, Jana worked in philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, international criminal litigation and public policy. From 2012 to 2020, she led AfricAid (www.africaid.org), working to expand their girls’ mentoring work from 180 to 6,000 girls across Northern Tanzania.
She holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a BA in Government from Claremont McKenna College. She lives outside of Arusha, Tanzania with her husband, two daughters, six dairy cows and 300 chickens.
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Carlos joined Reach in May 2022 as Director of Partnerships and Growth, with over twelve years of creating value in partnerships across various industries. His skill base lies in building and maintaining meaningful relationships with strategic partners, achieving impactful outcomes based on results-oriented business strategies. He has worked across various industries, such as textile, coffee trading, fair-trade, and health information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D), which equipped him with a cross-functional mindset to align visions and goals across different stakeholders in multiple countries
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CEO, Media Challenge Initiative
Mpindi Abaas is the CEO of the Media Challenge Initiative (MCI), a Ugandan based organisation building the next generation of journalists in Uganda. Mpindi believes that good journalism can make the world a better place through the stories journalists tell and how they tell them. Under MCI, Mpindi oversees the MCI Media Hub, MCI Radio and Solutions Now Africa, platforms that are amplifying media innovations and using solutions journalism to challenge negative narratives about Africa. Mpindi's story has been published in the Huffington post, CNN African Voices and in 2018 his work was put on spotlight by President Barack Obama in his #Mandela 100 lecture in South Africa. Mpindi is a 2024 Elevate Prize Winner, a 2023 Africa Visionary Fellow, 2018 Obama Leader, 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur and a Young Emerging Leaders Program Fellow.
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Partner & Chief Investment Officer, elea Foundation
Adrian Ackeret is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is responsible for overseeing elea’s philanthropic impact investing activities focused on building, managing, and strategically supporting a global portfolio of impact ventures that create lasting social impact by giving people living in absolute poverty access to employment, markets, and value chains. He has been directly working with investments in Latin America, Kenya, India, and in the Philippines.
Before joining elea in 2013, he worked at the St. Gallen Symposium fostering global dialogue between business, politics, and society, and with RISE management research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. Adrian graduated with an M.A. in Management from the University of St. Gallen. He is also the Deputy Managing Director of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation, a private Swiss foundation promoting a free economic and social order.
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Vice President of Grantmaking and External Affairs, Marguerite Casey Foundation
As the Vice President of Grantmaking and External Affairs at Marguerite Casey Foundation, Zeeba is responsible for developing and leading the Foundation's strategy regarding grantmaking, communications, and external affairs. She oversees all external relationships and initiatives, working closely with senior leaders to ensure the Foundation's grantmaking is strategic and mission-aligned. Before assuming her current role, Zeeba served as the Learning and Evaluation Officer and Chief of Staff.
Zeeba was a member of Philanthropy Northwest’s 2017-2019 Momentum Fellowship cohort. Prior to joining the Foundation, Zeeba worked at the United Way of King County, the Seattle Foundation, and several youth development organizations in Boston. Born in Olathe, Kansas, Zeeba holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a focus on Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, GoFundMe
Chief corporate affairs officer at GoFundMe, overseeing our global teams in 20 countries engaged with leaders , media and communities to help people help each other more effectively every day.
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Network Engagement & Experiences Lead, Pivotal Ventures
Victoria Fortune is a social impact leader overseeing sponsorships and events at Pivotal Ventures, an investment company founded by Melinda Gates. Before joining Pivotal, Victoria was the Dir. of Cultural Engagement & Exec. Producer at Global Citizen where she developed campaigns and strategies that impact communities of color around the globe. Through her experiences at GC, Victoria has managed high-level relationships across sectors. As Exec. Producer at GC, Victoria Co-EP’d an album themed around justice with Grammy awardee Raphael Saadiq, entitled STAND UP. She’s led initiatives driving action around criminal justice reform, and social justice 2018, Victoria led the partnership between Common, P&G, RFK Human Rights, and Color of Change resulting in Gov. Cuomo’s commitment to end cash bail in NYC. Victoria understands how to create partnerships that dismantle systems holding society back. In her spare time she enjoys helping people cope with loss and grief through running.
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CEO, Founder, Intelehealth
Dr. Neha Verma is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder/CEO of Intelehealth, a global telemedicine nonprofit improving access to health where there is no doctor. She has a PhD in Health Sciences Informatics from Johns Hopkins University and a BE in Biomedical Engineering. Her areas of expertise include digital health, telemedicine, public health, women’s health and gender equity.
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Former CEO, Walker's Legacy
Ms. Abrams is a transformational leader with almost 25 years serving in private and nonprofit sector roles. She is known to be an agile strategist with deep knowledge and experience in building and supporting entrepreneurial ecosystems. Ms. Abrams currently owns a few enterprises both in the U.S. and her home country of Guyana. She founded Color Lens, a boutique consultancy firm focusing on connecting businesses beyond borders through private sector advisory. In her earlier career, Ms. Abrams also spent almost 13 years at GEICO Insurance Companies where she held several leadership roles in Public Affairs and Marketing. Ms. Abrams is an appointee to the National Women’s Business Council by The Honorable Isabella Guzman, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She is on the Advisory Board for the University of Guyana Foundation and an advisor for the Guyana Economic Development Trust. In addition, she sits on the Board of Directors for Black Public Media.
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President & CEO, Halcyon
Dan is the President and CEO of Halcyon, an incubator and investor in early-stage, impact-driven startups from around the globe. Dan joined Halcyon from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth where he was vice president focused on supporting cutting-edge research on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. Prior to Mastercard, Dan was vice president for social impact at BlackRock. Dan first connected with Halcyon during his time as a management consultant at Deloitte where he advised corporate, multilateral, and nonprofit clients on social impact strategy. He began his career as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations and Earth Institute. He holds a master’s in international finance and economic policy from Columbia University and a BA from NYU. He serves on the advisory boards of Global Kids, Inc. and the Guyana Economic Development Trust and is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Founder, Blossom Academy
Jeph is the Director of Blossom Academy, an institution creating a pathway for African talents from diverse experiences and educational backgrounds to reach their potential as world-class analytics and leadership professionals. Over the years, the academy has partnered with a variety of funders to train hundreds of youth across Africa and connect them to careers in tech.
Before co-founding Blossom, Jeph helped build the unicorn startup Esusu Financial, a venture-backed fintech leveraging data solutions to empower tenants across America and improve property performance. Since its inception, Esusu has partnered with multifamily and single-family owners and operators that cover millions of rental units across all 50 states.
Jeph holds an Economics degree from NYU. He is an Acumen Fellow, an Expo Live Global Innovator, and a Princeton in Africa Fellow.
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CEO, Menzies Foundation
Liz has had over 25 years experience in a range of fields focused on initiatives for social impact. She has held roles in multiple sectors and academia.
In 2018, Liz was appointed CEO of the Menzies Foundation which aspires to build a leadership movement that supports Australians to pivot to purpose, build their leadership capability and contribute to the ‘greater good’.
Liz joined the Melbourne Business School in 2009 and was instrumental in establishing the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre (APSIC) and The Centre for Ethical Leadership. In addition, she was appointed as a research fellow to lead a partnership focused on strategic philanthropy which culminated in the release of the reports: Philanthropy: Towards a Better Practice Model (2018) and the Philanthropy: The Continued Journey to Real Impact and better Practice (2021).
Liz has extensive governance experience, and is currently a Board member of Philanthropy Australia, Australia’s peak philanthropy organisation.
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Global Managing Director, Global Fund for Children
Hayley Roffey is Global Fund for Children’s Global Managing Director and Designated Safeguarding Lead. She is a committed, passionate, and experienced senior executive who champions shifting power in philanthropy by promoting participatory grantmaking and involving young people in decision-making processes. Before joining Global Fund for Children (GFC), Hayley worked in the UK children's sector for more than a decade. This powerful insight means Hayley’s commitment and passion to champion GFC’s partners comes from a deeply personal place of understanding what a partner needs, and how and when to make the biggest impact for the children and young people they exist to serve. Hayley believes in sharing her experience, her privilege, and her position with the next generation of women leaders, and she regularly coaches and mentors up-and-coming young leaders in the non-profit sector.
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Co-Director, Maliasili
Resson is the Portfolio Funding Director at Maliasili where she is working to raise both the funding and influence of local conservation organisations across Africa. Having worked in the environmental and conservation space for fifteen years, Resson’s work as a community conservation advocate has grown to revolve around co-creating and advancing a community-led narrative where Africans can reclaim their sense of ownership over their wildlife, culture and land. She shared these ideas as a TED speaker, calling the world to support local conservation efforts. She previously served as the Deputy Director of Ewaso Lions, a community conservation organisation in Kenya. She is a Women for the Environment (WE Africa) Founding Fellow, a National Geographic Explorer, and was also conferred the Wild Elements Innovator award in 2021. She holds a Masters in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford, and an undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Nairobi.
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CEO, mDoc
Dr. L. Nneka Mobisson is co-Founder and CEO of mDoc, a digital health social enterprise which provides virtual AI-enabled self-care health coaching to people living with or at risk for chronic health needs in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to mDoc, Dr. Mobisson served as Executive Director, Africa, at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement where she serves as Faculty Advisor and provides strategic guidance to countries on developing national quality policies and strategies in health. Dr. Mobisson, who is a pediatrician, also served as Vice President of Community Health and Population Health Management at Connecticut Hospital Association and worked on health care strategy at McKinsey & Company.
A pediatrician by training, Dr. Mobisson earned a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, her MPH from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, her MD and MBA from Yale University. She trained at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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CEO, The Steele Foundation for Hope
CEO Steele Foundation - 2021 to present
Asset Management Executive - 2000 - 2021
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Executive Director, The Beckon Foundation
Rebecca G. Kinney is a primary care physician and the Executive Director of The Beckon Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving health equity. Dr. Kinney’s work has focused on optimizing global vaccine supply chains, integrating HIV and sexual and reproductive health for young women, and supporting innovative models of care delivery for last-mile communities in the global South. She endeavors to be a risk-tolerant funder of health systems and to change the paradigms for health financing to support a rights-based approach to health. Reflecting an experiential and experimental design, Dr. Kinney’s current investments span geographies, partners, leadership models, size and scale as an intentional strategy to better understand what works and why. She leverages her medical background whenever possible to bring context and credibility to her work and to serve as a bridge between patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that finance health.
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Talent & Culture Manager, Skoll Foundation
Maritza Gochez serves as the Talent & Culture Manager at Skoll Foundation, playing a pivotal role as a partner to both the staff and Chief People Officer in HR programs, policies, and procedures. Her profound belief in Skoll's vision propels her dedication to upholding the Foundation's values across every facet.
She brings over 15 years of diverse experience from roles at Microsoft, Regus Business Centre, and Management Consulting Group. Her expertise spans administrative, HR processes, recruitment, and initiatives to enhance employee and candidate experience.
Outside of work, Maritza finds joy in spending time with her family on California's beaches, where she takes in the beauty of sunrises and sunsets, reminiscent of the shores of El Salvador!
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Chief Impact Officer, Elevate Prize Foundation
Matthew has committed his career to developing and implementing dynamic and innovative social impact programs globally. He has been particularly focused on creating spaces that facilitate fruitful partnerships and amplify the voices of extraordinary people who are addressing critical issues with powerful, scalable solutions.
Prior to joining the Elevate Prize Foundation, Matthew played an essential role in creating and building Solve, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that finds and supports tech-based social entrepreneurs around the world.
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Director, Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University
I am Director of the Center of Infection and Immunity and John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, Director for the Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics (GAPP), Director of the Center for Solutions for ME/CFS, and a member of the WHO Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN). I am active in outbreak response, pioneered development of methods for microbial diagnosis, surveillance, and discovery, and contributed to capacity building in low/middle income countries. I established COVID-19 protocols for the entertainment industry, the 2020 Democratic National Convention, served as scientific advisor for the film “Contagion” and was awarded the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award by President XI in 2016.
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Associate Director, Urban Sanitation and Climate RISE, Dasra
Parnasha leads Dasra's collaborative platforms on inclusive Sanitation and Climate ; these are multi stakeholder platforms geared towards systemic changes in the ecosystem through strong partnerships, coalition management, narrative building for outcomes that enable thriving communities in India for WSH and intersectional Climate Action. As part of this team, she also works with several domestic and international family foundations and philanthropists to influence resources and funding towards climate and inclusive sanitation as thematic ecosystem areas in India.
Parnasha has a background in social sciences and brings in a decade of experience having worked in WWF -India and Safe Water Network in her past roles.
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Managing Director, Erol Foundation
Jill Kauffman Johnson is Managing Director of the Erol Foundation and NextWorld Philanthropies. With decades of experience in the environmental movement, she served as Executive Advisor of Sustainability and Society for Corbion, a publicly-traded global leader in food, algae and bio-based ingredients. She was formerly Principal and Managing Director of CEA Consulting, a leading firm working at the intersection of environmental policy, philanthropy and the private sector.
Earlier in her career, Kauffman Johnson served as the founding Director of the Pacific Coast Office of the Ocean Conservancy where she initiated the first public-private effort in California to address marine plastic pollution. She is a Switzer Fellow and was the former Board Chair of the Algae Biomass Organization, the world’s leading algae trade organization.
Kauffman Johnson holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University.
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Executive Director, Ban Ki-moon Foundation
Kate Landon holds over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management and foundation roles, and is passionate about advancing gender, racial and economic justice within philanthropy and for sustainable development. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation based in NYC, which advancing the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement through mobilization of both existing and emerging leaders the U.S. and Americas, with a focus on women and youth. Previous roles include Executive Director of the New Haven/Leon Sister City Project and Vice President of Programs and Institutional Advancement at The New York Women’s Foundation. She holds an M. P. A. in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU and a B. A. in Sociology from Rutgers College.
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VP of Programs and Operations, Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Maheen Kaleem, Esq. is a human rights lawyer who has dedicated her life to creating a world where girls and gender-expansive youth of color are safe and free. She is the Vice President of Programs and Operations at Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC), a philanthropic organization dedicated to amplifying and mobilizing resource to support transformative organizing work led by girls and gender-expansive youth of Color. At G4GC, she has co-stewarded the regranting of more than $25 million in just 3 years. Maheen has over twenty years of experience supporting youth and families impacted by interpersonal and state violence to lead efforts to advance racial and gender justice. She grounds her work in the wisdom of women and girls of Color who have survived the carceral system, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and abuse. Maheen has a bachelors degree in International Politics and a law degree from Georgetown University. In 2023, she was named one of Unboxed Philanthropy's P100.
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President and CEO, MakeWay Foundation
Joanna Kerr is the CEO of MakeWay, a Canadian foundation that builds partnerships and solutions to help nature and communities thrive together, focussed on Indigenous-led solutions, climate and culture change, ecological resurgence as well as transforming philanthropy. Previously, Joanna led Greenpeace Canada and served as the first female Chief Executive of ActionAid International overseeing 50 world-wide offices working with the most marginalized communities to tackle inequality. She also led AWID building it into one of the most significant global feminist organizations. She is the International Board Chair of World Animal Protection, after chairing board of the Equality Fund – Canada’s global fund for women for a decade. Recognized as a courageous system-changing leader full of compassion, Joanna has worked throughout her career to break down the silos between climate action and nature, economic justice, feminist leadership, human rights and Indigenous-led transformation.
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Impact Investment and Philanthropic Consultant, Partners For Equity
Eve is a thought leader in philanthropy and an experienced professional working at the intersection of social issues and business opportunity. For more than 10 years, Eve has managed private foundation operations and worked with hundreds of non-profit organisations and community advocates to create lasting change in their communities. She currently manages the Africa local leaders portfolio at Partners for Equity and also advises Segal Family Foundation impact investing work. Eve made significant contributions in localizing Segal Family Foundation’s grant making efforts where she helped direct millions in early-stage funding and provide thought partnership to 150+ dynamic organizations around Sub Saharan Africa.
Eve serves as an advisory board member to the Segal Family Foundation, African Visionary Fund and Gould Family Foundation. She also sits on the boards of Fundi Bots, Komo Learning Centers and Blood:Water Mission.
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Executive Director, Ushahidi Inc
Angela is a technologist, community builder, and advocate for open-source software. She is passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to impact the lives of marginalized groups. She has over ten years of experience in software development, global community engagement, and non-profit or management.
She is the Executive Director at Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information, enabling them to raise their voices, inform decisions and influence change.
She sits on the Board of Directors for Creative Commons and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. She’s also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Data Equity and co-founder of AkiraChix, a non-profit organization that nurtures generations of women who use technology to develop innovations and solutions for Africa. She was recently named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2024 and a Mozilla 2024 Rise25 Honoree.
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Founder and CEO, Clinic+O - Guinea
Nasser Diallo is the Founder & CEO of Clinic+O, a social enterprise that builds technology-enabled primary care solutions to eliminate barriers to accessing quality healthcare for marginalized communities in West Africa. Before starting Clinic+O, Nasser worked as a Public Policy Analyst at Facebook where he helped design programs that support digital literacy, prevent internet shutdowns and stimulate the growth of the digital economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Nasser has a BA from The George Washington University, and Master’s degrees from Oxford University (UK) and Sciences Po (France). He is passionate about using digital technology to develop practical, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions that will improve health and wellbeing for communities across West Africa. Nasser is a member of the Obama Foundation Leaders Africa Program, Echoing Green and UNDP Digital Innovation Alumni.
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Executive Director, Institute for Responsive Government
Sam Oliker-Friedland is the executive director of the Institute for Responsive Government. Previously, he was a voting rights litigator at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under both the Obama and Trump administrations, then was Chief Counsel to the Center for Secure and Modern Elections. Prior to law school, he worked on election administration data in the nonprofit sector. Sam graduated from Brown University with a degree in Linguistics and has a J.D. from Yale Law School. He’s a Milwaukee native and lives in Chicago, IL.
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Rights International
Joan Carling is an indigenous activist from the Cordillera region, Philippines with more than 30 years of working on indigenous peoples’ rights and issues from the grassroots to the international level. She is passionate about and has been at the forefront of advocating for human rights, social justice, sustainable development, the environment, and climate justice She was the General Secretary of the Asia Indigenous People Pact (AIPP) From 2008 to 2016. Ms. Carling was awarded the Champions of the Earth- Lifetime Achievement Award by UN Environment in 2018. She also received the Right Livelihood Award in 2024 along with other human rights activists. She is currently the Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Rights International-IPRI.
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Chief Operating Officer, Dovetail Impact Foundation
Philip Langford serves as Chief Operating Officer for Dovetail Impact Foundation, providing leadership to the whole of the Dovetail’s operations that promote and catalyze human flourishing. Prior to joining Dovetail, Philip served as President of International Justice Mission’s US operations.
Over his 16 year tenure, Philip led IJM’s frontlines operations in 19 countries on 5 continents on a wide array of social justice and human rights challenges, including gender-based violence, human trafficking, police brutality, and online sexual exploitation of children. Philip was a partner in a full service law firm prior to joining IJM. Come to Philip for conversations about bass fishing, his Great Dane and his love of team.
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Co-founder, Din4mo Lab
Impact Entrepreneur, Cancer Survivor and Cathedral Builder. He has been involved with different initiatives in the 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 impact businesses. Having served the B Corp movement for the last 13 years, he set up the movement in Brazil and has since contributed to its expansion in Latin America as Executive Director of Sistema B International. He is now the Head of Global Policy at B Lab, the non-profit behind the B Corp Movement. Major in Business, MBA and MA in Public Admin at the London School of Economics. He is committed to work with the social society and policy makers and inspire innovation and new public policies. Previously, he pioneered by creating one of the first internet cafés in Brazil at 17-year-old and served as CEO of CDI working with a network in 15 countries to use tech for social change.
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Founder, Labhya Foundation
Vedant is a social entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Labhya, a globally recognised India-based education non-profit. Labhya impacts 2.4 million children everyday through wellbeing programs. Labhya has been supported by Harvard University, DRK Foundation, Mulago Foundation, LSE, UNICEF, and Selena Gomez's Rare Impact Fund among other organizations.
Vedant’s life purpose stems from his lived experience of adversity as a child. At the age of 17, Vedant became a full-time entrepreneur as the founding team member of a successful UK-based AI logistics company. His experience and journey as an entrepreneur led him to become a leader in the education space. Vedant is a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur and one of the handful of Indians to have received the prestigious Commonwealth Youth Award.
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CEO, Oxygen Hub, Oxygen Hub (Initiative of Institute for Transformative Technologies)
Shreenal Ruparelia serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Oxygen Hub, a socially impactful enterprise based in Africa. The organization is dedicated to addressing the challenges hindering local entrepreneurs from entering the medical oxygen market, particularly issues related to scale and financial sustainability. Oxygen Hub collaborates with businesses throughout sub-Saharan Africa, playing a pivotal role in the production and distribution of medical oxygen. Their mission is to ensure a consistent, affordable, and long-term supply of oxygen to healthcare facilities, thereby saving lives through critical, life-saving medicine. The overarching objective is ambitious yet clear: to reduce patient mortality and morbidity by saving over 650,000 lives, reaching 3 million patients across 3000 healthcare facilities. Shreenal is deeply passionate about leveraging business as a force for good, utilising sustainable business models to drive measurable and positive impact.
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Managing Partner, Portfolio Investing, New Profit
Molly O'Donnell is a Managing Partner at New Profit, a national venture philanthropy firm where she co-leads New Profit’s Portfolio Investing team. Molly oversees the vision, strategy, and management of both New Profit’s Build (multi-year) and Catalyze (early stage, one-two year) investment portfolios and sits on New Profit’s Leadership Team. In this work, Molly oversees the selection and capacity building support for a portfolio of ~100 non-profit grantee partners across the issue areas of education, economic mobility, and democracy.
Prior to New Profit, Molly worked in non-profit consulting, briefly in the US Senate and began her career as a youth worker focused on student leadership, identity development, and family engagement in Portland, OR and New Orleans, LA.
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CEO, Spring Impact
Mohamed Osman is the CEO of Spring Impact, leading the organisation towards enabling mission-driven organisations and foundations everywhere to scale their impact sustainably and effectively. Mohamed has 20 years of experience building partnerships and implementing and scaling programs in global health, social enterprise, and humanitarian assistance across 25 countries.
He has dedicated his life to scaling impact, beginning with a solution for the lack of water access in his hometown in Northern Kenya. He helped to scale and eventually hand over Peace Direct, now a global peacebuilding organisation. As the grants director at the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Mohamed spent a decade growing the Foundation to become one of the foremost independent AIDS charities in the world. There, he made significant contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. Throughout his career, Mohamed has established himself as a trusted convener and leader of high-stakes and highly successful partnerships.
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Co-founder, Suvita
Varsha leads various activities across Suvita including strategy and partnerships. She has more than two decades of experience setting up and running development projects in global institutions such as the World Bank and Open Society Foundation.
Varsha has a Master's degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's in Urban Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, India.
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Professor, University of Utah
Harris Sondak is David Eccles Professor of Business and Ethics at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah and Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Dr. Sondak's research has investigated the psychology of allocation decisions including two-party and multi-party negotiations, group process and decisions, procedural justice and ethics, identity, and the philosophy of science. His teaching has included courses on organizational behavior, high performing teams, negotiations, creating and maintaining business relationships, managing conflict in organizations, consulting to non-profits, philosophy of social science, business ethics, culture, and leadership.
Dr. Sondak has served in many academic and administrative positions, including as an elected official of Alta, Utah. Dr. Sondak enjoys biking, hiking, fly fishing, cooking, and visiting art museums.
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Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy, Surdna Foundation
Sophy Yem (she/her/hers) serves as Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation.
In this role, she leads Surdna’s grantmaking, engagement, and relationships to support the capacity, infrastructure, and equitable practices of nonprofit- and philanthropy-serving organizations, donor collaboratives, and other funders, especially family foundations. She also oversees the Andrus Family Philanthropy Program (AFPP), helping to engage and involve the 500+ Andrus family members, particularly its younger generations, in philanthropy and public service. Sophy believes that trust-based philanthropy, racial equity, and social justice are essential to effective grantmaking and develops opportunities for peers to connect, learn, and collaborate on these topics.
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Founder, The BIG We
Cultural strategist, writer, director, producer, philanthropist, & real estate developer, Anasa Troutman is a leader and a visionary focusing on the future of culture.
Working at the intersection of culture and the economy, Anasa is founder and leader of The Big We, Big We Foundation, Big We Capital, and Historic Clayborn Temple, home of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike in historically South, Black Memphis. Leaning into the future of social impact, her cultural wellness framework and culture shift methodology come together to cultivate safety, abundance joy for all through storytelling, public engagement, and strategic investment.
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Founder, Raintree Foundation
Leena Dandekar is the Founder of Raintree Family Office and Raintree Foundation. She and her family have dedicated their capital, networks, and skills to driving impact in climate action, circularity and sustainability.
Raintree Foundation is the outcome of the family’s deep-seated passion and commitment to climate action. Their aim is to build climate resilience in living landscapes. Leena oversees as a strategist, and drives the vision of “Dignity and Well-being for Planet and People.”
Raintree Family Office was established with the objective of investing the family-owned funds towards various impact and ESG asset classes. Leena has been one of the few leading the way in impact investing in India. Investments promoting innovation in climate solutions, circularity, and responsible consumption are focus areas.
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Director, Unorthodox Philanthropy
Katherine Clements is Director of Unorthodox Philanthropy, a program of a San Francisco-based family foundation that seeks to identify great people and ideas that have the potential to achieve outsized impact and do good in the world. Katherine has worked with the foundation for the past decade to source, vet, and support its community partners and awardees. Prior to joining the foundation, Katherine worked in a variety of capacities with a range of nonprofit organizations including international intermediary grant makers, human rights film festivals, and environmental organizing efforts.
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CEO, Acceso
Rob Johnson is CEO of Acceso, a seed-to-market social enterprise that operates in Latin America and the Caribbean to connect smallholder farmers to markets. Rob co-founded Acceso in Haiti in 2014 after several years leading value-chain assessments and programs at TechnoServe. Rob has an MBA (Honors) and Master of Science in Sustainable Development (Honors) from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Rob is an adjunct professor at NYU Wagner and Columbia SIPA teaching courses on operations management and social enterprise. In his free time, Rob is an avid marathoner, ultra-marathoner, and cyclist.
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CEO, BOMA.ngo
Sam Owilly is a dynamic and accomplished leader with a rich background in development. Born and raised in a village in Western Kenya, Sam’s early exposure to rural, agricultural communities drew him to veterinary medicine. Sam joined BOMA as a Program Manager in 2018 and within just five years he rose to the rank of CEO. Under his leadership, BOMA experienced unprecedented growth including a growing program portfolio, enhanced capacity, and impact at scale. To date, BOMA has transformed the lives of more than 658,062 people. Sam is passionate to lead a locally designed, locally led, and locally sustained solution that addresses the critical challenges of communities in Africa’s drylands. Sam holds an MBA from Strathmore Business School. He has studied Climate Change and Adaptation, as well as Project Planning and Management at the University of Nairobi. Sam has also been honored as a Perennial Fellow.
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Executive Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Phil became Executive Director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in 2013. Phil leads strategy and outreach globally working with 80 global team members and allies. Programmes are focused on transformation of business and investment models especially in areas of the just transition to net zero carbon; labour rights in supply chains; rights in technology and civic freedoms; and conflict.
Phil sits on several external groups including the Civil Society Advisory Group for Principles for Responsible Banking, the Expert Review Committee of World Benchmarking Alliance; Climate Outreach’s Board, and the European Citizen’s Initiative for a Living Wage.
Prior to joining the Resource Centre Phil was Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, joining them after 11 years in Latin America working on human rights and indigenous rights. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/about-us/meet-the-team/
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CEO, Bridges to Prosperity
Nivi is an expert in innovation, impact, and scale-up strategies in ascending markets. She is currently the CEO of Bridges to Prosperity, the global leader in rural infrastructure development, where she is executing a systems change strategy unlocking rural infrastructure as a lever for poverty eradication. The strategy leverages evidence, advocacy, and technical assistance in working with the public and private sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase safe access for rural communities. Previously, she was the COO at BRCK, a tech startup that provided free public Wi-Fi and innovated the award-winning Kio Kit for education. In 2011, she co-founded eLimu, the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum content for revision and literacy, which was acquired by the iHub in 2020.
Nivi is driven by learning, development, access, and impact. She serves on the boards of Standard Chartered Bank Kenya and The Open Institute.
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Founder, Fit for Life Foundation
I am Swiss, multilingual, having worked in 7 different countries, and having founded and started up 8 companies. These companies ranged from private equity to food logistics to restaurants, hotels, and finally micro finance.
I had an interesting and busy life, and am pleased to have had these wide-ranging experiences.
In addition, I have practised a range of sport all my life and tried to maintain a high level of fitness. This led me later in life to create the Fit For Life Foundation, with the mission of making fitness a key part of staying healthy throughout life for those who undertake Healthy Living. I now spend full time on this mission.
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Managing Trustee, This Ability
Lizzie is a disability rights activist from Kenya, dedicated to promoting disability rights and inclusion.
She founded This Ability to confront and mitigate the stigma, discrimination, and unconscious bias society holds towards disabilities, especially the inequities faced by women and girls with disabilities within healthcare systems. Lizzie has concentrated her efforts on utilizing technology to empower individuals and enhance access to dignified and equitable sexual and reproductive healthcare services and information. She aims to bolster the capacities of healthcare providers to create disability-inclusive healthcare systems and leverage the lived experiences of women and girls with disabilities. These efforts are directed towards building evidence that informs and shapes sexual and reproductive health policies, ensuring a more inclusive and equitable healthcare environment for all.
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Head of Programmes, Science for Africa Foundation
Moses is a physician, public health expert and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. He leads the Science Innovation Translation and Entrepreneurship team at the Science for Africa Foundation, a science funding and programme development organization based in Africa. Moses supports scientists in designing and conducting locally relevant research proposals, their associated technology transfer, capacity strengthening and policy engagement for the development of critical areas of science in Africa. Moses has experience in implementing health and research programmes in >30 countries in Africa in various fields of science and medicine.
He has had various other appointments as Clinical Research Director at GSK, Sub-Sahara Medical Affairs manager at Hoffman La Roche, Clinical Trial Manager at Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and several board appointments including at Kenya Medical Research Institute.
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Dr. Susanna Kislenko is a social psychologist who studies leadership in the entrepreneurial context, focusing on founder leadership past the start-up stage. Using qualitative research methods, Susanna’s work pulls back the curtain on the challenges and potentially darker organisational consequences of long-term founder leadership, including Founder’s Syndrome. Prior to entering academia, Susanna worked in the non-profit sector in Canada for 12 years, holding a number of leadership roles in social service organisations, including social enterprises. Susanna is also a certified yoga teacher and leads women’s leadership embodiment retreats in the Balearic islands.
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Executive Director and Co-Founder, Pandemic Action Network
Eloise Todd was one of the Co-Founders of Pandemic Action Network in April 2020 and was made Executive Director in August 2022. Eloise is an advocacy, policy, campaigns, and strategy specialist with more than 20 years' experience working to change policies, legislation and budgets to improve lives. Primarily, she has worked in international development, transparency issues and global health, including as a political adviser on development issues within EU institutions and running international advocacy and global policy at the ONE Campaign. Eloise campaigned against the UK's Brexit deal between 2017-2019, building one of the largest pro-European organisations into a national campaign force in the UK. She is known for achieving ambitious policy changes, including: leading the effort to oblige gas, oil, and mining companies to publish what they pay governments, helping raise millions in additional government funding for GAVI and the Global Fund, and advocating for increased aid budgets.
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Executive Director, Great Carbon Valley
Bilha Ndirangu is the CEO of Great Carbon Valley. GCV is a system integrator developing Direct Air Carbon Capture & Storage and green industry projects in East Africa. She is also the co-founder of Jacob’s Ladder Africa, a non-profit focused on green workforce preparation. She is at the intersection of climate action, technology, and education, positioning Africa as an investment destination for the green economy, identifying and scaling relevant technologies, and preparing its youth to provide the requisite skills.
Previously, she was the CEO of the African Leadership Academy and CEO of Africa’s Talking (AT), where she expanded the company into 20 markets in African countries.
Bilha also worked at Dalberg, where she launched the Nairobi office, and she advised clients on solutions to African challenges including energy, agriculture, and education.
A Desmond Tutu and Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellow, Bilha holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
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Co-founder & CEO, Futurelect
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 the co-founder and CEO of Futurelect, a non-partisan organisation supporting a new generation of political and public sector leaders in Africa.
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.
She has served as a 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, as well as a trustee of the Nels
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CEO & Co-Founder, Clean Tech Hub
Ifeoma is an energy access expert and a climate action champion,. She has over 23 years’ experience, building and directing organisational operations and strategy, supporting start-ups and MSMEs across Africa. In the past 10years she has become a recognized and credible leader, working on the intersection of Energy Transition, Energy markets, Energy and Climate Financing and Climate Adaptation markets. Under her leadership as the Nigerian Country Director of Power For All, she lead the campaign to mainstream and grow decentralized renewable enegy use, leading to the growth of the industry by 55% and the market size by 40% in 2 years. At Clean Technology Hub, where she is co-founder, she has built an organization working in the frontlines of energy access and climate change, and working across 80 communities in seven countries.She is experienced in political economy, energy policy and energy markets, developmental economy, climate and environment.
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Founder & CEO, Nation of Artists
Operating on the premise that IDEAS + EMPATHY = IMPACT, Elliot's filmed projects yielded the first ever user-generated feature film, the world's first 3D-printing prosthetics lab, and launched a social robot duck for kids going through chemotherapy.
He is the producer of award-winning documentaries such as "Little Miss Sumo," "Black Boys," "Black Girls," "Queen Mimi," "The Hidden Power of Purpose," and "Unzipped;" and has directed and produced brand-backed social-impact content for the likes of Accenture, Aflac, Amgen, CDC Foundation, Campbell's Soup, CNBC, FIRST Robotics, Hyundai, LEGO Education, New Balance, Participant Media, Qualcomm, Quest Diagnostics, the UNDP, Whirlpool & Habitat for Humanity.
With 5x Cannes Lions, 5 SxSW Innovation Awards, Emmys, Webbys, Anthem, SIMA Creative Impact and Shorty Impact Awards, Elliot is a 2023 Advance Global Gamechanger, and was a Kellogg School of Management Innovation Fellow and Monash University Alumni of the Year award recipient.
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Senior Fellow in Management Practice, Saïd Business School
Dr. Mary Johnstone-Louis is Chair of the Board of B Lab UK. At the University of Oxford, she is Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, Co-Director of Oxford’s Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme, and Senior Associate of Oxford Net Zero. She has served as a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council Fellow and currently serves as an advisor to several impact-focused companies in the UK and Europe. She has worked on five continents including fieldwork in Bangladesh, South Africa, and across Latin America. She completed her B.A at the University of Pennsylvania and her masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford.
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CEO, Latin American Network for Social Investment and Strategic Philanthropy
Carolina has 24 years of professional life, 18 dedicated to promoting private social investment and philanthropy. As a Latin American, she is the CEO of Latimpacto, the Latin America Impact Network that supports better deployment of capital toward impact. She is convinced of the opportunities Latin America offers and is committed to promoting collaborations and new ways of generating impact to achieve a more equitable society and sustainable planet.
Before leading Latimpacto, she was a Senior Adviser at the International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC), where she co-led and strategized the creation of Latimpacto based on the success of the Impact Network (EVPA) and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Association (APVN).
Mrs Suarez was also the co-founder and CEO of the Association of Family and Corporate Foundations -AFE Colombia- from March 2008 until June 2018.
She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Alliance Magazine, of the board of directors of the
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President, School of Leadership Afghanistan
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan
(SOLA). SOLA is the first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, operating in Kabul from 2016 through the summer of 2021 and the Taliban’s return to power. That August, Shabana led the evacuation of her entire school community from Afghanistan to Rwanda, where SOLA has reestablished its operations and its students have resumed their studies.
Shabana is a magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury College and earned her Master in Public
Policy from Oxford University; she also holds honorary doctorates from SOAS University of
London and Cedar Crest College. In 2018, Shabana was awarded the Malalai Medal, one of Afghanistan's highest national honors, for her work in promoting girls' access to education. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in the social entrepreneurship sector; in 2021, The Washington Post named her a contributor to their Global Opinions section.
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Director Effective Philanthropy, SAS-P Philanthropy
Suzanne van der Velden works as general manager philanthropy and strategic advisor for SAS-P Philanthropy.
SAS-P is a philanthropic foundation supporting initiatives that unleash the potential of people living in poverty in Sub Saharan Africa to make a durable shift to better socio-economic circumstances. SAS-P makes sizeable grants to organizations that are cost-effective, can demonstrate scalable impact and have a strong and proximate track record.
With a background in the Dutch and international social domain, her career includes several senior leadership roles for organizations in the international social impact space.
Suzanne is based in The Netherlands and lived in Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa.
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Senior Advisor, Transformation, Community Foundations of Canada
Michelle Baldwin is a network builder, systems thinker, productive disruptor and cross sector collaborator. Michelle is currently Senior Advisor, Transformation at Community Foundations of Canada exploring how we transform mindsets and philanthropy for better for futures for all. She is exploring the potential of web3, AI and emerging technology for a better future for all.
She is a faculty member in the Governance, Leadership, Ethics program at Huron University College. In her past role as Executive Director, Pillar Nonprofit Network she co-founded and collaborated to create Innovation Works, a shared space for social innovators and VERGE Capital, a social finance program for Southwestern Ontario.
Michelle is a Royal Society of Arts Fellow and recipient of the YMCA Women of Excellence, Business & Professions Award.
You can find Michelle out in nature collecting beach glass, hiking, biking and snowshoeing.
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Co-Founder & President, Equis Institute
Stephanie Valencia is a national leader and innovator at the nexus of politics, technology, and leadership development. She is the co-founder of Equis, a set of organizations working to create a better understanding of Latino voters and investing in new approaches to reach and engage them while building the infrastructure and leadership bench to advance this important work. She recently co-founded Latino Media Network, raising $85 million to build a multi-platform media company reaching over half of the Latino market in the US. She has spent her career working in Congress, the White House, Google, and advised entrepreneurs like Reid Hoffman and Penny Pritzker. She is executive chair of the board of Latino Media Network, and serves on the board Community Change Action, and is a founding member of Poderistas, a digital lifestyle brand, with Eva Longoria & America Ferrera.
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Chief Executive Officer, Climate Catalyst
Stephen has played leadership roles as a campaigner and advocate at international and national levels on climate change, international development, and other issues. He was Chief Executive of Refugee Action in the UK from 2015-21, and previously Deputy Campaign Director of Oxfam International and a political adviser on climate change. He has worked in civil society, government and business.
Throughout his career, he has focused on bringing brilliant people and organisations together in order to achieve ambitious shared goals.
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Executive Director, Ezrah Charitable Trust
Charlene loves being an "extrapreneur" connecting, mentoring, advising, and investing in entrepreneurs, intrepreneurs, and social enterprises. She has nearly 20 years of private sector and social sector experience working with a variety of organizations ranging from tech startup/scaleups to international non-profits to Fortune 500 companies. Charlene began her career as an IT consultant at Deloitte Consulting, but after earning an MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, spent 4 years working for non-profits improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in East Africa (KickStart International and TechnoServe). For 8 years, she served as the COO of socially impactful venture-capital backed businesses in the fintech and healthtech industries, and co-founded a global community of COOs and operations professionals called Operations Nation. Now Charlene is thrilled to bring all this "doer" experience to her role as ED of Ezrah Charitable Trust.
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Chief Programs Officer, Elevate Prize Foundation
As the Chief Program Officer (CPO) at the Elevate Prize Foundation, Megan leads the strategy and execution of all foundation programs. In her role she cultivates strategic partnerships to further support grantees with funding and capacity building. Prior to joining the Elevate Prize Foundation Megan spent nearly 10 years working on different initiatives at the Clinton Foundation including the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI).
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Dean, Saïd Business School
Soumitra Dutta has been Dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford since June 2022. Previously he was the founding Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. He is the President of Portulans Institute, Chair of the Board of the Global Business School Network and member of the Global Board of Dassault Systemes.
Professor Dutta is an authority on innovation in the global knowledge economy. He is the co-editor and founder of the Network Readiness Index, published by Portulans Institute and the Global Innovation Index, published by the WIPO.
Professor Dutta received a B. Tech. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi a MS in both business administration and computer science, and a PhD in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2017 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus from his alma mater IIT Delhi.
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Founding Partner, Radiant Strategies
Hali Lee is delighted to have been co-builder of a few pieces of philanthropic infrastructure. She is founding partner of Radiant Strategies, co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle. Radiant is piloting Freedom School for Philanthropy, a curriculum for wealthy individuals who want to center equity in their practice. Hali was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a master’s in social work from New York University. Hali was recently profiled in Forbes 50 Over 50: Impact and is writing a book, THE BIG WE, out in March 2025 by Zando/ Sweet July Press.
Hali lives in Brooklyn, New York in the company of her family, a big love of a dog, an old cat, and rooftop honeybees.
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Executive Director, TogetHER for Health
Dr. Heather White is a global health specialist with more than two decades of experience in program design, management, and evaluation across numerous practice areas, including non-communicable diseases, HIV, family planning, and HPV/cervical cancer prevention. She has extensive experience in program design and evaluation, operational research design, qualitative inquiry and data analysis, new business development and grant writing in over fifteen countries. She holds a Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Chief Executive Officer, Tides
Janiece Evans-Page is a social scientist and social impact leader whose 20 years of experience in the tech sector and social impact ecosystem inform her innovative approach to driving social change. As chief executive officer of Tides, Janiece leads Tides’ work with doers and donors to center the leadership of changemakers from communities historically denied power, connecting them to operational and advisory services, capacity building, and resources to amplify their impact. Janiece serves on the boards of Tides, Tides Advocacy (a 501(c)(4)), Beneficial State Foundation, and Echoing Green, the board of trustees of both Southern New Hampshire University and St. Mary’s College, as well as numerous advisory councils.
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Program Coordinator, Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation, with an aim to create a better world through education. Through our annual Yidan Prize and network of innovators, we support ideas and practices in education—specifically, ones with the power to positively change lives, systems, and societies.
Michelle works on strengthening the Yidan Prize pipeline, amplifying big ideas in education, and building a global learning community where research and practice closely work together. She would love to connect with NGOs, practitioners and implementers, and specialists working in the field of education. She also welcomes connections with organizations that fund education initiatives.
Michelle comes from a background of Psychology, Education, and Creative Arts. She holds an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge. She is also an Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is based in Cambridge, UK, and Hong Kong.
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Program Director, WAM Foundation
Harlan is Program Director of the WAM Foundation, which focuses on cost-effective, evidence-based alleviation of suffering globally. Prior to the WAM Foundation, he was Chief of Staff at IDinsight. He holds a PhD in political economy.
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CEO, Climate Action Platform for Africa
Jack Kimani is the founding CEO of the Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A), a novel platform of initiatives focusing on climate action opportunities as drivers of economic growth in Africa. He has over 20 years of corporate finance and development experience working across Sub-Saharan Africa, North America and South-East Asia, for major multinational organizations. Most recently, he served as the Senior Program Director for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) where he led and provided project management oversight across CHAI’s Universal Health Coverage programs and climate initiatives.
Following several years in Corporate America, Jack joined the Clinton Foundation where he rose to be the Africa Director managing a diverse team working across the continent to address climate change in meaningful and measurable ways, prioritizing on nature-based solutions and integrated development, including other externalities and benefits.
While traveling regularly across the Africa
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Senior Director of Investor Relations, The END Fund
Bridie leads a community of philanthropists in Europe who are committed to harnessing the power of collaborative philanthropy to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases.
Formerly Head of Principal Giving at Oxfam, Bridie has worked with high-net-worth clientele in the private and non profit sectors for over 15 years, advising philanthropists on a wide range of giving across health, humanitarian, development, education, and the arts. Bridie currently serves on the board of Amref Health Africa UK, Africa’s leading health charity.
Bridie holds an MSc in International Development from Birkbeck University and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Leeds. She speaks English and French and is currently based between Oxford and Geneva.
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Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Waverley Street Foundation
Lande Ajose is an accomplished public policy leader who has worked relentlessly to improve lives in her home state of California. She has now taken that purpose global in her leadership role at Waverley Street Foundation as its founding Managing Director, where she has been instrumental in shaping the foundation's strategic approach.
Lande previously served as vice president, Walter and Esther Hewlett Chair in Understanding California’s Future, and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, shaping the Institute’s work on issues facing the state. A nationally recognized higher education expert, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her as a senior policy advisor in his administration, where she helped to advance several signature initiatives. Currently a member of the board executive committee at both Occidental College and KQED, she co-hosts the podcast Sparking Equity. She holds a PhD in urban and regional studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Director, Scale & Sustainability, Grand Challenges Canada
As Director, Scale & Sustainability, Tunji leads the creation of bridges between the supply of GCC-supported innovations and the demand for solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. His approach focuses on honouring GCC’s collaborative advantage in the innovation ecosystem and increases the likelihood of scale and sustainability of GCC-supported innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tunji is an investment and business support professional with over two decades experience supporting clients in financial services, manufacturing and technology sectors in Nigeria and Africa. Prior to joining GCC, he was at Co-creation Hub Nigeria where for almost a decade, he led the investment team to provide capital and support to hundreds of early-stage social enterprises.
Tunji has a MSc in International Development from the University of Manchester, UK and a BSc in Estate Management from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Tunji in his spare time is an avid football follower.
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Impact Education Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Elizaveta supports the delivery of Skoll Centre impact education programmes. She co-designs learning programmes with subject matter experts and coordinates various impact education activities for students, alumni, academics, and external contributors. Before joining the Skoll Centre, Elizaveta completed her Master of Science in International and Comparative Education from the University of Oxford. She also interned at the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO). Before that, she spent three years as an independent founder and content creator of a podcast and blog, promoting educational opportunities for youth. Her podcast and blog reached over 8,500 listeners and 13,000 followers. Elizaveta is passionate about education, social impact, and international exchange. In her free time, she enjoys learning languages, listening to podcasts, dancing Lindy Hop, and hiking in nature.
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Vice President, Program Strategy & Learning, Lever for Change
Kristen Molyneaux serves as the Vice President of Program Strategy and Learning at Lever for Change, a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that emboldens donors and problem solvers to think big and leverage investments in effective solutions to accelerate social change. In this role, she oversees the Award Management and Social Impact teams at Lever for Change, as well as the organization’s learning agenda and Bold Solutions Network.
After obtaining her B.S. degree from State University of New York at Oswego and M.S. from Florida State University, Kristen obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies—Comparative International Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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VP of Programs, Echoing Green
A Nigerian woman with Louisiana warmth and a New York edge, Dr. Kimberly Osagie brings 20 years of senior leadership experience in education, nonprofits, and philanthropy to her role as Vice President of Programs at Echoing Green. Kimberly leads strategic and holistic pipeline, selection, and support for hundreds of breakthrough social innovators around the world. Throughout her career, Kimberly has served in multiple founding roles. She most recently served as founding Partner for Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Talent Strategy at Promise54, a national talent consulting firm for mission-driven organizations. An educator-innovator at heart, Kimberly was also on the founding teams of Democracy Prep Charter High School and Relay Graduate School of Education. Kimberly holds a Doctorate in Education Leadership from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Teaching from Pace University, and undergraduate degrees in English and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia
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Chief Partnerships Officer,
TostanCarina Ndiaye is a passionate advocate and change-maker driven by a strong belief in the endogenous potential of Africans to shape their own future. She has dedicated the last fifteen years of her life to her passion for understanding community challenges, developing innovative and sustainable solutions, and scaling and effective partnerships for community wellbeing.
Building on years of experience with various organizations in Africa, Carina joined Tostan in 2022 as Chief of Partnerships Officer to contribute to Tostan's mission of catalyzing community well-being in Africa.
She is an expert in organizational development and project management with a proven track record in donor regulation, compliance, and risk management for development programs.
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Associate Professor in International Business, Saïd Business School
I am a political scientist and Associate Professor of International Business at Saïd Business School. I specialize in the comparative political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Asia. Broadly, I am interested in understanding how governments work with local communities, civil society groups and other non-state actors to promote inclusive development. My book, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India (Cambridge University Press, 2022), investigates when and how public agencies effectively implement primary education programs for marginalized communities in rural India. Another major research project on gender and policing in India investigates the impact and scale up of police reforms for women's security. To understand these complex issues, I employ an interdisciplinary lens and rigorous field research methods. I often work in collaboration with governments and other agencies, with an aim to improve policy and practice.
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CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering
Margo Georgiadis is Co-Founder and CEO of Montai Health and a CEO-Partner at Flagship Pioneering focused on building innovative solutions to treat and preempt chronic disease and to improve health outcomes for consumers, corporations and countries.
Margo is an experienced CEO and company builder who has led the transformation and growth of market leaders across industries from healthcare, consumer internet and technology to financial services. Prior to Montai, her leadership roles include serving as CEO of Ancestry and the President of Google Americas.
Margo has received multiple awards for her business and community leadership and was named to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list. She serves on multiple public and private Boards including McDonald’s, Applovin, Ro, Handshake, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and People's Health Clinic. She earned a BA in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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President, Color of Change Education Fund
Rashad Robinson is President of Color Of Change, a racial justice organization with more than 7 million members who demonstrate the power of Black communities every single day. Color Of Change uses innovative strategies to bring about lasting change in systems and sectors that affect Black people’s lives.
Under Rashad’s leadership, Color Of Change has developed winning strategies for holding local prosecutors accountable to enact major criminal justice reform; holding Big Tech corporations accountable to address the racial injustice they cause; leading the $7 billion advertiser boycott of Facebook; exposing rampant racial discrimination by Wall Street in the federal Paycheck Protection Program; forcing Fortune 500 corporations to end their support of white nationalist organizations and to turn empty solidarity statements into tangible policy commitments; changing the rules for how crime, policing and race are represented on TV; helping to make bailreform a national issue; forcing over
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Director of International Programmes, CBM UK - Global Disability Inclusion
As Director of International Programmes at CBM UK-Global Disability Inclusion, and representing BasicNeeds (the former Skoll Awardee pioneering community mental health models), Matthew works alongside people with disabilities & partner organisations in Africa & Asia. He is passionate about developing and scaling innovative models of holistic community development, health, education and climate adaptation that are fully inclusive of people with disabilities, and working with changemakers to ensure marginalised groups are impacted by their own social change solutions. For over 25 years, he has worked in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Australia and the UK in roles covering strategy, policy, partnerships, donor relations and development & humanitarian programmes. He has an MA in Disability & Development and thrives in cross-cultural environments, in growing authentic relationships and in understanding what makes others tick, whilst having fun and trying not to take himself too seriously!
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Senior Research Fellow, Saïd Business School
Bridget Kustin is an economic anthropologist (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) and Director of Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners and Impact, a global research initiative at Oxford Saïd on single family offices. Previously she was Qualitative Research Lead of The Ownership Project at Oxford Saïd, a global study of billion-dollar family businesses. Bridget was a World Economic Forum Council for Development Finance Fellow, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh, and Islamic finance consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Islamic Relief Worldwide. She serves on finance & innovation advisory boards and is a Fellow of the Skoll Centre at Oxford Saïd, where she teaches Capitalism in Debate, Racial Capitalism, and Strategies for Impact. In 2022, she was awarded a Skoll Centre Accelerator Grant to fund a conference, "Wealth Management's New Imperatives," for private client professionals, wealth-holders, and civil society.
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Director, The Audacious Project
Tanvi Monga is Director-Portfolio Impact with The Audacious Project, managing partnerships with social entrepreneurs, funded through The Audacious Project donor community, to advance impact and learning. Most recently, Tanvi was the Program Officer for International Health at the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, where she International Health grantmaking, with an intentional focus on advancing social justice and health and gender equity.
Tanvi has over 15 years of experience in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and nutrition. She has worked in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, South Africa, and Zambia.Tanvi holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Art in Sociology from Trinity University, a Master of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health from the Tulane University School of Public Health.
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Operations and Finance Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Alan is an accomplished leader with a two-decade track record of driving operational excellence and cultivating collaborative environments across educational institutions, consulting, and social and environmental impact initiatives.
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Managing Director, INFLUENCE|SG
Derrick Feldmann is recognized internationally as a leading researcher and advisor on social issues, movements and consumer public action.
Producing and leading nearly two dozen research studies a year, Feldmann has built an impressive body of research and insights into how and why the public takes action for change.
He is the author of three books: The Corporate Social Mind: How Companies Lead Social Change From the Inside Out, published by Fast Company Press, Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change and Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement.
Before ISG, Feldmann led the research team for the Millennial Impact Project with The Case Foundation, producing the comprehensive Millennial Impact Reports on how the generation has engaged with causes from various perspectives and in
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Chairman and Co-Founder, Gold House
Bing Chen is an impact founder, investor, and new world builder. He is Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-founder of Gold House, the leading cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asia Pacific creators and communities to power tomorrow for all. He is also Executive Chairman of AU Holdings which incubates and invests in multicultural creators and communities; General Partner and Co-founder of Aum Group, a premier multicultural film fund; and serves as a Board Director and Advisor to several leading digital media companies. Previously, he was YouTube's Global Head of Creator Development and Management, where he was one of the original and principal architects of the multi-billion dollar creator and influencer ecosystem that supports 300 million creators worldwide. A proud Tennessee Squire which becomes obvious at $11.99 buffets, Bing is a third culture kid across North America and Asia, finally graduating from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Global Programs Director, Bohemian Foundation
Jacqueline Kozak Thiel shifted from the public sector to philanthropy by joining Bohemian Foundation in 2022 as Global Programs Director with a focus on supporting organizations in the areas and intersections of public health, livelihoods and environment/climate in the continent of Africa, India and Amazon region.
Jackie loves collective work at the intersection of purpose and belonging, local and global, and between unlikely partners. Her work-life journey has been dedicated to building bridges, nourishing communities and reimagining systems. She most recently served as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Fort Collins and the Governor’s Sustainability Director for the State of Hawaii.
Jackie calls Colorado, US home with multigenerational family, including two young children who remind her to both be present to daily joy and be dedicated to the urgent, necessary work for a healthy, resilient future.
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Project Lead, New Capitalism Project
Anna Muoio is a social impact leader and system change strategist. As Founder of The Theory of We, she continues her work helping groups build shared strategies, coordinate action and shift systems, aligned behind a shared vision for what’s possible and a smart plan for moving towards it. Anna launched and is now Co-Lead of the New Capitalism Project (NCP), a collective system change effort to reimagine capitalism. The NCP Economic System Change Lab, launched in 2022, serves as a space for supporting leaders in incubating and implementing systemic interventions as members of a powerful change collaborative. For eight years, Anna led the Aligned Action practice at Monitor Institute by Deloitte where she pioneered large-scale collective problem-solving methods which integrate network theory, systems change and collective strategy. Anna speaks regularly at conferences on the power of aligned action to drive social change.
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Founder, Emergination Africa
I work at Emergination Africa a social enterprise that is dedicated to developing Africa's future business leaders. We do this through our program ecosystem that is focussed on training educators to identify and nurture entrepreneurial talent, running the largest business competition in Zimbabwe across 400 high schools and finally running high school accelerators that refines the ideas and inject seed capital into select businesses we would have identified and nurtured.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Goodbye Malaria
An accountant by profession, happily working in Public Health.
Started my working career in banking, changed track and joined Nandos. As part of the Nandos team started Goodbye Malaria and have never looked back.
My goal is malaria eradication in Southern Africa.
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CEO, National Youth Development Agency
Waseem is the CEO of the National Youth Development Agency. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He is passionate about developing young entrepreneurs, national youth service and finding pathways to opportunities for young people. He is also an independent audit committee member at Brand SA, Mpumalanga Tourism Authority and the Health and Welfare SETA. He is a former category winner of the SAICA 35-under 35 in 2016, a part of the 2018 Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans and a 2019, SADC’s Most Influential Young Leaders. The NYDA has part of the program design for addressing youth unemployment built over the last two years one of the largest National Youth Service programs on the African continent.
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Associate Director, Social Compact, Dasra
Sonvi A. Khanna leads the Social Compact in India, a multi-stakeholder movement that brings industry and worker organizations into a co-solutioning relationship and enables businesses to ensure greater dignity and equity for its 200 million informally engaged workers. Sonvi inspires and enables partnerships with diverse stakeholders to mainstream the aspiration that responsible business equals a successful business. Sonvi strongly believes that the increasing convergence of diverse stakeholders towards India's socio-economic development, makes this one of the most promising times to push for positive disruptions that can enable sustainable inclusion and change for the most underprivileged in the country. Sonvi has pursued this mission throughout her 14 year stint in development and now industry. Sonvi is an alumni of Harvard Business School's SNMI Leadership program and holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Warwick.
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Founder and Executive Director, Advance Native Political Leadership
Anathea Chino (Acoma Pueblo) is a visionary force, breaking barriers and championing underrepresented communities in U.S. politics. As a queer Indigenous woman, she fearlessly paves the way for marginalized voices. With 19+ years of expertise as a political strategist, Anathea co-founded Advance Native Political Leadership to combat the pervasive underrepresentation of Native Americans in local and state elected leadership. Through initiatives like the Women's Democracy Lab and her strategic board roles, Anathea empowers women of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and Indigenous people, fostering inclusivity and reshaping the political landscape.
Anathea Chino is a catalyst for transformation and a relentless advocate for equity and justice. Through her visionary leadership, she is crafting a future where all voices are heard, celebrated, and empowered
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Impact Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Andrew serves as the Imago Dei Fund’s Impact Partner and co-leads the Imago Dei team. In
this role, Andrew focuses on foundation strategy, operations, and impact assessment.
He brings three decades of experience in the international humanitarian, development and human rights field with extensive programmatic, management and policy experience overseas and in Washington, DC. Andrew previously served as VP of Global Education Programs at Impact(Ed). He has also worked in various capacities for a range of organizations globally, including CARE, Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF, and International Justice Mission. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Area Studies and Economics
from Duke, a Master’s degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton, and a
Law degree from the University of Virginia.
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Executive Director, Alliance for Youth Organizing
Dakota Hall is an accomplished organizer and Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Action and Alliance for Youth Organizing, the largest youth grassroots organizing network in the United States. He is a Black and Indigenous organizer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has extensive experience in community organizing. Dakota founded Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT) in Wisconsin, a Black and Brown-led organization dedicated to building power among youth of color and tackling issues such as the school-to-prison/deportation pipeline and racial equity issues. In his current role, Dakota works to build political power with young people across the United States, creating a world where young people are valued and their voices are heard. His passion for community organizing and social justice has driven him to make a positive impact on his community and empower youth to create change.
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CEO, Imperative 21
Akira has spent the past 20 + years working in narrative change with some of the most impactful organizations in the world that have shaped our beliefs and actions around inclusive economies, human rights, healthcare, education, racism, voting, and socially conscious business. Akira is currently the CEO of the Imperative 21, a global network shaping economic narratives and reimagining systems so everyone, everywhere can thrive. Akira is also a co-founder of A-B Partners, a narrative strategy agency that creates breakthrough insights, creative, and campaigns to help leaders in every sector transform how power works and who it works for. Akira comes from a multi-racial background, born in Spain, and is now based in New York City.
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CEO, Street Business School
Deepti is the CEO of Street Business School. She has over 24 years of experience helping world leading organizations build the mindsets, systems and processes for scale and impact.
Street Business School is on a mission to end global poverty by empowering women to become thriving entrepreneurs.
We deliver this mission by partnering with over 250 local and global NGOs in over 35 countries - training them to adopt and apply our world-leading curriculum that is proven to more than double women's incomes within a year
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Kate is currently Head of Development and Outreach at Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. She manages fundraising and donor relations for the Secretariat, along with their external outreach and events. She has over 15 years of experience in international development and the UK charity sector, working on gender issues. She is passionate about creating a fairer and more equitable world for women and girls. She holds a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and has an MSc in International Development.
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CEO, This Day
Dan joined This Day Foundation as its first employee at the end of 2022. The foundation is developing strategy to transform the opportunity for refugees in the UK and young people in South Africa. To do this the foundation is using a system lens and leveraging both its grant and investment capital for impact.
Previously Dan founded the strategic advisory firm Spring Impact based on his frustration at seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan developed scale strategies and implementation plans with over 200 organisations ranging from Skoll Awardees such as Tostan and FES to Bezos Family Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and several leading social businesses.
Dan lives in London with his partner and his 9 and 12 year old kids who are always up for a hike or a board game.
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Co-Founder, Advisor, Unlock Aid
Walter Kerr is the co-founding, co-executive director of Unlock Aid, which is driving a campaign to reform the U.S. approach to global development, underpinned by the principles of decentralizing decision-making power to local communities, reorienting global investments to promote sustainable economic growth, leveraging innovation to solve the planet's hardest problems, moving away from project-based models to those that put countries and communities in the lead, and the U.S. leading by example.
Prior to Unlock Aid, Walter worked at the Global Fund to Defeat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the U.S. State Department, and for the technology company Zenysis Technology.
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Board Chair, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Jaimie Mayer is currently in her seventh year as Chair of The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Under her leadership, Jaimie has focused on values alignment across the organization. The foundation moved 100% of its assets to align with its mission for impact, working with a black owned and BIPOC led OCIO. She moved the foundation towards a streamlined mentality, focusing on systemic change with work in racial, economic, and environmental justice. She led the foundation in thinking through alternative vehicles of giving, and helped launch the foundation’s first PRI initiative.
As a philanthropic consultant, Jaimie works with next generation philanthropists and their families and organizations looking to attract a younger demographic with an eye towards succession planning. Jaimie is a frequent speaker on multigenerational philanthropy, next generation philanthropy, impact investing, values alignment in giving, and arts and social justice.
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GAPP Administrative Director, Columbia University
J. Kenneth Wickiser worked for the US government in education and research for over 20 years before joining the Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics (GAPP) team, a center at Columbia University dedicated to public health technical workforce development and retention, democratization of technologies, and dedication to open data sharing among international partner organizations in the fight to identify and contain emerging pathogens. He earned his PhD from Yale in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and completed his postdoctoral research work in the Lab of Molecular Neuro-oncology at Rockefeller University before serving as West Point faculty, eventually achieving the rank of Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Research. The GAPP mission is to provide equitable and sustained access to advanced and economical tools allowing local public health and clinical professionals to keep populations of people and livestock and the supply of food and water safe from pathogens.
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An experienced international development director, program manager, strategist and fundraiser. I have experience and expertise in all functions essential for the effective running of an international development organization, incl. strategic planning, management (people, programs, finances), fundraising, relationship building and networking. I have been fortunate to work in diverse and increasingly senior roles for 40 years. I have successfully managed multicultural teams and enriched my understanding of economic, social and political contexts by visiting and working in 30+ countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. I enjoy building effective teams and getting the best out of them and mentoring young professionals who go on to achieve great successes. Researched and led several non-formal and formal interagency working arrangements. Using this knowledge and my negotiation/interpersonal skills, I have facilitated successful collaborative initiatives.
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CEO and President, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Rey Ramsey is a social justice entrepreneur who brings more than three decades of experience as an executive in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. He is NCF’s CEO and President, and an Independent Trustee, where he plays a key role in helping fulfill the foundation’s commitment to align 100% of its endowment with its mission.
Rey currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Centri Capital, an investment firm designing and executing impact investment strategies with a focus on real estate development and affordable housing as a platform for human advancement.
Rey has devoted his career to building and leading social enterprises. After serving as Oregon's Director of Housing and Community Services, he held successive positions as President and COO of Enterprise Community Partners, Chairman of Habitat for Humanity International, and founding CEO and Chairman of One Economy Corporation.
Additionally, Rey now serves as a director on numerous boards.
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Executive Director & Founder, Digital Democracy
As Founder and CoDirector of Digital Democracy, Emily has spent her career working in solidarity with frontline communities using technology to defend human rights and environmental justice. Emily began her career as a youth journalist, which informed her commitment to building technology with - not for - local communities. Over almost 15 years, Digital Democracy has supported frontline communities to map millions acres of rainforest, halt mining and oil concessions, and stem the tide of deforestation in biodiverse regions.
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Individual, Individual
Nilofer has worked with the federal government, government agencies in all 50 US states, and community leaders in cities across the US to frame and implement child and family policy. She is currently the Lead for Learning and Partnerships at the Children’s Bureau Learning and Coordination Center. There she supports the implementation of federal child and family policy. As an independent consultant she has worked on public health models for engaging communities, model sexual and reproductive policy for youth in out-of-home care; expectant and parenting youth in out-of-home care; and innovative models for urban agriculture. She has been asked to sit on over a dozen national advisory committee and boards focused on social and community change. A lifelong activist for social justice, Ahsan co-led the Indo-Pak Peace Initiative, and served in the leadership of community-based groups focused on diaspora politics, women and violence, and educational reform.
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Indigenous Climate Activist, Individual
Jade Begay, Diné and Tesuque Pueblo, is an Indigenous rights and climate policy expert, organizer, and filmmaker. Jade has partnered with organizations and Tribal Nations from the Arctic to the Amazon to develop strategies, create stories, and build campaigns to mobilize engagement and impact around issues like climate change, Indigenous self determination, and environmental justice. Jade is the Climate Justice Campaign Director at NDN Collective and serves on the board of Amazon Watch and Native Conservancy. In 2021, Jade was appointed by President Biden to serve on the first ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
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Sky Dylan-Robbins is an award-winning producer and media entrepreneur. She founded and serves as the Executive Director of The Video Consortium, a global nonprofit media organization that connects and supports today’s nonfiction filmmakers and visual journalists to tell bold stories that change the world. The Video Consortium runs the Solutions Storytelling Project — running across Africa, Latin America, and Asia — supported by the Skoll Foundation.
Previously, Sky was a visual journalist at NBC News and the Senior Producer, Video at The New Yorker magazine. Forbes Magazine named her as a “30 under 30” media entrepreneur, and she graduated cum laude from Northwestern University.
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Managing Director, ideas42
Omar Parbhoo is the Managing Director of Civic Engagement at ideas42, where he applies behavioral insights to promote inclusive and sustained voter participation in the United States. He also manages VoterCast, a platform that supports millions of voters by equipping local election officials with the tools and content to conduct best-in-class voter outreach. Omar serves on the steering committee for National Voter Education Week and on the board of ioby, an organization that supports hyper-local civic action. Previously, he served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, providing strategic guidance on post-conflict economic and democratic reform. Omar received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University and a Master’s in International Economics from the University of California, San Diego.
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Donor Relations Director, Catalyst 2030
Matt has spent the majority of his career championing social causes. Fortunate to have developed experience in strategic partnership development, NGO governance, fundraising, and communications. He has built enduring partnerships with global philanthropists, foundations, and the private sector with the likes of Britvic, Fitbit, AstraZeneca, Tesco and other industry leading brands; foundation partnerships with Garfield Weston, Wolfson, Wellcome, Skoll and Mastercard Foundations.
Matt is humbled to now be ecosystem building for Catalyst 2030. Listening closely, joining dots, making connections and facilitating member groups to accelerate progress for social innovators who are focused on root causes. At the heart of this sector building movement, Matt finds it a privilege to support members in mobilising resources for their movement and to support their efforts to influence mindset, behaviour and practice of funders and the privates sector.
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Professor and Director, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Center for Global Health Science and Security
Dr. Rebecca Katz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, and holds joint appointments in Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service. She teaches courses on global health diplomacy, global health security, and emerging infectious diseases. Since 2007, much of her work has been on the domestic and global implementation of the International Health Regulations as well as global governance of public health emergencies. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, and seven books in addition to numerous op eds, blogs, white papers and book chapters.
From 2004 to 2019, Dr. Katz was a consultant to the Department of State, working on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention, pandemic influenza and disease surveillance. She returned to the Department of State in January 2021 as a senior advisor on the global COVID-19 response and global health security and diplomacy.
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CEO, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Ed Mitchell joined WSUP as Chief Executive in June 2022. He has significant relevant experience in the environmental and water sectors, as well as with public policy and administration. Most recently he was a Director at Pennon Group, the owners of South West Water, Bournemouth Water, Bristol Water and Viridor. Prior to this, he held the role of Executive Director of Environment and Business at the Environment Agency for nearly a decade. He was also the Director of Environment and Corporate Responsibility at Thames Water and has worked for GlaxoSmithKline and the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). He spent time as special advisor to Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female Foreign Secretary, from 2005 to 2007.
Ed holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Water and Wastewater Engineering from Cranfield University, and through his role with Thames Water, helped establish WSUP in 2005. He is currently Chair of the Environmental Advisory Group at the Can
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Nicola is the CEO of Crisis Action, an award-winning organisation fostering collaboration to protect people from war. In this role, she draws on more than twenty years’ experience of campaigning, including as the inaugural head of Oxfam International’s office at the UN, also leading its humanitarian campaigning across the world. She co-founded the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect where she was also Advocacy Director. She’s been an adviser to Avaaz and the UN in Rwanda. As a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, she authored landmark reports on humanitarian coordination within the UN and donor trends in humanitarian action. A writer, researcher and advocate of the power of doubt in leadership, she holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge and LSE and is based in London.
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Ynis is a Sr. Manager of Strategy at the Skoll Foundation. She supports strategic planning, learning, and key strategic initiatives to advance the goals and impact of the foundation. She is passionate about sustainable development and systems change. She constantly strives to center and champion marginalized and underserved communities' voices. Ynis loves to travel, design and wear colorful fashion, and enjoys watching football (the real football!) and rugby.
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Kierra is Executive Assistant to our President and Operations team here at the Skoll Foundation. Kierra skillfully manages administrative and operative duties for her team. She ensures the smooth operation of team duties and works to ensure objectives, goals and vision are executed. Kierra is driven by her passion for social change, racial justice, and inclusive economies within her communities and serving as a mentor to youth. She spends a lot of her spare time exploring new music, reading on the beach, or taking long drives to new destinations.
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Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Health Initiative
Perla is Co-Founder of The Health Initiative, a campaign catalyzing a nationwide effort to spur a new conversation about – and increased investments in – health. Perla previously served as President of Health Leads, which enables physicians and other healthcare providers across the country to address the fundamental drivers of patients’ health, such as healthy food and safe housing. Prior to this, he was part of the leadership team that established the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where he was responsible for developing the national learning system to test new ways to pay for and deliver care through the Affordable Care Act and oversaw the $1 Billion Partnership for Patients and the Million Hearts Campaign. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School with a joint appointment in Community Health and Quantitative Health Sciences. He received his Ed.D from University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Chief Executive Officer,
MedicDr. Krishna Jafa is the CEO of Medic. Medic is the technical steward and core contributor to the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), an open-source digital platform that supports health workers to provide essential care in their communities. A physician and epidemiologist with 28 years' experience, Dr. Jafa has held leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Population Services International, and the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention where she oversaw financing, design, management, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of health programs and research across the donor, private, non-governmental, and public sectors. Dr. Jafa has deep expertise in health systems strengthening and digital health innovation to achieve universal health care. A committed advocate for women’s and girls’ empowerment and reproductive rights, she holds a medical degree from Rajasthan University (India), an MPH from Harvard University, and is an alumna of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service.
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Paige serves as a Senior Analyst on the Evaluation & Learning team, where she facilitates strategic learning and evaluation for a subset of Skoll's strategic priorities and programs and promotes a culture of learning across the Foundation.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Paige worked as a Summer Associate on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity & Economic Opportunity team while pursuing her master’s degree. Before graduate school, Paige worked as a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company’s Washington, D.C. office, where she primarily served government and philanthropic clients as part of the Public and Social Sector Practice. She has also worked for a domestic microfinance nonprofit in the D.C. area.
Paige holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. She holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, where she majored in Finance and International Political Economy & Business. In her free time, she loves cooking new recipes, reading nonfiction books, and exploring the Bay Area.
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Claudia Shilumani is the Vice President, Partnerships & Impact, at VillageReach. Claudia leads a portfolio that includes Strategic Communications, Advocacy and Partnerships, Resource Mobilization and Research, Evidence & Learning teams for the organization. Working in close collaboration with the Global Programs teams and country office leadership, she refines and implements strategies to ensure that VillageReach is improving how products and services are delivered to the most under-reached communities and she leads VillageReach’s thinking on responsive Primary Health Care Systems. Claudia has over 26 years of working experience in public health in roles that ranges from Technical Expert, Manager to Senior and Executive Leadership. Claudia has worked for the Governments of South Africa and Sierra Leone; Local, Regional and International NGOs; the United Nations; Catholic Relief Services; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria and recently Centre for Communication Impact.
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Tracy DeTomasi is the CEO of Callisto. She has held leadership positions over the past 20 years, across the nonprofit sector, where she developed and implemented trauma-informed programming and curricula. She was instrumental in changing domestic violence laws in the US and has worked on projects globally. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Tracy has extensive experience working in the field of gender-based violence, giving her a deep understanding of the ecosystem of survivors, offenders, and allies. She has consulted with organizations to develop tech-based tools, such as an app that educates users about violence against women, a smartphone device for sexual violence prevention safety, and virtual reality trainings to address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Anti-Sexual Harassment.
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Co-Founder, Climate Action Platform for Africa
Carlijn co-founded Climate Action Platform - Africa (CAP-A) in 2021 alongside James Mwangi. CAP-A works to identify, quantify, prioritise and realise opportunities for Climate Positive Growth (CPG): inclusive economic growth through climate action. Its vast untapped renewable energy potential, young and growing workforce and natural resources, make Africa a competitive location for climate action.
Carlijn provides strategic guidance across CAP-A’s programmes, originating new opportunities and partnerships, and running initial due diligence. She co-leads the support for Kenya’s Climate Envoy Ali Mohamed, shaping the Africa Climate Summit and the Nairobi Declaration, which saw the African Union accept CPG as its growth and development paradigm.
Prior to CAP-A, Carlijn was a senior partner with Dalberg Advisors in Africa for 9 years, leading Dalberg's inclusive business work. An engineer by training, she was at McKinsey for 7 years and with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Co-Founder & CEO, IMAGINE
Valerie, IMAGINE Co-Founder and CEO, is an entrepreneur who helps leaders use their power for good. With expertise in building transformational leadership communities, Valerie was an architect of The Fashion Pact launched at the G7 and IMAGINE’s Food Collective, bringing together CEOs across the food value chain to accelerate food system transformation. Within corporations, she has worked with CEOs and top leadership teams to move impact from the sidelines to the heart of strategy and business models. Valerie is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, active in YPO and White Oak Impact Fund. With an MBA from University of Oxford Saïd Business School, she previously held leadership roles at EY and in mental health, homelessness, and housing development sectors. he’s the oldest of 7 girls, fluent in 3 languages (American, Southern and Christianese), and divides her time between London and NYC when not diving in Papua or getting lost in the Masai Mara.
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Partner and Head of US Advisory, Bridgespan Group
Nidhi Sahni is a partner and head of US Region and Advisory at The Bridgespan Group. She brings over a decade of experience advising philanthropies, collaboratives, and high-net-worth individuals in the US, Asia, and Africa with a focus on unlocking capital for social change. She has also worked with nonprofits and NGOs on issues related to strategy, education, systems change, and innovation. Her clients have included Educate Girls, Lend A Hand India, Camfed, Ford Foundation, Co-Impact, and The Audacious Project.
Nidhi also writes and speaks extensively on topics such as high-impact philanthropy and gender equity. Recent publications include “Lighting the Way: A Report for Philanthropy on the Power and Promise of Feminist Movements,” “Reimagining Institutional Philanthropy,” and "Is Your Nonprofit Built for Sustained Innovation?" During the closing plenary at Devex World 2022, Nidhi spoke about how philanthropy can support long-term change by resourcing organizations differently.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director, Build Health International
Jim Ansara founded Shawmut Design and Construction – one of the top 25 construction management firms in the US and since retirement, has pursued “boots-on-the-ground” philanthropy – participating in and giving to programs that make tangible differences in low resource settings. After managing the design, engineering and construction of a solar-powered national teaching hospital in Haiti in 2013, Jim co-founded Build Health International to improve sustainable health infrastructure in under-resourced settings and promote innovative global health solutions. Build Health International has completed over 200 architectural, engineering, technical and building projects in 30+ countries throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization has become one of the leading NGO’s operating in low- and middle-income countries at the intersection of health infrastructure and access to reliable, high-quality healthcare.
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Chief Program and Insights Officer, Partnership on AI
Stephanie is the Chief Programs and Insights Officer. She is responsible for leading, PAI’s portfolio of programs, delivering measurable outcomes supporting AI that centers people and society first. She first joined PAI’s Labor and & Economy team, where she jointly led the creation of the Guidelines for AI & Shared Prosperity, a high-level job impact assessment tool and set of responsible practices for key stakeholders in the AI & labor ecosystem to ensure the technological gains from AI create equitable economic growth and high quality jobs. In earlier work, she engaged with workers around the globe to understand their experiences of AI in the workplace, culminating in the PAI report AI & Job Quality: Insights from Frontline Workers. Her work and insights have been featured in publications and venues such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Brookings Institution, and The Economist Impact, and cited in testimony to the US Senate.
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Currently serving as counyry Director for Last Mile Health -Ethiopia. Has extensive experience working in various public health programs implemented at the primary healthcare and community level including; health management, health system strengthening, maternal and child health, HIV, human resources for health in; Ethiopia, Lesotho, Jamaica and Rwanda. Has an MBA and MPH and worked for several international organizations advancing public health including; UNAIDS, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Yale University, the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).
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Founder, La Casa de Producción
Jayro Bustamante is a Guatemalan screenwriter, director and film producer. He studied social communication at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, film directing at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français and screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografía in Rome. In 2009 he founded with Marina Peralta La Casa de Producción, where he has produced his films Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2018), La Llorona (2019), Rita and Cordillera de Fuego (both to be released). In 2018 he founded Les Films Du Volcan, his French production house, and Fundación Ixcanul, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing cultural and educational content through film to all of Guatemala. He has received multiple awards at international festivals, including a Silver Bear at the Berlinale and Best Director at the Venice International Film Festival. "La Llorona" was the first Central American film to be nominated for a Golden Globe and to be on the Oscar shortlist.
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Co-Founder and President, American Sustainable Business Network
David Levine is the co-founder and President of the American Sustainable Business Institute & Council. He has worked as a social entrepreneur and movement building for over 40 years focusing on the development of whole systems solutions for a more sustainable society through building strategic partnerships and broad stakeholder initiatives. Previously, he was the Founding Director of Continuing Education & Public Programs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. From 1984-1997, David was Founder and executive director of the Learning Alliance: Options for Education & Action, an independent popular education organization. David is also a principal partner at Miracle Springs Farm, a family farm in the Hudson Valley.
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Founder & CEO, Black Fox Philanthropy, LLC, B Corp
Natalie Rekstad leads a purpose-focused life as the Founder and CEO of Black Fox Global, a leading fundraising firm serving international NGOs. As a B Corp social enterprise, Black Fox Global's mission is to help impact leaders attract significant and sustainable funding so they can drive deep and lasting social change.
Natalie is a Women Moving Millions member, a gender-lens angel investor, is a member of the Founders Pledge, and Advisory Board member of Ashoka WISE. Further, she has been honored by Conscious Company Media as a “World Changing Woman in Conscious Business", and her fundraising firm, Black Fox Global, is proud to be selected as a B Corp “Best for the World” Honoree as a Changemaker.
Natalie is based in Paris, France.
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Chief Executive Officer, Native Americans in Philanthropy
Erik (he/him) serves as Chief Executive Officer of Native Americans in Philanthropy, a national organization advocating for stronger and more meaningful investments by the philanthropic sector in Tribal communities. Previously, he served as the Executive Director for the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute. He has held positions at the Center for American Progress on their Poverty to Prosperity team, as Majority Staff Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and in the Obama administration as a Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education. Erik began his career in Washington, D.C. at the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center.
He holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, an M.A. in American Indian Studies from UCLA’s Graduate Division, and a B.A. from Whittier College.
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Chief Executive Officer, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
Kasthuri is the Chief Executive Officer of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. Harambee is a not-for-profit social enterprise that partners with business, government and civil society to innovate solutions that address youth unemployment, at scale. Kasthuri was the Finance Director of Harambee for 10 years, prior to her taking up the role as CEO.
She is a chartered accountant who spent 10 years at Deloitte in various leadership positions focused on the provision of audit and advisory services to international funders and development initiatives. Kasthuri’s experience at the helm of non-profit organisations is vast, having also served as the CEO of Soul City Institute for Social Justice. Prior to that she was involved in social investment work at Yellowwoods and PwC.
Kasthuri’s over 25 years of experience and service as a non-executive director on many NGO boards has made her a recognised leader in the social sector.
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President & Coordinator, Rights and Resources Group
Dr. Solange Bandiaky-Badji is Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of over 150 organizations advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples. She also serves as President of the Rights and Resources Group, the nonprofit coordinating body of the coalition based in Washington, DC. Bandiaky-Badji previously led RRI’s strategy for engagement in Africa with a focus on tenure rights reform, and spearheaded RRI’s Gender Justice program. Before RRI, she was with Partners Global, where she led programs on access to justice, security sector reform, and peacebuilding. She has also worked as a regional expert on gender and climate change for the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) and the UNDP/ BDP Gender Team in New York. Bandiaky-Badji holds a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Clark University, Massachusetts, and an MA in Environmental Sciences and in Philosophy from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal.
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Executive Director of SACIDS, Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance
Prof Mark M. Rweyemamu. Executive Director, SACIDS Foundation for One Health (SACIDS) at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, linking African institutions on infectious diseases of humans and animals, including antimicrobial resistance. SACIDS is a World Bank designated Africa Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals. SACIDS champions infectious disease surveillance at source: geographically at community level and zoologically in animals, e.g. tools like the AfyaData platform and collaboration with the AfricaCDC for Event-Based Surveillance and for Antimicrobial Resistance.
Since 2022, SACIDS has collaborated with government agencies, in Tanzania, to set up an inter-sectoral One Health Digital Facility for early detection/warning of disease. SACIDS hopes to develop this further into a more elaborate national early warning system in several countries. SACIDS knowledge based SACIDS One Health Social Enterprise (SOHSE). The 3-Ps (Products-Policy-Practices
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Executive Director, AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
EunSook Lee is the founding Executive Director of the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. Previously, she was the Senior Deputy for former U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and executive director of local and national organizations serving and advocating for Korean American and immigrant communities particularly in the areas of immigration reform, gender-based violence, and expanding democratic participation.
She formerly served on the Board of Neighborhood Commission for Los Angeles City Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, as founding president of the National Immigration Forum Action Fund, and as co-chair of APIAVote.
She was born in South Korea and immigrated to Canada at a young age. She began her career in public radio broadcasting as the News Director and later Station Manager of CKLN radio. She came to the United States from Canada in 1993 and became active in the movement for democracy, reunification, and peace in Korea.
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Co-Founder, For Freedoms
Eric Gottesman is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Artist, a Fulbright Fellow, an Artadia awardee, and a founder of For Freedoms, an initiative for art and civic engagement that won the 2017 ICP-Infinity Award, 2022 National Arts Award, and was named the "largest creative collaboration in U.S. history" by TIME Magazine. His projects question notions of power, engage communities in critical self-reflection, and propose models for repair. His work in the visual, literary, political, and teaching arts addresses nationalism, migration, structural violence, and intimacy, and has been shown at health conferences, on the televised opening of the NFL season, inside government buildings, on indigenous reserves, inside post-war rubble and in art museums around the world. Teaching is integral to Gottesman’s art practice and he is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon. Gottesman’s work is always collaborative. He has never made an artwork alone.
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Global Director of Partnerships & External Affairs, Amref Health Africa
Desta Lakew leads global partnerships for Africa. In this role, she has secured high-level strategic global partnerships for Amref Health Africa. Desta has served on the Executive and Senior Management teams of Amref since 2014. Desta leads thought leadership and external engagements at the corporate headquarters of Amref working closely with global partners and the senior leadership team of Amref Health Africa. She was instrumental in establishing and leading the first bi-annual Africa Health Agenda International Conference in 2014; leading a global south dialogue knowledge exchange platform on Universal Health Coverage in Africa and Asia, and launching various campaigns including Communities at the Heart of UHC global advocacy campaign.
Desta has served on several global committees including Future of Global Health Initiatives, Global Patient Think Tank, and the Global Health Equity Group. Desta holds a Master of Public Health from the State Uni
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Founder and CEO, A—B Partners
Andre is founder and CEO of A—B, the agency for Identity-Powered Design creating
breakthrough insights, creative, and campaigns that help leaders in every sector transform
how power works and who it works for. Black-owned, multiracial, and multi-gendered, A—B
brings the creativity and courage of our diverse team to help our partners lead the transition toward a new standard of equity – from a culture of injustice to a culture worth living in.While at A—B, Andre also incubated and led Win Black, a new organization that convened and coordinated hundreds of organizations in a media strategy that inoculated against disinformation and educated and inspired voters to expand BIPOC political power in 20 states. A—B and Win Black are the sixth and seventh active impact ventures where Andre has been either a founder or on the founding team.
Prior to starting A/B in 2018, Andre was Executive Vice President for Social Impact &
Philanthropy at Berlin Rosen, a leading national public relations and
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Ayan Kishore is an experienced social entrepreneur and leader in technology for social impact and international development. He has a successful record in building and growing tech organizations that have helped millions globally– particularly minorities and the disadvantaged –to learn and secure jobs. As CEO, Kishore is tasked with unlocking opportunities for large-scale systems change and driving innovation through technology to transform how students, jobseekers, and older adults across the globe read, learn, and work through inclusive and equitable access to information. Prior to joining Benetech, Kishore founded and directed a digital social innovation lab at Creative Associates International focused on global literacy and peacebuilding. He served as EVP, Operations and Technology, and helped lead the IPO at Professional Diversity Network (PDN), an organization focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in the American workforce.
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Director, Pivotal Ventures
Josh Lozman is Director of Policy, Advocacy & Communications for the Gender Equality Division and the Director of Adolescents & Social Norms at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Immediately prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Josh served in the Obama Administration as the Chief of Staff to the National Economic Council in the White House. He spent more than four years at the global advocacy organization, ONE, including roles as Policy Director and Chief of Staff. Josh has worked at development policy organizations including the Global Health Council and the Center for Global Development and has worked on several election campaigns.
Josh holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and graduated from Dartmouth College.
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Michael is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Michael graduated with distinction from The University of Colorado Denver majoring in Political Science and earning magna cum laude honors. Over the last 15 years, Michael has worked to grow and strengthen the educational, health, economic, land conservation, policy and litigation, impact investing and lending, organizing and power building nonprofit sectors serving Indian Country to create lasting relationships built on respect, reciprocity, impact, and success with communities and allies alike. An active member of the Just Economy Institute, an integrated capital thinker, and current Treasurer at The Kindle Project and Good Brand Food, Michael has advocated for Native people on local, national and international platforms, while also representing Tribal communities and working to educate and help philanthropists and investors find value aligned projects throughout Indian Country.
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Director, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Solange Rosa is the Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Solution Space at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town (UCT). She has a Doctorate in Law from the University of Stellenbosch and a Masters degree in Law from the University of Cape Town. She is also an independent policy, law and strategy consultant, with global and national clients including Human Rights Watch, International Labour Organisation, Rockefeller Foundation, DG Murray Trust, and National Departments of Education and Economic Development and the National Prosecuting Authority. She also teaches on Executive Education programmes at the UCT Graduate School of Business. She worked for the Western Cape government for 10 years as the Head of the Policy and Strategy Unit in the Department of the Premier.
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Festival Curator, Ubumuntu Arts Festival
Hope Azeda is a playwright, director and founder of mashirika performing arts media company . She is a pioneer in using art as a tool for peace building and is a celebrated leader of the Rwandan and the African continent’s arts sector. She is the founder of the acclaimed Ubumuntu Arts Festival which provides a platform for artists from around the world to present performances dealing with aspects of societal violence and human nature, from police brutality, to mass incarceration, to civil war and genocide. She uses art to promote values of humanity and healing, a unique approach that centers storytelling to help communities around the world to deal with their own traumas and to triumph over adversity.
Hope was recently honored as a Laureate of the John. P. McNulty prize 2018, Awarded a lifetime award by MAAFA and also the winner of the continental award in the category of arts and culture 2018/19 honored by ceo global . 2021 Segal Centre honoree for civic engagement in the arts.
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CEO, Swasti
Angela has 23+ years of experience in public health in India & internationally
She is a Partner at Catalyst Group of organizations & Chief Catalyst at Swasti
From evaluation of countries’ national HIV programs to research, capacity building & knowledge management, Angela works with governments, civil society, community groups She has globally co-designed interventions & helped raise over 1.3 Bln USD for TB, HIV, Malaria for 12 countries She's lived in 5 countries & has worked in 30+ She serves on the board of Catalyst Foundation & Swasti, & is in the Steering Committe of WHO's first Civil Society Commission. In her most recent work on leading COVID response through COVIDActionCollab she has been a driving force towards many projects with focus on people-centric health systems She is the key designer for well-renowned Precision Health platform supported by Skoll Foundation
She delights in nurturing a team that works to make #EverydayWellbeing a reality for vulnerable
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Rukka is the first female Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)—the world’s largest Indigenous Peoples organization.
Rukka is a Torajan from the highlands of Sulawesi, a starfish-shaped island the size of Florida. Her people have gained notoriety for their elaborate funeral rituals and the way they have built a local tourism industry while preserving their cultural identity.
She is known for her fiery oratory and her longtime dedication to the indigenous rights movement. Her parents hosted a meeting in 1993 that is often cited as its genesis in Indonesia.
Rukka completed her bachelor degree from the Faculty of Agriculture, Hasanuddin University and her Master degree in Political Science the University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand.
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Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy. He previously served as Associate White House Counsel, where in addition to counseling the President and senior White House staff on administrative and constitutional law, his responsibilities included ensuring that White House and executive branch officials complied with the laws, rules and norms that protect the fundamentally democratic nature of our government. His writing on democracy, authoritarianism, and American law and politics has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, The New York Review of Books and other publications. He is a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Innovation and has repeatedly been named among the 500 most influential people in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine. He is also a 2023 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
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Executive Director, Thousand Currents
Born in Ethiopia, Solome saw at an early age the harmful effects of top down, paternalistic development. She has since dedicated her work to championing community-owned and -led social transformation. Previously, Solomé has worked with Africans in the Diaspora (AiD), Global Fund for Children, and Human Rights Watch in New York City, among others. She received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from Stanford University. Her work and writing has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Inside Philanthropy, among others, and she has appeared on NPR, BBC, and Al Jazeera. She serves as a guest speaker at community events, conferences, and universities and sits on the Board of Trustees of Panta Rhea Foundation.
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Founder, Amna
Zarlasht is the Founder and former CEO of Amna. A former refugee from Afghanistan, she has developed programmes that promote resilience in vulnerable populations in several countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, the United Kingdom, and Greece.
Zarlasht has trained in Childhood and Adolescent Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Cambridge and is pursuing a master’s degree in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from The University of Oxford. She is multilingual and was selected as a Kathryn Davis Peace Fellow to study Arabic at Middlebury College in 2016.
Zarlasht has written for several publications including the Guardian, Washington Post, The Independent, Huffington Post, and the New Statesman. Her work has been profiled by the Psychologist Magazine, NPR, Grazia, International Business Times, She Owns Success, and Ground Breakers and was the recipient of the 2017 Future Shapers Award.
She is a fellow of Obama Foundation
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Venture Director, Rippleworks
Nitida Wongthipkongka is a Venture Director at Rippleworks, a foundation that supports scaling social ventures. In her role, she works to identify the most impactful social ventures in the world and works to leverage Rippleworks’ services and network to further the growth and impact of these ventures. She also builds relationships with leading investors, funders, and ecosystem partners globally support the growth and scale of social ventures.
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Patrick McIntyre serves as Chief Development & External Affairs Officer, leading Polaris’ efforts to resource its work, educate the public, and promote public policy change.
Prior to joining Polaris, Patrick spent almost 18 years in a variety of roles with United Way, including National Director of Health Policy in the United States, National Executive Officer at United Way Australia, and most recently as Senior Director of Strategy Partnerships at United Way Worldwide, where he led the network’s effort to support civil servants and contractors during the 2019-2020 US Federal Government Shutdown, and launched Ride United Last Mile Delivery in response to COVID-19 in the US.
Patrick has also played a variety of roles in international business and start-up new business development, as well as local and statewide political campaigns. He is also deeply involved in local and national gay flag football leagues, and was inducted into the NGFFL Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Vice President, Community Foundations of Canada
Melanie Thomas is Vice President at Community Foundations of Canada, the national network to 191 community foundations across the country that collectively has $6 billion dollars in assets and reaches over 90% of Canadian communities. Prior to working in philanthropy, Melanie completed her business and law degrees and worked in private practice, banking international development and telecommunications.
In her current role, Melanie is responsible for seeking, developing and scaling new initiatives. Some of the initiatives include leading the design and administration of the $350M Emergency Community Support Fund from the Government of Canada in response to COVID-19 and she has worked closely with partners across the country to launch the Investment Readiness Program, a Government of Canada $50M program to support the growth of social enterprises in Canada.
In her spare time, she loves salsa & hip-hop dancing and attempting to learn French.
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Alice Louka started working as the MTS Global Programme Manager in August 2021. During her time working on MTS, Alice widened the global reach of the programme to 30 countries, re-launched the Global in-person final in 2022, introduced online Semi-finals in 2023 on Hopin, embedded learning design and accessibility approaches to improve online learning resources, and fostered the worldwide community of thousands of students, educators, and practitioners invested in systems approaches. As of February 2024, Alice has transitioned to a part-time role as MTS Consultant while she completes her Master’s in Occupational Therapy, where she looks forward to applying a systems lens to all aspects of her studies and career.
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Alice Rhee is the Chief Global Partnerships and Communications Officer at the Skoll Foundation.
A philanthropy executive, world-class storyteller, and two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer, Ms. Rhee was previously the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Place-Based Philanthropy at the American Journalism Project (AJP).
Prior to her role at AJP, Alice served as the Director of Media for a private family philanthropy where she built social impact storytelling initiatives and co-founded a nonprofit news organization focused on economic inequality in San Antonio, Texas.
Alice held various editorial and production roles at NBC News headquarters in New York City covering breaking news and domestic and international news. She was also Senior Producer of Digital Video at The Washington Post before transitioning to philanthropy and nonprofit storytelling.
Alice received national News & Documentary Emmy Awards for her coverage of the crash of Singapore Airlines and the Middle East conflict. She is also the recipient of several national and regional awards including a National Headliners Award and the New York Newswomen's Award for her reporting in the days following 9/11. The Smithsonian Institution recognized her contributions as a professional journalist during its Korean-American Centennial Commemoration.
Currently, Alice serves on the board of TheGuardian.org and acts as an independent trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She is co-chair of the Information, Media, and Technology pillar at the Partnership for American Democracy and an advisory circle member of JustFund.
She also serves on the board of a new nonprofit content accelerator for BIPOC creators, artists, and entrepreneurs being launched by Dan Lin, founder of Rideback.
Alice is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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Executive Director, Media Democracy Fund
Amber has had a more than 20 year career in philanthropy and partnership development as a strategic advisor and senior manager in the areas of social justice, democratic engagement, and digital rights. She served for four years as MDF Deputy Director, during which time she designed and implemented strategies to expand MDF’s grantmaking portfolio and strategies, and was named by Slate Magazine in 2015 as one of the women who won Net Neutrality. Prior to joining MDF, Amber served as Director of Partnerships at the Proteus Fund.
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Wayne Leo Ducheneaux II, an enrolled citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has a deep passion to serve Native Nations. Growing up on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, he developed a passion for agriculture on his family ranch at an early age. His diverse career includes roles such as General Manager for the Cheyenne River Motel, Administrative Officer for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and District 4 Council Representative on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council where he also had a two-year term as Tribal Vice-Chairman. Wayne's leadership extended to the Native Governance Center as its inaugural Executive Director, where he worked to strengthen the governance of the 23 Native Nations that share geography with North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.
Currently serving as the Chief Advancement Officer at the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Wayne leverages his extensive experience to promote sustainable agriculture and economic growth within Native American communities.
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Education Innovator in LatAm, Individual
Ramsés Gómez is dedicated to fostering the integration of entrepreneurship and social innovation into the core values of higher education across Latin America.
He earned a master's degree in innovation and a bachelor's degree in international business, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Tec de Monterrey. In his role as Director of Academia B at Sistema B International, Ramsés championed the creation of research and educational tools designed to equip a new generation of professionals for the evolving economy. His professional journey includes serving as the Executive Director of Sistema B Mexico and Director of Ashoka U Mexico, as well as co-founding and directing Impact Hub Mexico City. In 2019, Ramsés was honored as a Fellow of the Compassionate Leadership network, an initiative endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which focuses on nurturing leaders equipped with the skills and wisdom necessary to create a more equitable and compassionate world. Additionally, he is a member of the BMW Foundation's Responsible Leaders and The Wellbeing Project.
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Dr. Beth Chitekwe-Biti is the Director of the Secretariat of the Slum Dwellers International, a global network of social movements organised in slum and informal settlements in 22 countries. Beth is a veteran development professional with more than 20 years of experience supporting marginalised urban communities living with insecurity and lack of services at the nexus of land management, land security, titling, dispute resolution, and the empowerment. Beth was the Founding Director of the SDI Zimbabwe affiliate NGO, Dialogue on Shelter that works in alliance with the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation to advocate for secure tenure and inclusive human settlements. She played a pivotal role in the establishment of SDI processes in Zambia, Malawi and Botswana. Beth holds a planning degree from the University of Zimbabwe, a Postgraduate Certificate in Housing from the University College of London, and a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester.
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As Managing Director, Government Alliances in the Executive Office, Daniel shapes the Skoll Foundation’s work to extend the impact of solutions created by our portfolio of social innovators through developing and leading public private partnerships with government agencies. He is responsible for enabling access to new networks, resources, influence, and capital, in addition to identifying new ways to drive progress across strategic priorities.
Prior to joining Skoll Foundation, Daniel served as Household Energy Lead at Shell Foundation, and led programs across the Access to Energy and Sustainable Mobility portfolios. There he supported a range of partners across varying stages of development, including work on large financial transactions. He also led the program development work for the World Bank-IFC Global Climate Finance team, focusing on growing domestic lending to commercial and industrial solar projects in E/W Africa and S. Asia, and served as strategic advisor to the Lighting Global program to scale household energy to underserved markets.
During his many years residing in India, Daniel held roles of Assistant Vice President at Drishtee, a distribution company serving last mile communities, and later co-founded his own last mile distribution firm Frontier Markets where he served as Chief Operations Officer. Daniel was awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship in 2012 for pioneering a last mile distribution model that provides rural communities access to energy products and services.
Daniel holds an Executive Master’s degree in Program and Portfolio Management from Georgetown University, and a B.A in psychology. Originally hailing from suburban Detroit, he is based in Washington DC with his family and dog Sadie.
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Executive Director, Earth HQ, Global Commons Alliance
Tim Kelly is Executive Director of Earth HQ, the media arm of the Global Commons Alliance - a coalition of world leading institutions that brings together scientific, business, government to maintain the resilience and stability of Earth’s natural systems. Previously, Tim was President of the National Geographic Society, and co-founder of Planet3, the game-based Ed Tech platform for STEM. In addition, Tim serves on the Board of Mongabay, on the US Board of the IUCN, on the Board of Great Plains Conservation Trust, and on the Board of American Prairie Reserve.
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Vice President, Equality Fund
Choreographing the development of Equality Fund’s roadmap for growth and scale, reimagining the world through a feminist lens, and leading the learning and impact journey across the organization.
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Shashi is a scientist and serial social innovator working on a range of areas including health, energy, water & food security. He is the Founder of the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT), which launched India’s largest infrastructures for off-grid power and natural sanitation, serving hundreds of thousands of the country’s poorest citizens. In response to COVID, Shashi also led ITT’s launch of Oxygen Hub, Africa’s largest medical oxygen franchise. In 2021-22, Shashi was the founding CEO of GHLabs, created by Bill Gates to develop technology breakthroughs in global health. Earlier in his career, Shashi was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. Shashi spent a decade on the Indian rowing team, and made an acclaimed documentary film about the India-Pakistan conflict. He holds a PhD from the Univ of Massachusetts in Artificial Intelligence, an MBA from Northwestern Univ. Shashi also teaches at the UC-Berkeley. He was born and raised in India.
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As Accounting Manager at the Skoll Foundation, Selina is responsible for the effective application of the Foundation’s policies and procedures related to grants management and accounting.
Selina is an idealist at heart, driven by her ambition to build a sustainable and brighter future. Her past experiences have all been in pursuit of broader societal goals and at the crossroads of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors – often flavored with an international twist.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Selina worked for the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, where she managed and analyzed data to optimize local COVID-19 relief efforts. Prior to that, she managed The Wonderful Company's philanthropy operations in support of far-reaching education, health and wellness, and community development programs. Selina also served as a management consultant at &samhoud in the Netherlands, helping organizations across sectors thrive and create change that matters.
Selina holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and a Master of Science from the University of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. She additionally earned a certificate in Data Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Selina loves sunshine, is an avid traveler, and thoroughly enjoys hikes with a view.
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Founder & Chairman, Instituto ACP
Graduated in Business Administration (FGV-SP), with specialization at Stanford and Harvard (USA), he is the cofounder and chairman of Grupo MOL, an ecosystem of initiatives that promotes philanthropy in Brazil and has already generated more than R$70 million in donations to social organizations across the country.
He is also founder and chairman of Instituto ACP and Instituto MOL, non-profits that work to strengthen the culture of giving, and a board member at Raia Drogasil (RD)’s Sustainability Committee and at Wings and IDIS (Brazil).
Elected Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018 by Folha de São Paulo, and Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation, an organization linked to the World Economic Forum, in 2019. Honored with the Trip Transformadores award in 2020. Entrepreneur of the Year in 2023 by EY.
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Chief Innovation Officer, Villgro Africa
Robert is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Villgro Africa, an early stage impact investor and business incubator focusing on health and life sciences in Africa. He holds a PhD in Parasitology and Entomology with over 20 years of experience in the health sector as a biomedical scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), adjunct faculty at Strathmore Business School, and a social entrepreneur at Villgro Africa.
In his role as Chief Innovation Officer, Robert's primary focus is building the regional health and life sciences innovation ecosystem through the East African BioEscalator Initiative. In addition, Robert provides strategic leadership in developing Africa’s bioeconomy in various capacities including as Chairman - ISAAA Africenter; Director – Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA); and as a member of the BIO Africa Convention's Organising Committee.
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Capital Portfolio Director, Rippleworks
Bekah is a Portfolio Director at Rippleworks, a private foundation that provides social ventures with operational support and flexible capital to scale their work. Bekah identifies and evaluates grants and investments to support high-growth social ventures.
Before joining Rippleworks, Bekah was the Chief of Staff at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation (SGFF), where she managed the Founder's philanthropy and a scholarship program that empowers a new generation of diverse leaders. Prior to SGFF, Bekah completed a Global Health Corps fellowship at a non-profit in Uganda and served as a management consultant at Deloitte.
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CEO, Fair Count
Rebecca DeHart is the CEO at Fair Count, a nonprofit organization founded by Stacey Abrams in Georgia working to build long-term power in communities that have been undercounted in the decennial census, underrepresented at the polls, and torn apart in redistricting. Leading a team of 70 employees at its height, Rebecca has stewarded Fair Count’s on-the-ground organizing, advocacy, and media campaigns to achieve a record self-participation rate in the 2020 Census and unprecedented turnout in the Georgia 2020 General and the 2021 Runoff Elections. She has more than 20 years of political, campaign, policy, and advocacy experience.
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Rachel Xing dedicated herself to the public welfare and joined Half the Sky Foundation (now OneSky for all children) in early 2009 as Operations Director, then was promoted to be Chief Operations Officer, focusing on overall operations and implementation of orphanage and village programs and bringing science-based nurturing and care approach to the caregivers of millions of children at-risk in China. In 2012, Chunhui Children’s Foundation was established and registered under her advocacy. Currently, she serves as Chief Executive Officer and established Chunhui Mama, Chunhui Care Home and Chunhui Village programs, contributing her decade’s experience in project management to Chunhui’s strategic planning, program innovation and government partnership for creating a better future for all disadvantaged children in China. Rachel was awarded the Philanthropy Person of the year of 2021 in the 11th China Philanthropy Festival. She was also one of the eight winners of 17th Compassion Award.
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Co-Founder, Missing Billion Initiative, The Missing Billion Initiative.
Phyllis Heydt is a Co-Founder of the Missing Billion Initiative and currently directs the overall work.
Phyllis is also a Co-Founder of the Financing Alliance for Health, discovering hands, AMP Health and ATscale – the Global Partnership for Assistive Technologies. For Financing Alliance for Health, discovering hands and ATscale she currently serves on their boards.
Phyllis Heydt is a Senior Advisor at the Office of Ray Chambers, WHO Ambassador for Global Strategy. There she focuses on Community Health Workers (CHWs) and frontline delivery systems.
Phyllis previously worked in the Strategy Team at the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, and before that was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey’s healthcare practice in Germany and London. Phyllis holds a Masters of Economics and Business from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, and a Masters in International Health Policy and Health Economics from the London School of Economics.
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Peter is an experienced senior management professional with over 20 years’ experience in commercial and Not-for-Profit organizations spanning a broad spectrum of Finance, Audit and Risk Management, Business Process Improvement, Budgeting, Grant Management, Sales Operations & Supply Chain Management. He has been involved in turnaround of systems and processes championing system reengineering and business improvement strategies. Prior to becoming the President & COO for KickStart, Peter played different roles as Head of Finance, Deputy Chief Financial Officer & Director of Finance, IT & Supply Chain, demonstrating exceptional talent and leadership, putting in place new systems that greatly increase operational efficiency and making tremendous improvements to the business processes and internal controls environments. As President & COO, he oversees all KickStart’s operations across Africa, leading all strategic operations and build and lead relationships with key partners and donors.
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Founder and President, Hip-Hop Public Health
Dr Olajide Williams is a tenured Professor of Neurology at Columbia University. He is Vice Dean of Community Health and Senior Vice Chair of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr Williams is a global leader in stroke health disparities and Principal Investigator of multiple large NIH health disparities-focused research awards. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and received many prestigious awards. These include a European Stroke Research Foundation Investigator of the Year award, Columbia University Teacher of the Year award, National Humanism in Medicine award from the Association of American Medical Colleges, National Medical Association Health Advocacy Award, and Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business list. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians. Along with Hip Hop Pioneer Doug E Fresh, he is co-Founder and President of Hip Hop Public Health, an award-winning internationally recognized New York-based nonprofit
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Bukola Jejeloye is the Managing Director & Founder of Offline Diplomat, an advisory firm providing strategic planning, international relations and development, Climate Action, ESG, sustainability & partnerships advisory to global governments, organizations, and the private sector.
He has extensive experience working with multiple sectors and stakeholders, including Nithio Energy Holding, Avenir Health, AfDB, ECOWAS, African Union, World Bank, United Nations, in North America, Europe, Asia and especially in Africa. He was previously a Principal at Skoll Foundation, a founding Vice President of ESG and CSR at Black Rhino Group (portfolio company of BlackStone). He sits on the Boards of several organizations including WBA, N-Square and If Not Us Then Who.
Bukola has a J.D. in Law from Columbia University (SOAS, University of London), M.S. in Nuclear Engineering & Technology Management from MIT, and B.S. in Nuclear & Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Norma Rodriguez joined the Skoll team in 2020 and currently serves as the Analyst for the Portfolio and Investments Team providing project and administrative support.
Prior to Skoll, Norma worked as the Development and Operations Associate at Foundation for a College Education where she assisted in fundraising and all things operations.
Norma earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College where she double majored in Arabic Studies and Religion with a concentration in Latino Studies. Norma enjoys going for long runs, eating earl grey ice cream, and binging tv shows of various qualities.
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President and CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Nicole Taylor is the president and CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation – the world’s largest community foundation with over $2.5 billion in annual grantmaking and a deep commitment to solving its region’s toughest challenges through advocacy, research, policy and grantmaking. Nicole also spent more than 15 years with the East Bay Community Foundation, eventually serving as its president and CEO for six years. Nicole received both her M.A. in Education and A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University. She served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for six years and is currently a board member for Common Sense Media, Carnegie Foundation and Top Hat, a market leader in student engagement solutions in higher education. She is on Stanford University’s Advisory Council for the Graduate School of Education and In 2022, Nicole was named to the annual Forbes 50 over 50 list and recognized by Inside Philanthropy as “Community Foundation Leader of the Year.”
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Program Director, McNulty Foundation
Nina is the Program Director of the McNulty Foundation, where she manages grantmaking and partnerships. Nina oversees the McNulty Prize, including advising and amplifying its community of grantees. She played a critical role in creating the Catalyst Fund for early-stage social ventures, the Global Response Fund during the pandemic, and funding areas on civic participation and climate solutions.
She has consulted on diversity and gender policy, corporate sustainability, and program strategy for the UN Global Compact, Unilever and various nonprofits/social enterprises. She previously lived in Mumbai, where she taught youth leaders and designed and trained school leaders with the Akanksha Foundation.
Nina holds an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA from UC San Diego.
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Founder and Chief Equity Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity
Nathaniel Smith is the founder and Chief Equity Officer of the Atlanta-based Partnership for Southern Equity. A child of Southern Freedom Movement Activists, Smith works to advance racial equity through an equity agenda, which advances just outcomes that are sensitive to the needs and circumstances of communities – erasing barriers to success and creating the conditions that enable just and fair inclusion into a society in which all people can participate, prosper and reach their full potential.
Under Smith’s leadership, PSE created the South’s first equity-mapping tool, the Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas and led a coalition of diverse stakeholders to support a $13 million transit referendum that expanded MARTA into a new county for the first time in 45 years. Through its COVID-19 Rapid Relief Fund, PSE distributed more than $500,000 to more than 30 organizations because of the initial investment of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and the United Way of Greater Atlanta.
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As EA and Program Manager, Connect & Champion, Natalie provides a wide range of project and administrative support for the Chief Communications and Partnerships Officer and across the Foundation’s “connect” and “champion” work. She works closely with the Network and Partnerships, Public Engagement and Communications, and Community and Convenings teams.
Natalie joined the Skoll Foundation in 2020 as a Senior Administrative Assistant. In this role she provided cross-disciplinary support across the Global Partnerships, Public Engagement and Communications, and Funder Alliances teams.
Before Skoll, Natalie managed the office for Sacramento architecture firm, Arch | Nexus SAC. As the first Living Certified building in California, working at Arch | Nexus SAC introduced her to the complexities and beauty of regenerative and biophilic design. Prior to her time in Sacramento, Natalie managed the office and lesson program for Webb Ranch, a horseback riding facility in the SF Bay Area.
Natalie earned her B.S. in Animal and Veterinary Science from the University of Vermont and hopes to move back to the small idyllic state one day. In her spare time, she finds any excuse to be outdoors with friends and family, especially if good food and/or backpacking is involved.
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Nadir Shams is Managing Director, Strategy and Learning at the Skoll Foundation. He supports leadership and teams across the Foundation on analyzing learnings, evidence-based decision making, prototyping new ways and areas for working, and catalyzing philanthropy towards transformational social change.
Nadir is a mission-driven development leader with over fifteen years of international and US experience. As a strategy consultant with Spring Impact in San Francisco and Dalberg Advisors in Nairobi, Nadir's passion is to help leaders achieve greater reach and depth of impact through strategy design, operational effectiveness, and partnerships. From his time as a development practitioner with Innovations for Poverty Action, One Acre Fund, The Carter Center, and others, Nadir is driven to help communities identify and achieve their own vision of wellbeing.
He is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (M.A.). While raised up and down the US east coast, Nadir now lives with his wife in Oakland and loves to exercise, outdoor adventure, listen to good music and podcasts, and support his—typically underdog—sports teams.
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CEO and Co-Founder, President of the Board, Results for America
Michele Jolin is the CEO and co-Founder of Results for America. Michele has over 30 years of entrepreneurial and leadership roles in government and the nonprofit sector. Michele served as Senior Advisor for Social Innovation at the White House under President Obama, where she designed and launched the first Social Innovation Fund. Before joining the White House, Michele was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and co-edited the book Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President. Michele was a Vice President at Ashoka, a global foundation that invests in social entrepreneurs. Michele also served in the Clinton White House as the Chief of Staff for President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers for CEA Chairs Joseph Stiglitz and Janet Yellen. She also worked for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.
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Executive Director, Transparency and Accountability Initiative
Michael is an expert in good governance and multi-stakeholder approaches and a champion of impactful funding for these issues. He leads the Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative – Funders for Participatory Governance (formerly the Transparency and Accountability Initiative), which is a platform for funder learning and collective action, leveraging over $500 in active grants, at the intersection of climate, democratic and fiscal accountability and justice. Michael advises philanthropic and government donors on programming and practices.
In past roles, notably at the World Bank, Michael incubated new initiatives ranging from collective action against corruption to a business alliance against malnutrition to the Open Contracting Partnership that promotes better outcomes from the estimated $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. With deep expertise on natural resource governance issues, Michael was the World Bank’s Global Lead for Extractives Governance.
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CEO, microTERRA
Marissa Cuevas is the founder and CEO of microTERRA, a climate tech start-up that transforms water pollution into functional ingredients.
Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Tech Pioneer, our vision is to create ingredients that help protect our environment. Ingredients that instead of using water, are cleaning water.
She has been recognized by the MIT as one of the most innovative people in Latam under 35. Marissa is an Echoing Green Fellow and a National Geographic explorer.
She holds a Bachelor´s degree in energy and process engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and holds a master’s degree in sustainability management from Columbia University.
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Director of Program Operations and Impact,
AshokaManmeet Mehta is the Director of Program Operations and Impact for Ashoka U.S. where she is building strategic collaborations to identify and accelerate systems changing ideas. With more than 18 years of experience in the corporate and social sector, she has advised Foundations, companies, and individuals. on developing a systems-driven strategy for finding and funding transformative solutions globally. She founded GlobalGiving’s online crowdfunding program, “The GlobalGiving Accelerator” in 2007. The Accelerator was the first globally accessible mechanism for social entrepreneurs and nonprofits to access funding from the $270 US dollars philanthropic market. She grew up living in many cities across India, holds an MBA, and a degree in Masters in International Relations and Public Policy from the Maxwell School in Syracuse, NY.
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Secretary General, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Lysa is Secretary-General of CIVICUS and lives in South Africa. She has championed human rights and international mobilisation for two decades. She started her career working for grassroots organisations fighting to end urban poverty in India, and subsequently spearheaded trans-national campaigns calling for government accountability. Before joining CIVICUS, she worked as Head of Outreach for the UN High-Level Panel that drafted the blueprint for the Sustainable Development Goals, and as Global Campaigns Director at Save the Children. These roles have shaped a deep interest in and understanding of grassroots-to-global activism, which continues to drive and inform her work. Lysa can be reached through her LinkedIn or Twitter (@lysajohnSA) handles.
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Senior Foundation Executive, Greenwood Place
Lucy Clarke is a Partner at Greenwood Place. Lucy is a specialist charity and philanthropy lawyer by background and has worked at leading international law firms in London, where she advised a wide range of not for profit organisations and individuals.
Before joining Greenwood Place, Lucy was a consultant for UK and international charities, with a particular focus on governance. In this role, she supported a number of trustee boards through periods of strategic change and worked alongside individuals establishing and expanding charities operating overseas.
Lucy has also worked as a freelance writer for Practical Law, contributing to the development of resources on governance issues for charity trustees and their advisors, and at the Institute for Philanthropy. Her voluntary roles include serving as a trustee of several operational and grant making charities, and working in legal access and youth opportunity projects in Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.
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Executive Director, Instituto Identidades do Brasil
Luana Génot is President and Executive Director of ID_BR - Instituto Identidades do Brasil (https://simaigualdaderacial.com.br/en/), where she is responsible for the organization’s leadership, development and expansion. ID_BR has nearly 60 staff working throughout Brazil to support companies, government agencies and third sector organizations with anti-racist education and affirmative action on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Winner of the Folha de SP 2022 Award in the Human Rights Category, member of the L’Oréal Advisory Board - Global D&I. She is also a member of Presidency's Council for Economic and Social Development, and the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders.
With a degree in marketing from PUC-RIO, Luana was a Capes scholar of the Science Without Borders Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the USA, She also holds a master's degree in Ethnic-Racial Relations from CEFET-RJ, Mother to Alice and Hugo, Luana is a writer and columnist for Ela Magazine
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Executive Director And CEO, Hip-Hop Public Health
Lori is Hip Hop Public Health's inaugural Executive Director, bringing 25+ years’ experience in public health and education and deep expertise in developing and scaling innovative, equitable health, fitness, and wellness programs.
Earlier in her career, Lori proudly served as the founding Executive Director of the NYC Department of Education’s Office of School Wellness Programs orchestrating curriculum, assessment and professional learning initiatives to revitalize health and physical education for 1.1 million students in 1,600 public schools. Lori also served as Vice President of Healthy Lifestyles for NYC YMCAs spearheading health innovation and chronic disease prevention programs to meet diverse community needs.
Lori is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concentrating in health equity and social justice, and an Adelphi University Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Health & Sport Sciences.
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President & CEO, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Liz Schrayer serves as President & CEO of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), a broad-based nationwide coalition of businesses, NGOs, veterans, Mayors, farmers and faith leaders that advocates for strong U.S. global leadership through development and diplomacy.
Ms. Schrayer serves on the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s Development Advisory Council, USAID’s Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, as well as several advisory boards for her alma mater, the University of Michigan, including the Ford School of Public Policy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been published in TIME, Newsweek, The Hill, USA Today, and other outlets.
Ms. Schrayer also serves as President of Schrayer & Assoc, a nationwide consulting firm which works on a wide range of domestic and international issues. Prior to starting her own firm, she served as Political Director of AIPAC and founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
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Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Kanini Mutooni is an accomplished impact investor and social entrepreneur with extensive experience in East Africa, Europe, and the United States.
She is the Regional Managing Director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK), a US-based foundation that invests in early-stage and growth-stage entrepreneurs developing innovative solutions to global challenges.
Prior to joining DRK, Kanini held leadership positions at Toniic, the global action network for impact investors, the USAID-funded East Africa Trade and Investment Hub, and several investment banks.
Throughout her career, Kanini has demonstrated a deep commitment to leveraging finance and investment to drive positive social and environmental impact.
She has been instrumental in supporting numerous high-impact enterprises across various sectors, including healthcare, education, agriculture, and financial inclusion.
Her expertise in financial analysis, investment structuring, and org
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Executive Director, Collective Change Lab
John is currently the Executive Director of the Collective Change Lab, a non profit focused on advancing transformational social change. Previously, John was Global Managing Director at FSG, a non profit consulting firm and think tank that John co-led for 17 years. John has been a field leader in innovating practices related to systems change and strategic philanthropy. He is a co-author of the ground-breaking Stanford Social Innovation Review articles "Collective Impact" and "The Dawn of System Leadership," among other works, as well as the book Do More than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World. John speaks frequently around the world on deepening approaches to social change. Prior to joining FSG, John worked for 17 years in marketing and business strategy consulting. John is a 1983 graduate of Dartmouth College and a 1989 graduate of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Interim Director, Africa Partners Collective
Jodie has been part of the Africa Partners Collective (formerly Africa Donor Collective) secretariat team since late 2020, supporting Virgin Unite and members to convene and mobilise funds through the pandemic, and shaping the role of the Collective beyond the emergency. Jodie's background is in capacity building, partnership development and resource mobilisation, working with and for organisations like CCS Fundraising, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative and Institute for Global Change, Luminate, Digital Action and others. Jodie has a law degree and completed a Master's in Business Administration and MSc Green Economy during the pandemic.
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Jessica Jacobson is the Senior Manager for Research & Insights at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford.
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Jess Feingold is an executive leader, impact investor, and creative entrepreneur. She serves as one of Common Future’s co-CEOs following a five year tenure as Chief Strategy Officer, where alongside the CEO, she led a rebrand and financial turnaround, forging the path that led the organization to receive the Skoll Award for Social Innovation in 2022. To the role, she brings expertise in brand strategy and positioning, grant and capital raising, storytelling and influence—all in service to building a more equitable economy.
Prior to Common Future, Jess was Director of Development at Kiva.org, where she led corporate impact campaigns and the launch of the World Refugee Fund. Previously, as the Director of Partnerships at Ashoka Changemakers, she brokered unlikely collaborations between Fortune 500 companies and leading social entrepreneurs. With 15+ years of experience in social enterprise leadership, Jess has been a co-founder of LiV and served on the founding team of Move This World;
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President, Fair Count
Dr. Jeanine Abrams McLean is the President at Fair Count, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, founded by Stacey Abrams. Fair Count’s goal is to ensure that every person in Georgia and the nation is counted for a fair and accurate census and to build pathways to continued civic participation, including voting and redistricting. Jeanine is a highly skilled researcher with over 20 years of experience conducting population-based studies and projects. She led the creation of statistically-relevant census undercount maps of all 50 states with a focus on Black and Latinx communities and advocated for community-driven solutions through the pairing of researchers and organizers. She is widely renowned for championing the voices of the rural South, earning her a seat on the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee. Jeanine was recently selected for the Keseb Democracy Fellowship, which focuses on cross-country learning with democracy entrepreneurs from the USA, Brazil, and South Africa.
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CEO, African Leadership Institute
Dr Jackie Chimhanzi is the CEO of the African Leadership Institute, which runs the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship, in partnership with Oxford University. It aims to nurture a new generation of African leaders. She was previously the Senior Strategist of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, and before that, as a Strategy Lead at Deloitte Consulting, she led project teams on diverse client engagements, interrogating and informing the strategies of major entities in the power, oil and gas, steel and brewery industries. Whilst at Deloitte, she was instrumental in setting up the Deloitte Africa Desk and advised clients on accessing opportunities on the African continent. She is a member of the ONE Global Board of Directors and also serves on the ADvTECH and Econet Wireless boards - listed entities. She chairs both boards' ESG Committees. She started her career as an academic and is published in various peer-reviewed journals in the area of strategy implementation.
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Chief of Staff, Operation Fistula
Helen is a queer feminist working to build health systems that work for women and girls everywhere.
By day, she’s Chief of Staff at Operation Fistula - a data-driven NGO working to end fistula for every woman, everywhere. By night, she’s an amateur chef, crafter and creative, and community catalyst.
For a decade, Helen has been devoted to maximizing the potential of social impact organizations that provide access points and services to those who have been ignored, unserved, or forgotten. She’s happiest when she is scaling ideas, solving problems, connecting communities, and driving impact.
Helen has a BA from Cambridge and an MA from Yale - both in Theology and Philosophy - so, if you like exploring big questions, she’s ready to sit and reflect, debate and discuss. Coupled with her passion for ideation is a fundamentally operational mindset that wants to get stuff done and make a tangible impact.
As an Oxford local, she’d be happy to share her favorite haunts with you!
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CEO, Smart Start
Grace Matlhape is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SmartStart, driving an inspiring social franchise that is revolutionizing access to high-quality early learning opportunities. Prior to her role at SmartStart, she served as the CEO of LoveLife, a nationally acclaimed organization dedicated to HIV prevention and fostering social and behavioural change among young people. With an extensive background in social justice and development in South Africa, Grace possesses a deep-seated passion for implementing innovative strategies that amplify the impact of evidence-based programmes. Her work focuses on reaching and positively influencing large segments of the population, ultimately striving for lasting change. She serves on the boards of both commercial and non-profit organisations, leveraging her expertise to guide strategic decisions that benefit society at large. Grace is not just a leader; she is a catalyst for positive change, and her impact continues to ripple throughout society.
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RFH-Lesotho Country Director and RFH-I Board Chairman, Riders for Health International
An Environmental Health Practitioner with M.Tech qualification from The Central University of Technology, Free State in South Africa (Majored in Occupational Health and Safety). Works for Riders for Health as Country Director for the programme in Lesotho and as The Chair for Riders for Health Management Council. Has some lecturing experience teaching at The Central University of Technology, Free State and The National University of Lesotho, at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Environmental Health Department, and external examiner at The National Health Training College in Lesotho, Environmental Health Department. Have post graduate Diploma in Water Supply and Sanitation and in Project Management with The University of Zimbabwe and University of Cape Town, respectively. Took a Leadership course at Oxford University (tailormade for Riders for Health Management).
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Partner, Together Institute
Fabian is co-founder of the Together Institute, an organization dedicated to helping purpose-driven communities, networks and ecosystems thrive.
Fabian is also the co-author of the Community Canvas, an open-source framework to support community builders across the globe.
In the past, Fabian was an Innovator in Residence for the Kauffman Foundation. Fabian also co-founded Sandbox, a global community of young change makers, with 1200 active members in 40+ hubs across the world. Together with Dave Radparvar and Mike Radparvar, Fabian co-founded Holstee, an organization providing tools for a meaningful life.
Fabian regularly writes about the intersection of community & purpose on the Together Institute blog: www.together.is
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Chief Executive Officer, International Fund for Public Interest Media
Nishant Lalwani is Co-Founder and Senior Vice President at the Global Innovation Fund. Nishant Lalwani has more than a decade of experience in private sector development and social enterprise. He was a founder of the Monitor Inclusive Markets group in India that focused on market-based solutions for poverty. Prior to Monitor, he worked with the UNDP in Zambia, where he helped develop new financing products for microfinance institutions across the country. He also spent several years in London and New York as a strategy consultant with Marakon Associates, and he sits on the board of Shivia, a multinational non-profit that supports livelihood creation.
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President, Ploughshares Fund
World-renowned expert on nuclear weapons policy, Dr. Emma Belcher is the President of Ploughshares Fund. In leading the largest foundation singularly focused on reducing the threat of nuclear weapons, Emma is an authority on the threat of nuclear weapons and the nuances of nuclear weapons policy. She has experience in a variety of media concerning the threat of nuclear weapons.
Although she’s spent the past 12 years working for foundations, her experience extends beyond philanthropy – she began her career in the Australian government, serving in several roles including as a national security advisor, and held multiple fellowships at prestigious organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University’s Belfer Center during and after earning her doctorate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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Founder & Director, Long Term Foundation
Tony Gannon founded Abbey Capital in 2000. He has overseen the company’s growth over the last two decades and is a recognised global leader in the industry.
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Managing Partner, ACIOE Associates
Ekenem Isichei is a seasoned professional with a rich portfolio that spans the Energy, Social Development, ICT, FMCG, and Health sectors. Having lived and worked in multiple continents—including Europe, North America, and Africa—he brings a global perspective to his key management roles.
His acumen in Advocacy, social impact, Digital Transformation, Public Affairs, and Risk Management has catalyzed business performance and significantly influenced policy in various African markets.
He has contributed several high-level dialogues across the finance, health, and energy transition landscape. He also has as a passion for Youth development, nutrition, and gender equality. He contributed to women's economic empowerment policy, which was signed into law in 2023.
Ekenem was also a member of the Presidential Committee on ICT and Creativity in Nigeria. Ekenem was part of the organizing team for the US Africa Leaders Forum in 2022 organized by President Biden.
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Co-Founder, Axum.Earth
Edwin is co-Founder of Axum, the leading Afrocentric impact firm dedicated to fostering climate-positive inclusive growth across Africa and the Middle East, addressing pressing global challenges that lie at the intersection of inclusion, prosperity, climate change, and technological innovation.
He previously served as the Global Managing Partner of Dalberg Advisors, leading the firm's strategy and operations across 35+ offices in the world. Before that he was a Director at CHAI after working at McKinsey&Company in NY. He is a Young Global Leader, Tutu Fellow and serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, Nabo Capital, Mozilla Foundation, Prudential Kenya and The End Fund. He also serves on numerous advisory councils, notably The Wellbeing Project. He holds a BA from Amherst College.
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Founder and CEO, RefugePoint
Sasha Chanoff is the founder & CEO of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. He is the co-author of From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions, a leadership book about moral decision points that shape our lives. He is a recipient of the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Harvard Center for Public Leadership Gleitsman International Activist Award, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He has received social entrepreneur fellowships from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Ashoka, & Echoing Green. He is a board member of Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID) Global. He has a M.A. in Humanitarian Assistance from the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
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Program Director, Pershing Square Foundation
Diana Won is a Program Director of The Pershing Square Foundation and oversees its social entrepreneurship portfolio. Diana is responsible for managing the foundation’s portfolio of grants, supporting special projects, building new partnerships, and offering strategic guidance to grantee partners. Additionally, Diana leads diligence for the social innovation and environment portfolios.
Prior to PSF, Diana supported social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, lectured at universities on design thinking, and helped adapt frameworks to measure social impact as a Consultant and Luce Scholar in Seoul, South Korea.
Diana has a background in community-economic development and entrepreneurship. Her experience spans from Peru and Columbia to Newark, NJ. Diana graduated from Rutgers University’s Bloustein School with a BA in Urban Planning and Public Policy and also received an MPP from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School.
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Vanessa works on the Community and Convenings team, supporting the curation and care of the Skoll World Forum delegate community. She has been working in the nonprofit field for over ten years developing community engagement and workforce development programs. Most recently, she served 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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I am born and raised in California, worked and lived in Vietnam for 3 years and Guatemala for 6 years and have traveled to over 60 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen. Through these experiences I have come to appreciate how we have so much more in common than we have in any meaningful differences.
I am currently CEO of Roots of Peace, have a Bachelor of Arts in political science and an MBA from University of San Francisco, co-founder of the social enterprise Noble House Spice and am part of the founding team at Rosta Caffe which is a social enterprise looking to transform the coffee supply chain. I believe in the power of partnerships to bring transformative change and am a passionate advocate of regenerative agriculture.
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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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Partner, Braymont
Silvia Bastante de Unverhau is a global philanthropy expert with close to 25 years of experience. She is a Senior Advisor with LGT Philanthropy Advisory. She is also a Senior Advisor to Co-Impact, and provides independent consulting services through Braymont. Prior roles include Chief Philanthropy Officer at Co-Impact, Global Head of Philanthropy Advisory at UBS, and Associate Partner at Monitor Group. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Organization of American States and Amnesty International, among others. Silvia also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, lectures for the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Strategic and Operational Philanthropy at the University of Geneva, and sits on the Board of I am Water. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. https://www.silviabastante.org/
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Founder, Catalyst Group, Swasti
A Social Investor, Shiv Kumar has 30 years of experience solving complex social problems in India and internationally. A post-graduate in management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) co-founded the Catalyst Group of institutions, consisting of nine entities that further the health and wealth of marginalised communities. He has incubated and supported community organisations and social enterprises. And has equally succeeded and failed. He travels extensively in India and 30 other countries for work. He plays roles as required - Advisor, technical support provider, institution builder, mentor, team leader, facilitator and coach. He is passionate about communities, collaboratives, institutions, human behaviour, partnerships, technology, governance, and being a foodie, techie and cyclist.
He is the Chief Integrator of three Collabs - The Community Action Collab, the Green Health Alliance and the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Alliance-working with 500 partners.
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Managing Director, iac Berlin
Darius is CEO with the International Alumni Center. The iac Berlin supports impact driven networks and coordinates the Bosch Alumni Network – a multi-community network of over 8,000 partners of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Darius' mission at iac Berlin is to support trust-based and collaborative practices in philanthropy. He is actively involved in coalition building processes and advises social change actors on the design and implementation of networked approaches.
Until 2016 Darius was managing director of MitOst a Berlin based NGO that connects active citizens in an open and diverse network in Europe and its neighbouring regions. He has co-developed and coordinated fellowship programs and worked as consultant and evaluator for diverse foundations and public institutions.
He graduated in Slavic Studies and Philosophy in Bochum, Wrocław and Potsdam.
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Program Officer for Family Economic Security Latin America and the Caribbean, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Dana François is a LAC Program Officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She holds a family economic security portfolio and applies equity, systems-change, and ecosystem-building lenses. She leads several cross-sectoral coalitions of over 130 global actors whose efforts advance economic development, sustainable agricultural production, capital, market access, and food systems for thousands of producers, schoolchildren, entrepreneurs, and small, micro-enterprises and biodiversity as Board Chair for the Haiti Biodiversity Fund. For over 20 years, she has focused on increasing economic and livelihood outcomes through system-change efforts in sustainable agriculture, business, community-led food systems, strategic partnerships, coalition building, philanthropic engagement, and catalyzing capital. Dana is an Innovation Leader of the Babson College Lewis Institute and a NEID Global board governance & DEI chair. At home with family, she enjoys her dog Myra, vegan baking and food photography
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Senior Researcher, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Cynthia Rayner is a researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on how organizations and communities work to shape social systems in collective ways.
Cynthia's passion is finding "stories from the edge" that reveal the power of people in collectives. She recently co-authored a book, The Systems Work of Social Change, with Dr. Francois Bonnici. The book was published by Oxford University Press in September 2021 (https://www.thesystemswork.org/). She is also the Systems Storytelling Initiative Lead at the Collective Change Lab and a member of Catalyst 2030.
Cynthia’s work in social change began when, as a recovering management consultant, she joined the LGT Impact Fellowship which brought her to South Africa for more than a decade. She has served in several organizations, including Generation Ubuntu, an afterschool program educating children in Cape Town; mothers2mothers, an African social enterprise employing women to guide other women to good health; and the Starfish Greathearts Foundation, a nonprofit supporting children and families in South Africa.
Cynthia also enjoys investing in small businesses that act as communities for people to achieve their personal potential. She and her sister, Erica Whalen, are the co-owners of Mang’Oh Yoga, a yoga studio in New York City which is home to a vibrant community of teachers, students and staff.
Cynthia holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from INSEAD. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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Nicole joined the Skoll Foundation in 2019 and serves as Grants Manager. In this role, she supports the goals of the grants management team that advances the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking operations, systems, and policies. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Nicole held multiple positions at Ministry with Community - a daytime shelter in Kalamazoo, Michigan - that provides resources to underserved individuals and empowers people to make positive life changes. She also spent a year working in hostels throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, exploring and learning as she traveled.
Nicole earned her Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College, where she double majored in Psychology, and Anthropology and Sociology (AnSo). Outside of work, Nicole enjoys crafting, trying new food, and catching local art and music shows.
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Founder and CEO, ZanaAfrica
Ashoka Fellow Megan White wa Mukuria is a recognized leader in the field of gender equity and specifically the role menstrual health plays in accessing full rights, with 23 years’ experience in non-profit and for-profit leadership in Kenya. She successfully built ZanaAfrica from ideation into a recognized leader internationally, creating holistic impact through policy, product innovation, sanitary pad sales, rights-based health education, and social and behavior change communication that benefitted over 400,000 last year. ZanaAfrica’s proven intervention, developed from over a decade of listening to girls, changes gender norms and reproductive health knowledge for adolescents in just 18 months and is being scaled up with government into the public school curriculum, with plans for multi-country expansion. Their business arm turned over $480,000 last year and delivers health outcomes through retail sales of sanitary pads. Megan is a founding Board member of the Harvard Club of Kenya.
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Chief Executive Officer, UBS Optimus Foundation
Maya Ziswiler is the CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation in 2022. The Foundation leverages philanthropic capital to help unlock more private and public funding to build an impact economy.
Ms. Ziswiler has been with the UBS Optimus Foundation since 2012 and during this time has made significant contributions to the Foundation’s leading reputation in social finance and collective philanthropy, in education, health, child protection and the environment. This includes spearheading the successful launch of the first Development Impact Bond, the first global blended finance fund investing in outcomes contracts as well as launching and growing the foundation’s social investment portfolio.
Prior to joining the UBS Optimus Foundation, Ms. Ziswiler was responsible for managing private sector partnerships at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria globally and UNICEF in Peru. Before that, she held various marketing and commercial roles at Procter and Gamble's in markets such
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Senior Advisor, Philanthropy, Constanter
Sally Faiz is a Senior Advisor in Philanthropy at Constanter, working alongside the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, Porticus and Laudes Foundation. Previously, Sally was Head of Grantmaking at UBS Optimus Foundation, leading a team of grant makers in China, Singapore, Europe and USA and working closely with the banking divisions, clients and nonprofit partners on collective philanthropic initiatives. Sally was Global Portfolio Manager at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), working in child protection, education, early childhood development, child health and nutrition in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia and Europe. She started her career at McKinsey becoming an Engagement Manager working with for profit, social sector and foundation clients in Europe, West Africa and the USA. Sally spent time as a humanitarian relief worker in Angola and Iran and has a BA in English Literature from Bristol University where she was elected President of the Students’ Union.
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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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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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Mara Lee Durrell joined Rise in 2024 as its Executive Director, whose mission is to educate, heal, and empower children by embedding trauma-informed, play-based programs in vulnerable communities around the world. For nearly a decade prior she was the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and the OneVoice Movement, which received the Skoll Award in 2008. Mara previously served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. Before that she was Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director. A campaign veteran, Mara has served in leadership positions on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jeanne Shaheen. While in DC, she had the honor of being an adjunct professor in politics at George Washington University for six years.
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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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Co-Founder, MakeSense
Co-founder of makesense.org / Obama scholar @columbia University / Ashoka fellow
Global issues such as climate change, poverty, and food security require local solutions developed in partnership with a global community of citizens, governments and businesses. In 2010, after traveling through Asia to experience on-the-ground social entrepreneurship, I realized there was a missing link; people want to help but do not know how. For this reason I created makesense: the catalyst for all people to collectively make positive impact. 10 years later, the makesense community is made up of 2,500 trained community organizers who engaged 200,000 citizens that co-created 8,000+ grassroots initiatives addressing social and environmental issues. Our initiatives have impacted more than 4 million lives and we worked with more than a 100 institutions.
The number “4 million” means a lot, and each life has a value that cannot be quantified. I come from French Polynesia, a country whose population is only 300,000. While makesense’s work spans across 45 countries, my most heartfelt impact has been at home addressing sustainability and promoting youth leadership.
Our next ambition for the next 10 years : involve 10% of the 18-35 years old in taking action to create change. Our plan to makesense it happen on http://www.makesense.org/en
COVID : See how we leverage makesense to provide a community lead/Bottom-up covid-response effort in 6 countries accross the world. http://www.makesense.org/en/donor-circle
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Founder and Director, Fundacion Kaleidos
Ricardo is the President of Fundación Kaleidos, an Argentine foundation established in 2000. He is also on the Advisory Board of EQC Impact Investment, Impact Bridge, and Greenwood Place. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
Fundacion Kaleidos focuses on gender equality, education, access to health, and early childhood development. Jakairá, a project developed in collaboration with the Swiss foundation Children Action, works with vulnerable adolescent mothers and fathers and their babies.
After two decades, our current challenge is to scale up to a national level. For this reason, in 2022 we launched RedMAPA to develop a national network of organizations and to strengthen the bridge with the public sector to promote the well-being of adolescent mothers and fathers and the development of their children on a broader scale.
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Director, African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University
Christian Happi, is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics and Director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of infectious Diseases, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria.
He did his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, and worked there as a Research Scientist. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Professor Happi used next generation sequencing technology to perform the first sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 in Africa, within 48 hours of receiving sample of the first case in Nigeria.
He received the 2019 Human Genome Organization Africa Prize; the 2020 Bailey K. Ashford Medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2021, he received the Al-Sumait Prize for African Development. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine.
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Board member, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Peter Möhrle Stiftung
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Managing Director, Social Enterprise Finance, US International Development Finance Corporation
Richard Greenberg is Managing Director of the Office of Catalytic Investments at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.
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Director, Bulungula Incubator
Réjane is the Director and a co-founder of the Bulungula Incubator (BI), a rural development organization in South Africa. With nearly 20 years of work in rural areas, BI focuses on integrated development strategies in education, health, sustainable livelihoods, and youth acceleration.
Her 11-year career in finance culminated in the ABSIP Economist of the Year award. She shifted to the non-profit sector, accruing 13 years of experience, and received the John P. McNulty prize and the 2019 British Council Global Social Impact award.
Réjane, an economist and CFA charterholder, holds a Business Science degree from UCT and a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, UK. She's a Skoll Fellow and part of the Africa Leadership Initiative in the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). Réjane serves on several non-profit boards, including Friends of Bulungula, DataDrive2030, and Equality Collective. She was appointed to board of Aeon Investment Management in 2023.
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Cheryl Strong is the Executive Assistant for the Chief Strategy Officer/Office at Skoll Foundation.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Cheryl supported C-level executives in legal and financial sectors. She earned her AA degree in photography from the College of San Mateo.
In her free time, Cheryl enjoys hiking, photography, cycling, dancing, and travel.
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Chief Executive Officer, Mafisa Livestock
Charlotte Scott is the founder and CEO of Mafisa Livestock, a Zambian non-profit. Mafisa helps traditional cattle raising communities to regenerate natural rangelands and transform their livelihoods. From a starting point of very low inputs and very low outputs, Mafisa farmers improve herd health, manage grazing and access improved markets, increasing resilience and building sustainable livelihoods in very fragile environments. Mafisa's expansion is funded through carbon credits.
Charlotte has worked for development agencies, universities & research organisations. She played a leadership role in building the social cash transfer programme in Zambia. She is Chair of National Food and Nutrition Council and former Chair of Communities for the Zambia Wildlife Authority. She wrote the global thematic report on inequality for the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on development goals, guiding SDG11. Her PhD focused on extreme poverty in remote areas. She's a Zambian citizen.
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As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact measurement activities in her roles as Senior Vice President of Programs and Chief Impact Officer.
Prior to joining GHC, Heather was Vice President at Global Health Strategies, an international advocacy and communications consulting firm. She managed a portfolio of public and private sector clients, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Women Deliver and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Heather previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Planned Parenthood Global in Washington D.C. Additionally, she spent time in Ethiopia establishing a youth program for EngenderHealth. Before joining the global health community, Heather spent six years at Accenture, a management consulting firm. She holds a Mas
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Founder - Wildbound, Wildbound
Songqiao Yao is the founder of WildBound, an innovative social enterprise that facilitates experiential education, climate actions, and artistic expression to cultivate sustainability leadership and systems change. Songqiao is also a mindfulness-based coach and facilitator, currently building a awareness-based network to support leadership and
resilience for environmental organizations in Asia.
Prior to founding WildBound, Songqiao was the first Chinese participant and faculty member for Homeward Bound, the largest all-female science and leadership expedition to Antarctica. Over the past 10 years, she has led and advised youth climate organizations and projects, worked to conserve China’s rivers as a National Geographic Global Explorer, and consulted on agriculture development projects in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.
Songqiao received a Mphil in Geography from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar and a MBA from Oxford as a Skoll Scholar.
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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 Z. Linnen is the CEO of PeerForward following its original co-founders. Mr. Linnen has steered PeerForward’s programs for more than a decade, cultivating deep experience in youth development, program innovation, and organizational leadership. He has contributed to virtually every function of the organization, from designing and facilitating workshops for educators and students to fostering school, community, and funder partnerships and engaging program alumni. Mr. Linnen shaped PeerForward’s current model, which elevates PeerForward’s unique method of structuring and leveraging peer influence to achieve meaningful schoolwide outcomes. Independent research has found that the model has proven to result in up to 26% higher financial aid applications in partner schools than in similar schools without the program. His lifetime commitment to creating pathways to higher education for students in under-resourced communities also drives his participation as a member of the governing board
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As Chief Executive Officer at Girls Not Brides, Faith is responsible for the implementation of the Girls Not Brides Partnership Strategy, to fulfil Girls Not Brides' mission: a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men, and can achieve their full potential.
Before joining Girls Not Brides, Faith served as Global Director for The Girl Generation, an initiative working to galvanize the Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation/cutting.
Faith is a public health expert with more than 20 years’ experience in leading, managing and implementing complex public health programmes in Africa. Her experience includes working as the founding Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association and supporting palliative care global advocacy and services development in over 20 African countries.
Faith holds a Master’s degree in Population Policies and Programmes and a Doctorate in Women’s Economic Development and Fertility Behaviour.
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Director, International Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Shaheen Kassim-Lakha is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, where she leads the development and implementation of external engagements, including collaborations with philanthropic funders, as well as local, national, and global partners. In her role, she is focused on unlocking investments and driving policy changes aimed at shifting greater resources to local organizations and lifting civil society voices. Previously, she was the Foundation’s director of international programs, overseeing various initiatives including safe water access, early childhood development for HIV and AIDS-affected children, blindness prevention, and disaster relief and recovery. She holds a doctorate in public health (DrPH) and has a broad academic and professional background in health services, hospital administration and environmental epidemiology.
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As Chief of Staff and Managing Director, Kathara Green helps the Executive Office operate at its highest level, all in service of the Skoll Foundation vision and mission. Before stepping into this role, Kathara curated programming for the Skoll World Forum and other events, as well as supported strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Kathara worked for Net Impact, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, the State Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Women for Women International.
Kathara graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she focused on international development and gender. When she's not working, she loves to travel, cook, and create.
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Programme Director, Impact Measurement, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Karim Harji is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is also the Managing Director at Evalysis, which works with organizations to clarify their impact goals and strategies; align their measurement and management approaches; and navigate the complexity of data and decisions.
Karim has made influential contributions to advance knowledge and practice in social impact measurement and impact investing. He has published on industry trends and innovative practices; supported field-building initiatives to promote the value and integrity of impact measurement; and designed education and training programs across established and emerging markets.
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Co-Founder, Phoenix Court
Saul Klein is a tech entrepreneur, investor & operator backing founders building businesses based on science & technology, to have the maximum positive impact on society. He is the cofounder of Phoenix Court, the home of LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar & Basecamp funds, & Phoenix Court Works foundation. Phoenix Court’s mission is to be a good neighbour & help people realise their full potential, allocating 10% of profits in its management company and 2% of carry in all funds to its foundation to invest in local organisations. Prior to founding Phoenix Court, Saul was a partner at Index Ventures & original CEO of LoveFilm. He co-founded Seedcamp, Europe’s first accelerator; Zinc, a mission driven company builder with LSE; & Newton Venture Program, with LBS. A member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology & a NED on DSIT’s board, Saul serves on Camden’s STEAM & Economic Renewal Commissions. He was a trustee of Comic Relief for six years.
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In a world full of innovative software, applying technology to solve social problems is Padmaja’s passion. As the Vice President of Technology and Digital Transformation at the Skoll Foundation, she is chartered with defining and architecting technology solutions to support the foundation’s initiatives and further its mission of creating large scale change.
Padmaja has more than 20 years of experience in managing global Information Technology organizations and providing solutions across enterprise business operations. Prior to Skoll, Padmaja was the Senior Director of Business applications at Brocade Communications, enabling business transformation and delivering enterprise wide technology solutions.
Padmaja is also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of India Literacy Project (ILP), a non-profit organization working towards 100% literacy in India. She has been volunteering with ILP for over a decade and supported numerous initiatives that have benefited thousands of villages in India. She has also built and supported technology applications for various non-profits.
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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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Founder & Executive Director, Accountability Lab
Blair Glencorse is Co-CEO of the Accountability Lab– which makes governance work for people around the world. Blair and his team have done everything from building large-scale socially conscious music campaigns in Nigeria; to monitoring and improving public services in Pakistan; to running a global TV show called Integrity Icon to “name and fame” honest government officials. Blair is also the Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the Co-Chair of the C20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, advising the G20 on issues of anti-corruption on behalf of global civil society. Blair speaks and writes regularly on issues of open governance, citizen participation and governance.
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Climate Action Director, Fundación Avina
Paula Ellinger is director for Climate Action and part o the executive team of Fundación Avina. She has over a decade experience promoting collaboration to drive climate action among local organizations, national governments and regional networks from the southern hemisphere. Paula is co-chair of the Expert Peer Review Group of the UN Race to Zero campaign, as well as member of the board of directors of Agora Partnerships and of the technical committee of the Climate Finance Group of Latin American and the Caribbean (GFLAC).
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Founder, Jasmine Social Investments
Sam began his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006.
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding the online auction website Trade Me, which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006.
Jasmine Social Investments funds high-performing social ventures and outstanding social entrepreneurs who are solving a basic need of the very poor.
Our mission is to find extraordinary organizations 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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Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Yasmin has long believed that business and impactful entrepreneurship could be harnessed to promote a sustainable future for the next generations. The HL BaSE programme was developed by Yasmin and partners to harness the specialist practice areas of the firm to find a way to combine the expertise with social innovation movement to address the complex needs of the society.
Yasmin has been key to establishing and embedding a pro bono culture within Hogan Lovells. Yasmin helped achieve this by designing and implementing pro bono projects which focus the firm's specialist commercial legal expertise in the areas of women's rights and sustainable innovation.
Through the HL BaSE practice the firm has developed legal advisory support, which accesses experts in the firm, for international accelerator programmes for social impact business in the areas of sustainability, women’s empowerment, black and minority led business and assistive technology to improve the lives of those with disabilities
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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 serves as Director, Program Management-Investment, particularly engaging with sourcing & selecting new Skoll Awardees, co-leading Community Support initiatives, and supervising the teams' Program Coordinators who form the core operational execution of the team. Prior to joining Skoll, he managed an SAT prep academy, providing guidance and counseling to parents and students on their path towards higher education, targeted towards first generation immigrant families. He has also worked in finance, real estate management and accounting.
Vu has been actively involved within the Vietnamese American community, serving on the executive board of a regional nonprofit aimed at fostering cultural awareness, youth leadership and civic engagement. Vu earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA, and is the proud father of 3 young children, currently residing in Houston, TX.
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CEO, VC Include
Bahiyah is a recognized thought leader and entrepreneur in the asset management space around JEDI + Gender, focused on impact and sustainability. She has spent over 15 years in philanthropy, impact investing, and building new platforms to drive deeper gender, global impact and diverse representation in capital markets.
She is passionate about building new pathways to drive alpha in the alternative asset management industry, particularly through impact investing. The INCLUDE seeding platform was launched in 2018 to build infrastructure to drive sustainability and integrity around environmental and social governance, with equity and inclusion embedded in the model. VC Include has gone on to support firms with $4B of targeted AUM, led by women and diverse asset managers building institutional grade asset management firms to generate new alpha. Their best in class training and education fellowship has graduated 22 PE + VC firms since 2021 who have raised North of $320M and counting.
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Audrey Sheffield joined the Skoll Foundation team in 2020 and currently serves as Sr. Coordinator, Connections & Convenings.
Prior to joining Skoll as a Program Coordinator, Audrey worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Evaluation and Learning team at the Skoll Foundation. In this role, she worked closely with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, obtaining and organizing data from the past and present recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Audrey earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Santa Clara University. In her spare time, Audrey enjoys crossword puzzles, listening to Prince, and spending time with her two enormous Labrador Retrievers, Hobbes and Angel.
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CEO, Opportunity Collaboration
I have been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for almost two decades, starting with co-founding the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 changemakers in Boulder, Colorado, to managing Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive resorts and retreat centers, to leading Opportunity Collaboration, a global network of several thousand nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors, corporates and academics building sustainable solutions to poverty, and finally with Connective Impact, a 250 member organization for international nonprofits, businesses, and funders seeking inroads to new and diverse partners and collaborators
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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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CEO, Searching For Solutions Institute
Randy Antik is CEO of a public foundation which hosts an annual Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida. Each year we bring two Skoll Award winners to speak to our audience of very influential private sector citizens. We have brought 26 to date. Our audience of 600+ is capable to provide substantial support to Big Ideas.
The foundation started 14 years ago - founded by Randy Antik and 20 influential citizens with connections to SW Florida. We address many important subjects - education, science & technology, medicine, great institutions, social innovators, and more. We do not address any political issues and are seen as non-partisan.
Randy met Jeff Skoll many years ago and he invited Randy to attend Skoll 12+ years ago.
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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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President and CEO, Generation: You Employed
Mona Mourshed is the founding CEO of Generation: You Employed, a global nonprofit that supports adults to achieve economic mobility. Generation trains and places adult learners of all ages into careers that are otherwise inaccessible, delivering sector-leading employment and income results consistently across 17 countries and 40 professions. Since launching in 2015, Generation has over 125,000 graduates – of whom half are in the last two years - and who have earned $1.5 billion+ in wages. Generation also conducts original research on priority global employment transition topics, including supporting unemployed age 45+ individuals to successfully enter new careers. Mona has authored widely cited reports and articles on education, workforce, and social sector impact. She was named a 2024 Advocates in Aging by the American Society on Aging and is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. Mona has a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from MIT.
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Executive Director, Centre for Catalyzing Change
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi serves as the Executive Director of an Indian NGO called Centre for Catalyzing Change, (C3), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating lasting systems change at the grassroots, working with adolescent girls and women, by leveraging existing platforms to provide sustainable solutions.
Dr Gogoi is a political scientist, an advocate and crusader for realizing the rights of women and girls. She is pivotal to conceptualizing and implementing Center for Catalyzing Change’s scaled up and system change programs.Under Dr. Gogoi’s leadership, C3 has broken the myth that NGO led programs cannot be implemented at scale or be easily replicable.
She holds a PhD (International Politics), from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dr Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world by The Guardian of UK in 2011. India Today, India’s premier magazine, featured her as an Unsung Hero in the Anniversary Issue in December 2019.
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As Managing Director of Creative Services, Phil Collis is responsible for any creative / multimedia products for the Foundation, and oversees in-house films, website properties, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. In addition, Phil also manages the online strategy and media initiatives for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
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Founder and CEO, Gina’s Collective
Gina Sanders is Founder and CEO of GINA’S COLLECTIVE, an Advisory providing coaching,
connections and creativity to tech-enabled nonprofit startups. She also serves as a Venture
Partner at independent venture capital firm Advance Venture Partners, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc; as an Advisor to Y Combinator’s nonprofit startups; and as a supporter of multiple causes helping marginalized communities.
From 2010-2014, Ms. Sanders was President and Chief Executive Officer of Fairchild Fashion Media, a diversified trade and consumer media company. She led the company to high double-digit, bottom-line growth prior to its sale to Penske Media Corporation.
A 29-year veteran of Condé Nast, Ms. Sanders previously served as Vice President and Publisher of Lucky, as the founding Vice President and Publisher of Teen Vogue, and as Vice President and Publisher of Gourmet and Details.
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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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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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Co-Founder and CEO, EarthEnable
Gayatri Datar is the co-founder and CEO of EarthEnable, a social enterprise that aims to make living conditions healthier for the world’s poor, first by eliminating dirt floors. Dirt floors make people sick, and concrete is unaffordable to billions of people. EarthEnable solves this problem by selling a proprietary floor that is 80% cheaper than cement. Before founding EarthEnable, she was a Senior Consultant at Dalberg, where she focused on impact investing/social entrepreneurship, energy access, and agriculture, and a consultant at the World Bank conducting impact evaluations of agriculture projects. She has also consulted for the Government of Liberia’s Department of Revenue, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IFC, and grassroots NGOs in India, Namibia, Nicaragua, Albania, and the United States. She holds a BA and MPA/ID from Harvard, and an MBA from Stanford, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She is an Echoing Green Fellow and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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As part of the Public Engagement, Communications, and Creative Services team at the Skoll Foundation, Annah writes content and communications that drive visibility, resources, and support for social innovators. She previously managed social enterprises that equipped hundreds of women with professional and psychosocial skills in Los Angeles and East Africa. Her work is rooted in a devotion to personal and social transformation.
Annah studied journalism at Geneseo College and minored in women's studies. Based in northern New Mexico, on the current and ancestral lands of the Pueblo people, she loves to camp, slow-hike, and explore the wild deserts around her home.
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Director, Philanthropy, TED Conferences LLC
Director of Philanthropy + Impact at TED, overseeing the nonprofit's philanthropic fundraising and impact initiatives across TED's flagship conferences, climate initiative, democracy initiative, and community programs such as TEDx, TED Fellows, and TED-Ed. Background in nonprofit fundraising, project management, community engagement. Passion for strengthening impact networks for large-scale social change. Based in New York.
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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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Chief Impact Officer, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Anna Hakobyan is CIFF's Chief Impact Officer - overseeing evidence generation and scale up across health, education, nutrition and climate portfolios. Anna also Chair's CIFF technology Task Force looking to harness digital solutions to enhance impact. She serves in Board advisory capacity with Living Goods, ALMA and Triggerize and is leading CIFF's work on evidence based child malnutrition solutions, including the recently launched mutli-partner Child Nutrition Fund. Prior to CIFF, Anna has worked in senior policy and research roles with Transparency International and has worked at country level with the World Bank, as well as gender and youth INGOs.
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Partner and Co-CEO, Quintessa
Partner and CoCEO of Quintessa, since 2012 I have worked for the strategic integration of business and positive impact and effective transformation methodologies. Quintessa is a pioneer impact accelerator in Brazil. We have already supported and fostered more than 500 impact entrepreneurs and worked with more than 50 partners (big companies, foundations and institutes, investors, philanthropists and families) creating and implementing initiatives that bring solutions to urgent social and environmental challenges of our country. Also, we have created systemic programs, to embrace complex challenges that demand multi-stakeholders alignment, long term thinking and innovative structures and approaches. Graduated in public administration, I have attended Stanford Ignite (focused on entrepreneurship and innovation) and collaborated as a specialist for different areas of the impact sector, as columnist and advisor for social and entrepreneurial initiatives.
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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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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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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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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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Chief Advocacy and Partnership Officer, African Development Solutions
Maura Donlan is a leader in social impact/global philanthropy. Most recently, she served as Adeso's Chief Advocacy & Partnerships Officer, leading advocacy and resource mobilization at a Nairobi-based civil society organization that is a leader in the movement to advance locally-led development and the decolonization of aid and philanthropy. Previously, she was Director of Advocacy & Effective Social Investing at the Chandler Foundation, driving strategies to promote systems change, justice, and equity. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Social Investor Magazine and worked at the Milken Institute's Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Omidyar Network, and GMMB. Maura has experience at the UN Development Program, UN Foundation, the National Dem Institute for International Affairs, and Capitol Hill. She spent seven years supporting Ted Turner's philanthropy and social enterprises. Maura holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a master's degree from Columbia University.
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As Director of Contracts and Legal Affairs, Sangeetha provides support for the execution of responsibilities of stewardship and governance for Skoll Foundation. Sangeetha also provides occasional active support for other programmatic imperatives.
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As a 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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Founder & CEO, Peek Vision
Andrew is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon), Professor in Global Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Founder & CEO of Peek Vision. He has worked and undertaken research in over twenty countries including two years living in Kenya where he was leading a major eye disease study and the development and testing of the earliest versions of Peek’s smartphone-based eye health systems.
Peek now powers over 40 programmes in 12 countries reaching an average of 1/4 million people per month in a quest to connect people to life-changing sight restoring services.
Andrew has been listed as one of the world’s 30 most influential people in public health, has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles, is a TED speaker and TED Fellow, Rolex Laureate, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Ashoka Fellow and UBS Global Visionary.
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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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Chief Executive Officer, DEPLOY/US
Andrea Yodsampa brings expertise in energy and environmental policy, cross-sector coordination, and strategic alliances to her leadership of DEPLOY/US, a convener, accelerator, and funder of US climate leadership across the political spectrum. Her prior work included advising US military and civilian agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and entrepreneurs on negotiation and strategic coordination; playing a leadership role in developing resilience assessment and planning tools piloted by the US State Department and NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan; co-founding the Washington, DC-based Alliance for Peacebuilding; and serving as a commissioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, where she led inter-agency work with the US Departments of Defense, State, and USAID. She holds a BA cum laude from Dartmouth College, an MPP in Energy and Environmental Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
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EVP & Chief Strategy and Impact Officer, Food For The Poor
As EVP/Chief Strategy & Impact Officer of Food For The Poor (FFTP), Nicolás Argüello oversees aspects related to program strategy, quality assurance, project design, capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation.
In addition to his time at FFTP, Nicolás has worked in various areas ranging from microfinance and education policy to mobile technologies for development (ICT4D) and social venture capital. Nicolás has done consulting work for numerous organizations, such as FINCA (Nicaragua), DAI (Mexico), Acumen (Kenya), The Earth Institute, Millennium Villages Project/UNDP (Kenya), the Oxford Seed Fund (UK), and the NYC Department of Education.
Nicolás holds a dual BA in Economics and Theology from the University of Notre Dame, an MPA in Development Practice from Columbia University, and an MBA from Oxford University, where he received the Skoll Scholarship for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Debbie Santos is the Vice President, Finance at the Skoll Foundation where she has primary responsibility for the Foundation’s financial matters and oversees the grants management, legal, accounting and finance functions. Debbie has spent most of her career helping organizations optimize across finance and operations to advance their mission.
In her spare time, Debbie enjoys spending time with family, listening to audio books, and hunting for her next favorite podcast.
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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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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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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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Managing Director, Emerson Collective
Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technology Officer at Emerson Collective, where he focuses on using technology and data to accelerate solutions that promote social good. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Raffi served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Before moving to the political sector, he was the Engineering Director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet. He also served as a Vice President of Engineering at Twitter. Raffi serves on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and chairs Mozilla.AI's board. He chairs the board of Medic, which builds open source software for community health workers worldwide, and serves on the board of TUMO, providing innovative STEAM education to tens of thousands of children through centers worldwide.
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In her role at the Skoll Foundation, Rachel supports strategic engagements with aligned funders in order to direct additional support and resources to Skoll’s social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Rachel launched and led key efforts at Omidyar Network to amplify the impact of the firm’s portfolio and partner network. She also has extensive experience in international development, managing health and emergency response programs in East Africa and Haiti.
Rachel graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and earned an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She is a San Francisco native, a former college tour guide, a hobbyist baker, and a recovering camp counselor. She speaks a bit of French, Swahili, and Hebrew and is fluent in toddler.
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COO, Ecosafi
Based in Kenya, I am the COO and co-founder of EcoSafi, the Better Cooking Company. EcoSafi is a venture backed, sustainable cooking fuel company. We avoid gigatons of carbon emissions by saving money, lives and trees through gassification cooking.
Our locally-made renewable pellets are made from agricultural waste, not wood. Our pellets, combined with our smokeless gassification stove, is the hottest, fastest, cleanest and lowest cost source of cooking fuel in the market.
Carbon offsets are generated based on individual baselines and actual fuel purchase history, making them the most auditable and highest value credits in the clean cooking space.
A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, I received my MBA from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School with a scholarship from the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship. My career has spanned from investment banking to project finance to financial inclusion, before shifting to climate tech.
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As Deputy Director of the ICCT, Rachel serves as a close partner to the Executive Director in the development and implementation of program strategies to eliminate the climate and health impacts of the transportation sector. She also works to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the 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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Chief Executive, Child Rights and You
Puja believes that children are the foundation of every nation’s growth and development aspirations, and must be at the centre of any development discourse. It was this belief that inspired her to become a part of the social sector, after she completed her post-graduation in Human Resources from Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi.
Puja made the transition from the corporate to the social sector as she joined CRY in 1994. Today, she is the CEO at CRY, India’s leading child rights organization. She is also an awardee of Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize in 2018 for social innovation. A prolific TEDX speaker and a published author of articles and opinion pieces in many leading Media Publications and Journals, Puja actively evangelizes Child Rights and is a staunch advocate of the crucial role each individual can play in building the agency of children. Her working mantra is to seek a win in every setback and believe that each person has the potential to bring in social change.
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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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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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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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CEO, Instituto Beja
Since April 2012 Celia has served as ED of the Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial (ICE). Before joining ICE, Celia served as Director of Ashoka Canada (2009-2011), Managing Director of Ashoka Global Fellowship (2007-12) and Director of Ashoka in Brazil and Paraguay (2002-07). Before Ashoka, Célia worked with the Institute for Development of Social Investment as Program Coordinator for two years, creating community foundations. She founded the fundraising consulting firm Philanthropics (1994- 2013), the Brazilian Association of Fundraisers and served as fundraising coordinator for Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP/FGV), until 2000. Célia taught fundraising (1995-2007) in the first management nonprofit program in Latin America at EAESP/FGV and in several other schools. Célia has a master degree on Economic (EAESP/FGV), which included exchange programs at ESSEC, Paris, France (1990) and York University, Toronto, Canada (1993).
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Director of Programs, World Connect
Patrick Higdon is the Global Director of Programs at World Connect. In this role he is responsible for overall program quality and integrity and he guides the program strategy, advises and supports the global hubs, and represents the organization's interests in strategic partnerships. He is also the 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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Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Lever for Change
Marc serves as Vice President, Marketing Communications at Lever for Change, a nonprofit affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation. He partners with leadership, staff, and clients to craft strategic communications that drive investments in bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Lever for Change has leveraged more than $1.7 billion in grants and provided support to over 175 organizations to date.
Previously, Marc ran his own communications consulting firm, after heading the communications and marketing efforts of the Hilton Foundation and managing the daily operations of the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Prior to this, he worked in communications, education, and events management in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
He completed his undergraduate degree in European Studies at Southampton University and a Master’s degree at the University of Leuven. More recently, he was awarded a Master of Communication Management degree from USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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CEO, Open Road Alliance
From building pipelines of sustainable investments in Africa and Latin America to structuring blended finance impact funds, Caroline Bressan is an expert in impact-oriented financial product design, deal structuring, and portfolio construction.
With a commitment to pushing the limits of impact investing, she joined Open Road in 2015 and now leads the organization as CEO. In her role, Caroline oversees Open Road in its next phase of growth as it "unsticks" critical financing for impact organizations experiencing systemic funding delays that threaten to derail their work.
Prior to Open Road, Caroline was an Investment Principal at Dalberg. Caroline also served as an Investment Officer at Calvert Impact, where she originated and managed a loan portfolio focused on sustainable trade, social enterprises, and financial inclusion. She received her MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a BBA from the University of Michigan.
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Founder & President, She the People
Aimee Allison is the founder and president of She the People, a national organization that elevates the voice and power of women of color as leaders of a new political and cultural era. She made political history in 2019 when she organized and moderated the nation’s first presidential forum for women of color which led to to widespread recognition of the issues and strength of this voting block. For the past 5 years, she has been a leading advocate for women of color on the presidential ticket, on the Supreme Court, and in Congress. Allison’s expert political insight and power building efforts have been featured across national and international media outlets from Politico to the New York Times and PBS to MSNBC. Allison holds a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.
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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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President, Dora MiLogic Advisors
A creative leader at the cutting edge of global and domestic philanthropy. Ada has worked for two decades to advance the power and influence of women and girls of color around the world, She has conceived groundbreaking disruptions to philanthropic norms and scalable models to transform the field along the way. By championing the formation of the first 'Women and Girls of Color Design Council' within a premium philanthropic and venture organization, she has envisioned a future in philanthropy and investment built around silo-busting investment strategies and fundamental trust in women and girls at the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity and economics. Ada is leading a growing community of funders committed to transforming capital and decision making.
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Managing Director, Moore Philanthropy
With over 25 years of experience in the government, civil, and philanthropic sectors, Yvonne brings a wealth of knowledge to her clients. As Founder, Managing Director of Moore Philanthropy, a Black-owned, women-led advisory firm, she provides thoughtful, strategic, and tailored philanthropic services to families and organizations. With an expertise in family dynamics, participatory and equitable grantmaking, international giving, the firm works with clients to advance their giving through traditional grantmaking or more complex social investments. Prior to Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne was Chief of Staff to filmmaker, philanthropist Abigail E. Disney where she oversaw the family’s network of media, philanthropic, and advocacy organizations. She holds a BA, Texas Tech University, MS, Nonprofit Management, New School and completed post-graduate studies in democracy and civil society, University of Cape Town, and nationalism, post-conflict violence, and gender, University of Lower Silesia.
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Chief Executive Officer,
OneSkyMorgan has spent the last two decades helping NGOs with education projects in Asia, Africa and South America raise funds and tell their stories. She is honored to serve as OneSky’s first CEO following their founder, Skoll Awardee, Jenny Bowen, and to share Jenny’s passion for making high quality care and early education available to children living in low-resourced communities in Asia.
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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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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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Independent Consultant,
NidanAnurag is an accomplished IT professional with a strong background in IT companies and active involvement in Indian Trade Unions. Currently serving as a Honorary adviser at NIDAN, Anurag has a history of engagement with diverse organizations like the "Youth Leadership Think Tank," Go India Foundation, Electronic Immigration UK, Africania (Solidarity Tourism) Africa, and the Youth Democratic Front. His interests span civil society movements, politics, and social entrepreneurship, showcasing his dedication to driving positive change in his community.
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Mike Davis became CEO of Global Witness in February 2020. Under his leadership, Global Witness has embarked on a new strategic direction: shifting the balance of power from big polluters profiting most from climate breakdown to the people most adversely affected. Mike has also fostered the development of more agile and collaborative forms of Global Witness’s investigative campaigning model.
Prior to becoming CEO, Mike held various other leadership roles at Global Witness. From 2016 to 2020 he was the organisation’s Director of Campaigns, Planning and Evaluation. During this period, Mike initiated a major shift in the organisation’s work towards addressing the climate emergency.
From 2013-2016 Mike was Global Witness’s Asia Director, overseeing the organisation’s engagement in China and conducting high impact investigations that exposed systemic corruption in Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar jade business.
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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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Honorary Research Fellow, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School
Dr Anant Jani is a Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health in Germany and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He focuses on understanding how we can improve population health by addressing social determinants of health. He is currently coordinating a large Horizon Europe projects exploring how we can redesign our food systems so that all Europeans can eat healthier and more sustainable diets (feast2030.eu) and is also working on another project to explore how we can use novel financing mechanisms to fund interventions that promote health and prevent disease (https://invest4health.eu/). Prior to his research positions, Anant Jani worked in Europe and the Middle East to help healthcare systems within these countries to redesign their healthcare systems to focus more on value-based healthcare. Anant Jani has a PhD in immunology from Yale University.
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Assistant to Jeff Skoll, Jeff Skoll Group
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Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute’s Election Administration Director from 2012 to 2015. She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
Tiana is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015). Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
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As Principal on the Portfolio & Investments team, Kathryn conducts diligence and produces profiles on Skoll Awardees, and supports strategic investment opportunities leading to lasting, large-scale social change.
Prior to joining Skoll, Kathryn managed private-sector partnerships at Direct Relief, a global health NGO that delivers pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to those affected by poverty and disasters both in the U.S. and around the world.
Kathryn earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from the University of Michigan, where she double-majored in English and Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and cycling. Having studied and volunteered in South America during her undergraduate years, she also enjoys finding opportunities to practice her Spanish.
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In her role at Skoll, Tanya works to identify and select opportunities to mitigate climate change by helping indigenous people and local communities secure their land rights and by realizing the potential of tropical forests. She is driven by a desire to shift existing power structures and elevate those on the front lines of social change. In her free time, she enjoys getting lost abroad or in a book and sharing time and food with friends and family. Tanya is based in Oakland, California.
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CEO and Founder, Solar Sister
Katherine Lucey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, a social enterprise that has empowered over 10,000 women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to bring clean energy to their off-grid communities. Katherine is a Schwab Foundation Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ashoka Fellow, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. She has received recognition and awards for her work with Solar Sister including Forbes “50 Over 50 Women of Impact”, Clinton Global Initiative, Social Venture Network, C3E, and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Champion of Change Award. She holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia. Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Katherine spent over 20 years as an investment banker on Wall Street providing structured finance solutions to the energy sector.
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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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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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Executive Director, TIP Global Health
Dr. Leonard founded TIP Global Health in 2008 as a means of supporting local health system innovation to provide high quality health care to vulnerable people in resource-limited settings. She is an experienced physician who has been working at the intersection of individual clinical care and public health for marginalized communities in East Africa and the United States for over two decades. She is passionate about designing local health systems that recognize the critical role that frontline health workers play in translating best practice clinical protocols into high quality care delivery, in inspiring engagement in care by the community members they serve, and in ensuring that data and information flows accurately and quickly to upstream policy and decision-makers. She has spent her career working alongside governments, communities and frontline health workers to transform local health ecosystems into resilient, cohesive, comprehensive and effective local primary care delivery syst
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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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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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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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Principal, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Since 2016
Board Member of the Merck Family Foundation
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Managing Director, Portfolio Impact, The Audacious Project
Lucien is the Managing Director for the Portfolio Impact team at The Audacious Project. In this role, Lucien ensures that Audacious finalists are thoroughly prepared for investment and that funded projects receive the support they need to maximize their impact. His team is also responsible for 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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Senior Vice President, Content Representation & Impact, Participant
Nicole Starr is SVP, Content Representation and Impact at Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. In this newly created role, Starr ensures that Participant’s narrative, documentary, and episodic content aligns with the company’s impact priorities and authentically reflects the world around us. This includes applying a lens of impact, issue-based insights and representation at the beginning of the development process and carrying that perspective through production and into the project’s social impact campaign. In her previous role as VP, Social Impact, Starr oversaw the development and execution of impact campaigns for numerous films such as Sundance winner Descendent, Judas and the Black Messiah, RBG, and the Academy Award® winner Roma. Notably, the impact campaign around Roma helped shift the narrative around domestic workers and inspired the cultural conditions for policy change in the US and Mexico.
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Managing Director, The World We Want Foundation
Kirsten began her career with Procter & Gamble where she held numerous brand management positions. Wanting to get involved in International Development and poverty alleviation, she went on to study International Affairs at The Fletcher School in Boston and received her Master’s in 2009. As well being the Managing Director of The World We Want Foundation, she is chairperson of the ENLA board in Haiti; a board director of Ture Invest Partners AB, T3 Recycling Kenya, and Virunga Origins; and a board observer for OMC Power in India. In 2023, Kirsten also became the co-owner and director of Waterlovers Beach Resort in Diani Beach, Kenya. Kirsten has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the University of San Diego.
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Vice President, Restoration, Conservation International Foundation
Leader in conservation and climate action, working for a just transition to a greener, nature-positive economy.
Currently leading the restoration portfolio for Conservation International, focusing on human-centered design for the restoration of healthy ecosystems that can support communities through the recognition of indigenous and local land rights.
Previously worked across three organizations leading the Trillion Trees partnership to protect and restore the world’s tropical forests.
My work has put development and equity at the center of partnerships and as we look to address the climate crisis, it is my firm belief that we must bring human rights and equal opportunity to for in our efforts to address the climate crisis. This was the reality that I saw in my nearly three years in francophone West Africa where I saw the impact of climate change on the daily lifes of those who are already marginalized by the imbalances in the global economic system.
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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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Programmes Director, Forward Global
As Global Director of Programmes at Forward Global (formerly The Philanthropy Workshop), I lead our programme strategy, design and delivery. These programmes provide a space for our global community of 400+ funders to learn core principles and practices, share learnings and find opportunities to collaborate and mobilise resources. I have led three Global Summits in Toronto, London and New York, as well as immersive Learning Journeys in Brazil, Cambodia and Madagascar.
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Chief Executive, The British Asian Trust
Richard Hawkes is the Chief Executive of the British Asian Trust, the diaspora-led international development organisation that operates on the cusp of where philanthropy meets social finance, combining an entrepreneurial approach with innovative finance to achieve impact at scale. Richard is on the Board of UNICEF UK, Chair of Motivation and on the Advisory Boards of the World Humanitarian Forum and Charity Bank. He has previously been CEO of Scope and Sense International, International Programmes Director of VSO and Chair of BOND. In 2020 he was awarded an OBE for his contribution to international development.
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Julia Corvalan is an international development practitioner from Paraguay. Having worked in the field since 2007, Julia has expertise in a variety of areas ranging from micro-finance & micro-enterprise development, to entrepreneurial education & financial literacy.
In her current role as Country Manager of the Tanzania operation of the Fundacion Paraguaya (FP), she is leading a south-south cooperation program that is replicating social technology developed in South America, in Africa. The program, operating under a 5-year, US$ 5.7 million grant, is taking to scale the FP’s innovative secondary school model- the Financially Self-Sufficient (FSS) School. Serving disadvantaged rural youth in Tanzania, the FSS model enables schools to offset operating costs through entrepreneurial activities that simultaneously generate income and give youth hands-on business experience.
Prior to her move to East Africa, she was Deputy Manager at FP’s HQs in Paraguay.
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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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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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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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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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Individual, Fundacion Kaleidos
After almost 2 years, I recently finished working as a Policy Analyst at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investing. Prior to that, I interned at Greenwood Place and the Ashoka Foundation, gaining valuable insights. Currently, I am partly dedicated to supporting Fundación Kaleidos, contributing to their impactful work for the past year.
I am deeply passionate about environmental conservation, sustainable fashion, inclusivity and diversity.
My academic background includes a BA in International Affairs.
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Jess leads Skoll’s Portfolio & Investment team operations and initiatives that support cross-organizational collaboration. She manages a team of professionals who work across Skoll’s strategic grantmaking programs and defines processes for continuous improvement across the broader investments team. She also serves in a cross-functional leadership role to identify opportunities for collaboration in service of greater impact for Skoll partners. Additionally, Jess leads the Foundation’s grantmaking focus on information integrity, identifying and supporting partners who advance healthier information ecosystems in support of more resilient and inclusive democracies.
Previously, Jess led Skoll’s convening programming, including the flagship Skoll World Forum. She also co-curated the "Rethinking Possible" podcast with Aspen Ideas and helped launch several initiatives including the Skoll World Forum Fellowship, TEDxSkollConversations, and We the Future during UNGA.
Jess’s career journey includes roles at Net Impact, the World Affairs Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the California Appellate Project. She holds a BA in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, studying abroad in Costa Rica and Argentina.
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Founder and Director, We Love Reading
Rana Dajani is a professor of molecular biology at the Hashemite University in Jordan. Her area of expertise is epigenetics and biomarkers of trauma among refugees. She is a tireless supporter of building indigenous research capabilities in the developing world and created a mentoring program to support women scholars in STEM that was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences.
Rana is a social entrepreneur and global thought leader. She founded We Love Reading, a grassroots initiative to create changemakers in underserved communities by fostering a lifelong love of reading. Recipient of the UNESCO International Literacy Prize, We Love Reading has established more than 8,000 locally run libraries in over 60 countries. Rana has also been recognized as a Fulbright, Eisenhower, Ashoka and Yale Morse Fellow. Rana has been named on the list of the 100 most influential Arab Women and received the Jacobs social social entrepreneur award, Nansen UNHCR refugee award, and the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award.
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Senior Consultant, Bayer Foundation
Dr. Michael Schwall is a social innovation strategist and CEO of Dr. Michael Schwall Social Innovation & Strategy as well as a Senior Consultant of Bayer Foundation. Currently he is dealing with building, funding and supporting social enterprise ecosystems in the health and agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
For a number of years, he has been active with in Bayer in developing business strategies for Africa. He started his carrier as a plant physiologist and a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg, Germany and the University of Adelaide, South Australia. After managing several startup companies in plant biotechnology and vegetable seeds Michael worked for a German company as a biotechnologist and a breeder in maize, vegetable and canola.
When joining Bayer he worked in chemical research, global regulatory affairs and marketing in Germany and the USA.
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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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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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Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jenifer Morgan is global editions editor at Stanford Social Innovation Review. Jenifer was previously senior digital editor at SSIR. She has more than 20 years of publishing experience and has developed award-winning publications both in print and online. Before coming to Stanford University, she was a writer and web consultant for the Redford Center, a social change nonprofit founded by Robert Redford. Previously, she was editorial director of Ideal Bite, an online media company for conscious consumers. She was also the founding magazine managing editor of Shojo Beat magazine and managing editor of MacAddict magazine (now MacLife). Jenifer was a WorldTeach volunteer in Poland through Harvard University’s Center for International Development and earned a Private Pilot License from the Sierra Academy of Aeronautics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with studies abroad at the University of Leeds, UK.
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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 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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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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Interim Chief Executive Officer,
VidereJesse is the Interim CEO at Videre Est Credere, a non-profit organisation supporting persecuted communities to use customised technology to document human rights violations. Prior to this he held positions in both London and Washington D.C. with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, focusing on 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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Senior Director, Inquiry & Insights, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Olga leads Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' thought leadership efforts, developing research, publications, and programs to advance philanthropic growth and innovation. In this capacity, Olga also leads hallmark programs - the Theory of the Foundation, Strategic Time Horizons and Foresight & Futures initiatives, which seek to build knowledge, catalyze collaboration, and contribute to more powerful impact for the philanthropic ecosystem. She is a frequent speaker at philanthropic conferences, workshops, and other events.
Previously, Olga held positions at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Society Foundations. Olga holds a masters of international affairs from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s from The George Washington University. Olga is a native English and Russian speaker, and counts Polish, Turkish and German among her other languages. She currently lives in Munich, Germany, where she cheers loudly with her husband and son for the Bayern München Football Club.
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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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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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Director, Social Innovation Hub, Jhpiego
Dr. Joanne Peter is Director of Jhpiego’s Innovation Hub. She leads a multidisciplinary team that combines frontier technology, human-centered design, market-based solutions, and systems thinking to drive new models of decentralized, data-driven and person-centered care across Jhpiego’s work in 40 countries. Joanne also leads Jhpiego’s Worldwide Innovation Support Hub (WISH), an accelerator program that supports innovators to scale their solutions within complex health systems. Joanne specializes in the use of health technology in low-resource settings. Prior to Jhpiego, she helped establish Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Health Worker Innovation, and worked at Google.org, the UN Foundation and DGMT on a range of health, technology, and innovation programs. Joanne trained in Medicine and International Development at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University respectively. She serves on the Board of Living Goods and the advisory board of Jacaranda Health.
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Executive Director, Zvandiri
Nicola is the Founder and Executive Director of Zvandiri.Over the past 20 years, she has led the design, delivery, evaluation and scale of Zvandiri, a Zimbabwe-based, peer-led model of HIV and mental health services for children and adolescents living with HIV. She ensures young people are able to drive their own solutions so that they survive and thrive, and that these young people are embedded in Government responses. Zvandiri's evidence-based model has now been adopted in 12 countries through Government-led partnerships. Nicola is a paediatric HIV nurse specialist with an MPhil in Public Mental Health. She is Co-Chair of the World Health Organisation’s Technical Working Group for Adolescent HIV Service Delivery and is a member of WHO’s HIV Guidelines Committee. She was a Mulago Rainer Fellow and Zvandiri is now a member of Mulago's Portfolio.
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Tim is a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. He is responsible for identifying high-potential social entrepreneurs and applying the Foundation’s assets to help social enterprises create large scale and lasting change to social injustice and inequity around the world. Prior to joining Skoll, Tim spent more than a decade as a management consultant - most recently with Dalberg Advisors where he helped corporate, multilateral, foundation and NGO clients develop effective solutions to the world's most pressing social problems. Tim holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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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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President & CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Nancy Lindborg has been the president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation since August 2020. The Foundation awards over $300 million in grants domestically and internationally to advance its mission of working with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Nancy has spent most of her career working internationally on the issues of democracy and civil society, conflict resolution, peace-building, and humanitarian response. She previously served as the president and CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP); as the assistant administrator during the Obama Administration for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at USAID; and as the president of Mercy Corps. She serves on the boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Crisis Group and is an advisory council member of the Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity.
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Jill is the Director of Event Production at the Skoll Foundation. Jill's work centers on building bridges for the social entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work, she plays a key role in helping connect and celebrate this dynamic community. She focuses much of her time envisioning how to build a meaningful and impactful experience for delegates at the Skoll World Forum and other Skoll convenings, collaborating across the Foundation to create the framework for these events, and finally implementing that vision.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Jill spent much of her career conceptualizing and producing memorable experiences for clients at special events such as the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Tony Awards, and the Kentucky Derby. In her free time, she can often be found on the local Pickleball courts. She has acquired a new nickname, “Coach Jill,” stemming from her love of teaching the fundamentals of pickleball to novices. At home Jill’s great passion is cooking and baking too, much to her family’s delight.
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Founder and CEO, Amani Global Works
Jacques Sebisaho is from the island of Idjwi, on Lake Kivu between the DRCongo and Rwanda. While the remote island has largely been untouched by direct conflict in the region, Idjwi has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world and a life expectancy of just 25 years. A doctor by training, Sebisaho is building a health care system to change that. His organization, Amani Global Works, is pioneering a primary health care model that develops hospitals, clinics, and community-health outreach programs that save lives by bringing treatment to the people who need it most.Since its founding in 2010, Amani has trained hundreds of community health care workers, and has established 12 satellite health clinics and one referral hospital. While the government spends $40 per person for primary care, Amani can provide primary health care for just $18 per person. Today, Amani is providing free health care for 300,000 and now scaling this model to 15 million people.
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Executive Director, Lorinet Foundation
Sumit is a social impact advisor, committed to driving thought leadership and action on diverse socio-economic issues. He traversed various roles in his career from running his own social enterprise to working with the UN and consulting in the development sector.
Currently, Sumit leads Lorinet foundation’s vision to support sustainable initiatives on early childhood education and youth employment for vulnerable communities in Mongolia and SE Asia. Previously, he worked with global foundations, corporate, govt., multilaterals, and social-purpose organisations in designing and scaling their social impact initiatives.
Sumit is an alumnus of the University of Oxford where he studied MBA as a Skoll Scholar.
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Mai has a diverse background in Technology and a strong commitment to social impact. In her role as Director of Technology at the Skoll Foundation, she is committed to executing Skoll’s technology charter and roadmap which ensures operations run smoothly allowing the team to focus on driving large scale social change.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, she worked in the tech industry at various organizations to implement and manage technology solutions. Mai gained experience in IT infrastructure, software implementation, and project management. This diverse skill set enables her to effectively address the technological challenges faced by the foundation and to help bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
A first-generation Vietnamese immigrant, she and her family now call the San Francisco Bay Area home. In addition to her work at Skoll, she also supports a family charity/foundation that does mission work bringing sight (cataract surgeries) to disadvantaged areas of the world.
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Gina Zanolli is Chief of Staff to Gary White, CEO of Water.org & WaterEquity. In this role, Gina serves as a principal advisor to the CEO and works closely with him on all aspects of Water.org and WaterEquity to ensure the organizations maximize every opportunity to transform the sector, innovate, and achieve their vision: safe water and sanitation for all. Since 2013, Gina has worked at Water.org to help design and launch new initiatives.
Previous to Water.org, Gina worked at Partners In Health on Dr. Paul Farmer’s team. Gina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington.
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Executive Director, VC Include
Milton Speid, is the Executive Director of VC Include, a investment fund accelerator and network designed to develop and support diverse, institutional-grade emerging fund managers. Prior to VCI he was the Director of North America at The ImPact, a group of visionary families committed to aligning their assets with their values. He was also responsible for executing the “Beyond the Bay” and Eastern Region strategies that sought to reinforce Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s role as a global social enterprise and the premier philanthropic partner for charitably-minded individuals and corporations. He’s held senior roles at Epic Foundation, TED Talks, and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. He earned a degree in Psychology from the University of Hartford, where he captained the men’s soccer team and was later, in 2018, selected as his university’s Alumni of the Year. Speid lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Advisor, Keseb
Social Entrepreneur, Activist
MBA, Michigan State University
Bachelor's Degree in Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
o Leadership for the 21st Century, Harvard Kennedy School
o Managing Nonviolent Social Movements, Harvard Kennedy School
NGO Leadership
Founder and President of Equality, Justice, and Women Platform, a news portal dedicated to women's perspectives www.esitlikadaletkadin.org.
KAGİDER (Entrepreneur Women Association of Turkey) President 2007-2011•
Political Leadership
Republican People's Party (CHP)
Member of Assembly (2011 - 2018)
Vice President in charge of Public Relations (2012 - 2013)
Global Networks
Co-founder, Turkish antenna of Mediterranean Women Mediators Network.
Member, Global Connected Women Leaders Groups.
2019-2020 Fellow, Vital Voices Engage Program
Advisor, KESEB
Awards
World of Difference Award, International Alliance of Women (TIAW), 2009
PEN Award for Women Rights Defender 2023
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Co-Founder and CEO, Propel Capital
Sarah M. Williams
Sarah is co-founder and CEO of Propel, which invests in entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers building a more just and equitable society. Propel uses blended capital (political, investment, philanthropic) and invests 100% of its assets in alignment with its mission. Portfolios include Propel Democracy to build progressive power in the US and Propel Ventures to invest in early stage social impact companies.
Previously Sarah led her own consulting firm, working with foundations, donors, and corporations to strengthen giving and impact investing strategies. She also launched and led the Pfizer Foundation, with over $320 million in assets, and worked in government and as an organizer.
Sarah is also a lifelong activist, working in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in NYC, at the state level for access to health care, for various candidates for elected office, and with people and families affected by the criminal legal system. She serves on the boards o
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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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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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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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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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CEO and Co-Founder, More in Common
Mathieu Lefevre is the co-founder and CEO of More in Common, a non-profit working to understand the forces driving us apart, find common ground and bring people together to tackle shared challenges. More in Common conducts detailed opinion research on social fragmentation and polarization, using political science and social psychology to map the identities and values of populations in Europe and the United States. We use our evidence base to work across sectors and issue areas with more than 160 partners in philanthropy, civil society, politics, the media, unions, faith groups and businesses on initiatives that bridge divides. More in Common’s work has been featured in hundreds of media articles and we are frequently called upon to brief senior leaders in politics, governments, civil society, philanthropy, the media and business. More in Common is comprised of a team of about 50 people working in national offices in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Brazil, France, Poland and Spain.
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Founder & CEO, Greenwood Place
Rebecca Eastmond is Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwood Place, which she created to leverage the experience she gained over 20 years’ work in philanthropy. Rebecca began her career as a charity lawyer at Allen & Overy, then became CEO of The Prince’s Foundation for Arts & Kids - taking it from a start-up to working with 33,000 children. She was a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, leading the bank’s philanthropy advisory offering in EMEA for almost a decade. Rebecca serves on the board of two grant-making foundations, is a trustee of Smart Works, and a global council member for Acumen, very different organisations that share a common approach of listening hard to the people they seek to serve and giving them access to the tools they need to build their own better futures. She was a founder trustee of the House of Illustration. She served on the board of the UK’s Philanthropy Review & has received numerous awards for her work in philanthropy. She read law at Oxford.
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Executive Director, The Action Foundation
Maria Omare is the Founder and Executive Director of The Action Foundation (TAF),
an organization that builds inclusive and resilient communities where children, women, and girls with disabilities can thrive. She is an award-winning disability
inclusion advocate, social entrepreneur, and educator committed to inspiring change
and hope in underserved communities. She is passionate about early childhood
development, disability-inclusive education, economic empowerment, and gender equity.
She has over 13 years of experience in non-profit management, with a proven track record in fundraising, strategy, and leading multi-donor funded projects supporting children, women, and girls with disabilities.
She is a Trustee of Able Child Africa, Vice Chair of the African Disability Collaboration, and a Board Member of Amplify Girls.
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Eugene Boadu has more than a decade's experience working across academia, entrepreneurship, and at the interfaces of private enterprise and public administration. He is currently the leader in the operations design and strategy formulation groups in mPedigree, a social enterprise deploying many innovative technologies for human security, trade standards, and market exchange facilitation. He has multiple responsibilities, including P&L control for the organisation’s key product lines and also in functional areas within strategic marketing and scenarios modeling. He has been instrumental in driving several projects and lifting ideas from the strategy board to the ground where impact on the lives of millions of consumers is made and felt every day. Boadu is a prolific speaker and trainer, and has headlined multiple global and regional conferences and workshops on four continents and also played key roles in consultative bodies for both the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN).
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Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School
Marc Ventresca is an academic researcher and teacher, on faculty at Oxford Said Business School / Wolfson College since 2004, with focus on innovation, infrastructure, and impact. Before that, on faculty at Kellogg/Northwestern, Naval Postgraduate School, U of Illinois, U of California and with visiting posts at Copenhagen Business School and Mediterranean Business School (Tunis, Tunisia). His work focuses on early moments in markets as well as market-building initiatives in several sectors, in the context of 'unsettled spaces', that is economic and cultural world reshaped by emerging technologies, change in regulatory and governance regimes, and platform capabilities. Prior work is on entrepreneurial activity and social networks, on the rise of alternative financial markets and protocols, and social innovation in a range of complex contexts. He is PI for an Oxford initiative investigating dynamics of space commerce and governance. He has a long, varied affiliation w our Skoll Centre.
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CEO, World Education Services
Esther Benjamin is a tri-sector global leader, currently serving as CEO of World Education Services. She is a Visiting Fellow with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Previously, Esther was CEO for Africa Operations with Laureate Education. In President Obama’s Administration, Esther led Global Operations for the Peace Corps. She was an executive with the International Youth Foundation and the International Partnership for Microbicides. In 1999, President Clinton appointed Esther a White House Fellow. She began her career with the United Nations, the World Bank, and Grant Thornton. Esther serves on the Board of Directors of Echoing Green, B Lab Global, and Candid. In 2021, Dickinson College awarded her an honorary doctorate in International Education. New York Times best-selling author and Maryland Governor Wes Moore profiled Esther as “The Globalist” in his book The Work: Searching for a Life that Matters.
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Founder & CEO, ChangeX
Technology platform connecting communities with proven social and environmental innovations and the seed finance to get them started. Funds active and innovations scaling in 14 countries and 10 languages across Europe, Americas and Africa - ~25,000 replications. On a mission to make proven innovation and grant finance accessible to everyone, everywhere. Previously Ashoka and Unilever. Based in Dublin, Ireland. Father of 3 under 10. Runner.
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Educator, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. Executive Director and Ciudad Saludable; partner and Director of ”Urban interventions and Performance of the Peruvian Gender Observatory. Diploma in Environmental Teaching for Sustainable Development from the University of Querétaro - Mexico; Diploma in Community Relations and Social Responsibility from ESAN University, Peru and diploma in Anthropology and Photography from the Image Center in Peru, diploma in “Expressive Arts Therapy” from TAE Peru. Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialty in “Peace Building and conflict transformation” in the European Graduate School - Switzerland.
Worked on inclusive recycling projects, circular economy, health, art, education, gender and environmental communication in urban, rural and indigenous communities for more than 20 years in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
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Partner, Director of the Center for Global Philanthropy, Philanthropic Initiative, Inc.
Maggi Alexander is a Senior Partner at TPI and directs TPI’s Center for Global Philanthropy. In this role she supports TPI clients to increase the impact of their giving through strategic planning, facilitation, social issues research, and design and evaluation of philanthropic strategies and initiatives. She is a seasoned facilitator and convener, having led retreats and trainings for a wide range of foundations around the world focused on strategic planning, succession, governance, and evaluation. She has led numerous workshops and trainings on engaging the next generation, the power of family philanthropy, finding a focus, and exploring your legacy. Maggi has extensive experience building partnerships and alliances that cut across traditional divides and has worked in the corporate, philanthropic, nonprofit, and public sectors.
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Project Director and Adjunct Director,
NOSSASEnrica is the inaugural Executive Director of Mapa do Acolhimento, a brazilian organization working on gender-based violence response and femicide prevention. She holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from The New School, with minors in History and Global Studies. She is a master's candidate at UN University for Peace in Costa Rica, with a focus on Conflict Resolution. In 2024, Enrica was selected as the first Brazilian representative of the Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders in France and is currently an Obama Scholar at Columbia University. Enrica serves as board member for NOSSAS, Brazil's largest member based organization for civic engagement and is an expert at the Women's Safety group at Meta.
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CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is the CEO at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organization operating in 36 countries around the world, committed to saving lives and improving health outcomes in low- & middle-income countries.
Dr. Shah was previously the Managing Director of GiveWell, a research and funding organization that directs hundreds of millions of dollars per year to programs in global health and development. He is the co-founder, former CEO and now Board Chair of IDinsight, a global development data analytics and advisory firm with offices across Africa, Asia, and the US. He worked previously at the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Dr. Shah holds an AB in economics from Harvard, an MD from Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Shah is the Chair of Anthropic AI's Long-Term Benefit Trust and sits on the Boards of Educate Girls, Prevail Fund, and Harvard IEMI.
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Executive Director, Global Innovators Group, Aspen Institute
Lola Adedokun is the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute and co-Chair of the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls. She joined the Aspen Institute in December 2021, where she leads a dynamic team advancing a portfolio of programs that expand opportunities for and access to health and prosperity for people living at the world’s margins globally and domestically. Lola joined the Aspen Institute after 14 years with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, where she administered almost $200 million in grant-making as both Director of the African Health Initiative and Director of the Child Well-being Program.She currently serves on the on the boards of Foster America, Community Solutions, the National Employment Law Project, and Integrate Health. Lola earned dual B.A. degrees with Honors in Health Policy & Society and Sociology from Dartmouth College and an M.P.H. from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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Vice President of Thought Leadership, Echoing Green
Liza is dedicated to ensuring that Echoing Green is a learning organization. As head of knowledge and thought leadership, she supports Echoing Green’s mission to advance global equity and sustainability by increasing our impact potential and influencing the fields of social innovation and philanthropy to move significant resources and shift power to proximate leaders and their communities.
Liza Mueller brings nearly two decades of experience in program evaluation, systems design and implementation, and research to her role as Vice President of Knowledge at Echoing Green. Over the last decade, she has transformed the organization’s systems architecture, guided its strategic planning, and launched its knowledge function to creatively leverage data and insights to deepen Echoing Green’s impact. During her tenure at Echoing Green, Liza has previously overseen its operations and programs teams and now regularly plays an advisory role in aligning team strategies across the organization.
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Executive Director, CASH Coalition: Climate Action for Small Holder Farmers
Heiner Baumann is the Executive Director of the CASH Coalition. CASH’s goal is to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers.
He is also a Co-Founder and Board Advisor of Precision Development (PxD). PxD delivers critical information and digital services to > 9 million smallholder farmers in developing countries.
He has over twenty years of experience in starting, funding, managing and advising high growth social change organizations focused on climate-smart, sustainable and restorative agriculture, clean energy, community health, education, and mobile phone based advisory services in developing countries through PxD, Pilot House Philanthropy, the Barr Foundation, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and New Profit, Inc. Heiner worked for 5 years with McKinsey & Co.
He has written about and been a speaker on disruptive innovation in the social sector, nonprofit capacity building and venture philanthropy.
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Emily Wanja uses storytelling to drive social change. She works in collaboration with organizations, people, and communities that believe a more just world is possible. She is an award-winning Impact producer for the campaign ‘We Can Fight Climate Change’ for the international feature documentary, ‘Thank you for the Rain’. In conjunction with Docubox, she has worked with policymakers across national and county governments, private stakeholders, funders, civil society, and communities, using film as a tool for advocacy. She’s on the Climate Justice Resilience Fund Advisory Council and on the Global Impact Producers Alliance Transitional Committee. She works at Doc Society as the Director of Africa Programmes.
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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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Director, Right to Health Program,
NamatiEllie is the founder of Namati’s work in Mozambique and co-director of Namati’s right to health program. Namati’s health advocates walk alongside communities and frontline health workers to overcome the social and structural barriers that undermine human dignity and access to care. Since 2013 we have helped to resolve over 37,000 health service-related grievances. We partner with government, drawing on our grassroots learning to strengthen the health system at national level.
Prior to moving to Mozambique 15 years ago, Ellie worked with Partners in Health in Neno, Malawi, where she was Director of the Program on Social and Economic Rights. She launched the Clinton Foundation’s pediatric HIV program in Malawi and worked in rural Ghana with the Population Council and Ghana Health Service to scale up the national Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative. Ellie holds a MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Northwestern University.
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Founder, Care2Communities
Elizabeth is a clinician, public health consultant and global health impact investor. She founded Care2Communities in 2010 to meet the health care needs of women in Haiti after the earthquake. Leveraging innovation, philanthropic dollars and social enterprise principles, C2C has continued to serve 100,000 patients/year in a network of 10 clinics in northern Haiti in partnership with the community, the Ministry of Health and the private sector. Elizabeth is a community founder and funder of the Co-impact Foundation and Gender Funds and the Roddenberry +1Health fund. She has served on the boards of Network of Engaged International Donors, WMM and C2C. She is a proud founding funder of Project Dandelion and loves to pollinate good ideas.
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Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Liz is a Venture Partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, working closely with the leadership of DRK’s portfolio organizations in Africa and the US. Prior, Liz led the planning, launch and initial operations of the Kigutu International Academy, an innovative secondary school in rural Burundi. Earlier, she assisted the Mastercard Foundation with the development of their education strategy for Africa and the design of a major education initiative in Rwanda. Liz also held leadership roles at USAID, serving as the founding Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Initiative and as a Senior Education Advisor in South Africa. Currently, Liz is Chair of the Board of the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA). She received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
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Chief Executive Officer,
TostanElena 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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CEO, Lifeline Energy
Kristine founded and heads 2 social enterprises - LESA Communications and Lifeline Energy. Established in 2019, South Africa-based LESA is a communications and branding agency specialising in the social sector in Africa. Lifeline Energy designs, manufactures and distributes solar and windup radios and MP3s for development and emergencies. Since 1999, 700,000+ products have been distributed, impacting over 25 million listeners. Previously, Kristine was an executive with a South African banking group. She is a co-founder of Catalyst 2030, a fellow of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Women’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum; named by TIME magazine as a Hero of the Environment; served 8 years on the Women's Leadership Board of Harvard’s Kennedy School; received the 2005 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, and the first Tech Museum of Innovation Award. Has traveled to 105 countries, 35 in Africa.
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Edith Elliott is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 400+ facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training, then follows up with families using mobile messaging technologies. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.
Prior to Noora Health, Edith was a Design Innovation Fellow at Stanford and worked on disease prevention at the Aspen Institute and PSI. Edith has been an Ashoka Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago Foundation, DRK Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs at Harvard. She holds a BA from Tufts and MA in International Policy Studies and Global Health from Stanford.
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Yana Abu Taleb, a dedicated environmental advocate and peacebuilder, serves as the Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East. A unique regional organization that brings together environmentalists from Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. With offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv.
With a remarkable tenure spanning over two decades, Yana Abu Taleb has consistently catalyzed positive change and fostered unprecedented collaborations to achieve environmental sustainability and regional stability. As the Jordanian Director, she leads activities and holds responsibilities that encompass the development and management of national and regional projects. She serves as a crucial liaison, advocating for environmental protection and transboundary water issues while engaging with governmental and private sector figures and organizations.
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Editor, writer & advisor, Individual
Eric Nee is editor-in-chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review, a position he has held since 2006. SSIR produces a quarterly magazine, website, webinars, podcasts, and conferences, all serving leaders of organizations engaged in social change. SSIR has partners around the world who publish local-language editions of SSIR in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. Eric has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing industry. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune. While there, he helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now, which later became Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Eric launched Forbes’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside and held positions at a variety of other technology publications. He earned a BA in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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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 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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As Vice President of the Skoll Foundation's Connect & Champion division, Suzana helps drive the department's strategy and operations, building the Foundation's platform, network, and storytelling assets to support social innovators driving social change around the world.
A seasoned philanthropy and tech executive, brand strategist, storyteller, and human rights advocate, Suzana has focused her career on advancing justice, equity, and human rights for all, around the world.
Prior to joining Skoll, Suzana led Marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus.
Suzana has developed global strategies, advocacy initiatives, and public campaigns for justice, human rights, and national transition efforts including truth commissions, tribunals, reparations, and memorials around the world.
She serves on the board of Media Impact Funders to catalyze greater philanthropic support of trusted, public interest media and journalism.
Suzana holds a graduate degree in international affairs from Columbia and an undergraduate degree from Harvard.
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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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Maharshi is Educate Girls’ Chief Executive Officer and has the privilege of leading an incredible team of over 3,000 field employees & over 20,000 community volunteers to deliver Educate Girls’ mission of mobilizing over 1.5M out of school girls into schools by 2025.An ardent advocate of “education as the greatest enabler of equity,” Maharshi is a home-grown leader at Educate Girls. He joined Educate Girls in its infancy over a decade ago & has contributed in various capacities across different functions at namely operations, program management, Government relations, & fundraising. He headed operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully executed the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education which surpassed both inclusion and learning outcome goals, & has raised over $150M in philanthropic funding. Before making a conscious switch to the social sector, he spent nearly a decade in various roles in the private sector. He holds a graduate degree in Public Policy & Business
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Co-Founder, Connected Women Leaders
Ronda Carnegie, is CEO for TNgLE . TNgLE (pronounced Tangle) is a division of Group SJR, a content/business strategy firm owned by WPP. Her practice focuses on the role of summits and content development to ignite shared learning, progress and impact.
Prior to creating TNgLE in 2015, Ronda was at TED in the role of Head of Global Partnerships/Strategic Initiatives. As part of the Executive Leadership team for over 7 years she played an instrumental role as the primary market-facing executive representing TED to corporations, foundations and the advertising industry while leading a team focused on revenue strategies for TEDMedia, Distribution/Licensing, TED Education, TED Fellows, TEDx and TEDPrize by identifying white spaces and negotiating high-level partnerships in line with the larger mission of the organization.
With a background in media and publishing, Ronda was at Condé Nast Publications for over 20 years. Notable assignments include the launch of Condé Nast’s business magazine Portfolio; running The New Yorker advertising franchise in the US and international markets; and building integrated, global print and online brand and marketing strategies.
Ronda holds a BA from University of Arizona. She lives in New York City with her husband Jack Myers. She enjoys spending time with family, hiking, food, culture, exploring and traveling.
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Executive Director, Sanergy
Lindsay has a passion for building green, healthy cities where everyone thrives. She is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Fresh Life - a pioneering social enterprise building transformative non-sewered sanitation services for booming cities, in partnership with government and utilities. Fresh Life is a founding partner of The Sanergy Collaborative. Previously, Lindsay was a manager at Google in Sales & Operations, co-founded a charter high school in post-Katrina New Orleans, and was a Teach for America Corps Member. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and an BA from Yale University. Lindsay and her family live in Kenya, where she has led Fresh Life for the past 13 years.
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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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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 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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CEO / Founder, Tiny Totos Kenya
Emma has 20 years’ experience in social entrepreneurship, innovation and equity.
After a decade working on indigenous rights, conservation and community development in Latin America, Emma ran a global impact investment fund from London. After moving to Nairobi in 2012, she set up an impact advisory to support impact clients including the Kenya Bankers’ Association, UNDP and Palladium.
In 2014, Emma founded Tiny Totos, a Kenyan social enterprise tackling the childcare crisis through a market solution transforming informal childcare standards and outcomes. Tiny Totos has served over 25,000 children, extending reach through Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Tiny Totos’ childcare innovations have won many accolades, including top prize at the UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Award, 2023. Tiny Totos is also a 2023 MIT Solve winner in Financial Inclusion.
Emma has a 1st class BA from Oxford University, a Masters in Resource Management from UBC and an MBA from Said.
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Debbie Rogers, a dynamic leader passionate about advancing mobile technology for health, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as CEO of Reach Digital Health and a board member of Turn.io. Her leadership tenure at Reach, spanning over a decade, has demonstrated her ability to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. Most recently, Debbie has successfully led Reach to receive multiple grants, notably honoured with The Skoll Award and a generous gift from Yield Giving.
Her career highlights include her pivotal role in leading the service design of the MomConnect program, a groundbreaking initiative under the National Department of Health in South Africa. Recognising the immense potential of mobile technology in transforming healthcare, she spearheaded the development and implementation of the decade-old program and is leading its expansion into other African countries.
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Co-Founder, Heal Initiative
Sriram Shamasunder graduated from University of California, Berkeley and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. He obtained his Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 2013.
Sri is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and co-founder and faculty director of the HEAL Initiative, a health workforce strengthening fellowship working in Navajo Nation and 9 countries around the world. HEAL currently has over 200 fellows, over the last nine years, half of whom are Native American and from low and middle income countries(LMIC).
He was awarded the Young Physician of the Year in 2010, by the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2012, a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India in 2012 He was an Emerson Dial Fellow in 2021, and received the UCSF Chancellor's Edison T. Uno Award for Public Service in 2023.
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President, Spitfire Strategies
Kristen Grimm is the founder of Spitfire Strategies, a public interest firm focused on advancing racial, economic and social justice, protecting the environment and promoting opportunity for all. She has extensive experience running smart communication and campaign efforts that create lasting social change. A hopeful strategist, she believes progress is always possible, setbacks are sources of inspiration and building beyond the choir is where the real work is. She is the mastermind behind Spitfire’s Smart Chart, Planning to Win, Mindful Messaging and Replenishing Trust, thinks fast in a crisis, is deft at drawing phenomenal visionary speeches out of leaders and is someone you want in your corner when you’re ready to go big. When it comes to storytelling, all you need to know is that her last name is Grimm.
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As Network Manager, Johnny supports Skoll’s commitment to unlock access to resources for social innovators and to bridge ecosystems through more connection. Prior to joining Skoll Foundation, Johnny held a variety of diverse and interesting roles that have spanned from humanitarian aid to corporate finance, supply chain, strategy and social responsibility. Most recently, he was a part of PepsiCo Frito Lay’s Transformation and Strategy office working on future-focused strategic initiatives including an industry-first direct e-commerce platform.
Johnny earned his B.S. in Economics from Texas Christian University (“TCU”) and has rarely missed a TCU football game since his freshman year. In his free time, Johnny enjoys keeping up with the latest in indie music, finding inspiration and frustration from his guitar, and hosting dinner parties for friends and soon-to-be friends.
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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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CEO, The END Fund
Ellen serves as the CEO of the END Fund, working to see an end to the suffering caused by five neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting 1.7 billion people.
Ellen has worked in global health and humanitarian response for over 20 years in more than 70 countries, for organizations including International Medical Corps and Operation Smile.
Ellen holds graduate degrees in International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Ellen currently serves on the boards of Global Institute for Disease Elimination and the 100x Impact Accelerator Advisory Board.
Ellen’s book, Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (foreword by Bill Gates) was published in January 2019 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Ellen was also named as one of Fortune Magazine’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" for 2019.
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Head of Private Sector Engagement at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria., Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
At the Global Fund John leads work to engage the private sector in supporting the Global Funds mission to eliminate HIV, Malaria and TB. This means driving catalytic impact initiatives, including on community health workers, digital health, climate and health and behaviour change, through engaging private sector resources, philanthropy and innovative finance.
Prior to this John was a Director at UBS Optimus innovative financing instruments, he was the COO at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). John has worked in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. He worked in the finance and pharmaceuticals sectors supporting mergers, acquisitions and public listings. He helped start up the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). He worked for Oxfam in East and Central Africa, as Country Director in Afghanistan and Northern Sri Lanka. He was also a board member of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), a major mines clearance organization and Nobel Prize co-laureate.
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CEO and Chief Curator, Centre For Exponential Change
Sanjay Purohit is CEO and Chief Curator of Centre for Exponential Change. He has 30+ years of diverse experience spanning corporate and development sectors. Since 2016, he has been co-creating Societal Thinking, an approach to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably. He has engaged with 500+ Change Leaders across 20+ countries with Societal Thinking in domains such as climate action, education, gender equity, healthcare and livelihoods. The core ideas of Societal Thinking are encapsulated in his Think Books. He is mentor and co-founder of apurva.ai, a platform to amplify the collective wisdom of communities with AI. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Don Norman Design Award that champions humanity centred design and Fundamentum, a scale investment fund.
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Vice President, Asia, Luminate
Melanie is Vice President, Asia at Luminate. Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that people — especially those who are underrepresented — have the information, rights and power to influence the decisions that shape society. In her role, Melanie leads Luminate’s work in Asia and serves on the Leadership Team.
She was previously Vice President of the Chandler Foundation, where she led the organisation from its inception and developed its grant-making strategy. Prior to this, Melanie was Vice President at the Clermont Group and managed corporate communications for the multibillion-dollar investment firm.
Her previous experience also includes leading the CleanWater Foundation, where she launched a safe water micro-franchise serving rural communities in Bangladesh. She started her career in external affairs at the World Bank, and served as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation.
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Chief of Staff, Echoing Green
Joanna is dedicated to ensuring that Echoing Green’s Executive Office is operating with efficiency and impact toward serving the mission of the organization.
As Chief of staff, Joanna sits at the intersection of supporting Echoing Green’s President, managing the activities of its Board of Directors and driving staff culture and transparent communication. She is a doer, strategic thinker, project planner and problem solver. Prior to being Chief of Staff, Joanna managed key funding and strategic partnerships at Echoing Green.
Prior to joining Echoing Green, Joanna coordinated development efforts for the national office of Public Allies and Lebanese American University and analyzed data and research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Joanna is a graduate of Boston College with a degree in Economics, and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from Baruch College.
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CEO, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Kate became CEO in March 2016, having run CIFF's Climate Change team since 2009.
Kate was CIFF's first Executive Director for Climate change when the foundation made its first grants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. During seven years leading the team, Kate built a global grant portfolio of advocacy and technical assistance programmes.
CIFF is now one of the world’s leading climate philanthropies. The foundation played an important role in strengthening civil society and supporting the development of ambitious government policies in Europe, China, Latin America, and the world’s megacities in the lead up to the historic Paris Agreement in 2015. Kate sits on a number of boards, including the European Climate Foundation, CDP and the Fundaciόn Climática de México.
Kate’s career spans roles in government, finance, consulting, a think tank and NGOs. Before joining CIFF she was Head of Policy at Climate Change Capital, a boutique investment firm with $1.5 billion under management, advising asset managers and multinational companies on clean energy opportunities. She has also advised policy-makers in a number of roles, including as Senior Policy Advisor for the United Kingdom's G8 and EU presidencies in 2005, and as a Sherpa to the EU High-Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment in 2007.
Kate was also Head of the Climate Change Campaign for Friends of the Earth International; at Green Alliance, she managed the Green Globe Network, a civil society advisory group to the UK Foreign Office. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. and Environmental Resources Management.
In 2008, Kate was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She holds a BSc. from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She speaks French and Spanish fluently.
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I am associated with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), India since 1989. I have more than three decades of experience of working with rural communities in their endeavors of local self-governance and restoring and securing rights over Commons. Of the thirty years, I have directly worked with rural communities on natural resource management and governance aspects in Andhra Pradesh for the first eight years. For the last 22 years, I am involved in project management issues at organizational level and has developed good insights into project planning, management systems for implementation and reporting. I am interested on issues of Commons, community rights, restoration of degraded ecosystems, small holder farming systems, socio-ecological systems, new participatory tools to elicit collective action, rural youth as local stewards, community level federations and multi-actor platforms.
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Kayode Ajayi joined the organization in 1999 as the Technical Development Manager in Nigeria, when he developed a national maintenance network system for the World Health Organisation- led polio eradication campaign. He was instrumental in setting up our country programmes in Democratic Republic of Congo and The Gambia. He was posted to the Headquarters in 2002 as the Deputy Operations Director before assuming the position of Performance Director in 2008 to oversee the standards and across the organization. He was appointed as the country director in Nigeria in July 2016. With a background in Marine Engineering, he is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport He is an Alumnus of the International School of Management and recently bagged a certificate in Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management from the Havard Business School, Boston USA.
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Founder and President, Ongoza
Currently pursuing a graduate degree at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Eddy is the founder of Peace for Africa and Economic Development (PAD). PAD focuses on identifying vulnerable youth groups in remote Kenyan communities, helping them establish businesses to prevent their manipulation into political violence, crime, and participation in illegal sects. In 2015, PAD was rebranded as Ongoza, which means "Lead" in Swahili.
Eddy is an alumnus of the African Leadership Academy and Trinity College Hartford. He is also a member of the African Leadership Network and a trained UNESCO International Youth Peace Ambassador. Eddy has provided consultancy on youth engagement strategies for both the MasterCard Foundation and Equity Bank. His work with Ongoza earned him the 2012 Impact Award from the Kenya Diaspora and a spot on the list of the Top 30 Under 30 Most Influential Young People on the African continent in 2013.
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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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Founder and Chair, Adara Group
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Founder & CEO, The/Nudge
After 17 years of starting and scaling various businesses, Atul started The/Nudge Foundation to do poverty alleviation work. Atul is now serving both The/Nudge and Give as their CEO.
Over his 5-year stint at InMobi as its Chief Business Officer, Atul helped scale the organisation to a global leader in mobile advertising, with operations in 20+ countries. Atul also served on the Board of Mobile Marketing Association.
Prior to InMobi, Atul was the Head of Mobile Business for Japan & Asia-Pacific at Google. Atul has also done various general management, business development and sales roles across technology companies including Adobe, Samsung and Infosys.
Atul served EndPoverty, a non-profit, as Chairperson for two years, working on water, sanitation, education, skill-development, sustainability and women empowerment. Atul serves on the Advisory Board of various nonprofits including Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Udhyam Learning Foundation and Parivaar.
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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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Chief Executive Officer and President, Village Enterprise
Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty in Africa. Since assuming the role of CEO in 2010, she has spearheaded the organization's expansion into seven countries, successfully implemented the first development impact bond for poverty alleviation, and conducted two randomized control trials with positive results. Under her leadership, the organization has received awards and recognition for excellence, including Fast Company's World Changing Idea Award in 2023. In June 2023, Dianne received the Stanford President's Award for the Advancement of the Common Good. She also serves on the Board of Directors for InterAction and the National Advisory Board for Stanford University's Haas Center.
Prior to Village Enterprise, Dianne served as the President of Bring Me A Book, an early literacy nonprofit. She graduated with a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Bocconi University on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.
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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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Director, Long Term Foundation
Claire is Chair and a Non-executive Director at Long term Foundation, she has over 25 years’ experience in financial services focused on regulation and fund structuring.
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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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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. She recently also became a US national.
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Founder & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Sharing Strategies
Jamie Drummond is a serial advocacy entrepreneur who was global strategist for Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt and co-founded DATA.org and ONE.org – which went on to help cancel over $100b in developing country debt and drive a deal to double smart aid for African nations along with trade and transparency improvements. He has helped drive advocacy strategies that have raised 100s of billions for global health in particular helping ensure access to ARVs, anti-malarial medications, vaccines and other key interventions are more equitably shared in the poorest communities. With a white label platform called “Sharing Strategies” he is currently working with major foundations, MDBs, think tanks, IOs and CSO south and north to catalyse a series of new campaigns and partnerships to “crack the crises” of covid, climate conflicts and inequalities and help accelerate the SDG Decade of Action and Delivery despite heavy headwinds.
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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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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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Executive Director, Alana
Flavia Doria is the Executive Director for Alana, one of the largest social organizations in Brazil, which works for positive socio-environmental impact through programs, innovative research and investments. She is also CEO of AlanaLab, which invests in impact companies, such as Maria Farinha Filmes, a leading impact entertainment producer in Latin America, as well as in impact funds in Brazil and around the world. With a graduate degree in business and an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship, Flavia was an executive at Johnson & Johnson in Brazil and the USA for almost 15 years, where she led global brands and new businesses. Flavia left corporate life to become an entrepreneur. After working as a consultant in third sector start-ups, she founded a cultural entrepreneurship company that promotes some of the biggest cultural events on the streets of São Paulo. In 2014, Flavia joined the Alana team to put her leadership and management experience at the service of social causes.
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Partner, iitos
José founded s.e.e.d in 2009, which then became seed by EY in 2018 and now leads iitos, a multidisciplinary firm serving the entrepreneurial ecosystem
He is known to be an ecosystem builder in the region for his work in impact investing and venture capital since the beginning of his professional career. In addition to his MBA from Oxford as a Skoll Scholar, José holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica. José enjoys spending time with his family and friends in his spare time and is a great movie or series critic.
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Celina de Sola is the Co-founder and President of Glasswing International. She has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. Prior to Glasswing, Celina worked as a consultant for the Population Council, was a crisis interventionist for Latino immigrants in the United States, and spent over five years with Americares leading responses to complex humanitarian crises in regions including Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Indonesia. She is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation, Ashoka, and LEGO ReImagine Learning; an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Prize, and the Audacious Project; a Tällberg Global Leader; and the 2023–24 Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a member of the InterAmerican Foundation’s Advisory Council. Celina was a speaker at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver and has been featured on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Uncharted Ground podcast.
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Gayle Smith is the former CEO of the ONE Campaign, and took leave from that position to serve as Coordinator for the Global COVID Response and Health Security at the State Department during the Biden Administration. She served 8 years in the Obama Administration, at the National Security Council and then as USAID Administrator, and prior to that co-founded the ENOUGH Project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and led the Sustainable Security Project at the Center for American Progress. She served on the National Security Council during President Clinton's second term, and before joining government lived and worked in Africa for almost 20 years, working as a reporter and then for NGOs and international organizations. She proudly serves as a member of the board of the Skoll Foundation. And loves to dance.
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Prior to joining GHC, Shema worked as the National Volunteering Program Manager at Voluntary Service Overseas, where he also managed a Multicultural Global Exchange program and nurtured and led a diaspora volunteering scheme. Shema also worked with Partners in Health (PIH), managing the growth of healthcare services, systems, and infrastructure in Kirehe District. He also served as the Chairperson for the Social and Economic Rights Program and later as Chief of Staff and Public Relations for PIH/IMB Rwanda. He holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Roehampton, London, and a bachelor’s degree in history and politics from the National University of Rwanda, where he served as Secretary General for the General Students Union from 2003 to 2004. In his current role, he helped launch the GHC office in Kigali and is deeply passionate about health equity, youth leadership, and developmental solutions to uplift people from poverty.
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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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Animated by the power of connection, Claire cultivates and leads strategic relationships, Foundation-wide engagements, and regional activations of the Skoll network to advance social progress. Since joining Skoll in 2016, Claire has led multi-year global network building efforts and launched initiatives to increase access and inclusion, including the Skoll Fellowship and TEDx Skoll Series across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Claire is a co-creator and hosting team member of Wasan Network and advises organizations on growth and network strategies.
As a University of Oxford Visiting Fellow, Claire applies her multi-disciplinary background in contemporary dance, ecology, and philanthropy. She collaborates with Oxford researchers, industry practitioners, and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship to teach and write about networks, collaboration, and collective leadership.
Prior to Skoll, Claire managed the San Diego Zoo's internal innovation and biomimicry lab under the CFO. She worked with corporate R&D teams, co-led organizational experiments, and developed programs to help deepen human connection with biodiversity. She is an alum of Seth Godin's altMBA, CCL, AVPN Impact Investing Fellowship, RSA, and JPCatholic University.
After 15 years of studying and teaching contemporary dance, Claire now choreographs spaces for people to connect and co-create a more just future.
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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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President, Horizon 2045 Foundation
As President of Horizon 2045 I support visionary leadership on the polycrisis and its effect on human and planetary security. Previously Managing Director of N Square, a funder collaborative and innovation network, I spent a decade advancing nuclear disarmament goals before founding H2045 with partners from the Rhode Island School of Design and the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
I operate at the nexus of strategic foresight, systems analysis, philanthropy and design. My team and I are developing frameworks that guide transnational organizations in reimagining the institutions, approaches and infrastructure required for a more secure future. MacArthur Foundation President John Palfrey, recently highlighted our work in his annual essay: https://www.macfound.org/annual-report/2023/president-essay. My TED Talk about cross-disciplinary approaches to nuclear weapons threat has been viewed over 1M times and translated into 23 languages.
I'm a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama.
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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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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 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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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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Founding Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Emily is a donor-activist engaged in promoting human equality, justice, and peace around the world. She is particularly passionate and engaged in the nexus of faith, gender, and development and working to mobilize our faith traditions to more fully and unambiguously embrace gender equality. In her role at the Imago Dei Fund, Emily has helped the foundation to adopt a “gender-lens” in its grantmaking with a particular focus on partnering with inspired female change agents, locally and around the world, to build bridges of peace and create a world where girls and women can thrive and achieve their full human potential. Emily brings a contemplative posture to both faith and philanthropy and is passionate about supporting the inner lives of change agents to lead with love and be their best selves in the challenging work they do.
Emily is the co-author/convener of a project called The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom which invites participants to better understand the historic and rel
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Executive Director, 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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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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Executive Director, Shule Direct
Born and raised in Tanzania, Faraja is a resourceful social entrepreneur passionate about developing cutting edge programs that address challenges in our communities. In 2013, she established Shule Direct, a thriving organisation providing comprehensive web and mobile educational platforms offering national curriculum-based learning content across multiple subjects to over 5 million in and out of school youth.
Faraja is an elected Chairperson for the Tanzania Education Network, the official education CSOs network in the country. In 2020, World Economic Forum appointed her as a Young Global Leader, a tenure for 5 years. She has been recognized regionally and nationally, with several awards, as a Leading Woman in Technology for her work with Shule Direct.
Faraja is a qualified Lawyer with an LLB and LLM (Master of Laws) in Human Rights and Migration.
She is a wife and a doting mother of two.
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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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Edwin Ou leads Skoll's strategic engagements with aligned funders and manages a variety of key relationships with funded social entrepreneurs, domain experts, policy makers and corporate partners. Edwin develops and structures funding opportunities to drive large-scale change in the focus areas of the foundation. Edwin has also held previous roles of increasing responsibility at Skoll, including Principal.
Prior to working at Skoll, Edwin amassed a diverse set of leadership skills and experience in organizational and business planning, program and personnel management and financial development in the field of social entrepreneurship. Most recently, Edwin led programmatic efforts for the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC), where he managed the spin-offs of MAC’s regional capacity-building programs as newly-formed NGOs in Indonesia and the Philippines. Prior to MAC, Edwin led the business development efforts at Benetech, where he built a team that evaluated and drove the early-stage development of social ventures and fueled the organization with funding and partner resources. Prior to social entrepreneurship, Edwin assumed roles of increasing responsibility in product management for a SoftBank-funded technology startup and as a mergers and acquisitions advisor for an energy investment bank.
Edwin earned his B.A. in Economics at Rice University and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused his studies in social entrepreneurship and was a Packard Environment Fellow. He has served on regional boards of three nonprofit organizations: the Red Cross, Surfrider Foundation and Taiwanese American Citizens League.
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Director, Kyaninga Child Development Centre
Steve is the co-founder of the Kyaninga Child Development Centre (KCDC) (www.kyaningacdc.org) KCDC was founded in 2014 and provides much-needed high-quality specialised and affordable assessment, treatment, education, and support to children living with disabilities. KCDC’s team has 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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As Lead Graphic Designer on the Public Engagement and Communications team, Emily creates visual identities and graphics for various platforms, from print and web to media and social channels. She also designs graphic campaigns for the annual Skoll World Forum, and amplifies visual stories on a daily basis. With an award-winning track record of working across international borders, Emily brings a global perspective and creative flair to all her projects. She is enthusiastic and full of energy, welcoming all kinds of inspirations.
Emily first joined the Skoll Foundation in 2018, when she won the Gold Award for Muse Creative Awards in Marketing and Promotion category, and the Platinum Award in Event Marketing for the Skoll World Forum branding. She returned to Skoll in 2022, continuing to use visuals to convey stories about good people doing good things.
Prior to Skoll, Emily worked at internationally renowned creative agencies and companies around the world. She also served as the Art Director and Social Media Specialist for TEDxHongKong. Emily is a fan of Japanese anime, trendy fashion, and pop culture. She loves cuddling with her two kitties and enjoys visiting art galleries and hiking with her son and family in her spare time in the Bay Area.
Through her agency and corporate work, Emily is well versed in graphic design, print, web / UI design, social graphics, corporate identity, project management, and more. She also worked as the Art Director for TEDx Hong Kong and was the social media specialist for TEDx Hong Kong Ed.
Emily believes that visual communication is a powerful tool to spur meaningful changes. Her international experiences inspire her to have a mission to elevating global social entrepreneurs' ideas by using impactful images and graphics online and offline. In her personal time, Emily is both extrovert and introvert: she loves hiking and loves art, fashion, and pop culture.
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Former Co-Founder and Executive Director,
CONEXSUSCarina Pimenta, National Secretary for Bioeconomy (vice-minister level), Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil
Carina Pimenta holds a degree in Business Administration from EAESP-FGV and a master's degree in Social Development from the University of Sussex. Carina Pimenta 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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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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With over 28 years of experience, Subrata Singh is committed to advancing sustainability and empowering rural communities in India. Currently serving as the Executive Director at the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), his role involves strategic planning, project implementation, and fundraising. Subrata's expertise encompasses common pool resource management, property rights, institutional designs, decentralization, rural livelihoods, and public policy analysis.
Throughout his career, Subrata has held various roles, from directly engaging with communities to providing strategic support for project implementation. As Coordinator of Prakriti Karyashala, he developed capacity-building programs for rural communities and government officials, emphasizing local governance and natural resource stewardship. Subrata holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development and has contributed to academic literature with published articles in different journals.
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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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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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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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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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Senior Investment Director, Rippleworks
Sara's career has been exclusively in the social impact world and she doesn't plan on leaving it anytime soon. Today, Sara is a Senior Investment Director at Rippleworks, a private foundation that supports social ventures with financial capital and technical support to scale their impact in the world. Before joining Rippleworks, Sara was a full-time consultant with Integrity Ventures, where she advised social enterprises, impact investors, family foundations, and corporations on how to maximize impact and effectively deploy capital. In her former life, Sara ran operations at Good Nature Agro (an early-stage social enterprise working with smallholder farmers in Zambia), managed the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program at the Mulago Foundation, launched the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative at Emory University, and was the first employee at Village Capital.
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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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Program Officer for International Philanthropy, Pilot House Philanthropy
Bennett Rathbun leads the Global Initiative at Pilot House Philanthropy, a private single-family office in Boston, MA. In his role, Bennett is responsible for finding, funding, and supporting a growing portfolio of high-impact social entrepreneurs focused on combatting global poverty, with specific emphasis on rural livelihoods, thriving nature, and gender equity. Prior to joining Pilot House, Bennett spent a decade building and leading Hope on a String, a youth and community development organization based in rural Haiti. Bennett now serves as Hope on a String's Board Chair, contributes to The Bridgespan Group's Africa Advisory Board, and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Bennett holds degrees from Amherst College and New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. He is fluent in Haitian Creole in addition to English.
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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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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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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 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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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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Experience Architect, Maverick Collective, Population Services International
Darley Tom believes in community and connection over competition. She is the co-lead and Experience Architect for Maverick Collective where she focuses on business operations and the strategic design and execution of the Member experience. Darley is a partnership and communication expert with more than 15 years of experience across the public and private sectors.
She joined PSI in 2019 to co-lead Maverick Next, focusing on program execution and advocacy for our next gen programming. Prior to PSI, Darley led marketing and communications at Park Hyatt, public affairs efforts for the United Nations Foundation’s entrepreneurship and innovation portfolio including its Global Entrepreneurs Council, and worked under the Department of Management at the United Nations.
Darley is an author in the journal of Virology for her work on Hepatitis C. She holds a Masters in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
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Growing up in rural Australia made Pip intensely curious about humans’ impact on the rest of the natural world. Her childhood saw her planting trees and rounding up sheep, finding snakes in her bedroom and echidna in the garden, and solo walks gazing at exceptionally starry skies.
Pip works on 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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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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Managing Director, Impact Investing, Catholic Relief Services
Beth Collins, Catholic Relief Services' (CRS) Managing Director of Impact Investing, has structured and led CRS's impact investing and innovative finance activities since their inception in 2015. A leading global humanitarian and development agency, CRS reaches over 130 million people across more than 110 countries. Beth oversees CRS' multi-prong impact investing strategy and serves as Chair of Azure Source Capital, LLC, a financing vehicle developed by CRS to expand communities' access to water services in Latin America. Beth has a 30-year executive career with global experience spanning corporate and nonprofit sectors throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Beth holds a B.A. in International Studies from Miami University and an MBA in Finance from NYC.
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Beto Borges serves as Director of the Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative at Forest Trends. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management from UC Berkeley and an MBA in Strategic Leadership from Dominican University focused on corporate social responsibility. He has over 35 years of experience working with indigenous and other local communities in the Amazon and elsewhere in Latin America to benefit from climate and conservation finance in recognition of their rights and forest stewardship. He co-developed several community-based sustainable forest value chain initiatives, co-led the Surui Carbon Project, the first indigenous REDD+ project, double validated by VCS and CCBA, and contributed to setting social safeguards and benefit sharing mechanism for Acre’s SISA Jurisdictional Program, among other initiatives. Previously Beto led important work for Rainforest Action Network, Goldman Environmental Prize, Shamam Pharmaceuticals, among others.
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Founder, Giving Wings Foundation
Moving capital to amplify solutions for women’s health. Passionate about storytelling at scale. Investing partner and philanthropist at The Case for Her, Co-Chair Maverick Collective, board member at Acumen and co-founder at Longrun Capital.
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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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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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Founder & CEO, doctHERs
Dr. Asher Hasan is a disruptive innovator and a serial entrepreneur in the areas of digital health and financial inclusion. He is the Founder and Chairman of NAYA JEEVAN, an insurtech-fintech that finances the health & well-being of informal and formal workers in corporate value chains. He is also the Co-Founder & CMO/CEO of doctHERs, a gender-inclusive, telemedicine-powered, digital health & wellbeing platform that is Asia’s first Fortune 20 impact venture (https://fortune.com/ranking/impact20/2020/docthers/)
A TED speaker, TED fellow and MIT SOLVER, Asher has previously served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Social Innovation (2012-2014) and is a 2011 World Economic Forum/Schwab Foundation Asian Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
Prior to launching NAYA JEEVAN, Asher served as the Senior Director of US Medical Affairs for Amylin, a leading biopharmaceutical company in San Diego, California.
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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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Executive Director, McNulty Foundation
As the Executive Director, Aprile has driven the Foundation's growth into programs that elevate and support leaders around the globe. Under her tenure, the Foundation has invested over $30 million and spearheaded a series of successful new initiatives including the McNulty Prize and scholarship and leadership development programs in the US and globally.
Aprile launched the McNulty Prize to support bold, visionary leaders addressing barriers to health, education, and economic opportunity. Passionate about the power of storytelling, Aprile has been the executive producer for a series of short films that share the inspiring work of change-makers around the globe.
A cross-disciplinarian by intent, Aprile holds a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn and enjoys urban biking adventures with her eight-year-old son.
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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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Urogynecologist, Researcher, Founder and Managing Trustee of ARMMAN,
ARMMANDr. Aparna Hegde is Founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable mhealth based programs to impact maternal & child health in 21 states of India (as of August 2024, interventions implemented by ARMMAN have reached 53 million women and trained 430,000 health worker). She is an internationally renowned Urogynecologist trained in Stanford and Cleveland Clinic and Assoc Prof (Hon) and founding Head of Dept. of Urogynecology at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, India’s first University-based Center of Excellence in the field. Dr. Hegde is Chair of FIUGA, the foundation arm of IUGA (International Urogynecology Association), Chair of IUGA Publication Committee and member of the Editorial Board of International Urogynecology Journal. Dr. Hegde is an accomplished researcher with over 75 abstracts/publications, and an NIH grantee. Dr. Hegde was listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2021 (15th spot), and was awarded the Skoll Award (2020), Elevate Prize (2021), Ashoka Senior Fellowship (2021), TED Fellowship (2020) etc
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President & CEO and Board Member, Bohemian Foundation
Cheryl Zimlich serves as President & CEO and Board Member for Bohemian Foundation. The foundation works to empower citizens and is committed to the care and enrichment of local, national and global communities. The foundation’s Global Programs area seeks to identify and support organizations addressing some of our most serious global challenges at the intersection of public health, poverty and the environment. In addition to serving Bohemian Foundation, Cheryl has held board and leadership positions with more than a dozen organizations. Locally, she serves on UniverCity Connections, the Downtown Development Authority, and Give Next’s Advisory Committee. At the state level, she works to advance music education in schools by serving as an advisory board member of Take Note Colorado. Nationally, she is on the boards of Music Will and Book Trust. Cheryl is a CPA whose early career was as an audit professional. She earned a B.S. Business Administration from CSU.
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Charlie joined the APOPO team in December 2014 as US Director, based in Washington DC. At APOPO Charlie is responsible for building new partnerships and projects with US based organizations and government funders that can help APOPO build its Research and Mine Detection programs. Charlie also leads global innovative finance fundraising at APOPO, and is currently managing and planning a multiple year extension of the first ever Development Impact Bond for Mine Action and linked agricultural development in Cambodia financed by FCDO and private foundation investors. Charlie also plays an instrumental role in fundraising for APOPO’s ongoing Ukraine program, which will focus on the deployment of APOPOs game changing Technical Survey Dog technology for rapid reduction of crippling landmine contamination. Finally Charlie is the executive for APOPO's independent US based 501c3 organization.
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Partner, LGT Venture Philanthropy
Tom is a Partner, Health-Lead, and a member of the Executive Team at LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP). Tom is leading LGT VP’s Health work to improve access to primary health services for underserved communities in Africa and India. In his previous role as Head of Impact Management at LGT VP and Lightrock, Tom institutionalized Impact Measurement and Management systems and processes. In his first role as Head of Talent at LGT VP, Tom managed the LGT Impact Fellowship, which connects portfolio organizations with mid-career professionals. In 2009, Tom himself completed the LGT Impact Fellowship. As a fellow, he worked with Heart Social Investments, a social enterprise incubator in South Africa, to support social enterprises addressing the needs of low-income customers. Before joining the philanthropic sector, Tom spent nine years with BMW in Germany and the UK. He gained experience in different management positions, in-house consulting, call center management, dealer operations, and IT.
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Beadie Finzi is one of the founding directors of Doc Society, a non profit foundation with team based in Europe, East Africa, the Americas and Australia, dedicated to supporting independent filmmaking globally. In addition to grant making for artists and journalists and supporting their creative process, we help them develop impact strategies and connect with communities and allies beyond the media industry and across civil society.
Our preoccupation goes beyond the right of artists to self-expression to the right of citizens to access public interest media - and to the global media ecosystem that we need to make all of that possible. Beadie works day to day with many global partners who are also focused on this challenge.
Within Doc Society Beadie also has her shoulder to the wheel behind the Climate Story Unit and now the Democracy Story Unit. Two major global narrative strategy experiments - focused on unleashing transformative storytelling to advance a just future.
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Executive director, Ujima Foundation
Charles J. Odhiambo holds a Master of Business administration degree in Strategic management from University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of science degree in Hospitality management from Maseno University.
He is a skills development expert with a hands-on expertise in enhancing the quality and relevance of technical and vocational skills training in non-formal and formal contexts.
Charles is currently the Executive Director of Ujima Foundation for training and development an organisation that supports youths who are faced with the responsibility of taking care of their siblings.
His professional interests focus on sustainable solutions, targeting vulnerable youths in the community. Prior to this position, He was the head of income generating activities tasked in developing sustainable business models. Charles has over 15 years’ experience in both public and private sector including hotel management, marketing, program design and implementation, designing and developing start-ups, Strategic planning and human resource management.
Charles is also a local representative for PUM-Netherlands senior experts tasked with identifying and evaluating small and medium sized enterprises in Kenya and connecting them with experts from the Netherlands. Charles also taught on part time basis at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology – Kisumu campus.
In addition, Charles is the board chair of Pamoja Child Foundation and vice chair of IISAH Society. He also sits in the board of Safe Water and Aids Project (SWAP), Kenya-Etten Leur Project, Prosperous Kenya, Afri-Can Trust and a member of Lake Victoria Tourism Association and Nakuru County Tourism Association. Charles is a fellow at African Visionary Fellowship and is also a Perennial Fellow.
Charles lives in Kisumu with his family. Socially he enjoys swimming, playing chess and connecting with nature.
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Liby T Johnson has led large scale, impactful, poverty eradication efforts in his nearly three decades of social development work, with non-profits and governments in India, in diverse sectors as community institutions and local governance, migration, livelihoods, water, and disaster management. Liby set up the National Resource Organisation of Government of Kerala under the National Rural Livelihood Mission of the Government of India. During his time with the United Nations Development Programme, he contributed to setting up capacity building mechanisms to support women entrepreneurs and women producers’ collectives across India. As the chief functionary of Gram Vikas, he is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in its fifth decade aiming to influence the life of nearly five million persons by enabling water and livelihoods security.He contributes regularly to policy discussions at the State and National levels on water, sanitation, livelihoods and disaster resilience.
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CEO, The Luminos Fund
Caitlin Baron is CEO of the Luminos Fund, an international education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos’ award-winning program marries the best of global learning science and local practice to enable marginalized children to catch up to grade level and go on to lifelong learning. Under Caitlin's leadership, Luminos has successfully scaled its education mission across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, working in partnership with more than 25 community-based organizations to reach more than 375,000 children. Over 90% of Luminos students succeed in the catch-up program, going on to complete primary school at twice the rate of their peers.
Caitlin believes in the power of joyful learning to enable children to thrive, even in the poorest corners of the world. She spent the previous decade leading international giving efforts at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
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Executive Director, Institute for Strategic Dialogue US
Dixon Osburn is Executive Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, US, whose mission is to fortify democracy against hate, extremism, political violence and digital disinformation. Dixon co-founded Servicemembers Legal Defense Network that led the successful effort to repeal "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell." At Human Rights First, he directed its Law & Security program, leading efforts to close Guantánamo, end torture and regulate drones. As ED of the Center for Justice and Accountability, Dixon led efforts to hold accountable international war criminals, including the Syrian regime and Khmer Rouge. Dixon served as a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He is author of Mission Possible: The Story of Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He received his AB with distinction from Stanford, and JD MBA from Georgetown. He lives in DC with his husband, JR.
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Chief Executive, Fidelity International Foundations
Chief Executive of the Fidelity UK, Bermuda, Europe and Asia Pacific Foundations. Accomplished leader with significant experience in spearheading programmes to strengthen organisational performance and impact, enabling social/environmental change and business growth. Extensive experience of progressive philanthropy (private and corporate), international development and responsible investing - integration of environmental, social and governance factors in investment decision-making and ownership practices. Senior roles held in non-profit, public and private sector organisations operating in diverse contexts in the UK and internationally. Many years' experience as a Trustee/NED of a number of non-profit organisations.
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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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Executive Director, Lwala Community Alliance
Ash Rogers is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lwala Community Alliance. Lwala matches community-led change with university-backed research and evaluation to advance quality health for all. Ash has overseen a 14-fold increase in annual revenue, exponential reach of the model, increased diversity in board membership, and publication of many peer-reviewed studies. Prior to Lwala, Ash was the Director of Operations at Segal Family Foundation, overseeing a $12m portfolio of 180 grantees. Ash serves as a board member of the Community Health Impact Coalition, a coalition focused on making professionalized CHWs a global norm. The through line of Ash's work is shifting power and money so that local leaders go from local impact to system-level change. Ash is a Global Health Corps alum and holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington and a BA in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
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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 is the forward-doing CEO, of Build Change, pioneering resilient retrofitting solutions for existing housing, resilient new construction, and serving as a trusted advisor to governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and beyond. With a wealth of experience and expertise, and over 13 years with the organization, Juan leads and scales the strategy, planning, and execution of Build Change programs across the globe.
Before joining Build Change, Juan made his mark as an independent architect and construction contractor, bringing invaluable insights from the field to his current role. His dedication to community development led him to serve his home country of Honduras in various capacities within the national government, focusing on local government capacity development and overseeing bilateral development programs.
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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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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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Jenneke works as Program Manager, Connect & Champion.
Prior to joining Skoll, Jenneke worked as a project manager in localization, where she handled quoting, managing and delivering translations of medical device documents on multiple client accounts. She also has a background in quality 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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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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Executive Vice President, MI Philanthropy, Milken Institute
Melissa Stevens is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Philanthropy, leading its work with individual and family philanthropists and foundations seeking to make a transformative, sustainable impact. Since co-founding Milken Institute Philanthropy in 2015, she has overseen the creation and execution of philanthropic strategies that have influenced more than $3 billion in capital and built an unmatched network for donors to collaborate and amplify their impact. Under her leadership, Milken Institute Philanthropy has more than tripled in size, expanding areas of expertise to include environment and social innovation philanthropy, as well as the Institute’s Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC).
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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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Executive Director, Audacious Project @ TED, TED Conferences LLC
Anna is the Executive Director of the Audacious Project
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Chief Executive Officer, Soros Economic Development Fund
Georgia Levenson Keohane is the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she served as President of the Navab Capital Partners Foundation and head of the firm’s ESG practice, and Executive Director of Pershing Square Foundation. A former McKinsey consultant, Keohane has advised CEOs, boards, and institutional, corporate, and philanthropic investors on strategy, operations, sustainable investing, and inclusive growth. She is an adjunct professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School, where she hosts the Capital for Good podcast, and is the author of two award winning books, Capital and the Common Good (2016) and Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (2013). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and HBR. Keohane holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from the London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
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Co-Founder, CEO, Jibu
Galen's passion is decentralized technology for local business ownership, and leveraging franchising for scaling solutions to meet basic needs. Galen/ Jibu's work in franchising is recognized by Forbes 30u30, BBC, Stanford Social Innovation Review, EY, and other major media. Galen co-founded Jibu in 2012 and under his leadership Jibu has quickly become Africa's largest/ fastest growing social franchise network, providing affordable access to drinking water to thousands of communities via hundreds of new business owners. Galen has been a presenter at events like Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference, the International Franchise Association convention (IFA), and at the UN General Assembly’s Global Development Lab showcase. Galen is also a proud RPCV (returned Peace Corps Volunteer).
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Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Eugene Amusin is Head of Strategy and Client Solutions, Director for Social Finance at Citi. Eugene is responsible for designing strategy and delivering client solutions with social impact in emerging markets. Eugene has more than 20 years of structuring, product management, technology and customer relationship experience.
Eugene is a proud dad of two kids and based in London.
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Managing Editor, Pioneers Post
Anna joined the team in 2018 as Managing Editor at Pioneers Post and Fable Bureau, bringing over 10 years' experience as a freelance journalist, writer/editor and communications specialist.
With a focus on international development and social enterprise, Anna has also worked in-house at international organisations including Euclid Network, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and British Council, as well as for a Brussels-based communications agency. She oversaw the communications of the Belgian government's aid work in Tanzania for a year, and has led community/youth media projects in Uganda and Kenya and more recently through the youth charity Exposure in north London. Anna is a Fellow of the On Purpose social enterprise programme.
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Deputy Director for Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jennifer Stout serves as the Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management for the Philanthropic Partnerships team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, she leads the cross-cutting strategy work of the team, which supports the Giving Pledge as well as other partnerships with individual givers and efforts to support the ecosystem for philanthropy overall. Jennifer has also overseen the team’s work outside of the US with a specific focus on encouraging philanthropy in China and India. Previously, Ms. Stout served as a senior consultant with the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and as an analyst with Pfizer’s Strategic Investments Group. Ms. Stout holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
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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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Executive Director, Yamba Malawi
Gertrude Kabwazi, currently Yamba Malawi's Executive Director, has worked over 25 years as a development practitioner. Has worked for both local and international organizations leading different teams, developed community-focused interventions. Also worked at AGE Africa, World Vision International, ActionAid International, Dignitas International and Concern Universal, among others. Also worked in growing, local organisations. Gertrude holds a Masters in Women’s Law from the University of Zimbabwe, B.A. in Human and Social Studies with a concentration in Development Studies from the University of South Africa, University Diploma in Journalism from University of Malawi, and Certificate in Education Policy from University of Witwatersrand. She is an African Visionary Fellow with Segal Family Foundation and a Perennial Fellow, and serves on a number of Boards World Bicycle Relief-Buffalo Bicycles, Women and Law in Southern Africa (WILSA), University of Malawi Council, Root Change,
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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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Alexandra Quinn is the CEO of Health Leads, a US based NGO that partners with communities, health systems and public health to address systemic causes of inequity and disease. Alexandra has spent two decades in the federal government and non-profit sectors, focused on equity, justice, education, and health. She was recently a W.K. Kellogg Community Leadership Network Fellow focused on racial equity, racial healing and leadership and was named to the “Care100 list” as one of the most influential people in care in 2020. Alexandra holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Georgetown University, CHW from City College San Francisco. and resides in Oakland, CA with her two kids, two dogs and partner.
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Executive director, Dandelion Africa
Wendo Aszed is the Founder and Executive Director of Dandelion Africa, a grassroots innovator in Kenya that focuses on women and girls sexual and reproductive health, economic livelihoods and advocacy on gender based violence through men engagement. She has over a decade of experience in grassroots sustainable programs and is rooted in community driven solutions. Through Dandelion, they have set up over 50 reproductive and maternal safe spaces, built 3 Health Centres, 2 Libraries. She has studied in different schools including Strathmore College, Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford University and Social Entrepreneurship at GSBI Accelerator at Santa Clara University in California. Wendo is an African Visionary Fellow, an Aspen New Voices Fellow 2019, awardee of the Kenya Presidential Award 2022, her work was recognized by Bill Gates through Gates Notes in 2022, Change Champion award by Population Matters 2021, and Rising Star awardee 2017 by Segal Family Foundation
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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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Co-Founder, Refugee Can Be
Alisa Bhachu's twenty year career has focused within the human rights sector as an advocate for women and girls, namely refugees and asylum seekers, especially those displaced from throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Alisa's career began as an intern with Amnesty International USA, where she went on to lead Amnesty's national campaign on Refugees and Asylum. From 2012-2018 she led RefuSHE, an award-winning international NGO and she currently serves as Executive Director of the Chicago Refugee Coalition. Alisa's leadership was honored as an International Leader by Chicago Woman magazine and has been named an Emerging Leader by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She frequently speaks on issues of forced migration and women’s rights having appeared on BBC, NPR, MSN, Refinery29, Chicago Tribune, ABC and CBS primetime news. Alisa holds certifications in Forced Migration from Northwestern and Oxford Universities, a BA in Humanities and an MA in Comparative Religions.
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SVP, Social Impact, Participant
Chen leads impact strategy and partnerships across Participant’s film and TV slate. Over the years, she has produced impact campaigns for critically acclaimed and award-winning films spanning the issues of health care, harm reduction, environmental justice, access to education, and human rights. Chen also built and oversaw Take Part World, a Gates-funded transmedia global health and development content series, and led Participant’s first B Corp certification in 2017.
Prior to joining Participant, Chen was Associate Director at the Clinton Global Initiative where she oversaw global health-related programming, managed a portfolio of 260 commitments, and developed new programs related to the health of women and children, nutrition, and agriculture/food systems.
She was named one of Variety’s New Hollywood Leaders in Social Impact in 2018, is an LA Leadership Fellow, and holds degrees in International Development and Global Political Economy. She lives in LA with her family.
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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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Nick Tilsen
President & CEO, NDN Collective
Nick is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, father of four and founder of the
NDN Collective. Nick has over 18 years of experience in working with non-
profits and tribal nations on projects that have a social mission. Prior to NDN, Nick
founded and served as the Executive Director of the Thunder Valley Community
Development Corporation for 12 years. Working in his home community on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to build place-based innovations that have the
ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable
housing and equitable community development. Nick created the NDN Collective
to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social
impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building
the collective power of Indigenous Peoples. Nick has received numerous
fellowships and awards from Ashoka, Rockefeller Foundation, Bush Foundation
and the Social Im
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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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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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Chief Strategy Officer, The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
Alasdair is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG, www.gsgii.org). He is responsible for GSG’s strategy, communications, development and funding.
Alasdair has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, with a focus on emerging markets investment. After joining CDC, Alasdair spent over a decade at Actis, the emerging markets private equity fund manager. He previously worked for Sovereign Capital, the UK private equity firm, and Bain and Company, the global consulting firm.
Alasdair was previously the Director of Strategy at the Rhodes Trust, leading on over £300m of philanthropic fundraising, driving international expansion across Africa and Asia, and building strategic operating partnerships.
Alasdair has an MBA from INSEAD and a joint honours degree in Russian and Czech language and literature from the University of Oxford.
Alasdair is an active impact investor and entrepreneur committed to environment and social outcomes.
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Research Fellow, Saïd Business School
Dr. Abrar Chaudhury, a senior research fellow at the Saïd Business School and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, holds a multi-year British Academy Fellowship. With 20+ years of global experience in technology, consulting, and research, he specialise in environmental management, climate leadership, sustainable development, climate finance, and corporate purpose.
His current research focuses on how dedicated climate funding and emerging technologies shape climate action in emerging economies. He was integral to a pioneering Oxford-EY Global collaboration on corporate 'purpose' among MNCs.
Abrar is also an experienced teacher and program director at Oxford, contributing to various MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs. He holds a PhD in Environmental Change and Management (awarded best dissertation by US Academy of Management), an MBA, an MSc in Environmental Management (with Distinction), all from the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.
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Julie Cordua, CEO. Thorn
Julie helped create Thorn in 2012 as an organization focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Under Julie’s leadership, Thorn has created products and programs that are deployed today in over 48 countries, have reached more than 3 million people and have helped identify thousands victims of abuse. Julie came to Thorn from (RED) where she was VP of Marketing/Communications and helped establish the brand as one of the most successful cause marketing initiatives in history, delivering more than $160 million to fight AIDS in Africa. Prior to joining (RED), Julie spent nearly a decade in the wireless industry. Julie holds a B.A. in Communications from UCLA and an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
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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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Founder, Women in Leadership Advancement Network
Abosede George-Ogan, Founder, Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN) is a tri-sector leader with over 20 years' experience working across the non-profit, private, and public sectors as a development professional.
She started her career with AcrionAid International and has led CSR and Sustainability for leading Banks and Samsung. Abosede also served as pioneer Director, Strategy, Funding and Stakeholder Management at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) as part of a team creating jobs. In these roles, she worked to improve the health, education, and economic outcomes in over 30 states in Nigeria and five cities across West Africa all with an inclusion lens.
She has a degree in Political Science/Public Administration from Igbinedion University, an MSc in Communication for Innovation & Development from the University of Reading and a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also Vital Voices VV Engage fellow.
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Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Spark MicroGrants
Sasha Fisher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spark Microgrants. Her experiences in South Sudan, South Africa, India, and Uganda led to her passion for community-first development and, in July 2010, she moved to East Africa to develop the Spark Microgrants system of change. In addition to leading Spark, Sasha is on the Board of Directors of InterAction, an alliance of international NGOs and partners which mobilizes members to act collectively to serve the world’s poor and vulnerable. She 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. Sasha 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Founder and Director, BudgIT
Oluseun Onigbinde is the co-founder and Director of BudgIT, Nigeria’s civic organization. Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship, Future Africa Awards, Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award, Aspen New Voices Fellowship, Melvin Jones Fellowship and Stanford Draper Hill Summer Fellowship. As a Knight Innovation Fellow, he also worked with the International Center for Journalists/Gates Foundation on rethinking health journalism in Nigeria. Oluseun has worked on several projects funded by MacArthur Foundation, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, OXFAM and Omidyar Network.
Oluseun Onigbinde concluded an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University. He is a pioneer visitor to the United Kingdom for the British Government’s International Leaders Programme (ILP).
He is a graduate of Engineering at University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. He had Executive Education at Stanford University Graduate School of Business on Social Entrepreneurship.
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Chairman, EkStep Foundation
Nandan Nilekani is Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of EkStep. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2006 and the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic & Business Innovation in 2017.
Nandan Nilekani is the author of “Imagining India” and co- authored his second book with Viral Shah, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations” and co-authored his third book with Tanuj Bhojwani, “ The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping calm in the digital world”
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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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Executive Director, African Development Solutions
Degan Ali is an internationally-renowned humanitarian leader who has been at the forefront of shifting power for decades. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellow for Social Innovation, a contributor to the Overseas Development Institute/Humanitarian Policy Group and the Global Food Security Journal. She is also the co-founder of the first Global South civil society network for local and national humanitarian organizations, the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR). She is an innovator, translating ground-breaking ideas into action, such as pioneering the first large-scale cash transfer, in 2003 in Somalia, leading the transition to global acceptance of cash assistance. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Al Jazeera &The Guardian. Her key achievements include leading Adeso in pioneering cash transfers; setting up the 25% localization target as part of the Grand Bargain Commitment. She lives in Kenya and works with organizations & philanthropists across the world.
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Chief of Development and Partnerships, Acumen
Yasmina Zaidman is the Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at Acumen, which works to change the way the world tackles poverty. She leads its work with funding partners that share Acumen’s commitment to entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She spearheaded Acumen’s gender integration work, co-authoring the report Women and Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty with ICRW. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for over twenty-five years. She serves on the boards of Fundacion Cacao de Colombia and Criterion Institute.
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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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CEO & Co-Founder, Khushi Baby
Ruchit Nagar, MD, MPH is CEO and Co-founder at Khushi Baby. He is also a resident physician at Yale New Haven Hospital, training in internal medicine and pediatrics with an interest in pediatric critical care.
Ruchit founded Khushi Baby as an undergraduate at Yale in 2014, and has grown the global health non-profit to a team of 75, now working as the Technical Support Partner to the Department of Health of India's largest state, Rajasthan. Khushi Baby's flagship solution, the Community Health Integrated Platform, has enabled 70K+ community health workers to t the track the health of 45M beneficiaries. CHIP has received $15M in Ministry of Health funding for deployment scale-up.
Ruchit's interests include critical care pediatrics, human centered design, health systems strengthening, impact evaluation, machine learning for global health.
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Rodney Foxworth has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of community development finance, economic inclusion, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. He is 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 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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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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Founder, Novo Films
Lindsay Branham is an Emmy-nominated and visionary film director, a social scientist, environmental psychologist and author. She is the founder of the social and environmental production studio NOVO, with media reaching 25M+ worldwide. She pioneered community-based collaborative journalism and documentary film interventions to address complex social issues like stigma towards former child combatants, elephant poaching and inter-religious violence. Her storytelling path began with a Pulitzer Prize win for National Reporting in 2005 for an investigative series with the New York Times on illegal deaths at railroad crossings. Lindsay is currently completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge on kinship between humans and the Earth where she is a Cambridge Trust scholar. Her first book Heartwood is forthcoming in 2025 on forest ecology, embodiment and healing and she is committed to the spiral-like relationship between storytelling, ecology and justice.
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Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab
Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab, is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting impact investing to the creative economy. Previously senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; a consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office; senior adviser at the United Nations Development Programme; executive director of the Prospect Hill Foundation; and associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation where, in addition to her responsibilities managing the endowment, she co-led the Foundation’s first impact investing efforts. Laura is a board member of GlobalGiving Foundation and Upriver Studios, and a member of the British Council Global Creative Economy Council. She has been a visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a scholar-in-residence at UC-Berkeley/Haas School of Business, a visiting scholar to the American Academy in Rome, and the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship.
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Judy is the pioneering filmmaker and behind Docubox, The East African Film Fund. Starting her career as a copywriter then Creative Director at McAnn Erickson, the leading advertising agency in East Africa during the 90s, she wrote some of the regions favorite adverts before transitioning to filmmaking and playing a pivotal role in sparking a modern filmmaking movement in Kenya.
She wrote and directed early films like the romantic comedy 'Dangerous Affair' and socially charged narratives such as 'Killer Necklace' (2009) and 'Something Necessary' (2010). Her passion for documentaries, fuelled by her experience creating non-profit videos, is showcased in ‘Headlines in History’ (co-directed with Sir John Akomfrah) and 'Scarred: Anatomy of a Massacre' (2013).
In 2013, Judy established DOCUBOX, the first filmmaker-founded fund in Sub-Saharan Africa dedicated to supporting independent African documentary filmmakers, by offering screenings, grants, labs and hugs. Over the past decade, DOCUBOX has invested nearly $2 million in over a hundred features and short films, training, development and screenings. She's currently trying to raise an endowment fund for the organization and needs all the help she can get to make this happen!
Judy is a founding member of the Creative Economy Working Group (CEWG, an active member of the global D.I.S.C.O network (Decentralised Independent Story + Culture Organisers) and has been part of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences since 2017, serving on the Documentary Branch Executive Committee since 2018.
Her industry efforts were recognized with the an award from Women in Film Kenya for the Most Influential Woman in Film 2021, as well as a Head of State commendation, and a Lifetime Achievement the following year from The Kenya Film Commission.
Judy has been itching to get back into writing and directing for years and is working on two new short fiction films as well as developing a Manifesto Film for African Filmmakers.
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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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Alasdair is a marine conservationist working at the interface of ocean protection and social justice.
His organisation Blue Ventures develops locally led approaches to marine conservation that benefit people and nature.
Blue Ventures’ approach is helping many hundreds of thousands of people address overfishing and safeguard ocean life in fifteen countries across southeast Asia and Africa,
Alasdair is a TED fellow, and holds a PhD in marine ecology and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Edinburgh.
He has spent more than two decades working with communities to rebuild small-scale fisheries across the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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Yves Moury is the Founder and CEO of Fundación Capital, a global organization aiming at asset-building for the poor and climate action. He has been honored as a Schwab Foundation (the sister organization of the World Economic Forum) Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Awardee. In 2017 he was also named an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and in 2014 received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a global recognition for his work in education and economic opportunities.
Fundación Capital is a pioneer in systems change for economic citizenship and inclusive finance, working to help the poor access formal finance and save; grow and invest their assets; insure their families, build resilient mechanisms against climate change; and chart a permanent path out of poverty. To achieve results at scale, the organization aligns advances in public policy, market mechanisms, digital technologies and data-based impact measurement.
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Executive Director, Rights4Girls
Yasmin Vafa is co-founder and Executive Director of Rights4Girls, a national human rights organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence. An award-winning human rights lawyer and advocate, Yasmin's work focuses on the intersections of race, gender, violence, and the law. As a nationally recognized expert on gendered violence, Yasmin has successfully advocated for several laws at the federal and state levels, testified before the U.S. Senate, state legislatures, and international human rights bodies, and co-authored multiple reports detailing the over-criminalization of girls and young women of color, particularly, survivors of sexual violence.
Yasmin and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, and more. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Lois Haight Award for Excellence and Innovation for her legislative advocacy from Congress.
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Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 61 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University as well as honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Wise Prize for Education and the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.
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Bill Strickland is the founder and Executive Chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC), an educational model designed to create empowering educational environments for adults-in-transition as well as a diverse population of youth in the Pittsburgh, PA region. A past Skoll awardee, Strickland's model has been replicated in 14 cities in the US and Internationally. Bill founded Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in 1968 to help combat economic and social devastation experienced by residents of his Northside Pittsburgh neighborhood. Later in 1972 he assumed leadership of Bidwell Training Center to guide its transition to providing skills relevant to Pittsburgh's economy. Grammy winning MCG Jazz was founded in 1987, which is one of the longest jazz subscription series in America. What started as an informal art program and exhibition space has been transformed into a 62,000 sf arts and career training center, which today includes a 40,000 sf production and educational greenhouse.
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Founder and Chairwoman - Vera Cordeiro graduated in medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1975. From 1978 to 1998, she worked at Hospital da Lagoa, a Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally working as a general practitioner. She founded and led the 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 is a 2009 Skoll Awardee and a Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in sustainable living, focused on our homes, cities and the products and services we use. Including the world-famous BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives. Sue and the team systematised their approach as “One Planet Living” which is freely available for anyone to use. Based on 10 principles and a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. There is now a global network of exemplary communities, and 10 million people living in places that have used One Planet Living. Sue draws on these inspiring examples to support policy change, for the built environment and through a formal role in the UN process to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At global social entrepreneur network Catalyst 2030 Sue helped secure a UN Resolution on the social and solidarity economy. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympics.
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Sohini has worked in the development sector for 30+ years with a focus on women and empowerment. She has been closely connected to the Women’s Movement in India and co-founded Sanhita Gender Resource Centre — the first of its kind in Eastern India in 1996. Before Breakthrough, she worked with Ashoka Innovators for the Public for 10 years to bring in more women entrepreneurs to the fellowship and on institution building for the organisation in South Asia. She also worked as the India strategy advisor for the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network from 2010-2013. Sohini is a founding member of the Coalition for Good Schools – Voices from the South, a collection of leading practitioners and influencers committed to delivering access to a safe learning environment for children across the Global South. Sohini also represents Breakthrough as the knowledge partner in a consortium to support the global programming of What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale Programme by FCDO, U.K.
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Senior Investment and Strategy Executive, Terbish Partners
Sean Hinton is an impact investment and strategy advisor to major philanthropies, family offices, and corporations.
From 2015 - 2022 Sean was the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and Director of the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations. Prior to this, he was a strategic investment advisor focusing on China, Mongolia, and Africa and the social and economic impact of large-scale extractive investments working for Goldman Sachs (Asia) and the Rio Tinto group. He began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and worked for many years in film, television and newspapers. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, and an Executive-in-Residence at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and serves on the boards of: Natural Resources Governance Institute, Nature Finance, and the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland.
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Sam Gregory is an internationally recognized human rights advocate and technologist. As Executive Director of WITNESS, he leads their strategic plan to "Fortify the Truth" and champions their global team who support millions of people using video and technology for human rights.
Sam Gregory helps ensure we are better prepared globally for deepfakes and deceptive generative AI. He has testified to both US House and Senate and spoken at TED on proactive, human rights-based responses. He initiated WITNESS’ "Prepare, Don’t Panic" initiative that grounds these technologies in realities of frontline journalists and human rights defenders and has directly influenced platform policies, emerging technologies for trust and public discussion of who and what to prioritize.
Sam served on the ICC Technology Advisory Board, co-chaired the Partnership on AI’s Expert Group on AI and the Media and led the Threats and Harms Taskforce of a leading coalition to develop standards for media provenance.
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Rupert Howes has served as Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) since October 2004. Prior to joining the MSC, Rupert worked as the Director of the Sustainable Economy Programme at the Forum for the Future, an influential UK-based sustainable development organization that partners with business, capital markets, governments, and others to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable way of life.
Rupert has been internationally recognized for his work to promote sustainable fishing practices. In 2014, Rupert was awarded a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Award, which recognizes leaders in sustainable social innovation. In 2009, he received the World Wildlife Foundation’s “Leaders for a Living Planet” Award. He also received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007 for his contributions in establishing the MSC as the world’s leading fishery certification and ecolabelling program.
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Chairperson, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
Rohini Nilekani is a philanthropist and author dedicated to sustainable development in India. She is the Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and Co-founder and Director of EkStep, a non-profit education platform. As Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies, she oversees initiatives in gender, mental health, justice and climate action. In 2001, she founded Arghyam, a foundation funding water and sanitation projects across India. From 2004 to 2014, she was the founder-chairperson of Pratham Books, a children’s publisher that reached millions of young readers. Rohini serves on the boards of ATREE Environmental Think Tank and Dakshin Foundation. She has advised government agencies on issues of competition, accountability and transparency. In 2017, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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After graduating from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Roshaneh Zafar studied development economics at Yale University and upon returning to Pakistan she worked for the World Bank in Islamabad in the early 90s. In 1996, inspired by Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus, she established Pakistan's first specialised microfinance organisation, the Kashf Foundation, in Lahore. ] In 2007, Roshaneh Zafar was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's highest civilian awards, by then-president Pervez Musharraf in recognition of her work in the field of development and women's empowerment.That same year, Zafar also won the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Zafar was also awarded an honorary PHD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2023 for her work in the field of women’s economy empowerment.
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Rukmini Banerji is Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation. She
has extensive field experience working directly with rural and urban communities as well as in designing and implementing large scale partnerships with governments for improving children’s learning in India. From 2005 to 2014, she led Pratham’s research and assessment efforts including the well-known ASER initiative (Annual Status of Education Report). Rukmini is the 2021 recipient of the Yidan Prize for education development. Originally from Bihar, she is now based between New Delhi and Pune. Rukmini writes frequently on education in both Hindi and English and enjoys creating and telling stories to children.
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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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CEO, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
Naina Subberwal Batra is the CEO of AVPN, the largest regional social investment network that aims to increase the flow of financial, human and intellectual capital for impact.
Naina’s leadership since 2013 has nurtured the AVPN community, growing the membership base by more than four times and elevating the organisation into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, AVPN has grown from focusing only on venture philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of social investors, from catalytic philanthropists to impact investors and corporate CSR professionals.
Naina is Board Member of the Menzies Foundation, the Global Resilient Cities Network and Trustee at Bridge Institute.
In 2022, Naina did a residency at the Bellagio Center focussing on Leadership in the Global South. In 2021, she was featured on the list of Asia's Most Influential by Tatler Asia and in 2019, she was awarded one of Asia's Top Sustainability Superwomen by CSRWorks.
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Dr. Michael McAfee became President and CEO of PolicyLink in 2018, seven years after becoming the inaugural director of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink. During his time at PolicyLink, Michael has played a leadership role in securing Promise Neighborhoods as a permanent federal program, led efforts to improve outcomes for more than 300,000 children, and facilitated the investment of billions of dollars in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. He is the catalyst for a new and growing body of work — corporate racial equity — which includes the first comprehensive tool to guide private-sector companies in assessing and actively promoting equity in every aspect of their company’s value chain. Michael carries forward the legacy to realize the promise of equity — just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. He is turning movement leaders’ eyes toward redesigning the “rules of the game” so that all people in Am
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I am the founding president and CEO of Forest Trends an organization focused on bringing value to nature and ecosystem functions. We do this by supporting market and marketlike approaches including incentives and policies and with a focus on ensuring benefits flow equitably to the local and indigenous communities that steward these ecosystems
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Megha Agrawal Sood believes in the power of sharing stories and building unexpected collaborations to inspire action. She is a Co-Director at Doc Society and leads the Climate Story Unit, an initiative to support the production and impact of climate-themed stories across the globe. Megha’s previous work experience includes leading impact programming at the film company, Exposure Labs (Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma), and helping purpose-driven organizations grow at the innovation firm, IDEO. She was raised in Sugar Land, Texas, is a graduate of Northwestern University, and is currently based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Marya Besharov is Professor of Organisations and Impact and Academic Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her research and teaching focus on leadership, social impact, and hybrid organizations. She advises organizations worldwide on how to manage competing strategic priorities for positive social and financial impact. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review, as well as practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Marya received a BA in Social Studies, an MA in Sociology, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. She also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Lija joined Bridgespan in 2007, and currently serves as a leader in Bridgespan’s work in field building, systems change, education, early childhood, and equity. She has worked with philanthropic funders and NGOs on a range of issues including strategic planning and decision making, organizational design, structure and processes, performance measurement, and implementation—all with a central focus on inclusion and equity as both outcomes and principles for the process itself.
Taking a cross-sector view, Lija leads Bridgespan’s work on field building for equitable systems change. Her publications include: “Field Building for Population-Level Change: How Funders and Practitioners Can Increase the Odds of Success” (2020); “How Philanthropy Can Support Systems-Change Leaders” (2021); “Equitable Systems Change: Funding Field Catalysts from Origins to Revolutionizing the World” and “Field Catalyst Origin Stories: Lessons for Systems-Change Leaders” (2023).
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Peepul
Kruti Bharucha, with over 23 years of leadership experience, currently serves as the CEO of Peepul, steering the organization's vision. Her impressive career spans roles at CEB, McKinsey, The World Bank, and IMF, offering a profound grasp of education, management consulting, and advisory sectors.
Recognized for her contributions, Kruti received the Rainer Fellowship, Top 100 Women Transforming India, Social Innovation Leader Award, and Excellence in Leadership Award. Holding a Master's in Development Studies from LSE, a Master's in Economics from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor's in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Kruti has been featured in The Economic Times Women Ahead List, named Disruptor of the Year by Business World, and honored as the Social Entrepreneur of 2019. Her dynamic leadership earned her a spot on Business World's 40 Under 40 List in 2019.
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Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance
Julius is an international development expert, and the Co-CEO of Lwala Community Alliance. In this role, he works with communities to catalyze their own change through innovative programming that is going to scale, influencing health systems and putting communities at the center of their own development. He believes that when communities lead, change is lasting. He is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a published author, and a dot connector recognized for his efforts in community building and collaboration in the social innovation space. He is the Chair of CHU4UHC, a collaborative that helped push major community health reforms in Kenya to professionalize Community Health Workers. He is a voice for locally-led development, an advocate for trust-based philanthropy, and a board member of local organizations and philanthropic foundations.
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Jay Coen Gilbert is Executive Chair of Imperative 21, a global network shaping economic narratives and reimagining systems so that everyone, everywhere can thrive. Imperative 21 catalyzes breakthrough narratives that tell a new story about the purpose of business and accelerate the movement to redesign an economic system that cares about people and not just profit. I21 builds on Jay’s experience as cofounder of B Lab, the nonprofit behind the B Corporation movement, with nearly 8,000 companies across 80 countries. Along with his B Lab cofounders, Jay received the UMKC Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the McNulty Prize at the Aspen Institute. Jay recently co-founded an antiracist community of practice called White Men for Racial Justice. Prior, Jay co-founded AND 1, a $250M basketball company and subject of a Netflix documentary. Jay grew up in NYC and graduated from Stanford University.
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Co-Founder, Turn.io
Gustav Praekelt is a technology founder based in Africa. He loves building and supporting organisations that use technology to empower people.
His belief in the power of mobile phones to transform lives inspired him to create Praekelt Foundation (now Reach Digitial Health) - a non-profit works to achieve a world in which personal, uninterrupted healthcare is available to everyone. Praekelt.org has been at the forefront of digital health, being involved involved in the early use of mobile technology in HIV treatment, Maternal and Child health and more recently, helping governments and iNGOS respond to the COVID pandemic in the global south.
In 2018, together with Simon de Haan and Pippa Yeats, he launched [**Turn.io**](https://www.turn.io/); based on technology originally developed at Praekelt.org.
Turn.io equips organisations in the Global South to power life-improving support via private, personalised conversations.
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Founder, Riziki Source Limited
Fredrick is the Founder at Riziki Source, a social enterprise that facilitates access to job opportunities for persons with disabilities in Kenya leveraging the power of technology. He works part-time as a Co-CETO for ADD International and previously a program officer for disability rights program at Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, he was also the disability inclusion advisor for Kenya, Light for the World Netherlands and formerly a founding executive director of Action Network for the Disabled for 15 years, a national disabled person` organization in Kenya working to improve life prospects of children
and youth with disabilities in Kenya through education and sustainable livelihood initiatives. He was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2012 for his work around
issues of employment for persons with disabilities in Kenya.
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Carlos Souza Jr. holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Pará State Federal University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in soil science from Penn State University, US, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, US. He is currently an associate researcher at Imazon, where he focuses on 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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Susan Burns is a Skoll Awardee and Philanthropic Advisor with Unleashing Generosity helping donors increase their impact and give joyfully.
She is a co-founder of Global Footprint Network, one of the world’s leading scientific organizations addressing global ecological limits. She is also the former Director of Finance for Change, a global effort to shape international finance by incorporating the value of Natural Capital. Prior to launching Global Footprint Network, Susan founded the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies, advising such companies as Mitsubishi Electric and Lowes. Susan serves on the Social Justice Ministry of Imani Community Church and is a vocalist with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC). She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster children, and a member of ICJJ (Interfaith Coalition for Justice in Our Jails).
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I am social entrepreneur with a unique journey. I start in small village in Indonesia to transform illegal logging become a sustainable forest management, lead the movement acrros Indonesia by built inclusive company. Now, I am leading forestry sector (538 consession with more than 30 millioj hectare forest) in Indonesia at Infonesia Chambers of commerse and Industry to do Regenerative Forestry in Indonesia.
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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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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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A nationally recognized leader in the intersection of drivers of health, population health, and health care delivery, Onie founded Health Leads in 1996 to enable physicians and other healthcare providers and caregivers across the country to address the fundamental drivers of patients’ health, such as healthy food and safe housing. Health Leads has armed thousands of healthcare institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, and best practices to address their patients’ resource needs and to champion a healthcare system that address all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Onie is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. She has received the APHA Avedis Donabedian Quality Award; Network for Excellence in Health Innovation “Innovator in Health” Award; Robert Wood Johnson Young Leader Award; and Forbes’ Impact 30 Award for leading social entrepreneurs.
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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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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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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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Executive Director, Center for Native American Youth
Nikki Santos is executive director of the Center for Native American Youth. . She is an enrolled citizen of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. As executive director, Nikki is responsible for visioning, managing staff, and fund raising. Her biggest inspiration comes from her daughter and nieces and nephews.
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President and Producer, Truth Aid
Mehret Mandefro draws on her interdisciplinary training as a physician and anthropologist to
create compelling narratives she calls "visual medicine." She is an Emmy-nominated producer,
writer, and director whose credits include the Sundance and Berlinale Audience Award winner
Difret, the New York Times Critic’s Pick Little White Lie, and the viral digital series The Loving
Generation. Mandefro is the co-founder of the production company Truth Aid, which produces
inspiring and empowering multi-media content to affect social change. Truth Aid recently
produced BET’s Content for Change Black X Jewish a 30-minute news special that examines
the connections between anti-Semitism and racism. She is also showrunner of Ethiopia’s
first-ever teen drama series Yegna, and recently executive produced the American Masters
feature documentary film How It Feels To Be Free which was nominated for an Emmy for best
documentary film/series. Mandefro’s global work at the intersection of social impact and media
earned her a spot on Variety’s 2021 most impactful women in global entertainment list. She has
an AB in Anthropology from Harvard University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, a Masters
in Global Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Fulbright
Scholar, and a PhD in Anthropology from Temple University. She is an alumna of Sundance
New Voices Lab, EAVE Producers Workshop, American Film Showcase and is a member of the
American Television Academy. She lives between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Alexandria,
Virginia with her husband and three children. For more information on Mehret, please visit
DrMehret.com and TruthAid.com.
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Marla Blow is the President and COO of the Skoll Foundation. Previously, she was North America lead at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and was Founder and CEO of FS Card Inc., a subprime credit card venture (sold to strategic acquirer).
Ms. Blow won the EY Mid Atlantic Emerging Company Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2018, and has been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Marla was featured in the April 2018 Vanity Fair “26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship” photo shoot, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow as part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Previously, she was part of the Implementation Team to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and ultimately served as the Assistant Director for Card and Payment Markets, where she shaped the CFPB’s regulatory priorities in these markets.
Prior to joining the CFPB, Marla spent seven years in a variety of functions at Capital One in the credit card business. Ms. Blow is a member of the US Capital Chapter of YPO, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Care.com (NYSE: CRCM, sold to IAC), and on the Board of Directors of Factor Trust (sold to TransUnion). Marla holds an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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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Lisha McCormick is Chief Executive Officer of Last Mile Health, an organization that partners with governments to build strong community health systems that equip professionalized community health workers to provide essential, primary healthcare in the world’s most remote communities. Under her leadership, Last Mile Health has grown from a district-level pilot in Liberia to an international organization partnering with four governments to reach over 12 million people at the last mile, while also working globally to transform community health financing and practice through initiatives like Africa Frontline First.
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CEO, The Roddenberry Foundation
Lior Ipp has served as the CEO of the Roddenberry Foundation (TRF) since 2014 where he provides leadership and strategic direction for all foundation functions. Under Lior’s direction, the foundation has expanded its global reach through a slate of new initiatives, including a global grants program for early-stage ideas, an annual social justice fellowship, a collaborative funding platform, and a biennial competition for crowd-sourced solutions. Lior has held leadership positions at Breakthrough Collaborative and Ashoka and holds a Masters in Education (M.Ed.) from Harvard University where he was awarded the prestigious Leadership in Education Award.
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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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CEO and Founder, Movilizatorio
Juliana Uribe, a Colombian social entrepreneur, activist, and consultant, is the Founder and Executive Director of Movilizatorio. This lab, based in Latin America with global reach, mobilizes citizen power for a socially and environmentally equitable world. Through projects like "El Avispero," she has mobilized over 140,000 agents of change. Juliana has been recognized for her transformative work, including being named one of the 45 most transformative women under 45 by La Silla Vacía in 2023 and becoming an Acumen Fellow in 2021. She holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University, where she is also a Mason Fellow, and a Master's Cum Laude in International Business from the University of Barcelona. She is an economist graduated from the University of the Andes and speaks Spanish, English, and German.
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John Valverde is president and CEO of YouthBuild USA. He joined YouthBuild in 2017 after decades of work as an advocate for creating access to opportunity and removing barriers for formerly incarcerated and marginalized people.
John began working with imprisoned individuals in 1992 to ensure access to HIV/AIDS counseling, high school equivalency instruction, alternatives to violence programs, and college education. In 1998, he co-founded Hudson Link for Higher Education, the first privately funded accredited college program in New York’s prisons.
As a leader of lived experience who was incarcerated at the age of 21, John is a true reflection of the importance of the healing and equity of second chances and example for the young people of YouthBuild who are seeking their own second chance.
John is a Marano Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Sector Skills Academy; a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow; co-chair of the National Service, Civic Engagement and Volunteering pillar of the Partners
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Co-Founder and CEO, Integrate Health
Jennifer (Jenny) Schechter has a deep passion for making sure quality healthcare reaches the people who need it most. Jenny has been working alongside community activists, public health experts, and government officials to strengthen healthcare delivery for nearly twenty years. Since taking on the role of CEO of Integrate Health in 2012, Jenny has helped to expand Integrate Health’s impact in the fight to end preventable deaths of women and children. Working in the West African nations of Togo since 2004 and Guinea since 2022, Integrate Health collaborates with communities and the Ministry of Health to implement and test proactive, integrated, community health delivery innovations.
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Jim Taylor is the co-founder and chief executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change across rural Myanmar. The big idea 20 years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After serving over 2 million farm families, and generating +$300 million in new income, the idea still has legs. Jim’s originally from Seattle but has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He has an MBA and studied economics at Harvard. He currently lives in Chicago.
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A practitioner from the very beginning, Jagdeesh’s 37 year professional engagement has been on interrelated issues of poverty and environmental degradation and on ‘systems thinking’ at the interface of ecology, society and economy.
Jagdeesh has been the Chief Executive of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) since its inception in 2001 till July 2020. Subsequently, he was associated its Promise of Commons initiative since it's inception in 2020 till September 2021 as it's anchor and curator. He was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Omidyar Network India in 2022. Along with a few partners, he is currently designing an ecosystem initiative titled 'Common Ground' to build collaborative action for addressing challenges posed by climate change, loss of economic opportunities and inequalities.
Jagdeesh is a Skoll Awardee, a Henry Arnhold Fellow and a Senior Ashoka Fellow. His areas of interest include Commons, decentralized governance, systems thinking and systems change.
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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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Francis von Hildebrand is the President of Gaia Amazonas (Fundación Gaia Amazonas). Gaia Amazonas is a Colombian NGO whose mission is to protect the Amazon, biocultural diversity, and socio-environmental resilience by actively partnering and collaborating with indigenous peoples’ processes and organizations.
Francis has led Gaia Amazonas as its Director and CEO since 2012 and previously worked for a decade as a researcher advancing development and conservation projects in Amazonia with indigenous communities in Colombia and transfrontier projects.
Francis is a Development Studies professional and an expert in local development strategies, local governance, and intercultural environmental management, emphasizing community-based research and participation.
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Ella is a social entrepreneur and global health strategist with more than 20 years of experience in international development. Under her leadership, VisionSpring has corrected the vision of 10 million low-income adults and children and unlocked more than $2 billion in income earning potential at the household level.
Prior to joining VisionSpring, Ella served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Program Development at AmeriCares, a global health and emergency response organization. While there, she led humanitarian operations and managed access to medicine and other health interventions in ten countries. Ella began her career in international development when conducting research and teaching in Indonesia and coordinating events with government and private sector leaders at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington, DC.
Ella regularly speaks about hybrid business models that blend earned revenue with philanthropy and growing a purpose-driven businesses.
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Proximity designs and delivers innovative and profitable low-carbon farming products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support farmers to transition to regenerative farming practices, while boosting farm incomes by approximately USD 250 annually. Since 2004, Proximity’s products and services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling over 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar for over two decades. She is a founding member of the Climate Action for Smallholders (CASH) Coalition.
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CEO, Lever for Change
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Lever for Change and a Senior Advisor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Conrad was formerly a Managing Director at the Foundation where her portfolio included the MacArthur Fellows program and 100&Change. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Conrad was Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Stedman Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College.
Current board memberships include TIAA (board of governors), the 2021-2024 Generosity Commission, Bryn Mawr College, the Poetry Foundation, the National Academy of Social Insurance, The Hypothesis Fund, The African Center for Economic Transformation, and IES Abroad. Conrad is a past president of the National Economic Association and the International Association for Feminist Economics and a trustee emerita of Muhlenberg College. She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $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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Tasso Azevedo is a forester and social entrepreneur on forests, climate and sustainability. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and Chair of the Board Conection Forest People initiative. Tasso was founder and general director of IMAFLORA and General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. He is a visiting scholar of Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021) and Skoll Award Fellow (2022) and board member of Rainforest Alliance, Preferred by Nature and Santander.
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Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (3PC), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.
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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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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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Chief Executive Officer, Swaniti
Rwitwika Bhattacharya is the CEO for Swaniti Global, a social enterprise that ensures access to basic services for the most vulnerable by strengthening public service ecosystem. As CEO, she focuses on developing long-term growth strategies and formulating key partnerships. Prior to Swaniti, Bhattacharya was working at the World Bank as an Associate on Labor Market Issues. She has worked with firms like UNFPA and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. She has a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor's in Economics and Political Science from Wake Forest University. Bhattacharya is Forbes India's 30 under 30, Fortune 40 under 40 and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She has published multiple books, including, "What Makes a Politician" (Harper Collins).
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Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Green
Rikin Gandhi is Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Green. Rikin Gandhi is the CEO and co-founder of Digital Green. He began his career at Oracle, where he received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop. Later he joined Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team, where he researched ways to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development globally. He has published a number of articles and books, including co-authoring Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation, which constitutes the most authoritative study on the future of local and global agri-food systems. In addition, he has been honored as a TED Fellow, and Ashoka Fellow, and won numerous awards from MIT Technology Review TR35 and the Stockholm Challenge. He holds a Master's degree in aeronautical and astronautical space engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Conduit
Paul served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998. His background is in human rights law, and he has received a number of scholarships and accolades for his work in global social impact. Paul was selected as a Hauser Global Scholar at NYU, a program which selects 10 of the finest students from countries across the world. He received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 with Juan E. Mendez, with whom he founded the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an international human rights organisation based in New York. Paul was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the WEF in 2008. He has served as an adviser and consultant to many NGOs and Governments on transitional justice issues in over 30 countries. Paul co-founded The Conduit in 2018, and that year was named by London Tech Week as one of its 30 "Change Makers'.
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Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, Paul has helped establish Fair Trade as one of the fastest growing segments of the food and apparel industries. To date, Fair Trade USA has partnered with over 1,500 leading companies, including Green Mountain, Nespresso, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, and Target. Fair Trade USA now certifies coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, coconut, fresh produce, and seafood. Through groundbreaking partnerships with Patagonia, Athleta, West Elm and J. Crew, Fair Trade has begun certifying apparel and home goods. In 2022, consumer recognition of the Fair Trade Certified label hit 65%. To date, Fair Trade USA and its partners have generated over $1 billion in additional income for farmers and workers in 51 countries, allowing them to care for the environment and steadily improve their livelihoods. Paul has been named Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Business Leader of the Year and is a four-time winner of Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year.
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CEO & Co-Founder, Nexleaf Analytics
Nithya Ramanathan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics, a non-profit technology company dedicated to partnering with governments across Africa and Asia to ensure they have the data they need to build lasting solutions that improve the health of people. Nexleaf’s unique approach brings together sensor technology, data analysis, and user engagement to identify and address big problems. Nexleaf tech helps governments protect vaccines for 1 in 10 babies born on Earth each year. Nithya and her team have achieved this outsized impact by working shoulder-to-shoulder with Ministries of Health—rather than attempting to bypass governments—to scale cutting-edge technologies refined through close collaboration with personnel at every level of the health system, from top-tier government officials to last-mile health care workers.
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Founding CEO/Strategic Advisor, GoodWeave
Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and founding Chief Executive Officer of GoodWeave International (GoodWeave), the leading international NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. At GoodWeave's helm from 1999 to 2023, Nina pioneered a market-led model that has reduced child labor at scale in select sectors by shining a light on the most vulnerable supply chain workers; stopping abuse; and addressing root causes. A Skoll and Schwab Foundation Awardee, Nina advocates for child and worker rights through her writing, public speaking and the boards she serves, including The Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute. Nina is also winner of the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership, and is a member of Elluminate’s Women’s Leadership Collective.
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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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Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women
Monica Ramírez is an award-winning activist, attorney, and founder of Justice for Migrant Women, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of immigrant women through policy advocacy, education, and empowerment. As a leader in the movement for migrant worker rights, Ramírez has been instrumental in raising awareness of workplace abuses, including sexual harassment and exploitation. Her work has garnered global recognition for its impact in advancing human rights and social justice. She has received numerous honors, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s first Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award, and the 2022 James Beard Leadership Award. She has also been named in Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list, TIME Magazine’s TIME100 Next list in 2021, Anthem Non-Profit Leader Award Gold Winner, ADCOLOR 2024 Catalyst Honoree and Quien 50 2024.
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Chief Executive Officer and President,
CeresMindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global initiatives have grown significantly in size and influence. As a global thought leader, Lubber regularly speaks to high-level global and national policymakers on the need for stronger climate policies that accelerate the transition to a more just and resilient economy. Lubber has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. She has made Barron’s Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for four consecutive years and received the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network and the Skoll Foundation’s Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She resides in the Boston area.
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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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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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Executive Chair & Advisor,
CAMFEDLucy joined CAMFED in 1994, shortly after it was founded, and went on to become the CEO. In 2023, Lucy stepped aside as CEO and continues as Executive Advisor, working with the executive and boards to position CAMFED for its next phase of development.
Under Lucy’s leadership, CAMFED 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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Liz is Managing Director at the Skoll Foundation, where she identifies and leads timely, strategic investments in Awardees with whom we see extraordinary potential for large scale and lasting change in the world. She also serves as a collaborative advisor to grantees and multiple external partners.
Liz has significant experience in the broad areas of investment and finance in developing markets - from digital financial inclusion to fund structuring and facilitating supply chain investments with small local firms and large multinational corporations - and deep agriculture sector knowledge. She is passionate about growing markets and empowering economically disenfranchised people around the world with choice to pursue a range of economic livelihoods. Prior to joining Skoll, Liz held positions with USAID, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OPIC, and as a development consultant.
Liz is a Midwesterner at heart (KCMO!) and a globalist in spirit who never ceases to be moved by human kindness.
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Global Ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity; Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Africans Rising
Kumi Naidoo is a South African born human rights and climate activist. He has served as International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 to 2016) and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 to 2020). Kumi has lectured at Fossil Free University and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy until early 2022.
Kumi is currently a Senior Advisor for the Community Arts Network (CAN) and a Special Advisor to the Green Economy Coalition. He is Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and continues to serve as a Global ambassador, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Kumi is a Visiting Fellow, Oxford University and Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College and has started the Ricky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Arts in honour of his son.
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Keely Stevenson is an entrepreneur and an investor. She is CEO and Co-founder of Weal Life, a digital health company focused on leveraging mobile technology to make it easier for people to care for each other during times of health crisis, advanced aging or chronic illness. She has served as a board member, mentor and advisor to start-ups and established companies in healthcare, biotech, energy, housing, education and finance around the globe. Previously, she’s built global initiatives, including in her role as CEO of Bamboo Finance USA. Bamboo is one of the world’s first and largest private equity firms focused on balancing social impact and commercial returns ($300M AUM). She’s also led the world’s first online community for social entrepreneurs as an early Skoll Foundation team member. She has worked on five continents. She studied politics at UC Berkeley and received an MBA from Oxford University where she was a Skoll Scholar.
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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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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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When he joined the Foundation in 2020, he had more than two decades of experience as a journalist, author and activist. He was a co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. This led to his selection as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine “Better Men Better World” search, and as one of the Women’s eNews ‘21 Leaders for the 21st Century’. Jimmie has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research and was a George A Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana. For a decade, he has been an adjunct teacher of documentary journalism at the International Center of Photography
As a journalist, he has written for scores of publications following staff tenures at The Washington Post, The Village Voice, LIFE magazine and others. The recipient of honors for his work as a journalist and advocate, he’s been a National Magazine Award finalist, recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists, the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism, the Congressional Black Caucus, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, among many others. His 2005 book Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War took readers into the lives of war-affected children around the world in half a dozen countries. His next book project is an oral history of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014. He currently contributes to Vanity Fair magazine in addition to his role at the Skoll Foundation.
Jimmie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, in Philosophy, from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as a Medal of Distinction from Barnard College. He lives in New York City.
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Co-Founder, Catalyst 2030
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with over twenty years’ experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll Awardee, and Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline India and Child Helpline International, which have helped enable the financial inclusion and protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries. Jeroo is now founder of One Family Foundation, which incubates social innovations, helps them scale, and is currently anchoring Catalyst 2030 – a global network working to accelerate progress towards the SDGs through radical and transformative social innovation at the country level.
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A former screenwriter and independent filmmaker, Jenny Bowen founded Half the Sky (now OneSky for all children) in 1998 in order to give something back to China, her adopted daughters’ home country, and to the many orphaned children then languishing behind institutional walls. Under her leadership, OneSky has grown into a global NGO; its mission is to train communities and caregivers to provide nurturing care and early education that unlocks the potential in our world’s most vulnerable young children. OneSky now works in Mainland China, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Hong Kong.
Among other awards, Jenny has been honored with the Skoll Award, AmCham Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Nonprofit Leader of the Year, and the Purpose Prize. In 2021, she was selected as one of Forbes inaugural 50 Women over 50 who are leading the way in Impact. She is author of the memoir, Wish You Happy Forever: What China’s Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains, published by Harper Collins.
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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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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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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, 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 is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, two organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit solution, creating new financing options for poor populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed WaterEquity, an impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis, with an exclusive focus on mobilizing private investments in water and sanitation throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as Inditex, Reckitt, Amazon Web Services, the Water Resilience Coalition, and Bank of America on responses to the global water crisis.
Gary holds three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University S&T.
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President & CEO, Equimundo
Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and co-founder of Equimundo. Gary is also co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in more than 50 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs. He has advised the UN, the World Bank, numerous national governments, and key international foundations and corporations on strategies to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality. In 2017 he was named by Apolitical as one of the 20 most influential people in gender policy around the world. He is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his work to engage men for gender equality. He holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology and a Research Affiliate position at the Center for Social Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs. Prior to joining ICTJ in 2014, he was the Director of the United Nations Transitional Justice Basket Fund in Colombia. He also served as UNDP Senior Justice Advisor in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution. In Nepal and Colombia, Travesí held regional responsibilities with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protect civilian populations affected by the armed conflict, including documenting violations of international humanitarian law, monitoring prisons and detention places and managing the dossier of missing and disappeared. He also worked in Sierra Leone, as Country Director of the Spanish Red Cross, where he led Red Cross’ projects on rehabilitation of child combatants and children affected by the war. Prior to that, he worked for the NGO Movimiento por la Paz, as Regional Director for the Balkans leading a cross-border program on access to justice for refugees, displaced people, and returnees and; as Country Director in Albania during the Kosovo war. Mr. Travesí is a Lawyer who also completed post-graduate specialized courses in international public law and practiced in Spain mostly on criminal, immigration and civil issues. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the University Pontificia Javeriana of Colombia that awarded him with the Annual University Honor Medal for Academic Merits. He is a recognized novelist and playwright, winning awards such as the Spanish National Prize of Theater.
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Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Erin L. Worsham is a thought leader, professor, and coach helping individuals and organizations drive social and environmental change. She currently serves as the Executive Director of CASE at Duke University, an award-winning center that has taught thousands of students and engaged tens of thousands of practitioners including social enterprises, impact investors, and corporations all working to launch, measure, scale, invest in, and drive impact.
Erin is a cross-sector leader with a unique combination of experience 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, working at a nonprofit think tank, and serving in a variety of Board roles. She has degrees from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Duke University.
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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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Don Gips is the Chief Executive Officer of the Skoll Foundation, a global philanthropy with a mission to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. With a career spanning public service, politics, business, nonprofits and technology, Gips leads the Foundation’s work investing in, connecting, and championing social innovators around the world.
In 2008, Gips helped lead President Barack Obama’s transition team and then served in the White House as his Director of Presidential Personnel at the beginning of the Administration. From there he went on to serve as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa from 2009 to 2013. There he was recognized for his efforts to promote improved relations with South Africa when the U.S. State Department chose him as the recipient of the 2010 Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service.
During the Clinton Administration, he served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore and Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. At the FCC, he helped design the first spectrum auctions for licenses to utilize the continuum of frequencies used to provide wireless services ranging from radio broadcasting to mobile communications and satellite services.
In 1993, he helped create the framework for what would become the U.S. national service program, AmeriCorps, that continues to enroll more than 200,000 Americans each year in public service.
Gips has also held various roles in the private sector. He was head of Corporate Development at Level 3 Communications; led the Africa practice at Albright Stonebridge Group; and served as a venture partner at Columbia Capital and a Senior Advisor at Blackstone. He began his private sector career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He currently sits on the board of CassTech, Africa’s leading provider of information and telecommunications services, and is on the Board of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund US. He has also served on the boards of Zayo, Mindspeed, Liquid, Omnispace, and Nextnav.
Don received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He is married to Elizabeth (Liz) Berry Gips. Don and Liz have three grown sons: Sam, Peter, and Ben.
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Partner, Working Capital Fund
As Partner in the Working Capital Fund, Dan engages and supports entrepreneurs in pursuit of innovative tools to scale improvements for marginalized workers in global supply chains. He is an award-winning social entrepreneur and leader in supply chain innovation, having led Verite for fifteen years. He began his career in China where he established two international NGOs. Dan is a graduate of Yale University, has an MA from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a certificate in Chinese from Nanjing Teacher’s University.
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President and Chief Executive Officer,
LandesaChris Jochnick is a global land rights expert and social entrepreneur with decades of experience in international development. Chris joined Landesa as CEO in August 2015 after leading Oxfam America’s work on corporate advocacy, including the successful “Behind the Brands” campaign. Jochnick is the co-founder and former director of two pioneering non-profit organizations: Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Ecuador-based Centros De Derechos Economicos y Sociales. Jochnick has taught human rights courses at Columbia, Harvard, American University and the University of Melbourne. He is a former fellow of the Echoing Green and MacArthur foundations.
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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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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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co-CEO, African Visionary Fund
Atti is a leader and advocate with over 10 years of experience as a nonprofit CEO. Throughout her career, Atti experienced the biased and unjust challenges of raising philanthropic dollars in the U.S. for a locally-led, community-centered African organization. As the AVFund’s Africa-based co-CEO, she is focused on supporting the personal and organizational growth of African visionaries and their innovative impact ideas.
Prior to joining the AVFund, Atti founded and led Seeds of Africa, a nonprofit developing the educational foundation for the next generation of Ethiopia’s leaders. Since 2008, Seeds has impacted over 2,000 people, transforming the livelihoods and trajectories of students, their mothers, and their families in the community of Adama, Ethiopia.
Atti writes, speaks and moderates panels about power dynamics and racial injustice in philanthropy.
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Dr. Angela Gichaga is a public and social sector enthusiast with experience working across civil service, consulting, and NGOs and academia. Angela runs the Pathway to Parity programme to empower women and young people in the workplace and society. She serves African Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance, in building resilient and sustainably financed health systems as CEO of the Financing Alliance for Health and Co-Executive Director of Africa Frontline First. Angela served the Ministry Of Health Kenya (MOH) , then joined McKinsey & Company’s Africa Delivery Hub (ADH) before transitioning to Financing Alliance for Health. Angela has received the Australian Leadership Awards for Africa (2012), the President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship (2014), named one of Fortune's Worlds Greatest Leaders in 2018, an Archbishop Tutu Leadership fellow in 2019, 2nd place for Women Empowerment in the Workplace at the Gender Mainstreaming Awards in 2021 and a Skoll Awardee in 2022
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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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Consultant/Advisor/Collaborator,
WITNESSYvette ("YAT") works as a consultant, advisor, and board member to help strengthen mission-driven organizations and social entrepreneurs. I combine my learnings as the former Executive Director of WITNESS.org with my experience in global for profit companies and tech start-ups; and my ongoing 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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Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute
https://www.wri.org/profile/wanjira-mathai
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Director, Primary Health Care, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
As Director of Primary Health Care, Tracey McNeill leads the team that builds on the foundation’s and field’s deep experience in health systems strengthening. This includes health financing, system design, and service delivery innovation, aiming to dramatically improve the efficiency, quality, and equity of PHC.
Previously, Tracey was VP of Global Clinical Governance and Quality and Chief Mobilization Officer at Babylon Healthcare and CEO of its digital health subsidiary in Rwanda. At Babylon Healthcare, Tracey worked with global regulators and policymakers to ensure delivery of PHC services through virtual consultations across the UK and internationally. At Babyl Rwanda, she partnered with the government of Rwanda and stakeholders to roll out their digital health service.
Tracey also served as the SVP and Commercial Director at MSI.
Tracey holds a post-graduate qualification in Occupational Health from The RCN London and a certification as an RN from The Royal Free Hospital.
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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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Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad is the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors, where he served as CEO for five years. Prior to this, Tim co-founded and was the long-time CEO of Landesa, the world’s leading land-rights organization. He led its growth from a two-person team to a leading global NGO with more than 20 offices around the world. He launched Landesa’s programs in China, the former Soviet Union, and India, where he lived for many years and currently resides.
Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and a WEF Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. He has authored books and book chapters on economic and social development. He holds two law degrees from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Seattle Pacific University. He has completed certificate programs at Harvard. However, his greatest learning has come from spending time with those on the socioeconomic margins in more than 20 countries.
Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and father to four adult children.
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Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute and the Imvula Empowerment Trust, CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and Chairperson of the SA National Government team on Entrepreneurship, Education, & Employability.
He is a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa, helping to create six free access institutions of higher learning as well as co-founding the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. As a result, over 21,000 unemployed South Africans have been educated, found employment, and moved from unemployment into the middle-class.
As a qualified actuary and management consultant, Dr Blecher is passionate about the approach of Consciousness-Based Education, a system of education developing the full potential of every student. This has led the Maharishi Institute to winning multiple prizes including the first prize in a global competition for the most innovative education initiative in the world
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Director, The Marshall Institute, London School of Economics
Stephan Chambers is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at LSE and Director of the 100x Impact Accelerator. He serves on the steering groups for the Just Transition Finance Lab and the LSE Grantham Research Institute. At LSE he also sits on the governing board for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and is Professor in Practice at the Department of Management and Course Director for the Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship. Before joining the Marshall Institute Stephan Chambers was the Co-Founder of the Skoll World Forum. From 2000 to 2014 he directed the University of Oxford’s MBA and was the founding Director of Oxford University's Executive MBA programme.
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Shamil is privileged to lead the largest non-governmental peacebuilding organization in the world. Believing that the most enduring change is that which makes allies of adversaries and that translates conflict into cooperation, he is honored to count among his colleagues over 800 frontline peacebuilders in more than 30 countries who drive such transformative change in some of the most challenging conflict contexts in the world.
Prior to his current role Shamil served as CEO of Soliya where he led a public-private sector coalition that capitalized the field of virtual exchange. Previously he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as staff director of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, a project intended to improve relations between Western and Muslim-majority countries.
Idriss was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and won the Open Society Foundation’s 2015 New Executive Award. He lives with his wife and two teenage children in Washington, DC.
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Independent, Individual
Sandy Herz is an established philanthropic leader, strategist and storytelling evangelist. Most recently, Sandy served as President of Sobrato Philanthropies, leading an ambitious growth strategy for a multigenerational Giving Pledge family, supporting their individual philanthropy and expanding their collective philanthropy from local place-based giving to include global initiatives such as climate change. Previously at the Skoll Foundation, she led Skoll’s early Connect & Celebrate programs, including the Skoll World Forum, before diving deep into storytelling, curating Skoll’s award-winning film, media, and publishing portfolio and developing a multisector network strategy leveraging partnerships to attract resources and amplify the impact of Skoll entrepreneurs.
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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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Chairman, Portland Trust
Sir Ronald Cohen is co-founder President of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), co-founder Chair of The Portland Trust, and the recently-created International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI). He is also a former co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management, Big Society Capital, and Impact Weighted Accounts (IWA) at Harvard Business School and a co-founder Director of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel.
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Founder and Lead, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition
Randall Kempner is founder and executive director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition, a network of philanthropic support organizations dedicated to promoting more, and more effective, climate philanthropy.
Randall recently worked as senior advisor to the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program, where he focused on “climate-smart money”, the intersection of climate action and philanthropy, investment, and economic development. While at Aspen, he authored a guide for climate philanthropists: Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy. Previously at Aspen, Randall served as the founding executive director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
Randall graduated from the University of Texas with an MBA and a Master of Public Affairs and earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. He presently serves on the advisory boards of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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Chairman, International Panel on the Information Environment
Phil Howard is a Professor at Balliol College, University of Oxford and Chair of the International Panel on the Information Environment. He is a global authority on technology innovation and public policy. He writes about information politics and international affairs, and is the author of ten books, including The Managed Citizen, Pax Technica, and Computational Propaganda. He has won multiple scientific prizes, and his commentary writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets. He was named a “Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy magazine, and the National Democratic Institute awarded him their “Democracy Prize”, for pioneering the social science of fake news and misinformation. He has testified before the US Senate, UK Houses of Parliament, and European Commission on the impact of misinformation on human rights, media freedoms, and democratic values. His website is www.philhoward.org.
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Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a trailblazer in media and an advocate for women’s equality, breaking barriers as a journalist, Emmy-winning producer, pioneering executive, and activist leader. Her lifelong commitment to amplifying women’s stories and advancing representation has shaped the media industry and continues through a global coalition of leaders solving critical issues. As co-founder of Project Dandelion, she champions women-led climate justice, leveraging leadership for a more equitable and sustainable future. As editorial director, co-founder, and host of TEDWomen, Mitchell amplifies powerful, underrepresented voices. Her commitment to social justice includes board service with the Sundance Institute, Skoll Foundation, and Carter Center. She’s also the founding chair of the Women’s Media Center and a Congressional appointee to the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. In her memoir, Mitchell shares her journey as a fearless advocate, proving activism fuels purpose at any age.
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Founder 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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Founder & Partner, Dasra
Neera Nundy is the Co-founder and Partner at Dasra India, a strategic philanthropic organization that started in 1999. Her overarching goal is to enable social entrepreneurs and funders with the support they need to achieve big goals in areas such as gender, urban resilience, and sanitation through system change and collaborative philanthropy. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing capacity building, knowledge, funding, and networks to the sector. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the third class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta Aspen Center and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is a Board Member of The Hunger Project, American School of Bombay, and Aangan Trust. She is Canadian, has lived in Mumbai for 21 years, runs Dasra with her husband Deval, and busy raising feminist sons – Ayush, Laxman, and Akbar – all teenagers!
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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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Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation
Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises environmentally-focused philanthropists, including the co-founder of a Fortune 500 company.. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised 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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I’m so excited to join in the vibrant dance of the Skoll World Forum this year.
I am the Founder and Creative Director of Tostan, an NGO which implements a holistic, 3-year empowering education program in national languages that has engaged over 3,000 rural African communities in themes of democracy, human rights, health, literacy, and project management skills. The program has led to over 20,000 rural women holding leadership posts and over 9,500 communities in eight African countries publicly declaring their commitment to abandon harmful traditional practices.
Molly and Tostan have received international recognition for their successful work in the areas of health, literacy, social entrepreneurship, social norm transformation and human rights education including: Government of Senegal’s Knight of the National Order of the Lion, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, The Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and UNESCO’
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Dr. Martín Burt is a world-renowned social entrepreneur who has developed anti-poverty and educational social innovations that are currently being implemented worldwide. He is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization in 2018 by the IADB. Dr. Burt is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. He has also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. His latest book “Paraguay without Poverty” was published in November 2023. He has received several international awards. He holds a PhD from Tulane University and is Lecturer & Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Research Associate at University of California, Irvine, and Professor, Master’s Program in Microfinance, at Universidad de Alcalá.
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Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance,
BreakthroughMallika Dutt is the Program Director of Gender Equity and Governance at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is a longtime advocate for equity and well-being for people and planet, with deep experience in advancing justice through an intersectional lens. Prior to joining the foundation, she founded and led INTER-CONNECTED, where she supported transformational change through her unique methodology combining ancient wisdom, contemplative practices, storytelling, and social justice activism.
As the founder and leader of Breakthrough, she has used culture to change culture through award-winning multi-media campaigns that have touched millions. She also headed a social justice and human rights program in South Asia with the Ford Foundation. A recipient of multiple awards, she received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016. Mallika has served on several boards and committees and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallika is a graduate of NYU Law Schoo
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Mabel van Oranje is a serial entrepreneur for social change, committed to advancing equality, freedom and justice. She has founded, led and advised a diverse range of organisations, campaigns and initiatives promoting international human rights. An expert on movement-building, she has worked on a wide range of issues – including the 1990s Balkan wars, international criminal justice, independent media, HIV/AIDS prevention, natural resource transparency, European enlargement and foreign policy, drug policy reform, girls’ education, and democracy innovation. She also plays a catalytic role in the global movement to end child marriage, including the creation and growth of three backbone organisations: the Girls First Fund, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, and VOW for Girls.
Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, More in Common, and VOW for Girls (Chair). She is an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, and the Graca Machel Trust. Mabel is also a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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LUIS SZARAN
Artist for PEACE of UNESCO
Orchestra conductor, composer and musicologist
As a social entrepreneur, in 2002 he founded the social and community integration program through music: Sounds of the Earth, aimed at low-income children and young people. In 2005, he received the “Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship” from the Skoll Foundation. In 2013 he was recognized as Global Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum.
In 2008 he was chosen, by the American University, as one of the 12 most outstanding leaders of Paraguay. He is the author of books published in Paraguay, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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Managing Director, Osprey Foundation
Louis is Managing Director of the Osprey Foundation, where he leads programs on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sustainable energy/cleaner cooking. In addition to managing a portfolio of grants and impact investments, Louis works to advance these sectors through systems change, innovative finance, and new service delivery models.
From 2005-2013, Louis founded and led the WASH program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, building a portfolio of more than US$ 300 million.
Prior to that, he worked for 15 years at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, where he led the environmental finance team from 1997 to 2004 and helped to pioneer the impact investing field.
Louis currently sits on the boards of IRC WASH and the RICE Institute, and he advises several other social ventures and non-profits. He holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an MBA and MA (Development Economics) from Stanford University.
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Academic Editor, SSIR, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
Johanna is a Professor of Organization, Management and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Hewlett Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She currently serves as the academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
After starting two successful machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses.
His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.
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Jess grew up in San Francisco during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and became deeply committed to sexual health and rights as a result. She explored how to best contribute to improving sexual health & wellbeing in the US through a variety of paths - as an infectious disease epidemiologist, a health education teacher, a public policy advocate, and even from the halls of the White House. Throughout this journey, she was often brought back to the untapped potential of technology to address this issue. Jess founded her first tech startup in 2011, named Sexual Health Innovations, and built a series of technologies to help prevent and track sexually transmitted infections. She then founded Callisto in 2015, a nonprofit dedicated to using technology to support sexual assault survivors and advance justice. Jess has since transitioned Callisto to new leadership, and is advising social impact startups on their strategy and product development.
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Jeremy Hockenstein is the Chair of Digital Divide Data, the Skoll award winning organization he co-founded in 2001. He is now the Co-founder and Managing Director of Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes in Africa.
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Co-founder and Partner, Bridgespan Group
Jeff is the co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists. He served as Bridgespan’s managing partner from its founding in 2000 to 2021. Jeff now advises leading philanthropists and nonprofits, and writes and speaks on philanthropic strategy and operating models, transformative scale, community driven change, and racial equity in philanthropy. Jeff’s publications include: “The Problem with Color-Blind Philanthropy,” (Harvard Business Review, 2020), “The Impact of Large, Unrestricted Grants on Nonprofits: A Five Year View” (CEP, January 2023), and "Transformative Scale" (SSIR 2014).
Jeff has served on nonprofit and for-profit boards, including Giving Tuesday and PolicyLink. He is former board chair of Independent Sector. Prior to Bridgespan, Jeff taught at Harvard Business School, where he was a member of the Organizational Behavior and Social Enterprise Initiative faculty.
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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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Professor, Oxford Martin School
Ian Goldin is Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, the University and the world’s leading centre for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy. Before joining the World Bank he was Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian is an advisor to businesses, governments and international agencies. Ian was knighted by the French for his services to development and is a founding trustee of the International Center for Future Generations and of Core-econ.org which aims to transform economics. He has written and presented three BBC series, After the Crash, Will AI Kill Development and The Pandemic that Changed the World and his BBC Analysis The Death of Globalisation?. The most recent of Ian’s 24 books is Age of the City. iangoldin.org @ian_goldin
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Executive Vice President, Ford Foundation
Hilary Pennington is the Executive Vice President of the Ford Foundation, overseeing all of Ford’s programs globally, working closely across programs and offices to ensure strategic, meaningful, and well-aligned global grant making. She also oversees the foundation’s BUILD program, and the Office of Strategy and Learning. Before assuming her current role, she served as the foundation’s vice president for Education, Creativity, and Free Expression. A national expert on postsecondary education and intergenerational change, Hilary joined the foundation in 2013. Earlier, she was an independent consultant whose clients included the Next American University project of the New America Foundation and Arizona State University. She also led the Generations Initiative, a project funded by national foundations to develop effective responses to the dramatic demographic shifts occurring in the United States.
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See www.rootsofpeace.org
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President, Visa Foundation
Graham Macmillan is Head of Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism at Visa where he is responsible for developing and executing Visa Foundation’s grantmaking and investing strategy worldwide. Visa Foundation seeks to support inclusive economies where individuals, businesses and communities can thrive. Through grants and investments, the Foundation prioritizes the growth of gender diverse and inclusive small and micro businesses. The Foundation also supports broader community needs and disaster response in times of crisis.
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Gidon Bromberg is the founder and 3 decade Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East.
Mr. Bromberg has spearheaded the organization’s advocacy campaigns in the Middle East and internationally. He developed a cross-border community peace-building program known as “Good Water Neighbors.” The program has helped advance rehabilitation efforts in the Jordan River and defuse the sanitation crisis in Gaza, leading to the removal of most of the pollution from Gaza Strip and southern Israel beaches. The program is seen as a model for environmental peacebuilding in other conflict areas around the world.
Bromberg co-authored EcoPeace’s call for a Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, to advance climate resilience and peace. The report and later EcoPeace efforts led to the signing in November 2021
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Fred de Sam Lazaro is a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and executive director of the Under-Told Stories Project. He was a regular contributor and substitute anchor for PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Fred also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary series, Wide Angle.
Fred has reported from 70 countries with a focus on the myriad issues that underlie poverty and human suffering. He founded the Under-Told Stories Project, now located at the University of St. Thomas, designed to use storytelling to enhance students’ understanding of the pressing global issues of our time.
Fred has received three honorary doctorates, numerous journalism awards and fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Michigan. He serves on the board of Sahan Journal, a non-profit news service focused primarily on the affairs of Minnesota's BIPOC and immigrant communities
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President & CEO, Roosevelt Institute
Felicia Wong is the president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, where she directs the organization’s mission, vision, and strategy in pursuit of a high-care, low-carbon economy that works for all. She was the US representative on the G7 Economic Resilience Panel in 2021 and served on the Biden-Harris administration transition advisory board.
Under her leadership, Roosevelt has grown more than fourfold, and now regularly works with the nation’s top public officials, academic experts, and progressive movement organizers. Her research focuses on post-neoliberal thought and the intersection of race, economics, and social stratification; and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and the Boston Review. She co-hosts the podcast, How to Save a Country, and is the co-author of the book The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
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President, The Center for Cultural Power
Favianna Rodriguez is the co-founder and President of The Center for Cultural Power, a national organization investing in artists and storytellers as agents of positive social change. She is an award-winning artist, cultural strategist, and social movement leader who has partnered with national organizations and progressive advocacy groups to design effective cultural campaigns. In addition to being the visionary behind the Migration Is Beautiful art and narrative, Favianna embodies the perspective of a first-generation American Latinx artist with Afro-Peruvian roots. Her art and praxis address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and climate change, boldly reshaping the myths, ideas, and cultural practices of the present, while confronting the wounds of the past. A strategy advisor to artists of all genres, Favianna is regarded as one of the leading thinkers and personalities uniting art, culture, and social impact, collaborating deeply with social movements around the world.
Favianna also helps lead cultural strategy design and investment by helping to organize the philanthropic sector, with a focus on foundations addressing gender justice, racial justice, climate change and cultural equity. Favianna’s projects include creating art for Ben & Jerry's Pecan Resist, partnering with Joey Solloway to create 5050by2020, collaborating with #TimesUp Entertainment, and facilitating immersive artist delegations to the US Mexico border. She is a recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship for her work around immigration and mass incarceration, and an Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity for her work around racial justice and climate change.
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Founder and CEO, Vote Run Lead
Erin Vilardi is the Founder and Director of VoteRunLead, a national organization leveraging technology and training to accelerate the number of women in civic and political leadership. She first launched VRL as Vice President of Program and Communications at The White House Project, establishing the largest national political training program readying women for public office and civic life, training over 15,000 women. She has served as a Leadership Development Consultant for a range of clients, including the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she developed the Athena CORE10© – an innovative set of leadership competencies for 21st century women leaders based on the latest research and gender analysis. She has worked with a diverse range of clients including Fortune 100 companies, global girls’ initiatives and the U.S. Department of State, reaching women leaders in a dozen international cities.
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Co-founder & CEO, EYElliance
Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance. Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets. Her personal interest in facilitating low-and middle-income countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time working alongside young entrepreneurs in East Africa. In 2011 Liz joined VisionSpring, a social enterprise focused on improving access to affordable eyeglasses, as its Director of Business Development. In 2008 Liz organized a regional conference supported by the Ford Foundation to help build the capacity of the East African music industry. This led to a six-year consulting role with the UNDP forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda. Liz founded a record label in 1995, graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, is a member of the Explorers Club, and a two-time National Geographic Society grant recipie
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Deep Listening - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
Emily Kasriel is writing a book on Deep Listening, developing the approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the LSE. With the British Council and the BBC, she recruited 1000 people in 119 countries to train in Deep Listening and trains cohorts of leaders with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership. She is a journalist and has been a media executive at the BBC for many years, leading multiple high impact global projects as well as producing and reporting from five continents. Previously she has been a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, and hosts interviews. More on her website EmilyKasriel.com
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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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Founder, Decolonizing Wealth Project
Edgar Villanueva is a globally-recognized author, activist, and expert on the intersection of race, wealth, and power. He is the author of the best-selling book, Decolonizing Wealth and is the founder and CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital.
Edgar advises organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to global and national philanthropies and nonprofits on advancing racial equity inside of their institutions and through their community investment strategies.
He holds two degrees from the Gillings Global School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
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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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Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet, SpaceX, FORM & Helion. Prior to CIG, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global leader in electronic design, where he built & managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), & GFERC. He’s an electrical engineer by training & attended UND, Univ of Minnesota & Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Electric Hydrogen, Halio, Joby (NYSE:JOBY), Navitas (NDAQ:NVTS), QuantumScape (NYSE:QS), Saildrone, SPAN & Summit Nanotech, International Solar Alliance, IonE, the Cyclotron Road Leadership Council, PRIME IAC, & commissioner of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP).
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), which is leading a global movement to transform journalism, anchored by a focus on spreading knowledge through rigorous reporting about potential or demonstrated solutions to global problems. SJN has directly engaged with > 650 news organizations and 47,000 journalists and now has hundreds of training partners in 50 countries. As a journalist, David examined social innovation efforts for three decades. He created and co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which ran for 11 years and published over 600 articles about social innovators. He is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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Co-founder and President, Regen Organics
David Auerbach is a co-founder of Regen Organics, part of the Sanergy Collaborative, which develops regenerative agriculture products such as organic fertilizer and insect protein from organic waste streams in emerging markets. Regen's circular economy approach both solves environmental challenges and promotes regenerative, local agricultural production and improves waste management in fast-growing cities. Previously, David built partnerships at Endeavor and the Clinton Global Initiative. David is an Earthshot Prize finalist, and an Ashoka and Echoing Green Fellow. He holds an MBA from MIT and a BA from Yale University. He has lived in Nairobi, Kenya since 2011.
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Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) is the founder and CEO of IllumiNative, the first and only national Native-led organization focused on changing the narrative about Native peoples on a mass scale. IllumiNative has been instrumental in changing the narrative and representation of contemporary Native peoples in key sectors of entertainment, pop culture, media, and politics. Crystal is known nationally as a thought leader, innovator, acclaimed speaker, and skilled executive who builds meaningful collaborations. In leading IllumiNative, she has led partnership building with industry leaders such as Nielsen, Netflix, NBC Universal, Amazon, Disney, Marvel, and others. Crystal also serves as a member of Nielsen’s External Advisory Council and the Comcast Diversity Council. Crystal was featured in People Magazine as one of the ‘2021 Women Changing the World’ and she was profiled in Lifetime’s ‘Women Making History’ hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021.
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Executive Director, For Freedoms
Claudia Peña is an artist and serves as the Executive Director of For Freedoms which is an artist collective that uses art and creativity as a catalyst for transformative connection and collective liberation. She is the founding co-director of the Center for Justice at UCLA which centers art and uses education, research and advocacy to end mass incarceration. It is also home of the Prison Education Program which creates innovative courses that enable faculty and students to learn alongside participants who are currently incarcerated. She is on faculty at UCLA School of Law and in the Gender Studies department where her scholarship focuses on civil, human, and disability rights, race and gender, as well as social movements, decarceration, and trauma + resilience-informed lawyering. Claudia has devoted her entire life to social justice work through community organizing, consciousness-raising across silos, coalition-building, teaching, advocacy through law & policy and the arts.
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Director, City of Joy
Christine Schuler Deschryver is Co-Founder and Director of the City of Joy and V-Day Congo Director and the national coordinator of “one billion rising”. She is also the vice President of Panzi Foundation DRC. Christine has called Bukavu her home all her life. As Director of V-Day Congo, City of Joy, and VWorld farm, she oversees all aspects of V-Day’s work on the ground in the DRCongo, including the City of Joy and coordinating campaign activities on the local, provincial, and national levels. After her best friend was murdered in 1998, Christine devoted her life to the women of DRCongo and to ending ‘sexual terrorism.’ She is an internationally renowned human rights activist who has worked as a teacher, an administrator for CARE CANADA, and for 13 years during the wars, she was responsible for the German Technical Cooperation (all the projects in eastern DRC), where she oversaw during the war a staff of over 300. She was named one of The Guardian’s Women of the Year for 2011 and travels widely advocating for Congolese women’s rights and the plundering of DRC. She did the first documentary «Congo, un combat pour la vie» France 2 envoyé spécial in 2003 to denounce the silent genocide in DRC and did many others after the success of it.
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Chris Underhill MBE works as a mentor and is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life, and mental health in the community.
He has developed a number of social enterprises (THRIVE and ADD International) and several organisations in the field of global mental health (BasicNeeds - which promotes the Model for Mental Health and Development, created by Chris in 2000).
Chris runs his own mentoring practice called Mentor Services and presents on health, quality of life, mental health and resilience.
Chris is co-founder of a new organisation benefitting social entrepreneurs: The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs, and is Chair of the Catalyst-2030 Mental Health Collaboration. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and has been honoured with an MBE by HRH the Queen for his work in disability.
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President, 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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Founding Director, International Resource for Impact and Storytelling
An award-winning independent media field builder, Cara is Founding Director of the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS), a donor collaborative supporting creative visual storytelling and narrative analysis in the public interest. IRIS is a grantee partner of Skoll Foundation. Cara served at Ford Foundation as Director, JustFilms, piloting a network-focused, narrative-informed, cultural grantmaking strategy which was integrated across Ford’s ten regions and global strategies. She was Director, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, funding dozens of non-fiction films, co-founded Doc Society’s Good Pitch event and training model and created the Stories of Change initiative with the Skoll Foundation. Cara has received multiple Emmy Awards, George Foster Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards.She received a Webby Award for creating P.O.V.’s Borders, a pioneering web series on PBS. She is a member of AMPAS and the WGA and lives in New Jersey, USA.
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In 1966, as a young post-graduate student from a privileged urban background, Bunker Roy volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. This experience changed him. He committed himself to fight poverty and inequality. He founded the Barefoot College in Tilonia (also known as Social Work and Research Centre) in 1972 to bridge the inequality gap and demystify technology with the people and put it to good use in the hands of poor communities. This radically simple approach to ending poverty, by tapping the wisdom, skills, and resourcefulness of the poor themselves, is less expensive and more successful than approaches that rely on external experts. Barefoot College recruits illiterate villagers and trains them to build and maintain life-changing technologies and systems such as solar electricity, water and sanitation, schools and clinics, artisan businesses, and community engagement.
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Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Brian Trelstad is the William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, the Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is also a partner and board member of Bridges Fund Management, a global impact investment firm. Prior to HBS and Bridges, Brian was the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen, a pioneering impact investment firm that identifies market-based solutions to solving the problems of poverty, and he taught at the School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Brian is a founding co-chair of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and a founding co-chair of Impact Capital Managers. He is a board member of Candid, the Global Development Incubator, and VisionSpring. Brian holds an MBA from Stanford, a MA in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, and a BA from Harvard. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a Henry Crown Fellow.
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Bruce’s work at Skoll focuses primarily on collective impact issues, many carried over from the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF). A former diplomat, Bruce brings a policy lens to questions of scale, a key focus for all Skoll philanthropic activities. His current remit includes COVID-19 response, climate change, U.S. democracy, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Bruce originally joined the Skoll Foundation in 2008 as communications director, then helped inaugural president Larry Brilliant launch SGTF in 2010, taking on a policy and advocacy role. Bruce ran the nuclear nonproliferation program and oversaw SGTF’s MidEast conflict work, while also playing a leading role in the launch of the Climate Advocacy Lab, SGTF’s primary climate effort which went independent in 2017.
Bruce helped conceptualize and launch two funder collaboratives, Climate Nexus, on climate communication, and N Square, an initiative to bring new players into the nuclear nonproliferation sphere. While SGTF sunset at the end of 2017, Bruce is still on the advisory boards of all three efforts. Bruce also served for a period of time at SGTF’s interim president.
Prior to joining Skoll, Bruce spent nearly a decade in the technology sphere with Oracle and Novell, largely in communications roles. He had a 14-year stint as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department, serving overseas in Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, and Italy, and in various economic roles in Washington, D.C., working on, among other issues, the G-7 process, Middle East peace, European regional issues, Ukraine, and nuclear safety.
Bruce holds a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Bruce chairs the board of Cazadero Music Camp. A recovering French Horn player, he is now learning the Scottish smallpipes. He also enjoys playing low-key pickup soccer.
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Beto Veríssimo is a co-founder and associate researcher at Imazon, a think and do tank in the Brazilian Amazon. He is also co-founder of Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship. Moreover, he is Co-Director of Amazon 2030 Program, an initiative that seeks to develop an action plan for sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon and Director of Social Progress Brazil. He received several awards including the 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Verissimo has a graduate degree in Agriculture by Federal University of Brazilian Amazon and Ecology by Penn State University.
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Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur.
He took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem. What started in 1995 as a modest research initiative in detection rats technology, gradually grew into a global humanitarian operation through his organisation apopo.org which became one of the leading social enterprises in the world, recognised and awarded by networks like Ashoka, the Skoll Awards and the World Economic Forum.
Bart transitioned from his executive role in 2015 to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers.
While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social innovation, he recently co-founded a new initiative innerpreneurs.org which is a brave space for entrepreneurial leaders to fulfilll their noble life purpose.
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First degree: philosophy. Post-graduate: law. First career: journalism: The Guardian, BBC etc. Second: business/corporate communication consultant. Third (and final?!) devloping systems for reliable transport for health-care delivery in Africa.
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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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Executive Director,
NidanArbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 which along with various offshoots today works with more than 10,00,000 informal workers for better laws and polices, livelihood promotion ,access to financial services ,skill building ,enabling workers to seize opportunities in market and promoting social security .Establishing inclusive models of growth has also been an integral strategy along with institution building which includes setting up for profit institutions.
A very successful initiative has been the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) which has brought security to hundreds of thousands of street vendors in India. NASVI got a National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In 2014 ,the Govt of India enacted the Central Law for Street Vendors which mandates participation of Street Vendors in securing their livelihood and creati
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A lifelong educationalist, I began my career teaching English at secondary level before focusing on children excluded from mainstream education. Following research in Zimbabwe, I founded CAMFED International to support and advance the education of rural girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation has grown into six countries, working with Ministries of Education and an array of other partners to extend education beyond the secondary into the tertiary level as well as providing financial intelligence training and job creation programmes. CAMFED’s work is rooted in rural communities and credits its strength and success to the creative endeavours and resilience of these communities as well as the alumna of young women supported by CAMFED and now more that a quarter of a million strong.
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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 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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President and CEO, Hispanics in Philanthropy
Ana Marie Argilagos is President and CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy—a vast network of donors building, funding and fueling Latino power across the Americas. Before coming to HIP, Ana Marie was a senior advisor at the Ford Foundation where she worked to expand economic opportunity and advance sustainability across the world. She also spent eight years as a senior program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation where she led work in indigenous communities and the US-Mexico border. Other roles have included a stint as adjunct professor at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, UnidosUS, and Ayuda. In addition to her career spanning philanthropy, academia and the nonprofit sectors, Ana Marie was appointed to serve in the federal government during three Presidential Administrations.
She currently serves on the boards of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, CANDID, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Santa Fe Community Foundation.
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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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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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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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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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Wawira Njiru is the Founder and CEO of Food 4 Education, a social enterprise on a mission to eradicate childhood hunger in Africa and unlock the potential of a new generation, one hot, nutritious, and affordable school meal at a time.
A trained nutritionist and seasoned entrepreneur, Wawira is the architect behind F4E’s blueprint to scale sustainable school feeding in Africa. Designed to be locally rooted, scalable, and replicable, this innovative model works in partnership with smallholder farmers, parents, logistics suppliers, and government to deliver excellence from source to spoon. Under her leadership, the organisation has grown from feeding 25 children in 2012 to serving more than 450,000 children a day and counting in 2024. Today, F4E directly employs more than 4000 people – mostly parents – and impacts thousands of businesses across local supply chains in Kenya with plans to expand across the continent.
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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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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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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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Co-Chair, O’Neil-Lancet Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination in Global Health, Global Institute for Disease Elimination
Dr Ngozi Erondu is a trained Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and health systems policy and global health governance expert. Her research has focused on strengthening disease surveillance and health systems and improving data for resource allocation decision-making in low- and middle-income countries. Her work has supported strengthening institutional capacity to control infectious diseases such as Covid19, Ebola, meningitis, malaria, and poliomyelitis.
Through Dr Erondu’s thought leadership and scholar activism in global public health, in both academic and research environments, she champions shifting power in global health development and empowering equitable research and funding partnerships. This has led her to be the Co-Chair of O’Neill Institute – Lancet Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Dr Erondu is currently the Technical Director of the Global Institute for Disease Elimination.
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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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COO & Head of Portfolio, Mulago Foundation
Kristin leads Mulago's grant and investment portfolio and oversees operations. She joined Mulago in 2013 to grow and support an exemplary portfolio of social investments – grants, debt and equity – in high-impact organizations with a scalable solution to meet the basic needs of the poor.
Her background spans the private, public and nonprofit sectors, including stints in investment banking, the US Peace Corps, the US National Park Service, and organizations focused on early childhood development and immigrant job placement. Kristin has brought these varied experiences to philanthropy since 2008.
Prior to Mulago, she was a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, where she worked with social entrepreneurs, and Program Finance Officer at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, where she focused on environmental conservation.
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CEO, Mulago Foundation
Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most fellows become part of the Mulago solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.
Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago. He and his team now work with 80 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America.
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Individual, Individual
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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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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An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen founded IBJ in 2000 after witnessing hundreds of prisoners of all ages being held without trials, usually after being tortured into making 'confessions’. She realised that systematic early access to a lawyer can create global conditions for a “new normal” in which democracy is strengthened, people have access to justice, and we end the use of torture as an investigative tool. IBJ now has a presence in 52 countries and over 22 years, IBJ has supported more than 40,000+ lawyers and defenders who have represented more than 500,000 detainees.
Karen is a recipient of awards from the Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, Ashoka, and among others, the American Bar Association Human Rights Award, the Gleitsman International Award, Harvard Divinity School Gomes and Alumna awards. Karen is named as one of America’s best leaders by the US News and World Report.
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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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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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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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Journalist and Co-founder, FRESH Speakers
Courtney E. Martin has written/edited five books, including Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America From my Daughter's School and Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. She also has a popular weekly newsletter on Substack called Examined Family. She is the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and FRESH Speakers Bureau, and often works with organizations—TED, the Aspen Institute, The Obama Foundation, and The Sundance Institute—on how to make impactful, story-rich social change. She speaks widely at conferences and colleges. She lives with her partner and two daughters in a co-housing community in Oakland.
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Executive Director, Taproot Earth
Colette Pichon Battle is the Co-founder and Partner of Vision & Initiatives at Taproot Earth, a global climate justice organization anchoring various frontline formations in the Gulf South, Appalachia and the Black Diaspora to advance climate justice and combat philosophies of extraction and 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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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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Annalisa is the Chief People Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where she focuses on managing the strategy and processes related to building, supporting, and retaining the exceptional talent of the Foundation’s team members.
Annalisa believes deeply in Skoll’s vision and works to ensure that the Foundation’s values are reinforced through every initiative, communication, and talent system. Annalisa has a passion for coaching and developing people. Partnering with leaders to design the human experience—employee engagement—so that people thrive at work, is her "thing." For Annalisa, that means "We strive to create a welcoming, empowering, and rewarding place to work, infused with joy and a real sense of belonging."
Before joining Skoll, Annalisa held Human Resources leadership roles with the American Automobile Association (AAA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), REDF, and various other organizations. You can check LinkedIn for her professional wanderings.
Annalisa is perhaps best known for her love of roller skating, quads-only. As she puts it, "I'm kinda awesome."
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Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s people living on $1-a-day are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 8,000 full-time staff who serve 1,500,000 families per year, plus 2,500,000+ more families through partnerships. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
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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 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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Elissa builds strategic alliances for Partners In Health (PIH) with corporate, foundation, and implementation partners. Over the last decade she’s held a variety of roles at PIH, including leading the Policy & Partnerships team in Malawi where she developed multisectoral collaboration around noncommunicable disease, women’s health, and health sector planning. Previously, she worked in policy research, supply chain consulting, and workforce development. Elissa is a proud member of the Women’s Impact Alliance.
