Skoll World Forum on social Entrepreneurship

Forum 2008

Speakers

Tralance Addy Ph.D President and CEO, WaterHealth International
Naif Al-Mutawa Founder, CEO and Chairman, Tashkeel Media Group
Kim Alter Managing Director, Virtue Ventures
Rodrigo Baggio CEO and Founder, CDI (Committee for Democracy in Information Technology)
William Van Der Beek Aavishkaar Goodwell India Microfinance Development
Iman Bibars Vice President Ashoka Global and Regional Director of Ashoka Arab World
Jeroo Billimoria Executive Director, Aflatoun and Child Savings International
Brizio Biondi-Morra President, Avina
Peter Bisanz Director, Entropy Films
Liam Black Director, Wavelenth
David Bonbright Chief Executive, Keystone Accountability
David Bornstein Author, Project Leader, The Solution Frame
David Brancaccio Host and Senior Editor NOW, PBS
Ken Brecher Executive Director, Sundance Institute
Maggie Brenneke Director, Social Entrepreneurship Programme SustainAbility
Tim Brown CEO and President, IDEO
Antony Bugg-Levine Managing Director, Rockfeller Foundation
Martin Burt Founder, Fundacion Paraguaya and Teach a Man To Fish
Yves Cabannes Chair, Development Planning Unit, University College London
Mark Campanale Director, London Bridge Capital
Jimmy Carter Former President of the United States
Stephan Chambers Chairman, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Kylie Charlton Managing Director, Global Capital Markets, Unitus, Inc.
Dr Thomas S. Clark Founder and Executive Director, Grassroot Soccer, Inc
Vicky Colbert Founder and Director, Excuela Nueva Foundation
Paul Collier Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Vera Cordeiro Founder and CEO, Associação Saúde Criança Renascer
Beverly Crawford Professor University of California, Berkeley
Victor D’Allant Executive Director, Social Edge
Ami Dar Executive Director, Idealist.org
Deepti Doshi Talent Manager, Acumen fund
Bill Drayton CEO and Chair, Ashoka
Debra Dunn Advisor to Social Ventures, Associate Consulting Professor Stanford University Institute of Design
John Elkington Founder and Director, SustainAbility
Lea Esterhuizen Head of Research, Unltd
Paul Farmer MD, Ph.D Co-founder, Partners in Health
Marc Freedman CEO, Civic Ventures
Jim Fruchterman President and CEO, Benetech Initiative
David Gergen Director, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ashraf Ghani Founder and Chairman, Institute for State Effectiveness
Lord Anthony Giddens House of Lords
John Goldstein Managing Director, Imprint Capital Advisors
Mary Gordon Founder and President, Roots of Empathy
Al Gore 2007 Nobel Laureate, Former Vice President of the United States
William Green Editor, TIME Europe
Bruno Guissani European Director, TED Conferences
Priya Haji CEO and Co-founder, World of Good, Inc
Keith Hammonds Team Leader, Ashoka
Pamela Hartigan Founding Partner and Director, Volans Ventures
Laura Hatendorf Milago Foundation
Jonathan Hearn Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Teaching, School of Social and Polotical Studies, University if Edinburgh
Douglas Holt L’Oreal Professor of Marketing, Saïd Business School
Phil Hope, MP Parliamentary Secretary Minister for the Third Sector
Rupert Howes CEO, Marine Stewardship Council
Vaughan Jones Chief Executive, Praxis
Kevin Jones Principal, Good Capital
Matthew Jones Director, Social Alchemy Ltd
Richard Kelly Practice Lead London/Shanghai, IDEO
Jude Kelly OBE Artistic Director, South Bank Centre
Liza Kimbo Director, Live Well, Kenya Foundation
Mari Kuraishi President, Global Giving
Father Michael Lapsley SSM Director, Institute for Healing Memories
Jensine Larsen Founder, World Pulse
Clare Lockhart CEO, Institue for State Effectiveness
Mindy Lubber President, Ceres
Joe Madiath Executive Director, Gram Vikas
Abdul-Rehman Malik Journalist, Q-News
John Marks President and Founder, Search for Common Ground
Sebastian Marot Founder and Executive Director, Friends-International
Roger L. Martin Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Maximillian Martin Global Head, UBS Philanthropy Services, Switzerland
Ngwarati Mashonga Field Programme Coordinator, Riders for Health
Isabel Maxwell Chair, Israel Venture Network
Cara Mertes Director Documentary Film, Sundance Institute
Pat Mitchell President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media
James Moed Business Factors Strategist, IDEO
Walter Mosley Author, Project Leader The Thingitself Inc
Fiona Muchembere Programme Manager, Institutional Development CAMFED International
Alex Nicholls Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford
Jacqueline Novogratz Founder and CEO, Acumen fund
Kirk O.Hanson Executive Director, The Markkula Center for Applied Sciences, Santa Clara University
James Obrinski Research Scientist and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Political Science St Michales’ Hospital, University of Toronto
Sally Osberg President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
James Parr Designer, IDEO
Alan Patricof Founder and Managing Director, Greycroft
Philip Patston Director, DiversityWorks Group
Michael Riseman Chairman, Venture Partnership Foundation
David Roll Managing Director, Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
Bunker Roy Founding Director, Barefoot College
Nafis Sadik UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Fiel dos Santos Artist, Mozambique
Rodney Schwartz Chief Executive, Catalyst Fund Management and Research
Tina Seelig Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Programme
Premal Shah President, Kiva
Christine Eibs Singer Co-founder and Deputy Executive Directorm E+Co
Aaron Sklar Design for Humanity, IDEO
Jeff Skoll Founder and Chairman Skoll Foundation and Participant Productions
Chuck Slaughter Founder and President, Living Goods
Steven Rathgeb Smith Nancy Bell Evans Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs, Univeristy of Washington
Kevin Starr Milago Foundation
Dorothy Stoneman Founder and President, YouthBuild USA
Bill Strickland President and CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation
Annie Sundberg Filmmaker and Writer, Break Thru Films
Jane Fulton Suri Co-chief Creative Officer, IDEO
Charles T. Harris III Executive Partner, SeaChange Capital Partners
Ros Tennyson Director, The Partnering Initiative
Sophia Tickell Chairperson, SustainAbility
Sophi Tranchell Managing Director, Divine Chocolate
Brian Trelstad Chief Investment Officer, Acumen fund
Faye Trestald Director, Impact Planning and Improvement Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Karen Tse Founder and CEO, International Bridges to Justice
Katrin Verclas Co-founder and Editor, MobileActive.org
Jill Vialet Founder and Executive Director, Sports4Kids
Diana Wells President, Ashoka
Jody Williams Nobel Peace Laureate Nobel Women’s Initiative
Alastair Wilson Chief Executive, School for Social Entrepreneurs
Wilford Welch Author of the forthcoming “Tactics of Hope:Your guide to becoming a Social Entrepreneur”
Jocelyn Wyatt Lead, Social Impact, IDEO
Simon Zhao Lv Founder and CEO, Non-Profit Incubator (NPI) China

Delegate Networking

Continue conversations that were started at this year’s Forum.

Delegate Dinners

Steeped in the history of learning, Oxford colleges provide an appropriate backdrop for delegate dinners. Soak up the atmosphere, share ideas and let the collaborations commence!