Skoll World Forum on social Entrepreneurship

Forum 2009

Forum 2009 speakers

The 2009 Skoll World Forum attracted a stellar cast of speakers from the social, private, government, media and entertainment sectors

Headline speakers 
The Honourable Mary Robinson:President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Jeff Skoll: Founder & Chairman, Skoll Foundation and Participant Media
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, C.B.E.:
Kenneth S. Brecher: Executive Director, Sundance Institute
Sir Ronald Cohen: Director, Social Finance Ltd.
Kailash Satyarthi:Chairman, Global March Against Child Labour; President, GCE
Daniel Lubetzky:Founder and President, PeaceWorks Group
R. K. Pachauri: Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Soraya Salti:Senior Vice President MENA, INJAZ al-Arab, JA Worldwide

Benjamin Adrion: President, Viva con Agua
Juan Alarcon: Project Director, Limmat Stiftung
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm: Executive Director, WITNESS
Pete Alcock: Director, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham
Sabina Alkire: Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Astier Almedom: Professor of Practice (Fletcher School) and Fellow of the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Samuel Azout: President, Fundación Futbol con Corazon
Greg Barker: Director, Silverbridge Productions
Shari Berenbach: President & CEO, Calvert Social Investment Fund
Mahmood Bhutta: Project Advisor, BMA Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group
Matthew Bishop: Chief Business Writer and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Liam Black: Co-Founder, Wavelength
David Blood: Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management LLP
David Bonbright: Chief Executive, Keystone Accountability
David Bornstein: Author, “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”
John Brauer: CEO, NW Works, Inc.
Kenneth S. Brecher: Executive Director, Sundance Institute
Larry Brilliant: Vice President & Chief Philanthropic Evangelist, Google.org
Martin Burt: Executive Director, Fundación Paraguaya
Gillian Caldwell: Campaign Director, 1Sky
Stephan Chambers: Chairman, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Neelam Chhiber: Managing Director, Industree
Lungowe Matakala Chishinga: Lecturer of Law, University of Pretoria
Amy Clarke: Senior Vice President, International CSR, Bank of America
Sir Ronald Cohen: Director, Social Finance Ltd.
Gary Cohen: Co-Executive Director, Health Care Without Harm
Vicky Colbert: Executive Director, Escuela Nueva Foundation
Barry Coleman: Executive Director, Riders for Health
Susan Collin Marks: Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground
Jamie Cooper-Hohn: President & CEO, CIFF
Vera Cordeiro: CEO, Associação Saúde Criança Renascer
Ann Cotton: Executive Director, CAMFED International
Michael J. Critelli: Retired Executive Chairman, Pitney Bowes Inc.
Tina Dacin: E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University
Vincent Dawans: Partner, Virtue Ventures, LLC
Jean-Philippe De Schrevel: Founder, Bamboo Finance/Blue Orchard
William Drayton: CEO, Ashoka
Debra Dunn: Associate Consulting Professor, Stanford University Institute of Design
Toby Eccles: Director, Social Finance Ltd
Michael Eckhart: President, American Council on Renewable Energy
Raghda el-Ebrashi: Chairperson/Assistant Lecturer, AYB-SD/GUC
John Elkington : Founding Director, Volans Ventures Ltd & SustainAbility
Paula Ellis: Vice President/Strategic Initiatives, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Gene Falk: Co-Founder, Executive Director, mothers2mothers
Paul Farmer: Co-Founder, Partners In Health
His Excellency José Maria Figueres: CEO, Concordia21 and Former President of Costa Rica
Martin Fisher: Co-Founder & CEO, KickStart
Cecilia Flores-Oebanda: Director, Visayan Forum Foundation
William Foote: Founder & CEO, Root Capital
Jessica Freireich: Consultant, Monitor Institute
Jim Fruchterman: President & CEO, Benetech
Walter Fust: CEO, Global Humanitarian Forum
Victor Galaz: Research Theme Leader, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Kathy Gerwig: Vice President, Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Fadi Ghandour: Founder & CEO, Aramex International
Ian Goldin: Director, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford
John Goldstein: Managing Director, Imprint Capital Advisors
Michael Green: Co-Author, “Philanthrocapitalism”
David Green: Serial Entrepreneur
Ron Grzywinski: Chairman, ShoreBank Corporation
Gregor Hackmack: Co-Founder, Parlamentwatch (NGO)
Al Hammond: Senior Entrepreneur in Residence, Ashoka
Kirk O. Hanson: Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
Barbara Harriss-White: Director, Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, University of Oxford
Pamela Hartigan: Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Alan Hassenfeld: Chairman, Executive Committee, Hasbro, Inc.
Peter Head: Director, Arup
Lance Henderson: Vice President, Program and Impact, Skoll Foundation
Ella Henry: Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology
Jeremy Hockenstein: CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Divide Data
Rupert Howes: Chief Executive, Marine Stewardship Council
Aref Husseini: Director, Alnayzak for Scientific Innovation
Alex Jacobs: Director of Research, Keystone Accountability
Kevin Jones: Founder, Good Capital
Leocadio Juracan Salome: General Manager, Services for Farmers of the Altiplano
Namrita Kapur: Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Root Capital
Ashish Karamchandani: CEO, Monitor Group, India
Nancy Kete: EMBARQ Director, World Resources Institute
George Khalaf: Director, Middle East and North Africa Region, Synergos
Humera Khan: Consultant on Muslim Affairs, An-Nisa Society
Craig Kielburger: Founder & Chair, Free The Children
Mads Kjaer: CEO & Co-Founder, MYC4 A/S
James Koch: Director, Global Social Benefit Incubator
Wendy Kopp: CEO, Teach For All
Michal Kravcik:Environmentalist, People & Water
Sarabajaya Kumar: Senior Research Fellow, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Mari Kuraishi: President, GlobalGiving
Thomas B. Lawrence: Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management, Simon Fraser University
Charles Leadbeater: Social Entrepreneur
Yvonne Li: Founder/CEO, Avantage Ventures
Paul Light: Professor, New York University
Ray Loveridge: Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Saïd Business School
Bruce Lowry: Communications Director, Skoll Foundation
Mindy Lubber: President, Ceres
Daniel Lubetzky: Founder and President, PeaceWorks Group
Ann Macdougall: Chief Administrative Officer/General Counsel, Acumen Fund
Joe Madiath: Executive Director, Gram Vikas
Liliana Madrigal: Vice President of Programs, Amazon Conservation Team
Noah Manduke: President, Durable Good
Roger L. Martin: Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Maximilian Martin: Global Head, Philanthropy Services, UBS
Colin Mayer: Peter Moores Dean, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School
Pawan Mehra: Co-Founder, Intellecap
Cara Mertes: Director, Documentary Film Program, Sundance Institute
Lindsay Miller: Associate, Virtue Ventures LLC; Programming Lead, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Maurice Lim Miller: President & CEO, The Family Independence Initiative
Pat Mitchell: President & CEO, The Paley Center For Media
Nachiket Mor: President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
Evgeny Morozov: Fellow, Open Society Institute
Sam Moss: President, Gray Matters Capital
Kamal Mouzawak: Founder, Souk el Tayeb
Matthew T.A. Nash: Managing Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
Alex Nicholls: Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Marcia Odell: Director, WORTH, Pact Institute
Chuks Okereke: Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Pieter Oostlander: Director, Noaber Foundation
Sally Osberg: President & CEO, Skoll Foundation
George Overholser: Founder & Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners, Nonprofit Finance Fund
R. K. Pachauri: Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ana Maria Peredo: Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Victoria
Jan Piercy: Executive Vice President, ShoreBank Corporation
Mark J. Plotkin: President, Amazon Conservation Team
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, C.B.E
Wu Qing: Board Member, Beijing Cultural Development Center For Rural Women
Paul Rice: President & CEO, TransFair USA
Jonas Rigodon: Country Director-Malawi, Partners in Health
The Honourable Mary Robinson: President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Amitabha Sadangi: CEO, International Development Enterprises – India
Nicholas Sagovsky: Canon Theologian, Westminster Abbey
Soraya Salti: Senior Vice President, INJAZ al-Arab, JA Worldwide
Kailash Satyarthi: Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour; President, GCE
Judith Sayers: Chief, Hupacasath First Nation
J. B. Schramm: Founder & CEO, College Summit
Eric Schwarz: President & CEO, Citizen Schools
Premal Shah: President, Kiva.org
Chetna Gala Sinha: Founder, Manndeshi Mahila Sah. Bank Ltd. & MVSS (NGO)
Jeff Skoll: Founder & Chairman, Skoll Foundation and Participant Media
Keely Stevenson: Investment Executive, Bamboo Finance
Josh Steinmann: Vice President, Global Development, Better Place
Dorothy Stoneman: President & Founder, YouthBuild USA
Ray Suarez: Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, PBS
Will Swope: General Manager, Corporate Sustainability Group, Intel Corporation
Stan Thekaekara: Director, Just Change, India
Brian Trelstad: Chief Investment Officer, Acumen Fund
Hans Van Bochove: Director Public Affairs, Communications and CSR, Starbucks Coffee EMEA
Estela Villarreal Junco: Founder & Director of Development and International Affairs, Unidos Lo Lograremos AC
Sasa Vucinic: Managing Director, Media Development Loan Fund
Mathis Wackernagel: Executive Director, Global Footprint Network
Tom Watson: Managing Partner, CauseWired Communications
Bart Weetjens: Founder, APOPO
Frances Westley: J.W. McConnell Chair of Social Innovation, University of Waterloo
Nathan Wolfe: Professor, Stanford University; Founder, GVFI
John Wood: Founder & Executive Chairman, Room to Read
Jocelyn Wyatt: Social Impact Lead, IDEO
Sakena Yacoobi: Executive Director, Afghan Institute of Learning
Ion Yadigaroglu: Managing Principal & Co-Founder, Capricorn Investment Group, LLC
Tae Yoo: Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Systems Foundation
Simon Zadek: CEO, AccountAbility
Rafael Ziegler: Coordinator, Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS, University of Greifswald
Andrew Zolli: Curator & Executive Director, Pop!Tech

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