2012 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers
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Founder, SING
Named as one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, internationally acclaimed singer songwriter and human rights activist Annie Lennox rose to fame with Dave Stewart as Eurythmics in the early 1980’s with the classic album "Sweet Dreams are Made of This.” In the decade to follow, Eurythmics went on to achieve more than 20 international hits, selling more than 80 million albums.
In 1992, Lennox released her debut album, “Diva"…selling over 6 million copies worldwide and establishing her career as a solo artist.
Lennox has received numerous accolades, including 8 BRIT Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), 10 Grammy nominations and 4 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
In 2003, Lennox performed at the inaugural concert for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS Foundation, 46664. Her experience in South Africa inspired her to found the SING campaign, supporting women and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
A goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS, Oxfam, Amnesty International and The British Red Cross, she is also Special Envoy for Scottish Parliament and the City of London.
She received the Woman of Peace Award at the 2009 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and in 2011 was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her humanitarian work.
Last year, she was awarded a Fellowship at the 60th Ivor Novello Awards - the first woman to receive it - and earlier this year Elle magazine awarded her the "Outstanding Achievement Award" for activism and campaigning.
The Royal Scottish Geographic Society awarded Annie the prestigious "Livingstone Medal” in March 2016.
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Executive Director,
NidanAn activist and a social entrepreneur, he has been empowering informal workers by getting new laws ,polices and programs and by securing their access to markets, financial services and technology Organizing the informal workers across India has been his forte along with building collaborations to set up new models of development of informal workers . He played a pioneer role in getting a Street Vendors Act in India which empowers millions of street vendors agaisnt eviction and harrassment .He was elected as Ashoka and Eisenhower Fellow in 2007. He was awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 by the Schwab Foundation at World Economic Forum. He was also awarded at the first innovation forum set up by the Govt of Bihar in 2007. In 2012, Skoll Foundation awarded him with Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Besides, he has been awarded many times at various levels.. He is on board of many Govt and Non Govt Committees at national and state level He heads Nidan and is also the National Coordinator of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) and General Secretary of Self Workers Global ,an International federation of Street Vendors.
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Debbie Aung Din is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business operating in Myanmar that delivers affordable and innovative products and services for farm families living in poverty. Aung Din has been engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar since 1995. She has also lived and worked in Mississippi, Cambodia and Indonesia. She has worked for NGOs, USAID, the UN and the World Bank. Aung Din holds a MA from Harvard University in public policy and development economics. She received awards from the Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum) and the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Jim Taylor is the Co-founder and Chief Executive of Proximity Designs – a social business creating a small farm services platform for change across rural Myanmar. The big idea fifteen years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology, farming practices and financing so they could have a path out of poverty. After serving over 3 million people, and generating $250 million in new farm income, the idea still has legs. Jim lives in Yangon, Myanmar and has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He is the recipient of the 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Curry Stone Design Prize and the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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A Mechanical Engineer by profession but a Social Architect in practice, he was part of the pioneering team that worked closely with volunteers and partners in 1999 to establish the first Gawad Kalinga communities.
In 2012, together with Mr Antonio Meloto, received the prestigious Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship of the Skoll Foundation. An international award giving body recongizing game changers from different countries in the field of sustainable and scaleable social transformation. This award a great affirmation of the contributions the volunteers and partners of Gawad Kalinga.
Guided by the founding principles of GK that "poverty is a crisis in values that has economic consequences" and "looking at the poor equal in worth and dignity", he continues to challenge barriers that keep the poorest poor.
Currently, serving as the Executive Director of Gawad Kalinga Foundation (a Ramon Magsaysay Awardee) , Mr Jose Luis Oquiñena is leading the charge in scaling the model
to create sustainable momentum to end poverty for 5 million families. It is GKs hope that the rising poor today will be the new middle class of our country in our lifetime.
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Past President and CEO, Individual
As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg helped 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, and as a board director of the Social Progress Imperative 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. Born in Boston, Sally grew up on the east coast but has spent most of her adult life in California. She now lives outside Philadelphia, in Wayne, Pa., within walking distance of her two grandchildren.
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Performers, String Fever USA
No ordinary Quartet - they perform on five and six string electric violins, viola and cello. Neal, the cellist also provides vocal percussion with his superb Beatboxing skills. Stringfever - the world's first genetically modified String Quartet comprises of brothers Giles, Ralph, Neal and their cousin Graham.
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CEO, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad leads the Chandler Foundation as its first CEO. The Chandler Foundation seeks a world of shared prosperity in which nations are well-governed, businesses help drive economic growth and societal well-being, and all individuals have the opportunity to flourish. Tim previously co-founded and was the longtime CEO of Landesa, the world's leading land rights organization. Tim led Landesa’s growth from a 2-person operation to the #1-ranked human rights NGO in the world. He is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellow. Tim has a particularly strong affinity for India where he lived for many years, but also has strong ties each of the more than 20 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America where he has worked. Tim has co-edited and co-written two books, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Foreign Affairs, Huffington Post and beyond. Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and a father to four adult children from whom he draws inspiration. He also draws strength and inspiration from working with others on racial justice issues in his Seattle community. He has two law degrees from the University of Washington and has completed certificate programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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Social Entrepreneur of the World – World Entrepreneurship Forum, 2012
Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2012
Japan’s Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth, 2011
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst and Young Philippines, 2010
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2010
Top 4 Most Trusted Filipino – Reader’s Digest Asia, 2010
Filipino of the Year, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2006
People of the Year, Philippine Star, 2006
The Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL) Awardee for Community Service, 2006
Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership, 2006
