BBC Forum: Is Heroism Obsolete?

Video Description

At this panel at the Skoll World Forum 2011, this intellectually provocative conversation centers around the question, “Is Heroism Obsolete?” Drawing upon themes relevant for social entrepreneurs, host and BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall engages participants and audience members in this special taping of the acclaimed BBC Forum radio programme airing to 40 million globally.

Speakers

  • Bridget Kendall
    Diplomatic Correspondent and Presenter, BBC
    Bridget Kendall is BBC Diplomatic Correspondent, covering major international developments, with a particular interest in Russia. She is also host of The Forum, the flagship ideas programme for the BBC World Service.
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  • Ken Brecher
    President, Library Foundation of Los Angeles
    Ken Brecher is the President of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Sundance Institute. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and is an honors graduate of Cornell.   An anthropologist by training, Mr. Brecher has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship for his study of Amazonian tribesmen in Brazil. He is the author of Too Sad to Sing, A Memoir with Postcards and edited the classic work, Xingu: The Indians and Their Myths.
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  • Larry Brilliant
    Senior Counselor, Skoll Foundation
    Larry Brilliant, MD MPH: Chair, Ending Pandemics; CEO, Pandefense; former Chair, National Bio-Surveillance Advisory Subcommittee; former Prof Epidemiology, UMich, Head of Google.org, CEO Skoll Global Threats, smallpox eradication program WHO, CDC, Senior Counselor Skoll Foundation, Salesforce.org founder, Seva Foundation, co-founder The Well and author of Sometimes Brilliant and The Management of Smallpox Eradication. TIME100 and Ted Prize; multiple honorary doctorates, CNN on-air analyst @larrybrilliant. info@larrybrilliant.com
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  • Roshaneh Zafar
    Managing Director, Kashf Foundation
    Ms. Roshaneh Zafar founded the Kashf Foundation, the first specialized microfinance organization in Pakistan, in 1996.Today, one of the fastest growing MFIs in the country, Kashf Foundation was the first microfinance institute in Pakistan to achieve financial self sufficiency and demonstrated the business case for investing in womens economic empowerment.
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