Chris Underhill of BasicNeeds Accepts the Skoll Award at 2013 Skoll World Forum
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Chris is a global expert in the delivery of mental health and rehabilitation systems, a social entrepreneur, a mentor, a confidential organizational development advisor, trainer in community-based facilitation technique, and regularly speaker on leadership and social entrepreneurship.
A serial entrepreneur, Chris is currently co-founding the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs. He has co-founded citiesRISE, a multi-stakeholder initiative to catalyze, connect, and support cities committed to driving change in the field of mental health. Previously he started BasicNeeds, that’s impacted over 800,000 people across 12 countries. He’s also founded Action on Disability and Development and Thrive (Chris’s first charity in 1978 that uses gardening as rehabilitation for people living with disabilities). Chris is a board member of Ashoka UK Trust, a Global Director of Leaders’ Quest and the Chair of Carers Worldwide.
He is a Senior Fellow with the Ashoka Fellowship, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur for 2014. In 2000 Chris received an MBE from the Queen for his services to disability and development.
As a global mentor, he works with people in organisational management, models of change in childhood deprivation, human trafficking, the psychology of gangs, Fair Trade, prisons and prisoners, leadership and executive search.
You can find out more on Chris’s journey through his TEDx talk “Bridging the Mental Health Gap”.
