Global Development: What should we focus on and how will we measure success?
Speakers
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Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. He is one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century according to Esquire magazine, and one of the 50 people who could save the planet according to the UK Guardian. Lomborg has repeatedly been named one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
He is an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School and regularly works with many of the world’s top economists, including 7 Nobel Laureates. His think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, was ranked by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the world’s "Top 25 Environmental Think Tanks".
Lomborg is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media, for outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, and the BBC. His monthly column is published in 19 languages, in 30+ newspapers with more than 30 million readers globally.
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Bunker Roy’s “real” education started when he dug open wells for drinking water as an unskilled labourer for 5 years (1967-1971).
Married Aruna(nee Jayaram) June 1970. No children
Indian National Squash Champion 1965, 1968 and 1971.
Started the Barefoot College in 1972. Following the life style and work style of Mahatma Gandhi.
Bunker Roy gave a TED talk at TED Global in Edinburgh in October 2011. 3.7 million viewers translated into 45 languages.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html
AWARDS & HONORS (2015)
1. Outstanding Schwab Social Entrepreneur, World Economic Forum Davos Switzerland September 2002:
2. The Stockholm Challenge Award for Information Technology Sweden October 2002:
3. The World Technology Award for Social Entrepreneurship, World Technology Network New York 2002
4. Tech Museum For Innovation Benefiting Humanity California November 2002:
5. St Andrews Prize for the Environment, Scotland May 2003:
6. The Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy London July 2003;
7. Tyler Prize April 2004 California USA:
8. The Skoll Foundation 2005:
9. US $ 1 million ALCAN Award for Sustainability 2006:
10. SUEZ Environment-Water for All Foundation- Paris July 2009:
11. Robert Hill Award: Promotion of Solar Energy: Hamburg September 2009:
12. Asian Awards, Social Entrepreneur of the Year. London, November 2011,
13. The Guardian London. 5th January 2008 identified Bunker Roy as one of the 50 Environmentalists in the world who could save the planet.
14. TIME April 2010. One of the 100 most influential people in the world.
15. Blue Planet Prize Japan November 2011
16. Clinton Global Citizen Award New York September 2013
17. City & Guilds of London Institute FCGI London 2016
22. Social Entrepreneur of the Year Business Standard March 2017
23. Hon. Degree Bachelor of Law Princeton University June 2017
(First Indian to receive this award in 40 years)
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Project Director, Opportunity Youth United
Dorothy Stoneman, 2007 Skoll Awardee, was the Founder and CEO of YouthBuild USA, Inc., from 1978 through 2016. This organization is the national support center for over 260 YouthBuild programs in the USA and the sponsor of YouthBuild International which has brought YouthBuild to 21 other countries.
In YouthBuild programs low-income young adults work toward their own high school diploma or equivalency while learning job skills and getting paid for building affordable housing for homeless and low-income people in their communities. Over 180,000 YouthBuild students have built over 33,000 units of affordable housing while rebuilding their own lives.
Stoneman is a leader in advocating for youth engagement in civil society and for ending poverty. After joining the Civil Rights movement in 1964, Stoneman lived and worked for 24 years in Harlem, where in collaboration with local teenagers she created the first YouthBuild program in 1978 and then orchestrated its expansion throughout NYC, USA, and internationally.
In 2012 she spearheaded the creation of the National Council of Young Leaders and now supports them full-time to build out Opportunity Youth United as a grassroots membership organization focused on civic engagement for low-income young adults dedicated to increasing opportunity and decreasing poverty in America, building racial equity and racial unity.
Stoneman also serves with the Aspen Institute’s Opportunity Youth Network, Voices for National Service, America’s Promise, the National Advisory Board for Public Service at Harvard University, and serves on the board of Public Allies and as board chair for Youth Action YouthBuild in East Harlem.
She received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1996, honorary PhD from Bank Street College of Education, John Gardner Leadership Award in 2000, Harvard Service Award in 2011, America’s Promise Award in 2017, and the Woke White Women Who Walk the Talk award in 2019.
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Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of ‘The Economist’) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society. Previously Michael served as a senior official in the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine and headed the communications department. He taught Economics at Warsaw University in Poland in the early 1990s. His TED Talks have been viewed more than three million times. His 2014 Talk was chosen by the TED organisation as one of the ‘most powerful ideas’ of 2014 and by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best ever.
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Director (2009-2016), Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Dr. Pamela Hartigan was Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School at the University of Oxford from 2009 until her passing in 2016. She was also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges affecting our future.
Prior to starting Volans, Dr. Hartigan spent eight years as the Founding Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, where she was also a member of the Managing Board.
Of Ecuadorian origin, Dr. Hartigan first came to the United States at 17 years of age to study at Georgetown University; she went on to complete a PhD in human developmental psychology at the Catholic University of America. Throughout her career, she held varied leadership positions in multilateral organizations and educational institutions, as well as in entrepreneurial ventures. She was responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments, and programs across a variety of institutions and platforms.
Dr. Hartigan was a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate business schools in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School and at the University of Technology Sydney. She co-authored a book with John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility (UK), entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World, which was published by Harvard Business Press in 2008.
She was a trustee of social investment organizations, publicly listed companies, and social impact focused organizations around the world.
Dr. Pamela Hartigan died on August 12, 2016, at her home in France.
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President, Ashesi University, Ashesi University
Patrick Awuah is the Founder and President of Ashesi University, a private, not-for-profit, liberal arts institution that has quickly gained a reputation as one of Ghana’s finest universities. Under Patrick’s leadership, Ashesi has created a curriculum and model grounded in the liberal arts that fosters critical thinking, entrepreneurship, ethics and leadership.
Before founding Ashesi University, Patrick worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft, where he spearheaded the development of dial-up internet working technologies and gained a reputation for bringing difficult projects to completion.
He holds bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Economics from Swarthmore College; an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business; and honorary doctorates from Swarthmore College, Babson College, and the University of Waterloo.
Patrick’s awards and recognitions include the MacArthur Fellowship; the McNulty Prize; and the Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award. In recognition of his service to Ghana, Patrick was awarded membership to the Order of the Volta by His Excellency, President J.A. Kufuor, in July 2007. The Order of the Volta is one of Ghana’s highest awards, given to individuals who exemplify the ideal of service to the country. In 2015, Patrick was named one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine. In 2017, he was awarded the Qatar Foundation’s WISE Prize for Education in recognition of his outstanding, world-class contribution to education.
Patrick served on the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2010 to 2016. He is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Global Leadership Network; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a member of the Tau Beta Pi honor society for excellence in engineering.
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Senior Advisor for Partnerships, United Nations
Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen is the Senior Advisor for Partnerships in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General at the United Nations Secretariat. Mr. Christensen’s current role is to assist and advise the Secretary-General in designing a new United Nations Partnership Facility and promoting partnerships as a means of implementing United Nations goals and mandates, currently with a particular focus on climate action and finance. Ambassador Christensen brings over 20 years of diplomatic experience to the job.
From 2010 to 2012, Ambassador Christensen was the Under Secretary for Global Challenges at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Denmark. Prior to that, he served as the Ambassador of Denmark to Iran as well as the Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the MFA.
Earlier in his career, Ambassador Christensen served at the Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York and at the Danish Embassies in Algiers, Cairo, Luxembourg and New Delhi as well as in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen.
