Leading with Authenticity – 2014 Skoll World Forum

Speakers

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  Bill Drayton

  Founder and CEO, Ashoka, Ashoka

  Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch. As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. He worked at McKinsey & Company for ten years and taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched many reforms including emissions trading, a fundamental change in regulation that is now the basis of much global as well as US regulatory law, including in fields beyond the environment.  Bill launched Ashoka in 1980; in 1984, he used the stipend he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He has been selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and, in 2019, Drayton was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU and more.

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  Diana Aviv

  Unknown, Individual

  Diana Aviv is president and CEO of Independent Sector, the national leadership forum for America's nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs. She is a leading speaker on trends in and key issues for the sector, such as the financial state of nonprofits, public policies affecting charities and foundations, the role of civil society in democracy, effective advocacy, and civic engagement. She has testified before the US Congress and has been featured in media outlets. Diana also served as executive director of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, convened by Independent Sector. President Obama appointed Diana to the White House Council for Community Solutions in December 2010. Diana serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations. A native of South Africa, Diana graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a master's degree in social work at Columbia University.

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  Kelvin Taketa

  President & CEO, Hawaii Community Foundation

  Kelvin H. Taketa is president and chief executive officer of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF) – the largest foundation in the state that works to transform lives and improve communities. In 2012, HCF administered $45 million in grants and contracts for programs and initiatives in Hawai‘i. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Kelvin graduated from Colorado College and received his Juris Doctor from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. He has spent his entire career in the nonprofit sector and helped found The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, where he served as executive director. In 2010, Kelvin was named in the Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50, an annual listing of 50 influential executives in the nonprofit sector. He currently serves as a board member for Hawaiian Electric Industries and Hawaiian Electric Company, and as board treasurer for the Independent Sector, a leadership coalition of charities, foundations and corporate giving programs.

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  Rafiatu Lawal

  CAMA (CAMFED Alumnae Association) National Chairperson, CAMFED

  Rafiatu Lawal is passionate about education and the development of disadvantaged and rural communities. She comes from a family of 11, from a small village called Daboya in the Northern Region of Ghana. She is teaches home economics and general science at Nahadah Islamic Junior High School in Tamale. She is also the past national chairperson of CAMA (Camfed's Alumnae) network in Ghana. Cama is one of a kind in Africa, bringing together young women change-makers. It seeks to break the cycle of poverty in their families. She is deeply interested in education and in working to ensure that every child gets the opportunity of going to school. She is an alumnus of The MasterCard Foundation Youth Think Tank.

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  Sebastien Marot

  Executive Director, Friends-International

  Sébastien Marot is the Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an internationally acclaimed global social enterprise saving lives and building futures of over 150,000 marginalized children and youth each year across 12 countries in 4 continents. Friends-International has been at the forefront of social innovation using social business and social enterprise models to expand impact and reach. In recognition of his work Sébastien has been awarded various accolades including the Order of Australia for “service to humanity”, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2007), was voted Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 in Asia by the Schwab Foundation and Friends-International was recognized as one of the top 100 NGO’s by The Global Journal from 2012.

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