Moral Stances and Decision Making: A Practical Exploration
Speakers
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Founder and CEO, Ashoka,
AshokaBill 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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Josh Nesbit is the CEO of Medic Mobile, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities. Medic Mobile builds software for a new model of care that reaches everyone and the organization serves as the technical steward for the Community Health Toolkit. This open-source software helps more than 26,000 community health workers provide care for 14 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Medic Mobile received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2014. Josh studied global health and bioethics at Stanford University, where his qualitative research focused on pediatric HIV/AIDS in Malawi. He is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow, and he served on the Board of Directors for IntraHealth International. Josh was selected by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development, received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development, and was named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 top social entrepreneurs. In 2016, he received a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award.
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Senior Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Kirk Hanson is Senior Fellow and former Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he held the John Courtney Murray, S.J. Endowed University Professorship. In 2001, he retired after 23 years teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to head the Markkula Center, one of the most active ethics centers in the world with a staff of 26. He expanded the Center's staff, budget and influence in his 17 years there and stepped down in August 2018. Hanson writes on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations and other complex organizations. His current research interests include the design of corporate ethics programs and the responsibilities of boards for the ethical culture of their organizations. He has been fascinated by ethical issues which arise in Silicon Valley companies and life, and formerly wrote a column on workplace ethics. Hanson has been an ethics consultant to over 100 public corporations, government entities and nonprofit organizations. He has served on the boards of several foundations and nonprofit organizations, and currently serves on the board of the Skoll Foundation. Hanson received the 1997 John Gardner Award from the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley for contributions to the Silicon Valley community, the 2007 Aspen Institute Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the study of business and society, and the 2012 Master Ethics Teacher Award from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Portland in 2013 and Santa Clara University in 2018.
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Safeena is the Founder and Executive Director of Educate
Girls (EG), an NGO focused on mobilising communities for
girls’ education. Under Safeena’s leadership, since EG’s
inception in 2007, the NGO has enrolled 750,000+ girls in
school and improved learning outcomes for 1.3 million+
children in India.
Safeena’s guidance and leadership has been instrumental in
EG achieving a major global milestone –
the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education. On
its completion, the bond surpassed both its target outcomes
by achieving 160% of its learning target and 116% of its
enrolment target. These results are testimony to the
commitment of EG to deliver quality at scale (the
organisation currently has 1,760 full time employees and
13,000+ community volunteers) and value to every single
child in the program. She has also been instrumental in EG
becoming the first Audacious project in Asia, a first-of-its-kind coalition that surfaces and
funds critical projects with the potential to create global change.
Previously, Safeena has worked extensively with rural and urban underserved communities
in South America, Africa and Asia. She has been conferred with the 2017 NITI Aayog’s
Women Transforming India Award, the 2016 NDTV-L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Award,
and has in the past received the British Asian Trust’s Special Recognition Award from HRH
Prince Charles for outstanding contribution in education. Moreover, Educate Girls has
received the prestigious 2015 Skoll Award, 2014 WISE Award, the 2014 USAID Millennium
Alliance Award, the 2014 Stars Impact Award and the India Development Marketplace
Award in 2011 from the World Bank.
ABOUT EDUCATE GIRLS: Educate Girls is a non-profit organisation that focuses on mobilising
communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas. Working in
partnership with the Government, Educate Girls currently operates successfully in over 18,000
villages
