Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2013 Day Two Morning Plenary
Speakers
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Researcher, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Adrian Anantawan is a violinist, educator and researcher in the field of arts education, specifically the use of adaptive musical instruments within universally designed curricula in the United States. He is a graduate of Yale and Harvard University, and maintains an active performance career while directing an orchestra at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, MA.
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President, Marina Silva Institute
Marina Silva has dedicated over 30 years of service to public life. She has been elected councilwoman, state representative and twice as a senator. She was Minister of the Environment and Presidential Candidate for the Green Party. She has received more than 50 national and international awards. In 2012 she was honoured during the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics for her efforts to develop world peace. In 2012, she became an Honorary Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the World Conservation Congress.
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Founder and Creative Director,
TostanMolly Melching is the Founder and Creative Director of the Non Governmental Organization, Tostan. Having lived and worked in Senegal since 1974, Molly has received international recognition for her groundbreaking educational programs in national languages. Molly’s early experiences in rural Senegal reinforced her beliefs that many development efforts were not addressing the deeper priorities of African communities. In collaboration with Senegalese villagers, she developed a new type of education program that actively involves both adults and youth in promoting positive African values and using traditional ways of learning. Their efforts grew throughout the 1980s, leading Molly to found Tostan in 1991.
Tostan’s innovative grassroots, human rights-based education model has led communities to make significant progress in the areas of health, education, governance, the environment and financial empowerment. To date, more than 8,500 communities in 8 African countries have held public declarations to abandon the practices of female genital cutting and child marriage.
Molly and Tostan have received numerous awards including the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, UNESCO’s King Sejong Literacy Prize, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the Thomas J. Dodd Award for Justice and Human Rights. Molly is also the subject of a New York Times best-selling book: “However Long the Night”, written by acclaimed author Aimee Molloy.
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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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Founder and CEO, Cambia, Professor, QUT, NICTA
Richard is a prominent molecular biologist, social entrepreneur and innovation systems strategist. He founded Cambia, an independent non-profit social enterprise to democratise problem solving using science-enabled innovation. Richard developed the landmark hologenome theory of evolution, the Biological Open Source Movement (BiOS) and Patent Lens. Richard is also Professor of Science, Technology & Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Rogue at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where he directs The Lens, a global open platform for innovation cartography.
