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Gib Bulloch currently heads up Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a ring-fenced not-for-profit consulting group within Accenture, whose clients include Oxfam, World Vision, UNICEF and The World Bank. ADP’s main focus is on bringing affordable business and technology expertise to the international development sector and on promoting private sector engagement in sustainable development. He has recently been appointed as a Mentor to the UK Government’s Social Enterprise Coalition.
Working primarily as a strategic consultant to multinationals, Gib’s main induction to development came through spending a year in Macedonia as Accenture’s first volunteer on the VSO Business Partnerships Scheme in 2000, providing business planning to a local non-profit business support center for SMEs in the aftermath of the Kosovo crisis. ADP and Gib’s role in helping to create it, is featured in a book called “Everyday Legends” highlighting the stories of 20 leading social entrepreneurs and more recently, “The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers”. ADP was awarded the Management Consulting Association’s CSR Award and a BITC Big Tick in 2007/8.
Pamela Hartigan is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, the world’s leading academic institution for social entrepreneurship. She is also a Volans Founding Partner and Non Executive Director. From 2001 to 2008 she was the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a Swiss-based organization focused on advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship nationally, regionally and globally. The Foundation is the second organization started by Klaus Schwab, the first being the World Economic Forum. Dr. Hartigan is the first Managing Director of the Foundation and has been responsible for shaping the strategy and operations pursued by the Foundation to achieve its mission.
Throughout her career, Dr. Hartigan has held varied leadership positions in multilateral health organizations and educational institutions as well as in entrepreneurial non-profits. In the area of health, Pamela headed up the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization (1999-2001); was Programme Manager and Area Co-ordinator for Applied Field Research in the Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Bank, WHO, and UNDP (1997-1999). Between 1990 and 1997, she worked in WHO’s Regional Office for the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as Chief of the Gender, Health and Development and Manager for Special Initiative in the HIV/AIDS Programme.
Her new book, entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets that change the World and co-authored with John Elkington.
Reed Paget is the Managing Director of Belu Water, the UK’s first “carbon neutral” bottled water. Belu water bottles are completely made out of corn and are therefore biodegradable. All Belu’s profits are used to fund clean water projects around the world. Reed has recently won the Independent newspaper’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Belu was originally inspired by the launch of the United Nation’s Global Compact in 2001. This was Kofi Annan’s initiative to engage the largest businesses in the world to help solve the largest social and environmental problems in the world. Reed attended the event as a journalist and was inspired by the concept of “using capitalism to change the world”, which made him decide to try putting this idea into practice.
Prior to setting up Belu Water, Reed worked for New York One News and was the producer of the award-winning documentary film Amerikan Passport, shot in 14 war zones around the world.
Malcolm Hayday is the Chief Executive of The Charity Bank Limited, the UK’s first general charity to be authorised as a bank. He was previously the Director of Community Finance at CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) and Director of CAF’s social investment loan fund, Investors in Society. He is in his second term as a Board Member of INAISE, the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, a global network of social investment institutions, having been its President, 1997-2001. Previously, he was the chairman of The Big Issue Foundation and a founding Board member of the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA). Until 2006, Malcolm was a member of the Advisory Group of global foundation leaders to the World Economic Forum until 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Malcolm has more than 30 years experience in business finance. He graduated from Exeter University in 1972 with a BA Hons. in Economics. After university he assumed progressively senior positions with City financial institutions. From 1987 he concentrated on finance for small and medium sized businesses. He joined CAF in 1993 to establish the loans service for charities. He has written a number of papers on the social economy and social investment.
Prof. John Hammock is a Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the North American Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. He also works with the secretariat of the Human Development Capability Association, which is housed at the Boston Univeristy Pardee Center.
He founded and was director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University. He served as Executive Director at Oxfam America from 1984-1995 and as Executive Director at ACCION International from 1973-1980. John is a graduate of Denison University and the Fletcher School. He was the Managing Director of Global Equity Initiative at Harvard. His work centers around Human Development and values, with particular focus on policy issues and implementation. He recently co-authored Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid, 2008.
James Minney is a co-founder and co-Director of People Tree. This company is a pioneer in Fair trade fashion and promoting environmental justice and Fair Trade. The People Tree Foundation is an independent charity, working alongside People Tree the Fair Trade Company.
Jamie is the Managing Director of The Ethical Property Company in the UK and a director of Ethical Property Europe. He first founded the company in 1999 and over ten years has built it into a company employing nearly 40 staff and with assets of over £20 million.
Jamie’s previous career was as a film-maker on environment and development issues. After graduating from Bristol University in Philosophy in 1982, Jamie joined the BBC where he worked on Vanishing Earth, a two part series on the causes of famine which won the Prix Italia Ecology Prize. From 1986 to 1989, Jamie produced and directed several award-winning documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC. Jamie later joined Television Trust for the Environment (TVE), a charity supported by the United Nations and bilateral donors that both co-produced programmes on development issues for broadcast television and also ensured that those programmes were distributed free to TV stations and NGOs in the developing world. In 1990 Jamie became acting director of TVE and from 1991-92 set up and ran TVE’s office in the Netherlands. From 1993-97 Jamie ran his own production company Small World. In 1998 Jamie worked as press and parliamentary officer for the World Development Movement, working to promote the rights of banana workers and against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
Jamie has also been involved through published papers, media appearances and campaigning in support of the development of philanthropy through The Network for Social Change and the Funding Network; drawing attention to the ineffectiveness of carbon offsetting; promoting a localist agenda; and the development of a social stock exchange.
Professor Sir David King is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Sir David was the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office of Science from October 2000 to December 2007. In that time, he raised the profile of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. In 2008 he co-authored The Hot Topic (Bloomsbury) on this subject.
As Director of the Government’s Foresight Programme, Sir David created an in-depth horizon scanning process which advised government on a wide range of long-term issues, from flooding to obesity. He also chaired the government’s Global Science and Innovation Forum from its inception. He advised government on issues including the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic of 2001, post-9/11 risks to the UK, GM foods, energy provision, and innovation and wealth creation. He was also heavily involved in the Government’s Science and Innovation Strategy 2004-2014.
Sir David was born in South Africa in 1939, and after an early career at the University of the Witwatersrand, Imperial College, and the University of East Anglia, he became the Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool in 1974. In 1988 he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and subsequently became Master of Downing College (1995-2000) and Head of the University Chemistry Department (1993-2000). He has published over 450 papers on his research in chemical physics and on science and policy, and has received numerous prizes, fellowships, and honorary degrees. He continues as Director of Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, is Senior Scientific Adviser to UBS, and is currently President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr Wayne Visser is Founder and CEO of CSR International and the author/editor of seven books, including five on the role of business in society, the most recent of which are Making A Difference and The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility. In addition, Wayne is Visiting Professor in CSR at Mannheim University (Germany) and Senior Associate and Internal Examiner at the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (UK), where he previously held positions as Research Director and External Examiner. Before getting his PhD in Corporate Social Responsibility (Nottingham University, UK), Wayne was Director of Sustainability Services for KPMG and Strategy Analyst for Cap Gemini in South Africa.
Mark Chadwick is the CEO of Carbon Clear. Carbon Clear helps companies around the world develop and implement carbon management strategies. They specialize in carbon auditing, developing strategies for in-house reductions and the trading of carbon credits. Mark has an MBA from London Business School and also won the Guardian Unltd Award for social entrepreneurship.
Conrad Young is the Chair of the Net Impact Professionals Chapter London. Net Impact, originally founded as Students for Responsible Business (SRB) in 1993, has grown from an idea shared by 17 MBA founders to a mission-driven network of more than 10,000 graduate business student and professional members in more than 100 universities and 80 cities worldwide. Net Impact members are current and emerging leaders in CSR, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, international development, and environmental sustainability who are actively improving the world.
Conrad works as a Lead Consultant for Sustainable Business at PIPC, a global management consultancy with 14 offices operating across 25 countries. In this role, he focuses on the business implications of environment, energy, and corporate responsibility and aims to help clients go beyond the existing compliance-based environmental advice to deliver measurable business improvements.
Prof. John W. Mullins is Associate Professor of Management Practice and Chair of the Entrepreneurship group at the London Business School. Since becoming a business school professor in 1992, John has published three books and more than 30 articles in a variety of outlets, including Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. His research has won national and international awards from Marketing Science Institute, the American Marketing Association, and the Richard D. Irwin Foundation.
John has consulted with and done executive education on three continents for a variety of organizations both large and small, including Roche Diagnostics, Time Warner Communications, the Eastman Kodak Company, Pumpkin Ltd., The Musicland Group, Montgomery Watson, Inc., the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and others. He earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Ph.D in marketing from the University of Minnesota.
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