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Catalina Escobar Restrepo
Catalina Escobar Restrepo has a degree in Business Administration from Clark University (USA), degree that she has combined with other studies in Europe and Japan at Kansai Gaidai University – Osaka. She completed an MBA at INALDE, strengthening her entrepreneurial and financial management profile. Her early working life started in the private financial sector before creating the Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation.
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Christie Peacock
Christie is a livestock specialist with over 30 years experience in Africa and South-east Asia. She is the former CEO of FARM AFRICA and founder of Sidai Africa Ltd. She was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2011.
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Claudio Sassaki
Claudio Sassaki is the Co-Founder at Geekie in Brazil.
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Duncan Maru
Duncan Maru MD PhD is Co Founder Chief Programs Officer and a non voting Board Member of Possible. He leads Possible s healthcare delivery programs develops and tests innovations for improving rural healthcare and relentlessly builds healthcare partnerships. Duncan is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School through the Brigham and Women s Division of Global Health Equity. He also practices part time on the Complex Care Service at Boston Children s Hospital.
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Eduardo Bontempo
Eduardo Bontempo is the Co-Founder at Geekie in Brazil.
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Hanumappa Sudarshan
Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan is an Indian social worker and tribal rights activist. He is well known for his contributions to the upliftment of the forest dwelling tribes in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka.
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Ian Carson
Ian is a founding Partner and Chairman of Partners of PPB Advisory. He has been instrumental in turning around organisations in crisis and helped clients to protect their financial positions and reputations. Ian was a Board member of the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital 1992–1996 and the PPB Advisory team leader supporting the successful 2010 settlement by Diego for Thalidomide victims.
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Javier Okhuysen Urrutia
Struggling to Remove Unnecessary Blindness From Mexico to Mexico. Co-Founder at salaUno
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Jen Hyatt
Jen is a social entrepreneur who has established over thirty social purpose organisations internationally.
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John Mighton
Dr. John Mighton is a mathematician, author, playwright, and the founder of JUMP Math. He tirelessly volunteers his time and expertise at JUMP Math as the lead curriculum developer for the JUMP Math Student Assessment and Practice Books and Teacher's Resources. He also donates all proceeds from publications to JUMP Math. John completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Toronto and was awarded an NSERC fellowship for postdoctoral research in knot and graph theory. He is currently a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and has also taught mathematics at the University of Toronto. John also lectured in philosophy at McMaster University, where he received a Masters in philosophy.
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Kamal Quadir
BA, Oberlin College; MBA, Sloan School of Management, MIT. Formerly: CEO and Founder, CellBazaar; led Business Development division, Occidental Corporation's energy initiatives in South Asia; worked in New York City Chamber of Commerce; with Insight Venture Partners; Founding Member, Open World Initiatives, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based organization of young thinkers. Currently, CEO, bKash; Involved with Anwarul Quadir Foundation, which recognizes innovations in developing countries. TED Fellow and First Mover Fellow, Aspen Institute. Recipient, Tech Award for applying technology in benefiting humanity.
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Marc Koska
Marc spent part of his early twenties crewing boats in the Caribbean and making models to be used at crime scenes. A life-changing moment came when he read an article about the predicted spread of HIV and AIDS through the transmission of blood-borne diseases via syringe re-use. His interest was sparked and Marc has devoted the last 25 years of his life passionately on injection safety.
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Michael B. Jenkins
Michael is President of Forest Trends. From 1989-1999, he was the Associate Director for the Global Security and Sustainability Program of the MacArthur Foundation. Michael's responsibilities with the Program included all grant-making in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as overarching program management. In 1998, Michael was in a joint appointment as a Senior Forestry Advisor to the World Bank. Before entering the MacArthur Foundation, he worked for three years as an agroforester in Haiti with the USAID Agroforestry Outreach Program. Previous to that, he worked with a Washington-based development organization, Appropriate Technology International, as a technical advisor. In the late 1970s, Michael was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay working in agriculture, apiculture, and forestry projects.
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Rosanne Haggerty
Rosanne Haggerty is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community and later of Community Solutions.
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Sharanjeet Shan
Conceptualized and managed many projects Maths, Science, Technology, ECD and Entrepreneurship education in-school and unemployed youth. Organized and managed strategic alliances with corporates.
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Simone Carson
Simone co-founded SecondBite with Ian Carson in 2005. A registered Nurse with a keen focus on children’s health, Simone worked in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital and coordinated research projects for the Infectious Diseases Department. She also gained a certificate in Pediatric Intensive Care. Simone completed a Bachelor of Education at La Trobe University and the Graduate Company Directors Course at the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Sylvain Couthier
Président ATF GAIA PC Laptop service - Entrepreneur Social ESS - Admin & Délégué Régional UNEA IDF .
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