Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs and has over twenty years’ experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll awardee, an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organisations are Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), Aflatoun International, Childline India and Child Helpline International.

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Bart Houlahan, along with his partners, Jay Coen Gilbert and Andrew Kassoy, co-founded B Lab in 2006. B Lab is a non-profit organization with offices in 33 countries, driving economic systems change to build a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economic system. Its mission is to serve a movement of people using business as a force for good by shining a light on leaders through a corporate certification (4000+ Certified B Corporations in 70+ countries), and then providing easy pathways for others to follow.

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Sharath Jeevan is one of the world’s leading experts on reigniting our inner drive (intrinsic motivation). He founded and led STIR Education – arguably the world’s largest intrinsic motivation initiative. Sharath is currently the Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs, which supports organizations all around the world to solve deep motivational challenges.

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Ann Mei Chang is a leading expert on social innovation and author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good. Ann Mei served as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID and first Executive Director of the US Global Development Lab, engaging the best practices for innovation from Silicon Valley to accelerate the impact and scale of solutions to the world’s most intractable challenges.

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Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s funding is unrestricted and continues as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale. The foundation’s two fellows programs teach promising early-stage social entrepreneurs how to design their solutions for maximum impact at big scale

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Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America, a think tank that was founded in 1999. From 2009 to 2011, she served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Anne-Marie is also the Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2012, she wrote “Why women still can’t have it all”, a piece that quickly became The Atlantic’s most read article in its then 150-year history.

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Tulaine Montgomery is an entrepreneur, educator, writer and organizer. She has played leadership roles in the launch and expansion of social enterprises across the U.S., the Caribbean, East Africa, Indonesia and South Africa. Tulaine currently serves as Co-CEO of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs visionary leaders who are scaling innovations and transforming our nation’s broken and inequitable systems.

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Emma joined The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK in 2017, with over 20 years’ experience of working with children, families and communities. As Funding Strategy Director, Emma is a member of the Senior Management Team and is responsible for ensuring that the strategic design, development and delivery of funding enables communities across the UK to thrive.

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Nisha Anand is a boundary-buster, common ground creator, non-violent culture-creator, outside-the-box experimenter, and national leader for social and racial justice. Her TED Talk, The Radical Act of Choosing Common Ground, was viewed over one million times in the run-up to the divisive 2020 election. Once a grassroots activist arrested in Burma for pro-democracy demonstrations, Nisha is known today as a leader in cultivating unlikely and unconventional partnerships to create change.

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Margot Fahnestock is a philanthropy and policy expert in family planning and reproductive health. In her role as Vice President, Strategic Development for nonprofit pharmaceutical organization Medicines360, Margot is helping align the organization though a strategy process integrating program development, impact measurement, and resource mobilization. Margot formerly served as a Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, responsible for making grants to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Devin Hibbard is the Founder and CEO of Street Business School – an entrepreneurial training program that helps women living in poverty go from an average of $1.35 to $4.19 per day by starting their own businesses. Through a social franchise model, Street Business School is now in 25 countries and will reach 1 million women by 2027.

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Dr. Carmen Rojas (she/her) is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Prior to joining Marguerite Casey Foundation, Dr. Carmen Rojas was the co-founder and former CEO of The Workers Lab, an innovation lab that invests in entrepreneurs, community organizers, and government leaders to create replicable and revenue-generating solutions that improve conditions for low-wage workers.

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Luvuyo’s entreprenerial spirit was nurtured from a young age growing up in Queenstown, South Africa and he founded Silulo Ulutho Technologies in 2004. The award winning IT services company now has over 46 stores in townships and rural areas in the Western, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, 220 full-time staff members, and 18 franchisees. Luvuyo was named one of the JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (JCI TOYP) in business, economics and/or entrepreneurial accomplishment; to be featured in Forbes Magazine’s March in 2014; and the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2016.

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Karri led teams globally for clients such as Nike, Goldman Sachs, Toyota Motors, Sutter Health, Twitter and locally for Dignity Health and SHELTER, Inc and has built a reputation for the flexibility and cultural sensitivity required for not-for-profit and international relationships. While known for process improvement and leadership strategies for initiatives across the globe, Karri used project management experience, financial acumen and collaboration skills to form Mission 916 to support the local community, start a Winter Guest House for the homeless, mentor underresourced youth in the area, and work with the street kids in Brazil and the migrant farm workers in Mexico.

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Sharmi Surianarain serves as the Chief Impact Officer for Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa. Sharmi is a fierce advocate for opportunity and social justice for young people and women across the African continent, and is a keen analyst and thinker on the future of work. Sharmi leads on Harambee’s impact and systems change agendas, and oversees Harambee’s work in new markets.

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