Speaker: Hans Rosling

Professor of International Health at Larolinska Institutet, Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation

Hans Rosling is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, and Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation. As a young MD he worked in Mozambique (1979-1980) where he discovered a formerly unrecognised paralytic disease that his research team named Konzo. Hans co-founded Gapminder Foundation, an organisation that promotes a fact-based worldview by converting international statistics into moving, interactive and enjoyable graphics. His award-winning lectures on global trends have been labelled “humorous yet deadly serious.”

2012 SESSIONS
 

Opening Plenary 2012 Skoll World Forum

Location: New Theatre, Oxford

Opening Plenary of the 2012 Skoll World Forum.

OPENING VIDEO
Murmuration

OPENING REMARKS AND MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Stephan Chambers, Director of the MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Chair of the Standing Committee, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Peter Tufano, Peter Moores Dean, Saïd Business School

THE SPIRIT OF CHANGE
Jeff Skoll, Founder, Skoll Foundation, Skoll Global Threats Fund, Participant Media, Capricorn Investment Group

UNEXPECTED FACTS ABOUT A POPULATION IN FLUX
Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet; Co-founder, Gapminder Foundation, Sweden

INNOVATION IN TIMES OF FLUX: OPPORTUNITY ON THE HEELS OF CRISIS
Judith Rodin, CEO, Rockefeller Foundation
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping, Ushahidi
Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto
Soraya Salti, Senior Vice President of Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide, INJAZ Al-Arab

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Eva Ayllon and Band

Speakers: Peter Tufano, Eva Ayllon, Hans Rosling, Soraya Salti, Roger Martin, Stephan Chambers, Judith Rodin, Jeff Skoll, Patrick Meier

Hans Rosling at the Opening Plenary of the Skoll World Forum 2012