Pamela Hartigan is Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School and Founding Partner of Volans Ventures. She spent eight years as the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship where she created the vision, strategic orientation and management of the Schwab Foundation from its inception. She is a widely recognised global leader in the field of social entrepreneurship and co-authored ‘The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World’.
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Videos
Nick Danziger at the Morning Plenary of the Skoll World Forum 2012
Morning Plenary
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Audio
Addressing The Talent Gap - 2008
Social entrepreneurs increasingly report that access to human capital is one of the biggest challenges they face. This raises a whole host of challenges around recruiting and retaining the right talent to ...
Addressing The Talent Gap
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David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships Between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business - 2012
How do successful partnerships between social entrepreneurs and big business get going? What are the essential building blocks involved? What are the tensions that might arise moving forward? This session is one ...
David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships Between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business
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Sessions
Wed, March 28, 14:00 - 16:00
The Problems and Perils of Scaling
Speakers: Ashok Khosla, Mel Young, Pamela Hartigan, Mechai Viravaidya
Thu, March 27, 14:00 - 16:00
Addressing The Talent Gap
Speakers: Marc Freedman, Rodrigo Baggio, Deepti Doshi, Ngwarati Mashonga, Pamela Hartigan
Thu, March 26, 09:00 - 10:30
The Ripple Effect: Communities Empowered Through Individual Transformation
Speakers: Jeremy Hockenstein, Marcia Odell, Ron Grzywinski, Pamela Hartigan, Pamela Hartigan
Fri, March 27, 14:30 - 16:00
Closing Plenary Of The 2009 Skoll World Forum
Speakers: John Wood, Lord Puttnam Of Queensgate, Soraya Salti, Colin Mayer, Jeff Skoll
Wed, April 14, 17:00 - 18:30
Opening Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum
Speakers: Vusi Mahlasela, John Ydstie, Dr. Felix Phiri, Faith Nkala, Diana Good
Fri, April 16, 14:30 - 16:00
Closing Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum
Speakers: Caroline Casey, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Shankar Singh, Tim Smit
Fri, April 1, 14:30 - 16:00
Closing Plenary 2011 Skoll World Forum
Speakers: Pamela Hartigan, Lord Sainsbury Of Turville, Her Majesty Queen Noor Of Jordan, Fadi Ghandour, Tim Smit
Thu, March 29, 09:00 - 10:30
Morning Plenary
Speakers: Gordon Brown, Eve Ensler, Nick Danziger, Stephan Chambers, Pamela Hartigan
Thu, March 29, 11:30 - 13:00
David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships Between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business
Speakers: Luis Montoya, Keith Kenny, Rupert Howes, Albina Ruiz Rios, Pamela Hartigan
Thu, March 29, 14:30 - 16:00
David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business
Speakers: Paul Ellingstad, Jane Chen, Gene Falk, Dorje Mundle, Pamela Hartigan
Thu, April 11, 10:00 - 11:30
Thursday Morning Plenary
Speakers: Pamela Hartigan, Jacqueline Novogratz, Molly Melching, Adrian Anatawan, Marina Silva
























































