A Special on-campus presentation at Claremont McKenna College
How to Change the World
Visionaries and Social Entrepreneurs—
Solving Global Problems through Compassionate Capitalism
Thursday, February 26, 2009—3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Pickford Auditorium, Claremont McKenna College (CMC)
Featuring: Pamela Hartigan and David Green
Moderated by: Scott Sherman
Pamela Hartigan
Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University Said School of Business
Pamela Hartigan is a founding partner of Volans (which builds innovative solutions to future challenges) and was the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (a sister organization of the World Economic Forum focused on social entrepreneurship). She has conceptualized created organizations, departments and programs across institutional arrangements and multi-stakeholder platforms
David Green
Social Entrepreneur and Ashoka and MacArthur Fellow
David Green developed ‘humanized capitalism’, a financially self-sustaining and affordable economic paradigm for making health care products and services available and affordable to the poor. He has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all, particularly to the poorer two thirds of humanity.
Scott Sherman
Executive Director, Transformative Action Institute
Scott Sherman has worked on nonviolence and social justice projects from the war-torn island of Sri Lanka to the inner city ghettoes of America. He is an expert on the most effective ways that citizens succeed in creating social progress and innovation. He is also a nationally recognized speaker on environmental regeneration and transformative action.