My current work at the Virgin foundation involves consulting to the Virgin businesses in the UK and Europe on their social, community and environmental strategy. Virgin Unite's mission is to unite people to tackle tough social and environmental problems with an entrepreneurial approach. Our aim is to help revolutionise ...Read More

Experienced international development professional with strong background in new initiative development, strategy design, business planning, supervision and management, finance, logistics, stakeholder outreach, donor relations, fundraising, partner identification and vetting, grant-making, impact evaluation and reporting, and social enterprise; in-country experience in Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Jordan, Montenegro, Serbia, South Africa, UK ...Read More

Zarine is the founder of JustGiving, the online fundraising website. The site launched in 2001, followed two years later by its US offshoot FirstGiving.

Zarine started her professional life at law firm Linklaters. She moved into investment banking in 1984 to join Credit Suisse First Boston’s Asia Pacific team ...Read More

Ann Cotton is the Founder and Executive Director of Camfed International. Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) was established to secure the education of girls and economic empowerment of young women in Africa as fundamental strategies for rural regeneration. In seventeen years, Camfed has grown to become a global leader in ...Read More

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Michael Norton is the Honorary Director and a Trustee of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action, which promotes social entrepreneurship, develops exciting new social ventures and supports social entrepreneurs. Some recent projects developed by CIVA have included MyBnk (financial literacy and enterprise skills for young people), student volunteering to ...Read More

Gina Badenoch, born in Mexico to an English father and a Mexican mother, is Founder and Director of an organization called Ojos que Sienten (Sight of Emotion). The idea emerged when Gina, who is a trained photographer, visited the exhibition Diálogo en la Oscuridad in the Palacio de Bellas Artes ...Read More

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, an award-winning social business that connects people living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. She serves on the boards of OneLeap and TechSoup Global and as an advisor to mobile shopping app RevelTouch.

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Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of Volans, also Co-founder of SustainAbility (1987, where he is a non-executive member of the Board) and of Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978).

John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. In 2004, BusinessWeek described him as “a dean of the corporate ...Read More

Jude is one of the original thought leaders on games for learning and has been working in the space for 10 years. She has worked with large corporate, government bodies globally, educational institutions and charities. Jude has begin introducing product into Play Mob, the first being a reforestation game on ...Read More

Georgia is the Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility for MTV International, where she is responsible for developing and implementing Public Affairs initiatives across MTV's broad range of channels. Georgia was instrumental in establishing the Staying Alive Foundation in 2004, and was appointed Executive Director in October 2007. The ...Read More

Tom is the Founder and CEO of On Purpose and the Chair of Spice, both social enterprises founded in the last 3 years. Tom started his career in cancer research, before becoming a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. After five years, he transitioned into the social enterprise sector, first as ...Read More

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Dr Taddy Blecher is the founder of the Maharishi Institute in Johannesburg, is CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and a pioneer of the ‘free tertiary education movement’ in South Africa. He co-founded the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson and has raised over R400 million ...Read More

Nigel Kershaw OBE is Chief Executive of Big Issue Invest and Group Chairman of The Big Issue Company.

Big Issue Invest, part of The Big Issue Group, is the UK’s leading innovative provider of finance to social enterprises that are providing ground-breaking business solutions that seek to dismantle poverty ...Read More