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Forum Wrap-Up and Ed Milibrand
• The 2007 Skoll World Forum was completed by wrap-up speeches by Bill Drayton, and Ed Milibrand, the British Cabinet Minister. Bill Drayton reinforced what he felt was the changing focus of the social...
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Larry Brilliant
Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School Thursday 29th March 2007 • Larry Brilliant was the final keynote speaker giving his reflections as a pioneer in social innovation. His presentation was...
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Skoll Foundation Awards Ceremony
• Back at the Sheldonian, we had an evening dedicated to celebrating the stories of many of the leading social entrepreneurs gathered at this Forum. The evening started with music from the Pakistani...
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Sir Ronald Cohen
• Another participant at the Forum was Sir Ronald Cohen. He was one of the media “stars” of business-led social entrepreneurship, and was profiled in the business sections of several British newspapers...
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Charles Leadbeater
• I missed the workshop session featuring Charles Leadbeater (... there was just too much going on at the same time), but I got to read his column in the Observer newspaper, which was published during...
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Two papers - Pamela Hartigan and Sally Osberg
• I met up briefly with Pamela Hartigan (Managing Director of the Geneva-based Schwab Foundation) when I arrived. Pamela has been to New Zealand and met with the Tindall Foundation, and was a key...
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The Future of Philanthropy
Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School Thursday 29th March 2007• This workshop session focused on just how far “creative” philanthropy can go to support social innovation. Two of the panellists...
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Moving Capital - John Elkington
Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School Wednesday 28th March 2007 • This session was happening at the same time as the “Scaling” workshop, but I got to see it streamed over the internet at a later...
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The Problems and Perils of Scaling
• By the time I got to the “Problems and Perils of Scaling” workshop I was suffering from information overload, or possibly even “hope fatigue”. This session was full to overflowing, and it was obvious...
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Paper on Social Investment
• The Skoll Centre in Oxford has produced a paper on Social Investment by Jed Emmerson, Tim Freundlich and Jim Fruchterman. It is a good basis to explore the whole area of social investment, and I...
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Funding Ideas, Backing People
Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School Wednesday 28th March 2007 • The major Forum workshop sessions happened throughout the Said Business School over the following two days. The workshops were...
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Master Class - Karen Tse
• During the Human Rights Master Class, I was part of a smaller workshop group with Karen Tse. Getting to know a bit more of her story was for me one of the highlights of the Forum at Oxford. Tse leads...
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Human Rights Masterclass
Said Business School Wednesday 28th March 2007 Jim Fruchterman introducing the Social Entrepreneurship in Human Rights Master Class at the 2007 Skoll World Forum — photo Hutchinson• After attending the...
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Launch of the WITNESS Hub
Nelson Mandela Theatre, Said Business School Wednesday 28th March 2007 Peter Gabriel at the 2007 Skoll World Forum Oxford University — photo Fruchterman• This was another pre-conference session in...
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Queen Rania of Jordan
• It was somewhat surprising that the final speaker of the Opening evening was Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan. She expressed deep alarm at the way in which the Muslim world and the West are looking...
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Al Gore at Skoll Forum 2006
• Al Gore was the keynote speaker at last year’s Skoll World Forum in Oxford, but he wasn’t speaking about climate change. He was speaking a different focus of his own social entrepreneurship — the...
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Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll speaking to the 2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship — photo Fruchterman• Jeff Skoll himself is a stunning example of Charles Handy’s observation that we are seeing a new breed...
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Muhammad Yunus
2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus — photo Fruchterman • Muhammad Yunus has long been a hero of the social entrepreneur community for his work in creating the Grameen Bank, and...
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Charles Handy
Charles Handy speaking at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. — photo Fruchterman• I was certainly looking forward to hearing Charles Handy. I last heard him speaking on “The Future of Work” at an...
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Geoff Mulgan
• After opening remarks by Jeff Skoll and John Hood (the New Zealander who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford) the keynote speeches started. Geoff Mulgan spoke on the main theme of...
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