Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Social Entrepreneurs

Tyler Brûlé, Patrick Chappatte, Olafur Eliasson, Diego Frausto Rahul Gandhi, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Tariq Krim, Irshad Manji, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Aditya Mittal, Gavin Newsom, Larry Page, Andrea Sanke, Anoushka Shankar, Peter Thiel, Karim Meïssa Wade, Jimmy Wales, Niklas Zennström et al. New members are selected on a yearly basis and the Forum of Young Global Leaders will count 1111 members.

Since 2000, the Forum has been promoting models developed by the world’s leading social entrepreneurs in close collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Foundation highlights social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems. Selected social entrepreneurs are invited to participate in the regional meetings and the Annual Meetings of the Forum where they have a chance to meet chief executives and senior government officials. At the Annual Meeting 2003, for example, Jeroo Bilimoria met Roberto Blois, deputy secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, an encounter that produced a key partnership for her organization Child Helpline International

The Forum also serves as a think tank and publishes a wide range of reports which focused on issues of concern and importance to Forum communities. In particular, the Forum's Strategic Insight Teams focus on producing reports of relevance in the fields of competitiveness, global risks and scenario thinking.

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