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BBC Global Business: Financing Social Entrepreneurship - 2013 Skoll World Forum Panel

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Social entrepreneurship is as much about business model innovation as it is about creating transformational approaches to address major social and environmental challenges. Hence, the financing models required to catalyse and support the diversity of such ventures necessitates reevaluating traditional philanthropy as well as current mainstream investment. Engage with experts who have successfully pioneered new forms of flexible financing for both legal charities and new profit-generating entities. Peter Day was born in Norfolk in 1947 and educated at Lincoln School and the University of Oxford. He joined BBC Radio News in 1974. In 1988, he became the presenter of the Radio 4 programme 'In Business' with a mandate to seek out the trends influencing the working world. Peter has that rare ability of making listeners interested in subjects they didn't realise they cared about. Since 2000 he has also presented the BBC World Service's Global Business. His podcast, Peter Day's World of Business is one of the BBC's most popular downloads. Peter Tufano joined Saïd Business School in July 2011 as Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance, and created the Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme. His recent research focuses on how innovation in consumer finance can improve the delivery of services to low income families. He founded D2D Fund, a non-profit R&D; lab for new financial product development. Prior to Saïd, he spent 33 years at Harvard, serving as Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School and Co-Founder of Harvard University Innovation Lab (i-Lab). Judith Rodin is President of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world's leading philanthropic organisations. She was previously President of the University of Pennsylvania. Since joining the Foundation in 2005, she has recalibrated its focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to strengthen resilience to risks and ensure more equitable growth around the world. http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/ Álvaro Rodriguez Arregui is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Compartamos SAB de CV and Compartamos Banco, Latin America's largest microfinance organisation. Alvaro has formerly served as CFO of Vitro, Chairman of the Board of ACCION International and Chairman of the Board of Unidos Somos Iguales. Forbes recently named Alvaro as one of the 30 Top Social Entrepreneurs of the world. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. http://www.ignia.com.mx/bop/ The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship accelerates the impact of the world's leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage and large scale social change. http://www.skollworldforum.org The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems. http://www.skollfoundation.org