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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Sir Harvey is Chairman of Big Society Capital, and Chair of Governors of Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the former Chairman of Prudential PLC, Man Group PLC, and the London Development Agency, and former Deputy Chair of the Mayor of London's Enterprise Panel. Prior to taking on the Chair of the London Development Agency he was Chairman of London First, the capital's in?uential business campaign group, and Chairman of the East London Business Alliance, a partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London. Sir Harvey is also Chairman of Heart of the City, which helps companies develop responsible behaviour through learning from one another; Chairman of the Prince's Teaching Institute, which promotes subject based professional development for teachers; and a trustee of a number of other charities including New Philanthropy Capital; icould; and the Mayor's Fund for London. He was conferred the honour of Knight Bachelor in Her Majesty The Queen's New Year Honours List 2016 for 'services to economic growth and public life.
Impact Investment: Harnessing Private Capital for Social GoodKenneth holds the position of Chief Legal Adviser, Legal Director and Head of the Legal Service at the Charity Commission, the regulator for charities established in England and Wales. He is responsible for giving legal advice to the Commission's Board and the provision the provision of legal services and legal advice and direction on all major legal issues affecting the Commission in its corporate capacity and in connection with the registration and regulation of charities. Additionally, he is the Director of the Commission's International Programme, which through international work seeks to facilitate the strengthening of regulatory systems in countries where there is a signi?cant NGO sector and regulatory systems under development. This has included work in the Gulf States, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The Programme under the auspices of UNCTED has recently been involved in a series of regional conferences raising awareness of terrorist ?nancing of NGOs and has working with Canada has produced a FAFT Typology report on terrorist ?nancing. He has also attended and spoken at legal conferences on charity/NGO regulation in Ireland, Canada, India, S.Korea, Australia and in China. Kenneth has over thirty years experience of charity law and regulation gained with the Commission. His previous career was in banking and insurance. He is visiting lecturer on charity regulation at Cass Business School in the City of London.Kenneth was closely involved in the draft legislation which culminated in the Charities Act 2006, the most recent and far reaching legislation dealing with charity regulation in England and Wales. He has also more recently been involved in the in the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 recently enacted by the UK Parliament.
The Regulation of Charities and Not-for-Profit Organizations in the United Kingdom:An International PerspectiveMurray Baird is the Assistant Commissioner - General Counsel of the Australian Charities and not-for-profit Commission (ACNC), and has held that position since the establishment of the ACNC in 2012. Prior to that, he practiced as a lawyer in charity law and governance in Melbourne Australia for several decades. As well as advising, writing and presenting on not-for-profit legal issues, Murray has acted in several leading cases in the field of charity law. Murray also has practical experience of notfor-profit issues through a number of leadership roles and directorships in the not-forprofit sector in Australia. Murray gave evidence in parliamentary inquiries into the establishment of a charity regulator in Australia and since the creation of the ACNC has been responsible for the functions of charity registration, compliance by charities, legal advice, policy submissions, reporting by charities and reduction of regulatory burdens of charities. He holds Arts and Law degrees from Monash University and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Creating a Charity Regulator from Scratch:The Australian ExperienceDamian Thorman was appointed by President Obama as Director of the White House Social Innovation Fund. He has held senior positions in philanthropy, Congress and the judiciary. Previously, he was CEO of True North Philanthropic Advisors, Director of National Programs for the Knight Foundation, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and Director of Public Policy for the Kauffman Foundation and Professional Staff for the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. He also co-founded the New Americans Campaign and chaired the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. Damian serves on the White House Deputies Committee on Evidence-Based Research, a group that works to create a more efficient government by identifying programs that work. He also serves as a board member of the Florida Policy Institute. He received a MBA from Rockhurst University and a Juris Doctorate from University of Missouri. He is married with two daughters who live in Miami, Florida.
- Essential Roles of Councils to Build NPOs and PhilanthropyJustin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Cass Business School. He was previously Chief Executive of Volunteering England, Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research and Executive Director of Volunteering at NCVO. He has over 20 years in the volunteering movement and has advised the UK Government, the World Bank and the United Nations on the development of volunteering policy. He wrote the volunteering strategy for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and has published numerous articles and books on volunteering and the voluntary sector. He is a member of the awards committee for the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service and an advisor to the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. He served on the Council of the Economic and Social Research Council from 2012-2015. In 2011 he was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his work on behalf of volunteering and the voluntary sector
- The Role of Voluntary Sector Councils in Strengthening Voluntary ActionMark is the Director of Social Finance at Cass Business School, where he is responsible for lecturing, consulting and research on social investment and all things to do with charity finance. Previous to this he worked for KPMG and CARE International bringing about fundamental change to help poor people through enterprise. Mark is a chartered accountant by background and has worked with both corporate organizations (airlines, pharmaceutical and service companies) and with the British government (Department for Education and Skills, Department for Work and Pensions), small and large charities as well as the UN. Mark helped start the innovative peer to peer lending scheme. He is passionate about helping the bottom of the pyramid and give them skills and business for the future. He has worked extensively in helping build the market for social investment in the UK and has just released a toolkit to help organizations understand and implement this.
Social Investment: Head and HeartJ.B. Schramm currently chairs the Learn to Earn Fund at New Profit, a venture philanthropy and social innovation organization that provides funding and strategic support to help the most promising social enterprises achieve scale. J.B. leads the organization's ecosystem innovation work for college access, postsecondary education and career, helping colleagues in the field equip 10+M more Americans for career success by 2025. J.B. brings 25+ years of experience in the college success and access field. Forbes named J.B. to its 2012 Impact 30 list of top global social entrepreneurs for his work founding and leading College Summit, the organization President Obama saluted with a portion of his Nobel Peace Prize award in 2009. J.B. is the recipient of Honorary Doctorates of Public Service from Regis University and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and is a fellow of the Aspen Institute, Skoll Foundation, World Economic Forum, Ashoka, and the Manhattan Institute. He has been interviewed by, and published in, numerous media outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post, and People. J.B. is a graduate of the Denver Public Schools, Yale College, and Harvard Divinity School.
- Ecosystem Strategies for Developing High-Demand Soft SkillsAvnish Gungadurdoss is a global results-based financing expert. He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Instiglio, the first client-oriented firm that advises governments, donor agencies and foundations in emerging markets on creating results-based financing strategies that catalyze social impact. At Instiglio, Avnish leads the global strategy and some of the company's most complex client engagements. For instance, he led the design and implementation of the world's first Development Impact Bond in India, is leading an engagement with the government of Morocco on rethinking their results-based financing system, and is currently leading the design of a social impact bond in Colombia. Avnish also created the firm's performance management practice, which equips NGOs with the information and management systems to deliver superior social outcomes. Avnish formerly worked for MIT's Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the World Bank and as a consultant to a DFID challenge fund. He holds a MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School, a diploma in performance management for non profits from the Harvard Business School and a BA in economics and math from Dartmouth College. Avnish was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship for his work with Instiglio, and was named one of the world's top 30 social entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2015.
Results-based Financing: Accelerator of Progress in the Social SectorEddie Razak is Executive Vice President at Agensi Inovasi Malaysia, the national agency for innovation in Malaysia. He heads the Social Innovation team which looks at promoting innovation in society, through guiding the ideation and enterprise process particularly in young people; and innovation for society, through enablers for social participation. His work involves advocacy for policies and structures that can address social needs and promoting how government can work with social-purpose organizations and the private sector to facilitate social investment, intervention programs and preventive approaches that address systemic social issues.Eddie started his career in an investment bank and over the years had served in two major multinationals in oil & gas and in mobile telecommunications. He had also served in senior financial and investment positions in public-listed companies and headed the investor relations association for the stock exchange of Malaysia. He also does voluntary work in education and the social sector.
Social Innovation: A Whole-Society ApproachProfessor Paul Palmer, PhD FCIS FIIA DCHA, is Director of the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at the Cass Business School and an Associate Dean. He has extensive knowledge of charity financial, management and Governance issues, lead author of the Good Financial Management Guide. He was a member of the Charity Commission SORP committee from 2000-2005. Paul is an independent consultant on Charities to UBS Wealth Management, and an independent expert on charity dispute issues for courts and arbitration. Paul's work also extends into the area of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility and serves on the ethics panel of the Securities Investment Institute and the Corporate Responsibility Advisory Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). In 2010/11 Paul project managed the Lord Mayor of London's Integrity and Values Initiative and continuing strands of this work with the ongoing City Values Forum. Paul is a founder trustee of the Honorary Treasurers Forum and currently has three charity trusteeships. In 2016 he became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy awarded for his work in developing charity education and ethics.
The Role of Higher Education In Civil Society : Developments and Reflections KPMGBrian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer. He is most well-known for his work developing Holacracy™, a comprehensive operating system for governing and running purpose-driven, responsive companies. Its dynamic approach integrates the collective wisdom of people throughout the company, without the tyranny of consensus – it allows anything, sensed by anyone, anywhere in the organization, to get rapidly and reliably processed into organizational evolution. The result is dramatically increased agility, transparency, innovation, and accountability - a conscious organization operating with presence, in flow Mr. Robertson's initial work that led to Holacracy™ took place within a software development company he founded and led for seven years. The firm won numerous awards for both fast business growth and innovative people practices, and its novel organizational approach gleaned media attention, including a prominent article in the Wall Street Journal. The Holacracy™ system developed there has continued to evolve and spread in the years since under the stewardship of HolacracyOne, an organization Mr. Robertson co-founded to further catalyze its development and use in the world.
Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing WorldEtsko is the Leading Partner of Schuitema, a human excellence consultancy based in South Africa. He was born in 1959 to a mining family in South Africa and grew up in Johannesburg. He did an Honors degree in Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand in the late 70's and subsequently got a job as a graduate researcher with The Chamber of Mines of South Africa's Research Organization. He was specifically employed by the Human Resources Laboratory of the Research Organization and the work he did initially focused on the issue of conflict on gold mines in South Africa. At the time South Africa was in the upheavals of the latter end of the overthrow of the apartheid regime, and the mines were swept up in the conflict that that entailed. The work he did on conflict led to the development of a framework for understanding trust on mines.In the late 80s Etsko was asked to head the Human Resources Laboratory's Industry Project, which was concerned with implementing the insights from basic research. In the course of this project the Care and Growth leadership model was produced. As a leadership model the Care and Growth framework therefore offers a means to connect two quite distinct foci in leadership thinking- namely dealing with the problem of leadership either from the point of view of personal excellence or from the point of view of organization excellence. Etsko teaches at a number of universities, has written 5 books and numerous articles.
Professionalism and the Intent to Serve in the Non Profit SectorPremal Shah leads Kiva – a crowd funding website that connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Since 2005, the site has connected over 3 million people and raised over $850M for the working poor in 90 countries. Premal is now leading Kiva into new 'base of the pyramid' focus areas, including student lending, clean energy finance, and water access. Prior to Kiva, Premal was an early employee and Principal Product Manager at PayPal (an eBay company) where he spent 6 years building out the global payments service. Premal began his career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in New York and graduated with an Economics degree from Stanford. For his work as a social entrepreneur, Premal has was selected to FORTUNE magazine's "Top 40 under 40" list.
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