Looking for Social Entrepreneurs/Young Global Leaders

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is searching for young social entrepreneurs to include in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a sister organization of the World Economic Forum. It is a unique, multistakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders under 40, which creates a diverse, multinational, multistakeholder network of the top young leaders in the world; enhances knowledge and leadership skills; and serves as a platform to work collaboratively on key issues facing the world. Current Young Global Leaders include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Former Young Global Leaders include Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of

Germany and Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

 

The World Economic Forum is committed to ensuring that 10% of the next incoming members of the group of Young Global Leaders are social entrepreneurs. This is a unique opportunity for a select group of social entrepreneurs under the age of 40 to become members of the community of Young Global Leaders. The selected social entrepreneurs are part of a peer network that can open doors in the business, political and academic fields, help enter new markets and identify investors, among many other opportunities. Young Global Leaders are invited to the events of the World Economic Forum. While the nominated social entrepreneur should be under 40 years of age, they should nevertheless already have achieved a significant impact and should have the potential to significantly scale further. Current Social Entrepreneur Young Global Leaders include: Vikram Akula, Founder,

SKS Microfinance, India, Ganhuyag Hutagt, Chief Executive Officer, Xac Bank, Mongolia, Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org, USA among many other successful individuals.

 

Send your nominations to the Schwab Foundation (name, organization and website are sufficient) to info@schwabfound.org by July 31.

The Schwab Foundation is also looking specifically for the Swiss Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Send in your nominations to http://www.schwabfoundseoy.org/switzerland and the deadline is June 30.

Comments

[raulbajo]

Economics ideas...

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[Bonnie Flaws]

There is a new competition run by CNBC and Allianz looking for Green Social Entrepreneurs in Europe
www.goodentrepreneur.com

if you know anyone with a good business plan that is also green maybe they should check this out. It closes on 31st July 2009.

[Erik]

It's great to see that more organizations are promoting and supporting social entrepreneurship as a viable career options. There are many students at universities who are interested in pursuing a career in social entrepreneurship, but few career advisors know how to provide valuable guidance. I think programs such as the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship will help change this.

Cheers,
Erik

[Gregory Kohs]

Jimmy Wales is not "founder" of Wikipedia. Dr. Larry Sanger brought the wiki architecture to the encyclopedia project, Sanger named "Wikipedia", and Sanger labored over most of the policies and guidelines that established Wikipedia's culture in the first year.

You make a common, unfortunate mistake of misattribution.

[Chen Emma]

Good to know about this forum! As the founder of a new network media to impact the key people mainly from enterprises in China to turn the society into green, I'm wondering if it's possible to attend this forum,to have a good chance to learn from other social entrepreneurs from the world? Thanks with best regards!

[Edgar Byaruhanga]

I would like to nominate my company. Development Initiative Africa.It is a social driven communication company that use protection approaches to engage leaders in policy discussion to foster economic development at the community level