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Opening Session
▮ Opening Address

George Friedman

George Friedman is the Chairman of Stratfor, a company he founded in 1996 that is now a leader in the field of global intelligence. Friedman guides Stratfor’s strategic vision and oversees the development and training of the company’s intelligence unit.

Dr. Friedman is the author of The New York Times best-seller <The Next Decade>, which forecasts the major events and challenges that will test America and its presidents over the course of the next decade. Dr. Friedman’s previous book, <The Next 100 Years>, was also a New York Times best-seller and was published in over 20 languages. His other books on warfare and intelligence include <America’s Secret War>, <The Future of War and The Intelligence Edge>.

The world’s top media organizations regularly ask Dr. Friedman to appear as an international affairs expert. He has been featured in TIME, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, The Financial Times and many other domestic and international publications, as well as broadcast media ranging from NPR to CNN to CNBC. He and Stratfor were also featured in cover stories in Barron’s and the New Statesman.

He received his Bachelor’s degree from the City College of the City University of New York and holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

▮ Plenary speech

Mairi Mackay <Facilitator>

Dr Mairi Mackay leads the British Council’s Global Social Enterprise programme, which promotes the development of social enterprise and investment to help address entrenched social and environmental problems, build trust between the UK and other countries, and support more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous societies.

Currently operated in 24 countries and delivered with the support of local and international partners, the programme provides aspiring and existing social entrepreneurs with skills training, consultancy, and access to funding and investment opportunities. The programme also forges international networks, disseminates bests practice and supports policy leaders to create ecosystems in which social enterprise and social investment can thrive.

Mairi is an economic development professional with over 15 years of experience delivering international projects. Prior to joining the British Council, she served as Head of Greater China for Scottish Development International (SDI). She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business.

Jim Schorr <Keynote Speaker>

As an MBA student at Northwestern University in 1992, Jim Schorr was inspired by the idea and ideals of emerging “triple bottom line” businesses and helped launch Net Impact, an organization that has become a force in management education and inspired a generation of students at 200+ universities on six continents to leverage the power of business to make an impact in the world. He subsequently served as Board Chair during Net Impact’s growth and global expansion in the 2000s.

From 2000-07, Schorr was CEO of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco-based organization that develops businesses to create employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth. During his tenure, Juma became nationally recognized as one of the pioneers and success stories in the social enterprise sector in the US. In recent years, Schorr has been developing and teaching coursework on social enterprise as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University and at UC Berkeley, where he is Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

Professor Schorr also serves as Board Chair of the Social Enterprise Alliance, Chair Emeritus at Net Impact, and as an advisor to numerous organizations and events in the social enterprise sector, including major field-building initiatives such as the Social Enterprise World Forum and Global Social Venture Competition, and early-stage ventures founded by his former students.

Yvonne Strachan <Keynote Speaker>

Yvonne Strachan is a Deputy Director in the Scottish Government and leads its work on the Third Sector. She is also the Head of Equality and Human Rights.

Yvonne’s responsibilities include work to support and strengthen social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in Scotland; to support the third sector to play a full role in public service design and delivery; to work with the sector in supporting and empowering communities and to enable it to play its part as a social partner.

Yvonne joined the Civil Service in 1999 to take up the then new post of Head of Equality supporting Ministers to build a strategy and programme of action on equality. In 2011 she took on the role of Head of Third Sector and in 2012 took on responsibility for Human Rights.

Prior to joining the Civil Service Yvonne had extensive experience of working on equality issues and with the third sector. She was formerly a senior trade union official including amongst her responsibilities the third sector and equality. She was formerly an advisor to the Minister for Women in Scotland and a member of the advisory board to the Equal Opportunities Commission. She has held a range of public positions including membership of the Board of Scottish Enterprise – Scotland’s economic development agency. Yvonne was also for a period a Director of the WISE group – a social enterprise based in Glasgow and a Director of the 7:84 Theatre Company. Yvonne received an OBE in 1997 for services to industrial relations and equal opportunities.

Chaephil Lee <Keynote Speaker>

Lee has led the life of a distinguished public servant for the past 31 years, serving in key positions – including those of the Vice-Minister and Minister of Employment  and Labor – to decide, coordinate, and implement Korea’s employment and labor policies. Having proposed a draft bill for the Framework Social Enterprise Promotion Act, he has also helped to shape two of the Five – Year Basic Plans for Fostering Social Enterprises, create local incubating centers nationwide, create the government – funded Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency, organize the network for fostering social enterprises in Korea, and draft policies on supporting social entrepreneur.

Social Innovation
▮ Plenary Session

Jim Schorr <Facilitator>

As an MBA student at Northwestern University in 1992, Jim Schorr was inspired by the idea and ideals of emerging “triple bottom line” businesses and helped launch Net Impact, an organization that has become a force in management education and inspired a generation of students at 200+ universities on six continents to leverage the power of business to make an impact in the world. He subsequently served as Board Chair during Net Impact’s growth and global expansion in the 2000s.

From 2000-07, Schorr was CEO of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco-based organization that develops businesses to create employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth. During his tenure, Juma became nationally recognized as one of the pioneers and success stories in the social enterprise sector in the US. In recent years, Schorr has been developing and teaching coursework on social enterprise as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University and at UC Berkeley, where he is Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

Professor Schorr also serves as Board Chair of the Social Enterprise Alliance, Chair Emeritus at Net Impact, and as an advisor to numerous organizations and events in the social enterprise sector, including major field-building initiatives such as the Social Enterprise World Forum and Global Social Venture Competition, and early-stage ventures founded by his former students.

Jerr Boschee <Speaker>

Jerr Boschee has been advising social entrepreneurs for more than 30 years and has delivered keynote speeches or conducted master classes in 43 states and 20 countries. He has been a senior marketing executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.

He is the former President/CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, one of the six co-founders of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and was named by The Nonprofit Times to its “Power & Influence Top 50” lists in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He served from 2001-2004 as advisor to England’s Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit and is currently Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, which he created in 1999. In addition to writing a monthly online essay (“Jerr’s Journal”), he is the author or editor of six books about social enterprise, his essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, and his work has been translated into seven languages.

Jerr is the former Board Chair for SAGEGlobal, which supports secondary school social entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries, and has served on numerous local, national and international Boards throughout his career. He can be reached through the Institute website at www.socialent.org.

Kevin Robbie <Speaker>

Kevin has been with Social Ventures Australia (SVA) for over five years and is responsible for leading their work around employment creation for people excluded from the labour market.

Kebin has worked in innovative social change for over 20 years, primarily in the UK. He has held senior management roles in a range organisations, including seven years as Chief Executive of Forth Sector, one of Scotland’s leading social enterprises. He has also been a special adviser to the UK Government Cabinet Office, worked on a wide range of development partnerships/projects and served on a number of non-profit boards and on Government Advisory Boards.

Chongsoo Lee <Speaker>

After Director of Planning at Chase Manhattan Bank, Vice-President first and President later at Aon Korea Inc, Chongsoo Lee worked as CEO at Social Solidarity Bank in 2002. Currently, he is active as Chair at Korea Social Investment. He has been widely considered the expert crossing the sector between For-Profit and Non-For-Profit, including former Member on Presidential Committee on Countermeasures against Economic Bipolarization, former Vice-President at Korean Association of Nonprofit Organization Research and present Member on Seoul Hope Economy Committee.

Daesung Kang <Speaker>

Daesung Kang worked as Managing Director at SK Networks Sales Development Headquarters, and Executive Director both at SK Energy and SK Corp. His accomplishments include operating various policies to stimulate the social enterprise ecosystem(priority procurement from social enterprises, cultivating outstanding social enterprises(entrepreneurs), creating capital markets for social enterprises, and subsidies for product procurement from social enterprises), publicity and increasing awareness of social enterprises(spreading social enterprise values through media and lectures, etc) and other activities(returning 100% profits to society, employing members of socially vulnerable classes, CSR activities for local communities, etc).

▮ Parallel Session – Session 1

Youngbohk Cho <Facilitator>

Youngbohk Cho is a Professor in the Division of Management at the Pusan National University and President of RISE(Research Institute for Social Enterprise). Also he is a board member of Smile Microcredit Bank and former chairman of policy committee of Social Enterprise Network, Korea. Dr. Cho has much interest in effective management of social enterprise and its global comparison. He founded RISE in 2006 and established SROI-Korea Center for developing performance measurement tools for Korean social enterprise in collaboration with SROI Network. Dr. Cho teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in strategy and organization management and he leads forum and seminars with support of Korean government. He published several books and articles in management and social enterprise area. He is the founder and publisher of 『Korean Social Enterprise Magazine』 and 『Social Enterprise Studies』 which is the first academic journal. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in management from Pusan National University and a Ph.D. in management from Keimyung University in 1989. He has been at UCLA and Swinburn University in Australia as an exchange professor and he was a faculty member in Inje University from 1985 to 1990. In 2007, contributed to the development for the social enterprise, he was awarded the National Medal(Civil Merit Medal). And also he was elected as the first president of Academy of Social Enterprise in Korea 2013.

Neil Mclean <Speaker>

Neil has been the CEO of the Social Enterprise Academy for almost 7 years. During this time the Academy has become the largest Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Centre in Scotland, annually supporting around 1,200 people from across Scotland to develop their leadership and entrepreneurship skills. The Academy is now expanding internationally and has recently opened centres in Australia and South Africa.

In addition to adult learning and development, the Academy runs a Social Enterprise in Education programme for school children which is based on a “learning by doing” approach. Social enterprises have now been established in some 600 schools across Scotland, all developed and run by pupils with support from the Academy.

In 2012 Neil won Ernst & Young’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Social Enterprise category. In 2011 The Academy was awarded the highest rating ever of any organisation in Scotland’s third sector by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Education (HMIE).

Neil’s early career was in the private sector for 15 years where he co-founded and was Managing Director of an IT consulting firm based in Brighton. He worked closely with large corporate clients such as American Express and British Aerospace. On selling his stake in the business, Neil embarked upon an MBA at Stirling University where he developed the idea for a social enterprise he founded in 2004. Quit&Save, with the support of Scotland Unlimited, was set up to support people quit smoking using peer learning principles.

Namrata Bali <Speaker>

For 28 years, Namrata Bali has organised urban and rural women into handicraft cooperatives in Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) where she now serves as its Director. She was the Secretary of SEWA from 2001 to 2003 and General Secretary of SEWA from 2003 to 2005.

She is a member of SEWA’s Core Committee, Chair & editor of SEWA’s fortnightly magazine Anasooya, Editor of Aakashganga (girl’s magazine and the Chair of Video SEWA Cooperative). She is the Director of the SEWA Academy since 21 years, the main training center of SEWA in training, research and communications. She continues to give training on documentary work & other issues related to the informal economy and have organized a series of Exposure Dialogue Programme for national as well as international participants. She is now also the Managing Trustee of Indian Academy for Self Employed Women.

Miss Bali specializes in textile design and studies in labour and cooperatives and has presented papers nationally and internationally on several issues involving working class women. She is the Vice President of International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations (IFWEA).

She has worked with grass root women cooperatives and self help groups working in the area of craft, agriculture, services sector, trading & education both rural & urban.

Zongtae Bae <Speaker>

Zongtae Bae is a Professor of technology innovation management and social entrepreneurship at College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST). He serves as a Chair of the Social Entrepreneurship(SE) MBA program. Currently, he is a President of the Korean Association of Small Business Studies. He worked as a visiting scholar at Graduate School of Business, Stanford University in 1999-2000. His research interests include various aspects of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, such as new venture growth, innovation processes and strategies, social entrepreneurs and social ventures. He has published several articles in international journals such as Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of Product Innovation Management. He received a B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1982 and a Ph.D. degree from KAIST in 1987.

Yougang Choi <Speaker>

He is the founder of a leading Korean nonprofit organization, Dream Touch: an Educational Ladder to Upward Mobility, which he conceived while at Harvard University. The organization supports children and teens in impoverished households; helps children who have escaped North Korea; and also organizes the Global Education Conferences, inviting world-renowned experts and scholars to serious debates on the future of education in Korea and elsewhere. The programs of Dream Touch enlists participation of talented and bright future leaders enrolled at prestigious universities around the world, including Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Seoul National, Cornell, Yonsei, Korea, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Tsinghua. The organization also won the first prize, in the nonprofit category, at the 6th Ministry of Education After-School Programs Awards. For more information, visit www.dreamtouchforall.org.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 2

Rachael McCormack <Facilitator>

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is the only agency of its kind in Europe, uniquely integrating both community and economic development across a largely rural region with a population of just under half a million. Our region, the Scottish Highlands & Islands, covers over half of Scotland, from the Shetland Isles in the north to Argyll (west of Glasgow) in the south and includes all of Scotland’s islands. The agency has an annual budget of more than £95m.

As Director of Strengthening Communities, Rachael McCormack leads HIE’s work to build community resilience and sustainability, particularly in our socially and economically fragile areas. Our focus is threefold – to invest in community capacity building, enable community asset ownership and empower social enterprise to grow. The Highlands & Islands region has a mature and diverse social economy, much of which is focused on our cultural assets, local service delivery and job creation in many of our most remote areas.

Since joining HIE in 2012, Rachael has led a number of important strategic initiatives, including the development of regional policy including Resilient Rural Communities – Tackling Fragile Areas and Ambitious for Culture. She has also delivered through a national partnership a study to establish a minimum income standard for remote, rural Scotland and pioneering research into the economic and social value of Gaelic (Scotland’s minority language) as an asset. Rachael also currently oversees HIE’s leadership of two major, community led, national programmes – the Scottish Land Fund and Community Broadband Scotland and leads HIE’s Strategic Partnership with the Glasgow School of Art. Rachael leads HIE’s portfolio of over 150 social enterprises based within the region – these are organisations looking to grow and develop with support from HIE. She is also responsible for a wide range of support products and services to respond to the needs of social enterprises, from training and business development through to internationalisation.

Having studied at De Montfort University, Leicester, in Management Sciences, Rachael held several posts in local government. She then moved successfully into the private sector, running a business consultancy for nine years.

David Brookes <Speaker>

David Brookes is the Managing Director of Social Traders Ltd, a specialist social enterprise development company in Australia. Social Traders runs a range of successful capacity building, market development and financing initiatives for social enterprises.

David has been closely involved in the launch of the Australian Social Enterprise Awards program in 2013. He has been a member of the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) Steering Committee since 2010. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from the University of Wollongong and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Prior to Social Traders, David held several senior management experience in the business sector where he was closely involved in the development of strategic business community-partnership programs and was a strong advocate for social and environmental responsibility. In the last five years, Social Traders has lead the formation of a Community Recycling initiative in Australia, has developed a number of leading case study examples of green social enterprises and is providing specific capacity building and market development opportunities for start-up and existing environmental social enterprises.

Anshu Gupta <Speaker>

Popularly known as the Clothing Man, Anshu has done his Mass communications twice and Masters in Economics. Starting as a freelance journalist, Anshu left a corporate job in 1998 and founded GOONJ with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it among the list of subjects for the development sector. An Ashoka and Schwab Fellow, Anshu is creating a mass movement for recycling and reuse of tones of waste material by channelizing it from the cities to the villages, as a resource for rural development.

Anshu’s work goes to a core challenge of our times; the growing gap between the urban prosperity & rural poverty. His work has a game changing element in many ways; he has taken the menacing growth of urban waste and used it effectively and efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale development work on diverse issues; roads, water, environment, education, health etc. in some of the most backward and remote pockets of India. Not only is the so called urban waste addressing ignored basic needs it’s turning out to be a valuable asset for income generation. Bridging the massive gap of social and economic inequities between urban and rural India in an innovative way, Anshu has created a new dynamic focused on the receiver’s dignity rather than the donor’s pride.

Taeho Kim <Speaker>

Taeho Kim is Secretary-General of Energy Sharing and Peace at present, after working as Director of Planning and Secretary-General at UNEP Korea and Korea NGOs Energy Network respectively. In addition, he is working as CEO at Sharing Power Plant, Sharing Power Plant Bulgaria and Sharing Power Plant Seoul. The Secretary-General led the campaign for devising the basic draft for the Framework Energy Municipal Bylaw and for the enactment of the bylaw in Seoul and nationwide in 2002. In 2004, he led the campaign for the enactment of Korea’s Framework Energy Act. Also, he led for the declaration of Korea’s Energy Day and organized the inaugural event in the same year. Following the establishment of Energy Sharing and Peace founded by him in 2006, he built Sharing Power Plant and led the movement for subsidizing the energy costs of low-income households in 2008. Now, 16 Sharing Power Plants have been constructed so far, and they provide 5MW of energy in total for low-income households.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 3

Ilyoung Lee <Facilitator>

Ilyoung Lee <Facilitator> Biodata Graduated from the Medical School of Yonsei University Rehab specialist and research fellow at the Medical Center of University of New York Brockton/West Roxbury VAMC, SCI Fellow, attending physician and director of physical medicine and rehabilitation Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ajou University Key activities President, Co-Walk Health Cooperative Chair, RI-Korea and Vice chair, RI-Global Vice chair, Korean Society for the Rehabilitation of People with Disability.

Khalid Pervez <Speaker>

Dr. Khalid Pervez is working with Aman Heath Care Services with multiple portfolios as Head of Aman Community Health Program, Aman Ghar, Aman Clinic and Medical Health Insurance, since February 2014.

He was associated with HANDS for last 17 years, where he developed strategies for PHC, MNCH, FP, nutrition and adolescent SRHR for different project; Rutgers WPF, PAIMAN, early childhood development and school health screening in Thatta and Umer Kot including flagship MARVI Project. Previously he has worked for Iranian Primary Health Care services, International Red Cross and Sehat First. He has presented papers in national and international conferences. Khalid.pervez@amanfoundation.org

Wen Chih Chen <Speaker>

Wen Chih Chen is COO of iHealth Express Group, a special social enterprise in Taiwan. He is also a pharmacist and medical informatics specialist. He was Secretary General of Taiwan Young Pharmacist’s Group and participates in many government projects in Taiwan.

Wen Chih previously worked as a senior manager of the e-management department at a hospital and was primarily responsible for the management of the pharmacy department. He then built iHealth Express Group with other two pharmacists.

Wen Chih majored in mobile device program for his master’s degree. His research field is now focused on big data in healthcare and most recently on medical care used in general people and the elderly in nursing homes.

Changsoo Kyung <Speaker>

Mr. Kyung is the board chairman of Ansan Medical Welfare Social Cooperative and serves as the co-representative of Korea Medical Welfare Social cooperative Federation and the co-representative and the policy committee chairman of Korea Social Enterprise Central Conference. He has been working for the medical welfare cooperative for 15 years, from the foundation of Ansan Medical Welfare Social Cooperative in 1999 until he served as its board chairman, to build a community of health and sharing to which residents participate and to strengthen the networks between cooperatives and social enterprises.

 

▮ Parallel Session – Session 4

Kiseol Yoon <Facilitator>

Biodata Obtained his PhD in economics from Chungang University, editor of the culture section at the Korea Economic Daily, labor reporter at the Korea Economic Daily, Director of the Good Job Research Institute under the Korea Economic Daily, member of the Korea Tripartite Commission specializing in economy and society.

David Lepage <Speaker>

David LePage is a Principal / Owner with Accelerating Social Impact CCC, Ltd. (ASI), one of Canada’s first incorporated social purpose hybrid corporations. Through ASI David provides direct support and strategic advice to blended value businesses, social enterprises and social finance investors. He is involved in multiple public policy initiatives and research projects to support the social enterprise ecosystem across Canada. ASI is a partner in launching and building the Buy Social Canada campaign.

David is the former Team Manager of Enterprising Non-Profits, where he led the effort to expand the ENP social enterprise development and training model across Canada. His current engagements include: Member, Social Enterprise World Forum Steering Group; Founding Member & Chair of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada; Member, Canadian CED Network Policy Council; Member, Imagine Canada’s Advisory Committee; Member, British Columbia Partners for Social Impact; Program Adjunct Sandermoen School of Business MBA in Social Enterprise Leadership; and Board of Directors Vancouver Farmers Market.

He has over 35 years of extensive experience in the non-profit and social enterprise sectors. He has worked in rural and urban communities and across multiple cultures.

Jeonggye Ryu <Speaker>

Activities Training and consulting on leadership for the development of rural areas Planning and support for member-driven, bottom-to-top community building Selection and evaluation of social and community enterprises Training and consulting for prospective founders of cooperatives Obtained his PhD in economics from Konkuk University.

Seihoon Yang <Speaker>

Seihoon Yang is an Expert Member on Korea’s Ministry of Security and Public Administration’s Local Employment Coaching Group, Vice-Chair of Gyeongggi Social Economy Fostering Committee and Co-Chair of Dongdaemun-gu Community Committee. Working as a consultant to local government employees and practitioners regarding social enterprises, communal enterprises and cooperatives, he also provides advises central and local governments on policy matters. Based on the field experience and knowledge, he published Governance of Communal and Social Enterprises in 2012 and Understanding Cooperatives and Operating Strategies in 2014, and he has been teaching administrative studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies for eight years.

Social Inclusion
▮ Plenary Session

Youngbum Park <Facilitator>

He received his MA and PhD in economics from Cornell University.
After receiving his PhD degree in 1986, he worked at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade and Korea Labor Institute, both government-sponsored institutes, before joining the Department of Economics of Hansung University in 1997. He has been serving as President of the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training, a state-sponsored research institute under the National Research Council for Economic Humanities and Social Sciences of the Prime Minister’s Office, since October 2011.

Sanghoon, An <Speaker>

Sanghoon An is a former Member on Employment Welfare Subcommittee of 19th Presidential Transition Committee and currently Vice-Chair of Seoul National University’s Institute for Global Social Responsibility. Also, he servesaspr of essor at Seoul National University’s College of Social Sciences, amember on National Patriots and Veterans Affairs Commission(Chairperson: President Park), Chair of National Economic Advisory Council’s Subcommittee on People’s Livelihood and amember on Social Security Committee(Chairperson: Prime Minister Jeong).

Christina Garcia <Speaker>

As Managing Director of the Knowledge and Cultivation team, Christina Garcia leads strategy and integration of REDF’s evaluation, development, communications, and learning initiatives. A key member of the Executive Team, Christina helps guide the overall direction for organizational and programmatic strategy. Christina connects people, resources, and social enterprise knowledge to strengthen both REDF and the field in order to create job opportunities for people facing significant barriers to employment. In addition, she is overseeing a groundbreaking social enterprise study that has developed new methods to more effectively reach marginalized transient populations to better assess impact. The report will be published in early 2015 on www.redf.org.

Driven by her passion for social justice, equity, and multicultural models of community development, Christina has almost 20 years of experience in providing the critical resources that create opportunities for people who don’t have them. In addition to eight years working in the affordable housing industry, Christina worked in San Francisco local government, focusing on community-based economic development and workforce opportunities for low-income and at-risk individuals, families, and entrepreneurs.

Rachael McCormack <Speaker>

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is the only agency of its kind in Europe, uniquely integrating both community and economic development across a largely rural region with a population of just under half a million. Our region, the Scottish Highlands & Islands, covers over half of Scotland, from the Shetland Isles in the north to Argyll (west of Glasgow) in the south and includes all of Scotland’s islands. The agency has an annual budget of more than £95m.

As Director of Strengthening Communities, Rachael McCormack leads HIE’s work to build community resilience and sustainability, particularly in our socially and economically fragile areas. Our focus is threefold – to invest in community capacity building, enable community asset ownership and empower social enterprise to grow. The Highlands & Islands region has a mature and diverse social economy, much of which is focused on our cultural assets, local service delivery and job creation in many of our most remote areas.

Since joining HIE in 2012, Rachael has led a number of important strategic initiatives, including the development of regional policy including Resilient Rural Communities – Tackling Fragile Areas and Ambitious for Culture. She has also delivered through a national partnership a study to establish a minimum income standard for remote, rural Scotland and pioneering research into the economic and social value of Gaelic (Scotland’s minority language) as an asset. Rachael also currently oversees HIE’s leadership of two major, community led, national programmes – the Scottish Land Fund and Community Broadband Scotland and leads HIE’s Strategic Partnership with the Glasgow School of Art. Rachael leads HIE’s portfolio of over 150 social enterprises based within the region – these are organisations looking to grow and develop with support from HIE. She is also responsible for a wide range of support products and services to respond to the needs of social enterprises, from training and business development through to internationalisation.

Having studied at De Montfort University, Leicester, in Management Sciences, Rachael held several posts in local government. She then moved successfully into the private sector, running a business consultancy for nine years.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 1

Moosung Cheng <Facilitator>

He received his Ph. D. degree in Social Service Administration from Chicago University, and currently teaches at the School of Social Welfare, Soongsil University. He is active not only in the area of social welfare, but also in the area of social enterprise, as the expert committee member of social enterprise incubation at the Ministry of Employment and Labor and as the director of Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency.

 

Kevin Lynch <Speaker>

Kevin Lynch is the President and CEO of Social Enterprise Alliance. Lynch is, first and foremost, a social enterprise practitioner.

From 2003 until mid-2011, he served as President of Rebuild Resources, Inc., a nationally recognized non-profit social enterprise in St. Paul, Minnesota that exclusively employs recovering ex-offenders. After starting and selling a direct mail business in college, Lynch worked from 1980 to 2001 in the advertising industry, the last 14 years as founder and principal of Lynch Jarvis Jones, a social enterprise ad agency whose mission was to create positive social change through the power of advertising and marketing.

Lynch is the primary co-author of Mission, Inc., The Practitioner’s Guide To Social Enterprise, a highly regarded, practical book that focuses on the day-to-day challenges and opportunities faced by social enterprise practitioners. He has keynoted across the United States and on three continents.

Michael Curtin <Speaker>

Drawing on his experiences as an entrepreneur in the restaurant business, Mike has expanded DC Central Kitchen’s revenue generating social enterprise catering to include locally-sourced, scratched-cooked meal service at ten DC schools and Healthy Corners, which delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to corner stores in DC’s food deserts.

Since 2010, DC Central Kitchen’s social enterprises have generated over $20 million and social enterprise now accounts for roughly 65% of DCCK’s total operating budget. Because of these and DCCK’s innovative social service programs, the Kitchen now employs over 140 people, approximately 40% of whom are graduates of DCCK’s Culinary Job Training Program.

The DC Chamber of Commerce awarded DC Central Kitchen its 2012 Community Impact Award. DCCK’s focus on procuring local produce for its social enterprise businesses garnered a Mayor’s Environmental Excellence Award and the Washington Business Journal’s Green Business Award for Innovation.

Mike has spoken at conferences and academic institutions across the country, including the Partnership for a Healthier America Conference, Social Enterprise Alliance Conference, and World Social Enterprise Summit. Mike is a Chair Emeritus of the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington and a Board Member for The Common Market in Philadelphia. He also is on the Advisory Board of DC Greens and Catalyst Kitchens, the Leadership Council of DC Hunger Solutions, and the Advisory Board for the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.

Mike has his BA from Williams College and lives with his wife Maureen and their three children in Falls Church, VA.

Yonghee Yang <Speaker>

Yang has worked on a variety of World Vision disaster relief and medical aid projects in and outside Korea, handling evaluation, fundraising, planning, and global care providing. Yang now teaches nonprofit organizations at Hoseo University, and also provides consulting on corporate social contribution programs. Yang’s main interests include: nonprofit organization management; marketing; fundraising; social responsibilities of corporations; and social enterprises.

 

▮ Parallel Session – Session 2

Kangsung Lee <Facilitator>

Professor Lee served as: the Secretary of Employment and Labor Relationship at the presidential office during the MB Lee Administration; the member of Central Labor Committee; the member of welfare sub-committee under Economic and Social Welfare Committee; and the policy adviser to the Ministry of Employment and Labor. Currently, he teaches at the School of Management, Sahmyook University, and serves as the policy advisor to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and as the vice-chairman of Academy of Social Enterprise. During his service as the Secretary of Employment and Labor Relationship, he had implemented a variety of policies aimed at solving the issues of employment for the youth, female and vulnerable class and at promoting social enterprises. He wrote the Ethical Management, Now(to be published) and the Job-Oriented State Administration Strategy, among other books and research reports of his.

Peter Frampton <Speaker>

Peter Frampton joined Learning Enrichment Foundation, LEF in 1993 and has had a long history with LEF integrating enterprises, programs and initiatives that support the needs of the community and leverage the expertise of the organization.

As the Executive Director Peter is the CEO of LEF whose mandate is community economic development, employs just under 400 people, and has an annual budget of approximately $19 million.

LEF’s mission is to provide community responsive programs and services, which enable individuals and families to become valued contributors to their community’s social and economic development.

LEF, located in the most disadvantaged part of Toronto, serves thousands of people each year in programs ranging from community enterprises to childcare centres. LEF’s integrated model of service includes settlement services, employment counseling, career exploration, skills training, employer outreach, self-employment training, English for immigrants and youth mentorship programs.

Shu Huei Shih <Speaker>

Since 2006, Ms. Shih has been in charge of “The Multi-Employment Promotion Program (MEPP)” and “Empowerment Employment Program (EEP)”, which are the foundation of social enterprises in Taiwan. In addition, she also set up “Office of Social Economic Development (OSED)” to plan and develop social economy in Taiwan. With two programs mentioned earlier, we have tried to develop social enterprises with Taiwan features.

Ms. Shih has investigated and studied social economic model in northern Europe, social enterprises and fair trade system in Thai and Philippines, practice of social enterprises in Korea and England, participated in APEC-WLN for Women’s rights. As a result, she set “promotion of social enterprises” and “fair trade system” as main policies, developing connections and social network in Asian, and devoted into developing Taiwanese social enterprises.

Hyunjong Kil <Speaker>

Mr. Kil completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Department of Social Welfare, Seoul Nat’l University and received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Social Welfare from the Department of Social Welfare, UCLA. Before he worked as an assistant researcher at Korea Labor Institute, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Center for Civil Society, UCLA. His main area of focus is social economy which includes social enterprises and cooperatives, and he is also interested in the social service distribution system, such as the regional dispersion of social services. He is currently engaged in a social enterprise related research project which analyzes the social enterprises’ performances and status of employment by green social enterprises, as the lead researcher.

Jong Ik Jang <Speaker>

Professor Jang established Korea Cooperatives Research Institute in 1994 and served as the secretariat general and the chief thereof until 2003. During his service at the Institute, he focused on reforming government-controlled Nonghyup, the national agricultural cooperative, into a more farmer-friendly organization, reforming National Credit Union Federation of Korea and conducting trainings and researches related to the vitalization of consumers’ cooperatives. He received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Economy from Missouri State University in 2008, with a dissertation on the new institutional economics related to the corporate organization. He has been teaching about the cooperatives and social economy as an associate professor at Hanshin University since March 2012, and wrote and translated numerous dissertations and books related to the lights and shadows from Korean-style fast, compressed growth, cooperatives & social economy, etc., including: the Korean Model: Dynamic Korea and Tin-Pot Mentality(2012, co-authorship); the 21st Century’s Alternative: Cooperatives Movement(2003,translation); the Recent Evolutionon Cooperatives Sector(2014); the Rolesand Tasks of Korean Cooperatives after Enactment of Frame work Acton Cooperatives(2012); and the Growing Scale of Cooperatives and Its Organizational Strategy(2011).

▮ Parallel Session – Session 3

Jerr Boschee <Facilitator>

Jerr Boschee has been advising social entrepreneurs for more than 30 years and has delivered keynote speeches or conducted master classes in 43 states and 20 countries. He has been a senior marketing executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.

He is the former President/CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, one of the six co-founders of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and was named by The Nonprofit Times to its “Power & Influence Top 50” lists in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He served from 2001-2004 as advisor to England’s Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit and is currently Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, which he created in 1999. In addition to writing a monthly online essay (“Jerr’s Journal”), he is the author or editor of six books about social enterprise, his essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, and his work has been translated into seven languages.

Jerr is the former Board Chair for SAGEGlobal, which supports secondary school social entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries, and has served on numerous local, national and international Boards throughout his career. He can be reached through the Institute website at www.socialent.org.

Claudine Reid <Speaker>

Claudine is passionate about community transformation, she has spent over 15 years working with communities across the United Kingdom. She also heads the team at PJ’s Community Service a multi-award winning Social Enterprise, providing transformational services that empower and impact communities, providing, Health & Social Care solutions, Education & Enterprise support & Media & Arts services.

Claudine is also a trainer, TV commentator, Vice Chair of Governors of a local school & trustee for a media organisation. She supports organisations and individuals to develop social impact strategies through collective action.

In 2007 Claudine was appointed as Cabinet Office Social Enterprise Ambassador. She also was appointed to the National Social Enterprise Expert Panel for Government Office of Civil Society and a Panel member for the Prime Minister’s Nomination Panel for Big Society Awards.

Claudine has experience developing social franchising networks across communities and has developed a number of learning programs for social entrepreneurs.

Yuan Ruijun <Speaker>

Ruijun Yuan is associate Professor of School of Government at Peking University. Her research focuses on state-society relationship and comparative government and politics. She is particularly interested in governmental regulation on civil society, non-profit organizations and social enterprise etc., the interest group politics and the partnership between the government and NPOs.

She currently acts as the vice director of Center for Civil Society Studies at PKU and leads some research and evaluation programs on the development of social organizations in China. She co-chaired the two sessions on social enterprise at Beijing Forum in the past two years. She is co- editor of The Blue Book of the Civil Society in China (PKU Press, 2008) She holds BA , MA and DR from Peking University.

Sunki Kim <Speaker>

“Wonju Cooperative & Social Economic Network,” a Social Cooperative Jul. 2001 to Dec. 2009: Coverage Leader, Wonju Today Feb. 2010 to present: Secretary General (Executive Director), Wonju Cooperative & Social Economic Network, Social Cooperatives Sept. to Dec. 2012: Team Leader, Integrated Support Body for Social enterprises in Gangwon Province Mar. to Dec. 2013: Team Leader, Support Center for Cooperatives in Gangwon Province Mar. 2011 to present: Member, Sangji University’s Initiative to Foster Social enterprises Director, ‘Music Ensemble’, a social enterprise.

 

▮ Parallel Session – Session 4

Christina Garcia <Facilitator>

As Managing Director of the Knowledge and Cultivation team, Christina Garcia leads strategy and integration of REDF’s evaluation, development, communications, and learning initiatives. A key member of the Executive Team, Christina helps guide the overall direction for organizational and programmatic strategy. Christina connects people, resources, and social enterprise knowledge to strengthen both REDF and the field in order to create job opportunities for people facing significant barriers to employment. In addition, she is overseeing a groundbreaking social enterprise study that has developed new methods to more effectively reach marginalized transient populations to better assess impact. The report will be published in early 2015 on www.redf.org.

Driven by her passion for social justice, equity, and multicultural models of community development, Christina has almost 20 years of experience in providing the critical resources that create opportunities for people who don’t have them. In addition to eight years working in the affordable housing industry, Christina worked in San Francisco local government, focusing on community-based economic development and workforce opportunities for low-income and at-risk individuals, families, and entrepreneurs.

Khanjan Mehta <Speaker>

Khanjan Mehta is the Founding Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program and Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at Penn State. The HESE program challenges students and faculty from across campus to break down disciplinary barriers and truly collaborate to develop technology-based solutions to address compelling problems facing resource-constrained communities. The objective is to develop transformative social innovations and scalable business models to transform these technology solutions into sustainable and scalable ventures that enable and accelerate positive social change. Mehta has led technology-based social ventures in Kenya, Tanzania, India, Sierra Leone and other countries. These ventures range from telemedicine systems and ruggedized biomedical devices to low-cost greenhouses, solar food dryers, cell phone-based social networking systems, and knowledge sharing platforms for self-employed women.

Mehta’s research interests span several domains under the broad HESE umbrella. He has published over 70 journal articles and refereed conference proceedings with a similar number in the pipeline. Mehta serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and Contributing Editor for the Engineering 4 Change portal. The HESE program was the recipient of the 2013 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award from APLU, 2011 Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award from the US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and was named by Popular Mechanics as one of thirty “Awesome College Labs” across America.

Elena Casolari <Speaker>

Since 2005 Elena has been CEO at ACRA-CCS , one of the largest Italian NGO, active in several countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She is also co-founder and Executive president of Opes Impact fund, an investment vehicle targeting early stage social enterprises in East Africa and India in key development sectors with the aim at contributing in covering the “pioneer gap”.

She is director at Fondazione Umano Progresso, a private family runned Italian foundation and also in the Board of the Tanzanian registered social enterprise, E&E (Education & Entrepreneurship). She has more than 10 years of experience in the mainstream investment banking industry covering global emerging markets for investment banks as HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Nikko Securities. Elena graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and she was a Monbushoo researcher at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

In 2013 Elena joined the Steering Committee of Opportunity Collaboration, a global network of leaders dedicated to building sustainable solutions to poverty. She is a member of the Italian Advisory Board for the G7 task force on impact investing, established in June 2013 to foster the development of the impact investing industry worldwide.

Sunggyu Kim <Speaker>

He received a PhD degree in sociology from FU Berlin and later worked as researcher at the FKTU Research Center and outside professor at Hanshin University. He also served as a professional member of the Korea Tripartite Commission. Currently, he works as a regular researcher at the ODA Research Team of the Korea International Cooperation Agency.

 

 

 

 

Social Investment
▮ Plenary Session

Houghton Wan <Facilitator>

Houghton is a social business coach for local social enterprises since 2006. He has been supporting for more than 30 social businesses local and overseas. Apart from this meaningful coaching work, he is also a member of the organizational committee of Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit for a few years and his mainly responsibility is to connect excellent speakers from foreign countries.

Moreover, he is a Greater China Partnership Manager in Partners Worldwide as well as the Director of Fullness Social Enterprise Society. In 2006, he had developed the first Diploma in Social Business for young people. In 2008, he was invited to Korea to present a subject of social impact maximization during the 1st Asian Social Entrepreneur Summit. In 2009, Mr Wan was invited to speak at TEDx regards of social business development in HK. In 2010, he is invited as a strategic advisor of Jabbok IT Solutions – sponsored by a government funding called Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District Partnership Programme. In 2014, he has appointed to be one of the Steering Committees of Social Enterprise World Forum (http://www.sewf2014.org/) and invited HK key players to share local experience during the forum.

Houghton was educated by University of Manitoba and Hong Kong Baptist University for Computer Science and Social Science.

Sangdal Shim <Speaker>

Representative of the SHC Lab and cMnW(changing Me and the World) Onnuri.

Graduated from the Economics Department at Seoul National University (1972) and was awarded a doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota (1984). Former assistant professor at Hunter College, The City University of New York, Senior Researcher, Macroeconomics Team Leader and Public Investment Management Center Chief at the Korea Development Institute, Vice-Minister of and advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Economy, and president and CEO of MYSC.

Kieron Boyle <Speaker>

Kieron Boyle is Head of Social Investment at the Cabinet Office, where he leads the UK government’s efforts to grow the social investment market. Kieron has worked across UK government, including as Head of Delivery at the Department for Business, Head of Policy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. He is the UK representative to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce and the European Commission expert group on social business.

Prior to joining public service, Kieron worked as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in both London and New York. He has an M.Phil in International Relations and an undergraduate degree in Social and Political Sciences, both from Cambridge University. Kieron has written for a number of journals, and has particular research interests in criminal justice, social innovation and impact investing.

Outside of work, Kieron consults, pro-bono, for a range of international not-for-profit organisations, sits on the Chatham House U35 steering group, and is a Trustee of one of the UK’s leading charities. In 2014 he was elected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Durreen Shahnaz <Speaker>

Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and Chairwoman of IIX and Shujog

Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker- and media executive-turned-social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, is the founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the home of the world’s first social stock exchange and the world’s largest private placement platform for impact investing. Shahnaz also founded Shujog, the impact accelerator for social enterprises in Asia and Africa.

Shahnaz began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York City and worked at Grameen Bank, World Bank, Merrill Lynch, Hearst Magazines, and Reader’s Digest. She also taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In addition, she founded, ran, and sold oneNest, a social enterprise and global marketplace for handmade goods.

Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College; a joint degree — MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Shahnaz is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the advisory board for CASE i3 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Catalyst Program. Shahnaz is also a TED speaker and a regular guest on Channel News Asia’s program ‘Views on News’ and BBC.

YoungJae Ryu <Speaker>

Representative of Sustinvest, Korea’s premier ESG analysis institution, and principal advisor to London’s Hermes Equity Ownership Services. Completed undergraduate/masters’ degree in political science and international relations at Hanyang University, and acquired an MBA from the Ashridge Business School in Great Britain.

Judged to be a leader and pioneer who introduced socially responsible investment throughout the Korean market in the last decade. Before dedicating himself to the world of socially responsible investment, he worked for 14 years as an analyst and branch manager of a security companies. He is the author of ‘Socially Responsible Investment for Korea,” and translator of Russell Sparkes’ “Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution.” A former collegiate professor at the Graduate School of Management at KAIST, he is a director of Korea Social Investment and an operating committee member of the UN Global Compact Network Korea.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 1

Gerry Higgins <Facilitator>

Gerry is Chief Executive Officer at CEIS (Community Enterprise in Scotland) and a Director at the Social Value Lab, Ready for Business LLP, Big Issue Invest Scotland and Social Enterprise World Forum CIC. He brings over 30 years’ experience in developing and running social enterprises and works with government agencies and third sector partners in the UK and internationally to develop supportive social enterprise ecosystems. His current work includes oversight of major programmes, to develop public sector markets for social enterprises, to build the capacity of social enterprises to create sustainable and effective businesses and to introduce new forms of social investment to support business start-up and growth. As CEO of the CEIS Group, Gerry leads a team of over 50 people to deliver business support, employability services, project consultancy, social research, social investment, business finance and event management.

Gerry joined CEIS in 2006 having previously worked across the UK as the founding Chief Executive of Social Firms UK for 7 years. During this period Gerry was a founding director of Social Enterprise UK and worked with the DTI to draft and introduce the first UK Social Enterprise Strategy in 2002. Gerry is interested in social change and committed to social justice and has spent over 30 years working in the social enterprise sector to assist individuals, communities and enterprises to fulfil their potential.

Mairi Mackay <Speaker>

Dr Mairi Mackay leads the British Council’s Global Social Enterprise programme, which promotes the development of social enterprise and investment to help address entrenched social and environmental problems, build trust between the UK and other countries, and support more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous societies.

Currently operated in 24 countries and delivered with the support of local and international partners, the programme provides aspiring and existing social entrepreneurs with skills training, consultancy, and access to funding and investment opportunities. The programme also forges international networks, disseminates bests practice and supports policy leaders to create ecosystems in which social enterprise and social investment can thrive.

Mairi is an economic development professional with over 15 years of experience delivering international projects. Prior to joining the British Council, she served as Head of Greater China for Scottish Development International (SDI). She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business.

Yunjong Wang <Speaker>

Dr. WANG is the Senior Vice President of SK Group’s Social Enterprise Team and leads the group’s effort on promoting social entrepreneurship. SK’s Social Enterprise activities include making direct and indirect investment and providing management support for social enterprises (more than 75 SEs thus far), sponsoring a KAIST Social Enterprise MBA program as well as building platforms in which social enterprises can be supported, connected and cooperate.

Prior to his role at SK Group SUPEX Council, Dr. WANG was a Senior Vice President, SK China and a chairman of Korean Chamber of Commerce in China. He also had a long-standing academic and research career including a managing director of Center for Regional Economic Studies, KIEP, Senior Research Fellow of Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.

Changgue Lim <Speaker>

Joshua(Chang Gue) Lim is the COO of Korea Social Investment which manages the Social Investment Fund of Seoul City Government. Before Joining KSI, he worked as the head of Global Investment Division of Samsung Investments, Seoul. Joshua has over 16 years of investment experience and 4 years in the macro economic research area, 13 years with Samsung Investments, 3 years with Samsung Life Insurance and 4 years with Samsung Economic Research Institute. Joshua is a graduate of Yonsei University, with a MA in economics. He is a CFA charterholder.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 2

Cheolwoo Mun <Facilitator>

He teaches at the Sungkyunkwan University Business School, specializing in management strategies, and has been serving as the representative director of Korea Impact Investment Promotion Agency(Foundation) and as the non-standing director of Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency. He also served as: the head professor at SGS Social Entrepreneur Academy; the representative director of Impact Forum; the chairman of Impact Investment Vitalization for Social Enterprises Conference Organizing Committee; the chairman of Social Enterprise Management Disclosure Committee; the member of Social Enterprise Leaders Forum Asia Organizing Committee; and the evaluator of UNGC Korea Chapter. He is also a member of Social Impact Evaluation Network. He was an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Studies and a dean of Division of International Studies, Ewha Woman’s University, and an associate professor at the School of Management, Cleveland State University.

Hyunmyung Do <Speaker>

Do Hyeon-myeong established Impact Square, a business think tank, based on his experiences in IT companies including NHN. He is nurturing the organization as a successful leading consulting firm and research institute. In association with FSG, the world’s leading organization for creating shared value, he facilitates discussions within Korea. He is also a young expert in the impact business area, having founded Impact Hub Seoul, the Korean branch of the Impact Hub as the world’s largest network of social innovators, and Korea Impact Evaluation as the only body in Korea to evaluate social performance.

Jeremy Nicholls <Speaker>

Jeremy Nicholls is the chief executive of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network, which is a membership organisation for individuals, organisations and companies supporting principles and standards in accounting for social and environmental value.

He is a director of the FRC Group (a social business based in Liverpool UK), the Chair of the Social Impact Analysts Association, a member of the IRIS advisory committee and the Social Stock Exchange admissions panel. He also sits on the Ambassadors Council for Social Enterprise UK. He has lectured at several Universities including the Said Business School at Oxford University; Hult International Business School; and the University of Western Australia.

Anthony Wong <Speaker>

Anthony Wong is the Business Director, Policy Research and Advocacy of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service. For many years, he has been working in the Council on service and policy research. Previously the Council’s Chief Research Officer, he was charged to enhance the capacity of NGOs for evidence-based practice. He took up the responsibility of pioneering and promoting social impact assessment to help different stakeholders of different service projects or programme to articulate the social impacts of their investment in terms of money, expertise, and efforts. Working jointly with The University of Hong Kong’s ExCEL3 project, he has contributed to develop a unique Social Impact Assessment framework with the University and has applied it in a number of programme or project assessments. The Council’s work on social impact assessment is still under his supervision.

Anthony received his Bachelor of Social Work degree from The University of Hong Kong in 1992, and M.Phil in Social Sciences from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1997. His is now Ph.D candidate in the Department of Sociology of The University of Hong Kong. He is a Registered Social Worker in Hong Kong.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 3

Durreen Shahnaz <Facilitator>

Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and Chairwoman of IIX and Shujog

Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker- and media executive-turned-social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, is the founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the home of the world’s first social stock exchange and the world’s largest private placement platform for impact investing. Shahnaz also founded Shujog, the impact accelerator for social enterprises in Asia and Africa.

Shahnaz began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York City and worked at Grameen Bank, World Bank, Merrill Lynch, Hearst Magazines, and Reader’s Digest. She also taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In addition, she founded, ran, and sold oneNest, a social enterprise and global marketplace for handmade goods.

Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College; a joint degree — MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Shahnaz is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the advisory board for CASE i3 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Catalyst Program. Shahnaz is also a TED speaker and a regular guest on Channel News Asia’s program ‘Views on News’ and BBC.

Kevin Robbie <Speaker>

Kevin has been with Social Ventures Australia (SVA) for over five years and is responsible for leading their work around employment creation for people excluded from the labour market.

Kebin has worked in innovative social change for over 20 years, primarily in the UK. He has held senior management roles in a range organisations, including seven years as Chief Executive of Forth Sector, one of Scotland’s leading social enterprises. He has also been a special adviser to the UK Government Cabinet Office, worked on a wide range of development partnerships/projects and served on a number of non-profit boards and on Government Advisory Boards.

Eddie Razak <Speaker>

Eddie Razak heads the Social Innovation team and the Innovation Agency of Malaysia, a national body tasked to spearhead innovation in Malaysia. Among its activities are promoting innovation by society, through exposing young people to a process of guided innovation; and innovation for society, through policies such as investment in social impact and enablers for social enterprise and voluntary organisations.

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 publicly-listed companies and headed the investor relations association for the stock exchange of Malaysia.

Heejin Noh <Speaker>

Hee Jin Noh has participated in a number of projects with social themes and purposes, including the campaigns for the enactment of capital market laws and for the adoption of international accounting standards. Served as head of the Hedge Fund Task Force Team of Korea’s Ministry of Finance in 2007, and also of the Private Equity Fund Advancement Task Force Team of Korea’s Financial Services Commission in 2010. Led the Green Finance Section of the Presidential Committee on Green Growth, and served as an expert advisor on the Ministry of Strategy and Finance’s G20 Planning Group.

He was named one of the 25 most influential hedge fund figures in Asia in 2010 by Hong Kong’s Asia Invest Monthly, and served as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Recent interests include climate finance and social finance. Publications include reports entitled: “Characteristics of the Green Climate Fund and Policy Directions”; “Analysis of International Trends in Carbon Finance and Measures for Further Development”; “A Study on How to Foster a Capital Market for Social Enterprises”; “A Study on the Creation and Operation of Social Exchanges”; and “Measures of Permission on Hedge Funds in Korea.” Author of such books as A Theory of Fund Management, A Theory of Green Finance, Theory and Practice of Hedge Funds, and A Theory of Climate Finance.

▮ Parallel Session – Session 4

Juneyoung Rha <Facilitator>

Juneyoung Rha who has Ph.D. in Management Engineering and served as Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Research Center for CSR, KAIST, is currently teaching Department of Business Administration at the Catholic University of Korea as Assistant Professor. He has been constantly doing Research and Education involving Social Enterprise Ecosystem, Business Model, Social Impact Assessment, etc.

 

Steven Lee <Facilitator>

Steven Lee has worked in Impact Investment field for last 4 years from actively supporting mission driven businesses on the field, conducting hundreds of due diligence, designing investment process for such businesses and managing an impact fund which provides financing as well as much needed technical support in Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe Central Asia and South Asia.

Currently He is managing IGNITE Fund, a SME growth capital impact fund targeting to support promising businesses which operate in difficult post conflict countries and fragile states with the emphasis in job creation and reducing marginalization of communities.

In 2013, Steven Lee worked with Work Together Foundation and SK’s Happiness Foundation to visit dozens of mission driven businesses in over 20 countries to understand and learn about different models of social businesses doing important work in 3 continents around the world.

Dukjun Lee <Speaker>

Mr. Lee is an angel investor in Seoul and the Silicone Valley, who has been impactinvesting since 2010. He founded D3 Jubilee in 2011, is currently engaged in D3+ Angel Investors’ Club and D3 Impact Engine(an accelerating program) in Korea, and in the impact investment activities in Korea, the Silicone Valley and the frontier markets.

Hangje Yoo <Speaker>

Mr. You Hang-je was involved in a wide range of new projects at SK Energy, SK Networks, and others before leading the CRS team of SK Telecom for the social contribution of the company. Since his appointment as general manager of The Happiness Foundation, he has contributed to cementing the ecosystem of social enterprises by, among others, discovering and supporting innovative social enterprise models, fostering social entrepreneurs, and making impact investment.

 

Closing Session
▮ Closing Speech

Peter Holbrook <Facilitator>

Peter Holbrook is CEO of Social Enterprise UK – the national body for social enterprise and a membership organisation. Social Enterprise UK, together with its members, is the voice for social enterprise.

Prior to taking on this role Peter was CEO of Sunlight Development Trust. During his years at Sunlight Peter became one of the country’s most well-respected social entrepreneurs, responsible for the regeneration, through social enterprise, of some of the UK’s most deprived communities. He developed ‘project sunlight’, based in Gillingham, Kent, from its inception to become one of the country’s most high-profile and award-winning ‘community anchors’. In 2007, Peter was appointed to be one of the UK’s Social Enterprise Ambassadors – a scheme supported by the Cabinet Office and coordinated by Social Enterprise UK. In this role he advocated for social enterprise through lobbying politicians, speaking at events and representing the sector in the media.

In 2010, Peter was appointed as a member of the Cabinet Office’s Mutual’s Taskforce and Trustee of the Big Society Trust (overseeing delivery of Big Society Capital). In 2012, Peter was appointed a member of the EU Social Business Initiative Expert Group and took up the role of Chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum.

Matthew Roberts <Keynote Speaker>

He is responsible for all sustainability issues across the business such as Waste, Water, Energy, Natural Capital and Social Value. He is the architect of Landmarc’s Social Value strategy and the driving force behind the business’s commitment to Business in the Community.

Mat joined Landmarc in 2008 as National Rural Estate Manager looking after all aspects of one of the UKs largest land holdings, the MoD National Training Estate, over 220,000 Ha from the Orkney Isles to Cornwall.
Prior to Landmarc, Mat was the Superintendent of Epping Forest on behalf of The City of London Corporation. During this time he was appointed a Freeman of the City of London.

From 2000 to 2005 Mat was part of the leadership team that created Scotland’s First National Park in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. This followed 10 years working in Wales as the Chief Ranger on The Gower AONB.

Mat is an alumni if the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainability Leadership. A Fellow of the RSA, Director of Cynnal Cymru (Sustainability Wales) Director of the Global Associating of Corporate Sustainability Officers, spent a decade as a Trustee of The Conservation Volunteers charity and almost 20 years helping organize the Hay International Festival.

When not working or being a dad and husband, he capsizes Hobie Cats and falls off mountain bikes.

▮ Closing Address

Jay Changjoon Kim <Speaker>

Anyone looking for the embodiment of the American Dream would be hard-pressed to find a better example than Congressman Jay Kim.

After arriving in Los Angeles to study engineering at U.S.C., Congressman Kim built a successful engineering firm, served as mayor of Diamond Bar, and won three terms as a U.S. Congressman. Today Congressman Kim is active in both Washington and Seoul, where he works tirelessly to develop relations and business opportunities between the two nations.

He is the founder and president of the Jay Kim Future U.S.-Korea Foundation in Seoul, and serves President Park as an appointee to the National Economic Advisory Council.

▮ Handover Ceremony

Elena Casolari <Speaker>

Since 2005 Elena has been CEO at ACRA-CCS , one of the largest Italian NGO, active in several countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She is also co-founder and Executive president of Opes Impact fund, an investment vehicle targeting early stage social enterprises in East Africa and India in key development sectors with the aim at contributing in covering the “pioneer gap”.

She is director at Fondazione Umano Progresso, a private family runned Italian foundation and also in the Board of the Tanzanian registered social enterprise, E&E (Education & Entrepreneurship). She has more than 10 years of experience in the mainstream investment banking industry covering global emerging markets for investment banks as HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Nikko Securities. Elena graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and she was a Monbushoo researcher at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

In 2013 Elena joined the Steering Committee of Opportunity Collaboration, a global network of leaders dedicated to building sustainable solutions to poverty. She is a member of the Italian Advisory Board for the G7 task force on impact investing, established in June 2013 to foster the development of the impact investing industry worldwide.

Special Session

Kwang-Taek Lee <Facilitator>

Prof. LEE Kwang-Taek is professor of law at the Kookmin University since 1994. He graduated from the College of Law at Seoul National University, and got his Dr. jur at the University of Bremen in Germany. He is a distinctive professional on labor and social issues at national and international level while he works as a founding member of the Korea Labor Institute, and the former presidents of the Korean Society for Labour Law(KSLL), the Korean Industrial Relations Research Association (KIRRA), and the Korean Association of Social Security Law(KASSL).

Prof. LEE is the Vice President and the Executive Committee Member of the Geneva-based International Society for Labour and Social Security Law(ISL&SSL), He was a member of Labor Policy Advisory Committee of the National Assembly, Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labor and a Conciliator at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK).

Prof. LEE was a member of the National Movement Committee for Overcoming Unemployment in 1998, and has been working since 2003 as a board member of the Work Together Foundation(WTF), the successor of the NMCOU. The WTG carries our diverse projects to promote social entrepreneurship through incubating and supporting social enterprise, including advocacy, campaigns and fundraising. He organized the biannial Asian Social Entrepreneurs Summit in Seoul since 2008. Now he is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Social Enterprise World Forum to be held in Seoul in October 2014.

Heewon Kang <Speaker>

Kang studied law as an undergraduate, and passed the 24th National Bar Examination in Korea. After completing his bar-required training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, Kang moved to Germany and obtained a doctorate in law at the University of Freiburg. Kang is a practicing attorney today, specializing in medical relations and medical accidents. At the same time, he also teaches legal philosophy, legal sociology, and labor law at Kyunghee University. Books authored(co-authored) and translated by Kang so far include: Gesetzesflut und rechtsfreier Raum, 『General Provisions of the Civil Code』, 『Labor law』 and 『Labor philosophy』. Articles include: “Language as a tool for lawyers and their problems” “Greening of the law and green jurisprudence”, “The Conception of Damage and Human Dignity in the Civil Compensation Law” and a host of others on the themes of labor, the environment, language, and bioscience. Books authored (co-authored) and translated by Kang so far include: Gesetzesflut und rechtsfreier Raum, 『General Provisions of the Civil Code』,『Labor law』 and 『Labor philosophy』. Articles include: “Language as a tool for lawyers and their problems” “Greening of the law and green jurisprudence”, “The Conception of Damage and Human Dignity in the Civil Compensation Law” and a host of others on the themes of labor, the environment, language, and bioscience.

Natalia Gladkikh <Speaker>

Author of more than 20 articles and 2 books related to social entepreneurship and social advertising issues in Russia. In 2011, headed the first research of attitudes of business and society to social enterpreneurship products in Russia. In 2013, received a fellowship for field research of Korean experience in development of PSA and social entrepreneurship from the Korea Foundation. Member of the International Network for the Project and Program Evaluation.

Nuttaphong Jaruwannaphong <Speaker>

Trained as an architect and planner by profession. After graduated from Norway on Urban Ecological Planning, Nuttaphong has been working as the so-called ‘Social Architect’ since then on various roles both in public and private sector. Before joining the Thai Social Enterprise Office as the director in 2012, he has spent 3 years as a Project Lead of the collaboration project between Thailand and Denmark on urban environment and the remaining 4 years working as a director of the community division and strategic advisor for the Thai Health Promotion Foundation—the government agency to promote health and wellbeing. During the short interval period between the works for government, he also worked as a general manager for the real estate company aiming to be the first social enterprise of Thailand on housing & city development. He was also an initiator of many national initiatives and strategic institutions such as The National Progress Index, The Urban Development and Design Centre [UDDC], The Social Innovation Foundation, The Future Innovative Thailand Institute [FIT] etc.