September 21, 2009

HOP-SIP launches Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series

The Hopkins Social Innovations Partnerships, a university wide program created in 2008 to champion social entrepreneurship, will this week launch the JHU Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series.

The Hopkins Social Innovations Partnerships, a university wide program created in 2008 to champion social entrepreneurship, will this week launch the JHU Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series.

At 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, HOP-SIP, the Carey Business School and the Bloomberg School of Public Health will present Pamela Hartigan, executive director of the Oxford University Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Her talk begins at 5 p.m. in Levering’s Arellano Theater, Homewood campus.

Future speakers in the series include Rob Egger, founder of the D.C. Central Kitchen and its Campus Kitchens Project, and Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka.

Hartigan is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She serves on the boards of five social enterprises and is a world-renowned lecturer and the co-author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Harvard Business Press, 2008).

Hartigan holds master’s degrees in international economics and education and a doctorate in cognitive psychology. She has headed the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization and has led numerous initiatives to research and fight tropical diseases at WHO, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Pan American Health Organization. Before joining Oxford’s Skoll Centre, she was the first managing director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

Hartigan will speak about the ways in which Johns Hopkins can best train and nurture social entrepreneurship on its campuses.