Helmut Anheier is director of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, where he is also a professor of social welfare. From 1998 to 2002 he was the founding director of Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics, and a member of LSE's Department of Social Policy, where he now holds the honorary title of centennial professor. Prior to this he was a senior research associate and project co-director at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, and associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Before embarking on an academic career, Anheier served as social affairs officer with the United Nations. He has also held research appointments at Yale University, the University of Cologne, and the Science Center in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Yale University.

Mark Kramer is founder and managing director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, where he oversees FSG's consulting practice and action initiatives. He also serves as a senior fellow in the CSR Initiative of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business in Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Kramer is a founder and served as initial board chair from 2000 to 2004 of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit research organization in Cambridge, Mass. Kramer is coauthor, with Professor Michael E. Porter, of three influential Harvard Business Review articles. In the Stanford Social Innovation Review he has published "Game Changing CSR" (2006) with John Kania, and "Leading Boldly" (2005) with Professor Ron Heifetz. Prior to founding FSG, Kramer served for 12 years as president of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He has a BA from Brandeis University, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Lester Salamon is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. He previously served as director of the Center for Governance and Management Research at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and as deputy associate director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President. Before that, he taught at Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and, during the American civil rights struggle of the mid-1960s, at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss. Salamon received his BA degree in economics and policy studies from Princeton University and his PhD in government from Harvard University

Alex Nicholls is the first lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Nicholls has held lectureships at a wide variety of academic institutions including University of Toronto, Canada; Leeds Metropolitan University; University of Surrey; and Aston Business School. He has been a fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science and member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching. Nicholls also sat on the regional social enterprise expert group for South East England and is a nonexecutive director of a major fair trade company.

Resources:

• Video of this session
• Skoll Foundation's YouTube channel
• Creating Game-Changing CSR, a Stanford Social Innovation Review article
• A Failure of Philanthropy, a Stanford Social Innovation Review article