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Host Sheela Sethuraman interviews Pamela Hartigan, the founding partner of Volans Ventures, about her new book titled The Power Of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World. Pamela addresses several questions related to the book -- Why are social entrepreneurs considered 'unreasonable'? What are the different kinds of social enterprises? How does one measure impact of a social cause? Why is it necessary to for social entrepreneurs to create partnerships and device new funding mechanisms? How are social entrepreneurs different from business entrepreneurs?
Hartigan also discusses the origin of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and explains that the Foundation was established to meet three important needs of social entrepreneurs -- to lend them legitimacy in their own countries, to provide them with access to a network of leaders, and to mobilize capital.
In addition, Hartigan explains how the research on the book led her to establish Volans Ventures -- an effort that hopes to address some of the gaps in the social enterprise sector.
Pamela Hartigan is the founding partner of Volans Ventures and also the founding Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation. She joined the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as its first Managing Director in October 2000. Of Ecuadorian origin, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Institut d'Etudes Europeenes in Brussels. She also has a Masters degree in Education and a PhD in Human Developmental Psychology from American University and Catholic University, respectively, both located in Washington, D.C. Pamela is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks French.
Her career has included over a decade working with youth; supporting the spawning and consolidation of community-based organizations serving the Latino community in Washington, D.C.; and twelve years at the World Health Organization, beginning at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO's regional office for the Americas. There, she spearheaded initiatives to build collaborative work between governments and Latin American non-governmental organizations working in health and development. Subsequently, she became Chief of the Women, Health and Development Program where, among other initiatives, she launched region-wide mobilization to address violence against women.
In 1997, Hartigan was selected as Program Manager for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) where she also coordinated efforts in Applied Field Research in tropical diseases. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, as Director-General of WHO, appointed her to head the Department of Health Promotion at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, and later as Director of the newly formed Department for Violence and Injury Prevention.
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