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Progress Maker: Akhtar Badshah Former Senior Director of Global Community Affairs, Microsoft
July 17, 2017
Mr. Badshah encouraged youth to “be unreasonable” and refuse to take no for an answer. In this way, “you will find ways to move forward by overcoming obstacles.”
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: Andrew Ng Co-Founder, Coursera Inc
July 17, 2017
Mr. Ng embodies the imagination and creativity prized most highly by executives in the Progress Makers at Work survey. He is credited with breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, robotics and even autonomous helicopters.
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: Claire Fallender Director of Ashoka’s Global Venture and Fellowship
July 17, 2017
Ms. Fallender manages a network that has provided $100m in support to 3,000 Progress Makers since the early 1980s, empowering women in the field as well.
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: Elsbeth Tronstad Senior Vice President, SN Power and State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
July 17, 2017
Ms. Tronstad’s linked focus on issues of sustainability and development flows from her Scandinavian background as well as her early travels in distant lands.
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: Michael Mina, MD, PhD Resident physician in Clinical Pathology
July 17, 2017
Mr. Mina developed a plan to help individuals in Nicaragua’s rural Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte to set up their own microbusinesses, providing inexpensive chlorination of water to families for a small profit.
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: N.R. Narayana Murthy Founder of Infosys Ltd.
July 17, 2017
N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Ltd., helped make it happen, spearheading the creation of what has become a global multi-billion-dollar IT outsourcing industry.
Strategy & Leadership
Progress Maker: Rick Defieux Co-founder, SJF Ventures
July 17, 2017
Mr. Defieux is co-founder of SJF Ventures, a pioneer in the still-emerging class of impact venture capital funds, which back companies based on environmental and social returns on investment in addition to financial ROI.
Strategy & Leadership