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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.”
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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.
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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

Leadership

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