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SPEAKER/MODERATOR PROFILES Opening Session Welcome Remarks and Introduction to the Session Bart Édes Director Poverty Reduction, Gender and Social Development Division Asian Development Bank (ADB) Bart W. Édes is director of the Asian Development Bank’s Poverty Reduction, Gender and Social Development Division. The division provides quality assurance and technical support to ADB operational departments on education, health, social protection, and the social dimensions of loans and technical assistance. It also engages in knowledge generation and dissemination on inclusive growth, the MDGs, social development, social protection, and poverty reduction in developing Asia and the Pacific. He has guided ADB work aimed at improving understanding of the role of social enterprises in meeting social and environmental challenges in Asia and the Pacific. In previous positions with ADB, Mr. Édes managed relations with civil society organizations, served as the bank’s focal point for consultation and participation, and implemented policy on disclosure of information. Between 1994 and 2000, Mr. Édes oversaw communications for SIGMA, a joint initiative of the EU and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that provides support on public governance reform to countries in transition. While at SIGMA, Mr. Édes created an extensive knowledge sharing program, advised governments on modernizing their public information activities, and contributed to the launch of an anticorruption network in Central and Eastern Europe. He has also worked as a journalist, policy analyst, and international trade and investment specialist. Mr. Édes has a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Georgetown University, and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.

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Page 1: SPEAKER/MODERATOR PROFILES Opening Session Welcome · PDF fileThe State of Social Enterprises in the Philippines Harvey Keh Director for Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship

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OOppeenniinngg SSeessssiioonn WWeellccoommee RReemmaarrkkss aanndd IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn ttoo tthhee SSeessssiioonn Bart Édes Director Poverty Reduction, Gender and Social Development Division Asian Development Bank (ADB) Bart W. Édes is director of the Asian Development Bank’s Poverty Reduction, Gender and Social Development Division. The division provides quality assurance and technical support to ADB operational departments on education, health, social protection, and the social dimensions of loans and technical assistance. It also engages in knowledge generation and dissemination on inclusive growth, the MDGs, social development, social protection, and poverty reduction in developing Asia and the Pacific. He has guided ADB work aimed at improving understanding of the role of social enterprises in meeting social and environmental challenges in Asia and the Pacific. In previous positions with ADB, Mr. Édes managed relations with civil society organizations, served as the bank’s focal point for consultation and participation, and implemented policy on disclosure of information. Between 1994 and 2000, Mr. Édes oversaw communications for SIGMA, a joint initiative of the EU and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that provides support on public governance reform to countries in transition. While at SIGMA, Mr. Édes created an extensive knowledge sharing program, advised governments on modernizing their public information activities, and contributed to the launch of an anticorruption network in Central and Eastern Europe. He has also worked as a journalist, policy analyst, and international trade and investment specialist. Mr. Édes has a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Georgetown University, and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.

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CCoonntteexxtt aanndd OOppppoorrttuunniittiieess ffoorr SSoocciiaall EEnntteerrpprriisseess Tommy Hutchinson Founder and CEO i-genius: World Community of Social Entrepreneurs Mr. Hutchinson is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about helping to develop talented individuals to build social and environmental businesses that will make the world a better place. His career spans politics, banking, corporate communications, social marketing and social businesses. From Northern Ireland, Mr. Hutchinson studied economic and public policy in Leeds before becoming President of the students union. He then moved to London to become National Treasurer and head of the international department of the National Union of Students. During this period he was appointed the first Chair of the European Students Bureau which encompassed the main student organisations in East and West Europe following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He also led the merger of the two UK student commercial companies (NUS Services Ltd and NSSO Ltd) and was a Director of Endsleigh Insurances Services Ltd. Mr. Hutchinson then joined NatWest Group where he worked first as an aerospace analyst and then as a European analyst in the market intelligence department before being appointed the bank’s Political Adviser which he did for three years and coincided with the takeover battle with Royal Bank of Scotland. During this phase in his career he stood for Parliament as the Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green in the 1997 general election. Leaving NatWest in 2000, he became Director of the Industry Forum for two years developing relations between the business community (200 blue chip corporate members) and government. He took over running the organisation at a difficult time and put in place proper governance structures and secured its financial future. He boosted its profile with events in Westminster/Whitehall/Edinburgh/Stormont and hosted seminars and led delegations to Washington DC, European Parliament in Brussels and to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. During this period, Mr. Hutchinson developed his interest and passion for social entrepreneurship. He helped create a youth charity ‘Kikass’ and remained its chair of trustees until 2006. He also created Champ, which helped promote peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland/Ireland, and Eurobandits, which ran the official online campaign to encourage citizens to vote in the European parliamentary elections. Four years ago he joined social marketing agency Equator Media Limited as a director and shareholder. Mr. Hutchinson founded i-genius, a world community of social entrepreneurs, which began trading in 2008. Currently i-genius has members in 171 countries. As well as its popular website and media work, i-genius organises events and supports social entrepreneurs marketing activities via i-genius Promotions and training through its new social business school, i-genius Academy. Future plans include assisting social businesses in accessing finance. He is shortly due to be appointed a Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University and is an adviser on social entrepreneurship to Hunan University (Changsha). Tommy is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee of Maytree Respite Centre for the suicidal. He co-authored a booklet entitled ‘A risky business’ which looked at the nature of risk in society and its affect on business and is currently working on new publications related to social entrepreneurship.

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TThhee SSttaattee ooff SSoocciiaall EEnntteerrpprriisseess iinn tthhee PPhhiilliippppiinneess Harvey Keh Director for Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Ateneo School of Governance Executive Director Asian Society Harvey S. Keh currently serves as the Director for Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship at the Ateneo de Manila University’s School of Government and the Executive Director of the Asia Society-Philippine office. He is also the Lead Convenor of the Kaya Natin! Movement for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership and is one of the inaugural Fellows at the Asian Institute of Management’s Team Energy Center for Bridging Societal Divides. He also works as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of AHON Foundation, an organization that helps promote literacy by building public elementary school libraries. Since its establishment last year, AHON Foundation has helped develop 40 public elementary school libraries that have benefitted more than 90,000 students. In 2002, Mr. Keh founded and established Pathways to Higher Education-Philippines, a Ford Foundation-funded program based at Ateneo de Manila that seeks to help poor but deserving students gain access to quality higher education. To date, Pathways is currently helping more than 500 college and more than 1,600 public high school students finish college. Aside from this, Mr. Keh continues to sit as Treasurer and youngest Board Member of Synergeia Foundation, a coalition of institutions and individuals whose main aim is to uplift the state of basic education in the Philippines. Mr. Keh was also chosen as one of the 20 Young Leaders of Asia by the Asia Society, an international organization based in New York that aims to strengthen relationships and deepen understanding among the peoples of Asia and the United States of America. Mr. Keh also writes regularly for national dailies, Manila Bulletin, The Manila Times and Abante. Recently, he was chosen as one of the 2010 The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Awardees for the field of Public Education and Good Governance.

SSeessssiioonn 11:: CChhaarraacctteerriissttiiccss ooff aa SSuucccceessssffuull SSoocciiaall EEnntteerrpprriissee Robert van Zwieten Director Capital Markets and Financial Sectors Division Asian Development Bank Robert van Zwieten is the Asian Development Bank’s Director overseeing the Bank's private sector operations in Asian capital markets and financial sectors, covering all of ADB's 39 developing member countries. ADB’s mission is poverty reduction in Asia. Through its work with financial intermediaries, ADB's private sector capital markets division focus on (i) financial sector development, (ii) expanding access to finance, particularly amongst lower income groups (microfinance and housing finance), small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as on (iii) infrastructure development and (iv) climate change finance. The financial intermediaries through whom the division works include banks, non-bank financial institutions, and private equity and venture capital funds. In addition, the division conceived and operates ADB’s Trade Finance Program, which facilitates billions of annual trade flows in the most vulnerable Asian countries. The division’s climate change finance activities have traditionally entailed investments in Asian private equity funds active in clean/renewable energy (since 2007). Earlier this year these activities were expanded to venture capital to support climatech solutions and to energy efficiency financing partnerships with banks. The division selectively incubates innovative fund concepts when market forces alone would not generate the desired outcomes. Mr. van Zwieten has 25 years of global senior executive experience in financial services, having conducted business and led teams, transactions and projects in all major financial markets in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has worked for Royal VOPAK, ABN AMRO Bank, General Electric, Lehman Brothers and the Singapore Exchange. He possesses domain knowledge in the areas of corporate, commercial and investment banking, securities brokerage, exchanges, alternative asset management and emerging capital markets. Mr. van Zwieten is a board member of Planters Development Bank in the Philippines and a commissioner of PT Indonesia Infrastructure Finance in Jakarta. He is a Trustee of International House in New York, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (USA). Mr. van Zwieten was educated in Europe and the United States. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, obtained his J.D. and M.A. degrees from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York. He is a citizen of both the United States and the Netherlands.

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Greg Herman Chief Operating Officer Clean Engines, Inc Mr. Greg Herman is the Chief Operating Officer for Clean-Engines, Inc, a social entrepreneurial company focused on designing, developing and selling affordable retrofit kits to convert dirty two-stroke, carbureted, gasoline-burning motorcycle engines to, fuel-injected, cleaner-burning liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) engines. Prior to joining Clean-Engines, Mr. Herman had a 30 year career at Hewlett Packard, serving in recent years as Vice President of Global Supply Chain for Desktop PC’s and Workstations in Fort Collins, Colorado. During his career, Mr. Herman also led manufacturing for large format printers (based in Barcelona, Spain) and commercial inkjet printers (based in Vancouver, Washington). Mr. Herman is a highly experienced global supply chain executive with proven leadership in operational excellence, building effective cross-functional relationships and global teams, supplier and partner management, transforming organizations and building future leaders. Mr. Herman serves on the boards of Colorado State University’s Center for Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise and the social enterprise venture NEON Global Research. He lives in Fort Collins, CO and enjoys skiing and cycling. Paolo Benigno ‘Bam’ Aquino President Micro Ventures/Happinoy Paolo Benigno "Bam" A. Aquino IV is a former TV host, former Chairperson of the National Youth Commission of the Philippines, and currently the President of MicroVentures, Inc. which runs the multi-awarded social enterprise, The Hapinoy Program (www.hapinoy.com). After graduating valedictorian and summa cum laude with a BSC in Management Engineering from Ateneo de Manila University in 1999, he worked at the ABS-CBN Foundation in their special projects group. In 2001, Mr. Aquino was appointed to the National Youth Commission of the Philippines as commissioner-at-large. The National Youth Commission (NYC) is the sole national policy-making and coordinating body on youth affairs. In February 2003, Aquino was upgraded to chairperson of the NYC, becoming the youngest person in Philippine history to head a government agency. As a host, Mr. Aquino was featured in youth-oriented shows on Studio 23’s “Y-Speak” and “Breakfast” then later on in ANC’s entrepreneurship show “Start-Up”. He has also starred as his uncle, Ninoy Aquino in the August 2009 documentary-film "The Last Journey of Ninoy". In late 2006, Mr. Aquino co-founded Microventures, Inc., a social business enterprise that services micro financing organizations and their clients through the Hapinoy Program (www.hapinoy.com). He was awarded as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was chosen to be part of Asia Society’s pioneer batch of Asia 21 Fellows also in the same year. Sometime in 2007, he joined the board of Rags2Riches, Inc., another social enterprise that helps underprivileged women with their livelihood (www.rags2riches.ph). Alongside business partner, Mark Ruiz, he was one of the finalists of the 2010 Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as one of the PLDT SME Bossings and GoNegosyo’s Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs for their work in the Hapinoy Program. He was also chosen as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) in the category Social Enterprise and Community Development that year. In 2011, The Hapinoy Program won the UN’s Project Inspire Award besting over 400 social enterprises from all over the world. Again with business partner, Mark Ruiz, Bam was named as the Asian Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprises. Mr. Aquino is also the current President of the TAYO (Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations) Awards Foundation, the country’s premier youth award-giving body for youth organizations.

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Ramon Lopez Executive Director Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship-Go Negosyo Mr. Ramon Lopez is a Go Negosyo advocate, having been the Executive Director of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE) – Go Negosyo since September 2006. He has developed and executed strategies and programs of the Go Negosyo advocacy of the PCE to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in the country. Advocacy programs include the holding of Go Negosyo Forums, Seminars and Expos, awareness campaigns, mentoring and business assistance to micro and small entrepreneurs, production of weekly Go Negosyo TV program, website (www.gonegosyo.net), books, weekly newspaper columns Go Negosyo is also now promoting the development of social entrepreneurship and corporate social innovations to blend business pursuits with addressing social problems. He is also the Vice President and Head of Strategic Planning, and former Head of Market Development Group of the RFM Corporation. This covers Group-wide development and execution of key corporate strategies and programs, and special projects that cover all aspects of operations, with special focus on corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, sales, and finance and investors relations. Before he got deeply involved in Go Negosyo, he was directly handling the marketing and total brand management for RFM brands such as Sunkist juice, Selecta milk, Swift chilled and canned meats. Moreover, he was the former General Manager and now Director of the Kettle Foods Corporation – Makers of Kettle Korn Popcorn and Snowstorm soft serve ice cream (with 50 branches nationwide and network of over 300 dealers). He is also a Board Director in the Joey Pepperoni chain of pizza restaurants. Mr. Ramon Lopez took his Masters (with recognition) in Development Economics at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA and finished his AB Economics degree in the University of the Philippine Diliman.

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SSeessssiioonn 22:: HHooww ttoo SSccaallee UUpp aa GGoooodd IIddeeaa -- RReepplliiccaattiioonn aanndd EExxppaannssiioonn Kelly Hattel Financial Sector Specialist (Rural and Microfinance) Public Management, Financial Sector, & Trade Division, Southeast Asia Department Asian Development Bank Appointed Financial Sector Specialist (Rural and Microfinance) in the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division of the Southeast Asia Department effective 6 January 2011. Ms. Kelly Hattel is a national of the United States. She holds a Masters degree in International Affairs (Economics and Microfinance) from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in the USA (2000); and a Bachelors degree in International Studies and Law from the American University in the USA (1992). Ms. Hattel has over 15 years of professional experience as a Microfinance Specialist. At ADB she is leading a technical assistance project for developing a national strategy for financial inclusion in Thailand and has supported teams focused on the expansion of financial inclusion in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines over the past year. Prior to joining ADB, she consulted for various public and private sector agencies where she provided technical expertise and support on strategic and business development, financial and economic analysis, fund raising, project management and evaluation. She also worked to strengthen the operations of national and regional microfinance associations across Asia by conducting baseline and follow-up capacity assessments, providing direct technical support as well as developing a range of tools for MFAs on strategic and business planning, good governance, and credit bureaus. From 2001 to 2006, she was Director of the MicroFinance Network in Washington, D.C. where she managed a global association of 37 leading microfinance institutions from 28 countries; developed and implemented strategic plans and annual budgets for the network; worked with international donor organizations and private foundations to seek financial support and collaboration on microfinance activities (i.e. rural finance, consumer protection, staff incentives, and housing). She also maintained the network website, developed marketing materials, and wrote/produced all network publications. During this time she was a member of the Consumer Protection Working Group as well as the Social Performance Task Force.

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Iftekhar Enayetullah Co-founder and Director Waste Concern Iftekhar Enayetullah, a professional civil engineer and urban planner by training, holds Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with specialization in Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering and Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning with specialization in urban waste and environmental management. He is a practitioner, researcher and a social entrepreneur in areas of waste management, environmental management and clean energy with more than fifteen years of professional experience. As a Co-founder and Director of Waste Concern, Mr. Enayetulla has conceptualized, designed and implemented the community based decentralized composting technology using public-private-community partnerships model. Their model of waste management was first piloted in Mirpur area of Dhaka city in early 1994, and subsequently replicated in five communities of Dhaka city with support from Ministry of Environment and Forest and UNDP in 1998. This approach has led to significant environmental improvement at community level along with creation of employment opportunities for the urban poor especially women along with production of eco-friendly compost, which is most needed for the organic matter deficient soil of Bangladesh and also for reducing green house gas emission. Mr. Enayetullah has played a significant role in attracting carbon financing (CDM based investment) in Bangladesh. He is also a recipient of the United Nations Poverty Eradication Award 2002 for the entire Asia and the Pacific region for contribution in the field of solid waste management, especially generation of employment opportunities for the urban poor through composting. He is the first Bangladeshi to receive this prestigious UN Award. Schwab Foundation of Switzerland a sister organization of the World Economic Forum has also selected Mr. Enayetullah as Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum for his contribution in the field of waste management and environmental improvement of Dhaka city. In 2009 he was selected by World Economic Forum as a Member of Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum for 2009-2010. Mr. Enayetullah is also recipient of the Tech Museum Awards 2003 in the environment category. He is also selected as a Tech Laureate by the Tech Museum of USA for developing technology benefiting humanity. At the national level, Mr. Enayetullah has received Outstanding Engineer’s Award 2003 from the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB). He has also received the professional excellence award as an Engineer form the Daily Star-a prominent and leading newspaper of Bangladesh. Mr. Enayetullah’s professional expertise and interest are in the areas of waste management (solid, industrial, hazardous and clinical), urban environmental management, eco-sanitation, development of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects/green house gas mitigation projects, environmental impact assessment (EIA), public-private-community partnerships, industrial pollution mitigation/cleaner production, environmental management system, cleaner energy supply, energy efficient building design, efficient use of biomass, carbon foot print analysis and sustainable development. Stewart Craine Founder BareFoot Power Ltd. Mr. Stewart Craine is a founder of Barefoot Power and is the regional manager for Asia and the Pacific. He has a background in civil and electrical engineering and has worked as a renewable energy specialist consultant for over 6 years. Stewart spent 3 years designing and constructing micro-hydro power stations in Nepal and has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Stewart has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Mathematics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering. It was in Nepal where Mr. Craine saw that the aid industry was not able to reach all villages, and that there was a need for LED technology on a larger scale. At that time, there were 250 million households in the world spending $1 a week on kerosene, a total of $15 billion a year. This gave Mr. Craine the idea to distribute LED commercially. Mr. Craine saw that this requires not only new products but also the need to transform attitudes and convince people to stop using kerosene. This need allowed Mr. Craine to start the business with Harry Andrews, who he worked with at Hydro Tasmania on renewable energy products.

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Frederick LaCroix Chairman & Chief Executive Officer The PowerSource Group LLC Mr. Rick LaCroix, trained in law and international finance, has spent 20 years structuring, developing and managing infrastructure projects in Asia, both as a successful entrepreneur and as a Fortune 100 senior manager. He has advised senior government and business leaders throughout Asia and the Western Pacific on infrastructure privatization and reform initiatives. He served as a senior manager with Enron Corporation’s international operations and as an advisor to Raytheon Corporation internationally. He oversaw the development, financing construction and operation of both thermal and renewable power projects in markets as diverse as Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, the US, India and Japan. His teams have a reputation for completing projects ahead of schedule and under budget. In addition to line operational management, his responsibilities included legal, tax and commercial structuring, as well as political and strategic positioning. As the founder of a Southeast Asian-based venture start-up, Mr. LaCroix focused on the acquisition and commercialization of technologies and service concepts in the energy infrastructure and engineering services sectors in Asia. Among his accomplishments was the establishment of proprietary fabricated aluminum designs as an operating standard in the offshore oil and gas sector in Southeast Asia. He also built licensed manufacturing facilities in India, China and Australia. He established the securities law curriculum and co-established the international business law curriculum at the National University of Singapore, in the process advising on the drafting of fiduciary regulations governing the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Mr. LaCroix is a graduate of Trinity College-Cambridge University, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, The London School of Economics & Political Science and Phi Beta Kappa from Bucknell University. He is the co-editor of The Law of International Trade and Finance (Butterworth’s) and has presented papers on a range of topics including M&A, international project financing, utility privatization and joint venture management.

SSeessssiioonn 33:: HHooww EEmmeerrggiinngg SSoocciiaall EEnntteerrpprriisseess ccaann AAttttrraacctt CCaappiittaall Andrew ‘Drew’ Tulchin Managing Partner Social Enterprise Associates Social Enterprise Associates (www.socialenterprise.net), is a registered ‘B Corporation’, a firm specializing in enabling entities to ‘do well by doing good.’ Mr. Andrew Tulchin has contributed to a 100 business plans and dozens of market studies. His efforts in social, environmental and community investing have mobilized more than $100 million for ‘triple bottom line’ returns. Consulting has taken him throughout the U.S. and to nearly 40 countries worldwide, from Afghanistan to Zambia. Current engagements include: Confluence Philanthropy’s initiative Native Green Loan Fund to capitalize a U.S. $10 million fund, with Future of Fish – increasing availability of sustainably caught and harvested fish, a World Food Programme evaluation, and EMvolution a medical equipment start-up company. Previously, Mr. Tulchin directed a U.S. microfinance institution, was a lender, and worked in telecommunications. As a Program Officer at Grameen Foundation, he was the staff lead of the Capital Markets Group. Publications include Researcher for the book Compelling Returns. As a Director at Prisma Microfinance, his co-authored business plan was a Global Social Venture Competition award winner. As a team, he then raised $1.2 million in private equity. Mr. Tulchin completed his MBA at University of Washington; his BA from Washington University. He enjoys ultimate frisbee and eating delicacies like pig’s blood stew. He lives in Santa Fe, NM, USA.

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Durreen Shahnaz Founder and Chairperson Impact Investment Exchange Impact Investment Shujog Ms. Durreen Shahnaz is the Founder and Chairwoman of Impact Investment Exchange and Founder and Managing Director of Impact Investment Shujog. Durreen is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She has a track record as a successful banker, media executive and social entrepreneur. She founded, ran and sold the social purpose business oneNest in New York. She also headed up the Asia operations of Hearst Magazines International, Reader’s Digest Asia, and Asia City Publishing Group. Ms. Shahnaz began her professional career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley (New York), followed by stints at Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), World Bank (Washington, D.C.), and Merrill Lynch (Hong Kong). She holds a BA from Smith College; an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania; and an MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Shahnaz was a TED 2010 Fellow and Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow. Ms. Shahnaz is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation for 2011. Durreen is also the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Catalyst Program. Joan Yao LGT Venture Philanthropy Foundation Ms. Joan Yao is Investment Manager for Southeast Asia of LGT Venture Philanthropy, a non-profit venture fund supporting scalable, sustainable, and entrepreneurial solutions to social problems. She is responsible for investment sourcing and analysis, deal execution, partnership-building, and the ongoing strategic support of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s portfolio organizations in the region. Previously, Ms. Yao worked at the investment banking division of Credit Suisse and equity research division of UBS, Philippines. Joan holds a degree in Management Engineering with a minor in English Literature, cum laude, from the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Ms. Yao is a passionate about creating sustainable positive impact by supporting young, strongly growing organizations with financial, intellectual, and social capital. Background in finance and investment analysis. Led the creation of the first CSR magazine for business students in the Philippines.

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Jaime Aristotle B. Alip Founding President, CARD Inc. Chairman and Managing Director, CARD MRI Mr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip is the Founder and Managing Director of CARD MRI, the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Award for Public Service. CARD MRI is a group of mutually reinforcing institutions. Under Mr. Alip's leadership CARD MRI was awarded the Prize for Excellence in Community Economic Development by the Southern New Hampshire University in 2007; People Power People Recognition Award by Former President Corazon C. Aquino in 2005; the Global Excellence for Microfinance by the Grameen Foundation, USA in 2003; and the Flame of Excellence Award by USAID and Microfinance Coalition for Standards of the Philippines in 2000. Mr. Alip received the Medal of Honor from the Vietnam Women's Union in 1995 for his work in microcredit for poor women in Vietnam. He was also given the Secretary's Award of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Philippine Government in 1998 for his contribution in agrarian reform program. Ernst and Young recognized him as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 and has recently received the Ten Outstanding San Pableños Award from the local government and the People of San Pablo City, Laguna in July 2008, and the Most Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of the Philippines as conferred by the UP Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is also the 2007 Most Outstanding Alumnus of UPLB, the University of the Philippines' agricultural campus. Mr. Alip has recently been elected as a member of the International Board of Directors of Oikocredit representing Asia and the Pacific. He sits in the board or committees in several microfinance regulated institutions in Asia such CHC Limited and Selainithih Limited in Cambodia; Bank Danarta Burpa-TPR in Indonesia; and, GSBF-CARD MRI in Viet Nam. Mr. Alip is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Harvard University having completed the 3-year Owner/President Management (OPM) Program in 2007 and was awarded the Excellence Award on Strategy. He obtained his doctorate degree in Organizational Development from the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI), Manila. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in agricultural economics/marketing from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He also attended the Executive Program in Global Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, CaseWestern Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Mr. Alip has served in various key positions in the Philippine Government: Undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (2002-2003); Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform (1996-1998); Deputy Executive Director of the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (1988-1992). He has extensive international experience in the field of microfinance and rural development in Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, PRC, Myanmar, Bhutan, and East Timor, serving in various capacities as advisor, expert and/or consultant.

SSeessssiioonn 44:: NNuurrttuurriinngg tthhee PPhhiilliippppiinnee SSoocciiaall EEnntteerrpprriissee EEccoossyysstteemm Gigi Arlyn Gatti Vice President for Project Control and Management BPI-Globe BanKO Ms. Gigi Gatti is Vice President of BPI-Globe BanKO, the first mobile savings bank in the Philippines with financial inclusion as its main objective. Ms. Gatti is a development professional, and has worked with both Grameen Foundation, USA as well as the Asian Development Bank. Her experience combines 20 years of Information Technology, Audit and Project Management work. At the same time, she also had a parallel career in Education as Professor at the De La Salle University for 15 years.

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Roberto ‘Bobby’ Calingo Executive Director Peace and Equity Foundation Mr. Roberto R. Calingo is currently the executive director of Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF). He provides overall strategic leadership on PEF programs and manages its P1.6 billion endowment fund for poverty alleviation projects of partner civil society organizations. He has been in the field of social development and corporate social responsibility for the past 30 years. Mr. Calingo also worked as Executive Director of TeaM Energy Foundation and the Executive Director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress. He has likewise served on various boards of organizations including the League of Corporate Foundations and Philippine Council for NGO Certification. Marie Lisa Dacanay President and Founder Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia Ms. Marie Lisa Dacanay is the founding President of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) and is a pioneer in social entrepreneurship education and research in the region. ISEA is a regional consortium of academic institutions, practitioners, resource institutions and networks engaged in knowledge creation, capacity building, networking and advocacy for the advancement of social entrepreneurship towards sustainable development (www.isea-group.net). Ms. Dacanay is editor and principal author of Measuring Social Enterprise: A Resource Book on Social Enterprise Performance Measurement (2009) and Creating a Space in the Market: Social Enterprise Stories in Asia (2004). She is also the author of Social Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective, a chapter in a book published by Palgrave Macmillan entitled International Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship (2009). Ms. Dacanay is visiting fellow at the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines where she is leading curriculum development for a Master in Public Management (Social Entrepreneurship Track) piloted jointly by ASoG and ISEA in March 2011. Lisa was associate professor and program director of the Social and Development Entrepreneurship Program under the Asian Center for Entrepreneurship in the Asian Institute of Management from 2001 – 2007. During that period, she mentored social entrepreneurs and development managers enrolled under the Master in Entrepreneurship for Social and Development Entrepreneurs (MESODEV), and taught social entrepreneurship and development management courses under AIM’s Center for Development Management and Graduate School of Business. Ms. Dacanay has 25 years of experience in development management and consulting, social entrepreneurship and international development cooperation in the Asian region. She holds a Master in Development Management (With Distinction) from the Asian Institute of Management (1996) and received a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) from the University of the Philippines (1984). She is a PhD Fellow under the Doctoral School of Organization and Management Studies at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark (2007-present). Her PhD dissertation is entitled Social Enterprises and the Poor: Enhancing Social Entrepreneurship and Stakeholder Theory which she is scheduled to defend in 2012.

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Ma. Gisela Tiongson Executive Director Jollibee Foundation Ma. Gisela Tiongson is the Executive Director of Jollibee Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) whose strategic business units include Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich, Red Ribbon Bakeshop and Mang Inasal. Prior to joining Jollibee in 2007, Gisela was connected with the AIM-Mirant Center for Bridging Societal Divides (2006-2007), managing several of its collaborative leadership programs and with the Synergos Institute as its Regional Director for Southeast Asia (2001-2004). She also worked at the Philippine Business for Social Progress (1990-2000), a 40-year-old foundation organized by the Philippine business community as an expression of their social responsibility.

CCoonncclluuddiinngg SSeessssiioonn CClloossiinngg RReemmaarrkkss Rosalina Bistoyong Undersecretary Department of Agrarian Reform Philippines Ms. Rosalina Bistoyong is the Undersecretary for the Special Programs on Agrarian Reform Stakeholders Relations Office (SPARSRO), Department of Agrarian Reform of the Philippine government. Ms. Bistoyong is DAR’s focal person for the Center for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) in Tehran, Iran, Deutshe Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Durban, South Africa, National Anti-Poverty Commission, Population Commission, QUEDANCOR, Climate Change Program, National Greening Program, and theNational Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Ms. Bistoyong holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Santo Tomas and is a candidate for Master of Professional Studies in Communication Arts at the Cornell University in USA.

Jiwan Acharya Senior Climate Change Specialist (Clean Energy) Sustainable Infrastructure Division, Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank Mr. Jiwan Acharya is working in Sustainable Infrastructure Division in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department of ADB as a Senior Climate Change Specialist (Clean Energy). He is a key member of ADB's Climate Change and Clean Energy Team and is responsible for overseeing ADB's several key initiatives including Technical Support Facility under the Carbon Market Program and Energy for All. The TSF is providing assistance to over 100 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in various stages in close to 20 countries. He is now focusing on mainstreaming climate change in ADB's operations through promotion of clean energy, low carbon technologies, CDM, access to energy among others. Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Acharya was Senior Research Officer in Winrock International in Kathmandu, Nepal covering climate change, CDM, energy access and broader clean energy areas. Mr. Acharya, who is a Nepalese national, has a Master of Arts in Economics, Master of Science in Energy Systems and Management and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.