Fazle Abed
Founder of BRAC, the largest citizen sector organization in the world. He has pioneered innovations in education, health, social finance, and empowered local development. He serves tens of millions of needy citizens by “organizing the poor for power” in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt is the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), South Asia’s first labor and trade union for women workers and small producers in the informal economy. SEWA has provided healthcare, microfinance, vocational training centers, insurance, a bank, and an academy to over 700,000 members. Based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, SEWA is the largest single trade union in India and has spread to South Africa, Yemen, and Turkey. Ela Ben was also one of the founders and chair of Women's World Banking, SEWA Cooperative Bank, HomeNet, the International Alliance of Street Vendors, and WIEGO. Her book, We Are Poor But So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.

Hernando de Soto
De Soto is currently President of Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), a think tank devoted to the promotion of property rights in developing countries. De Soto works on the design and implementation of capital formation programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and former Soviet Nations. Some 30 heads of state have invited him to carry out these ILD programs in their countries.

Bill Drayton
Founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. He has defined and built the field of social entrepreneurship from its onset. He has also been central to the emergence of emissions trading and key innovations in the fields of environment, economics, and others.

Peter Eigen
Founder of Transparency International and leader of global coalitions to fight corruption. He has developed indexes and surveys that track and tackle corruption at every level of society. His leadership is producing change in systems of monitoring and governance globally.

Oded Grajew
Founder of the Ethos Institute for Business Social Responsibility, whose 1000+ member companies make up over 38 percent of Brazil’s GDP. He is the founder of the World Social Forum, which is attended by over 80,000 nonprofit organizations annually.

Ron Grzywinski
Cofounder of ShoreBank, the first U.S. community development and environmental bank holding company. A pioneer of the community development banking industry, ShoreBank’s signature template is a bank holding company structure with for-profit and nonprofit affiliates, which allows for a profitable institution while not insisting on a profit-maximizing one.

Mary Houghton
Cofounder of ShoreBank, the first U.S. community development and environmental bank holding company. A pioneer of the community development banking industry, ShoreBank’s signature template is a bank holding company structure with for-profit and nonprofit affiliates, which allows for a profitable institution while not insisting on a profit-maximizing one.

Alice Tepper Marlin
Founder of the Council on Economic Priorities which promotes corporate social responsibility and cleaner environmental practices. She also founded Social Accountability International, the premier standards-setting and accreditation organization dedicated to improving workplaces and communities. Her SA8000 standard is used in 47 countries and in over 50 industries worldwide.

Muhammad Yunus
Founder of the Grameen Bank, winner of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, and leader in microcredit. He has spread microcredit globally and pioneered in social business ventures such as Grameen Telecom which have enabled rural village women to become profitable sellers of telecommunications service in their communities.