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Scaling Health Solutions through Government Partnerships

Each year the Skoll Centre invites a small number of Oxford students to the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Each year they share their unique perspectives of the sessions and events that unfold during this magical time…

Aligning Inner Wellbeing with External Impact

Skoll World Forum, Systems Change

Accelerating Systems Change: Making Possibility Real

Cicular Economy, Circular Economy, Environment

Slowing down fast fashion: a dress to save the planet

Greta Thompson is a third-year undergraduate in Materials science studying at the Queen’s college, who has worked within the Oxford Climate society, Oxford Energy society and is a member of the Oxford Foundry’s student advisory board. Interning…

South Asian man and woman sorting through a pile of assorted plastic bottle waste

Circular Economy, Environment

Plastics, are they really that bad?

Eileen Chen is a 2018-19 MBA student at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and a Canadian marketer with four years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry. Her marketing experience included managing an e-commerce website and developing…

Two young adults in urban area of Bogata, Columbia

Apprentice with a Problem, Research

Leveraging the collaborative economy for social mobility

The Skoll Centre’s Apprenticing with a Problem (AWAP) awards support individuals to engage in experiential learning and deep immersion around the challenges that they seek to tackle. Ana María Ñungo, of the Oxford Saïd MBA class 2016-17…

Daniela in Jaipur, India with four Indian ladies stood in front of a parked car

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

My journey from an impact business in India to a world-class MBA

Daniela Gheorghe is one of our 2018-19 Skoll Scholars on the Oxford MBA. Natively from Romania, Daniela has lived and worked in India for the last seven years where she has helped numerous families gain access to affordable health and…

Mohsin Mustafa with young children from his clinic in a Pakistani classroom

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

A letter to my younger self

Mohsin Ali Mustafa is our 2018-19 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. Mohsin is also a Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholar, co-founder and managing director of Clinic5 - an affordable health delivery service in Pakistan. I write this blog post as…

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