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Last broadcast on Sun, 10 Apr 2011, 15:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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The Forum programme at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship was joined by a lively international audience of social entrepreneurs, and three distinguished guests to debate the role of the hero in bringing about change.
Dr Larry Brilliant was on the United Nations team that helped eradicate smallpox and is now president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Ken Brecher, former director of the Sundance film festival, now runs the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. And social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar who was inspired by her hero the microfinance guru Muhammad Yunis to quit her job and set up the Kashf Foundation which provides loans which empower those stuck in the cycle of poverty.
Social entrepreneurs are mavericks and ruler breakers who take bold ideas from the world of business, and look for ways to improve the lives of many. But what does it mean to be a hero today? And are social entrepreneurs heroic? Is an ability to embrace risk a prerequisite for being a hero? Should the best social entrepreneurs merely facilitate our grass roots heroes in their quest. And how do you do that most effectively?
Illustration by Emily Kasriel: the heroic social entrepreneur battles ill health, ignorance and poverty.
Dr. Lawrence Brilliant
CEO of Skoll Global Threats Fund. He is an American physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author, and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Dr. Brilliant is one of the leaders of the successful World Health Organisation (WHO) smallpox eradication programme.
Kenneth Brecher
Previously Executive Director of the Sundance Institute, now President of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the non-profit arm that supports literacy, education, cultural, and technology programs of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Roshaneh Zafar
Social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar is the founder and managing director of The Kashf Foundation, Pakistan's third largest microfinance institution.
In next week's programme
In next week's programme The Forum focusses on the role of the British Monarchy in the 21st century.
The stage at the Skoll World Forum
The Forum's guests at the Skoll World Forum
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