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When I was visiting London recently from my home town, Edinburgh, someone asked me if Scotland and England were now completely different places? The question was asked in the context of the angst created by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the consequent political uncertainty which...

African leaders are recognizing that solving problems for young people isn't working as well as trusting young people to be leaders so that they can become the solution.

Gonzalo Muñoz, Ashoka Fellow and son of Ximena Abogabir, also an Ashoka fellow, shared the following as a speech to an audience of media, business, public and citizen leaders. “The privileges you enjoy also carry a great responsibility toward those less fortunate.” As a child, this saying was a...

If your teenager doesn’t know how to add two numbers together, you would know there is a problem. Math, like reading, is generally understood to be an essential skill for functioning in the world. But what if your teenager doesn’t know how to read others’ emotions and act on that interpretation...

For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Juan Loraschi and host Ashoka Fellow Dorien Beurskens Juan Loraschi, Western Union Regional Vice President, partnered with Dorien...

For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Emmanuel Salvetti and host Ashoka Fellow Sunanda Mane Emmanuel, Vice President of risk and credit Finance for WU Colorado partnered...

As part two of this two-part LeadYoung series, Ashoka asks Ashoka Fellow Ximena Abogabir, mother to Ashoka Fellow Gonzalo Muñoz, about her childhood, her role as a mother and her philosophy for parenting Gonzalo and her two other changemaker children.

Corruption long was a taboo subject. Bribes in some countries were tax-deductible. That mindset changed when Peter, having seen the untold damage it was doing, especially in his earlier work in development, founded and built up Transparency International. Transparency built chapters in almost every...

Henry De Sio, Jr., former COO for the Obama campaign, is now looking for groundbreaking, inspirational leaders through Ashoka. “We’ve been in repetition for millennia, but in the last thirty or forty years, we’ve moved out of repetition and seen the rise of individual agency,” says Mr. De Sio. “We...