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Francois Bonnici
Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Head of Foundations including the Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers at the World Economic Forum.
Dr Bonnici is a public health physician, university professor, social change practitioner, foundation leader and author of The Systems Work of Social Change, awarded the Best Non-Profit Management Book of 2022.
His career is rooted in front-line medical and humanitarian work and he has worked extensively with public sector, civil society, business and philanthropy to build progressive and catalytic partnerships.
He is a Rhodes Scholar, Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and Academic Fellow at the University of Geneva, and was the former Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town.
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