Overview

Pamela Hartigan has been the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship since January 2009. She is also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organisation launched in 2008 and focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges affecting our future. Prior to starting Volans, Dr. Hartigan spent eight years as the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (2000-2008), a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum where she was also on the Forum Managing Board. The Schwab Foundation is focused on advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship globally, building and supporting its community of practitioners whose efforts have achieved transformational social change. 

Throughout her career, she has held varied leadership positions in multilateral health organisations and educational institutions as well as in entrepreneurial non-profits. She has been responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organisations, departments or programs across a variety institutional arrangements and multi-stakeholder platforms.  She is currently a Trustee or on the Board of Advisors of the following social enterprises:  Bamboo Finance (Switzerland), CAMBIA (Australia), Endeavor (USA), INDEX (Denmark), GEXSI (Germany), Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation (USA), Mobile Metrix (Brazil), and The Story Museum (UK).  A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., she also holds Masters' degrees in Economics and Public Health and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. 

Dr. Hartigan is a frequent lecturer on social entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate schools of business in the USA, Europe and Asia, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School. Her book, co-authored with John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility (UK) and entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World was published by Harvard Business Press in February 2008.

Books:

Hartigan, P. and Elkington, J (March 2008), The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change to World. Harvard Business Press.

Elkington, J. and P. Hartigan, Counter Current: A Guide to Social Entrepreneurship. In press.

Book chapters:

Hartigan, P. (2007) "Delivering on the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship: Challenges faced in Launching a Global Social Capital Market". in Nicholls, A. (ed),  Social Entrepreneurship: New Paradigms of Sustainable Social Change', Oxford University Press.

Hartigan, P. (1994) "The Response of NGOs in Latin America to HIV Infection and AIDS: A Vehicle for Grasping the Contributions NGOs make to Health and Development". in Feldman, D. PhD (ed), Global AIDS Policy. University of Miami, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Bergin and Garvey: Westport, Conn.

Hartigan, P. (1998) "Building Community Networks to Address Violence"
in  C. Moser and S. Lister (eds.) Violence and Social Capital, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, Sustainable Development Working Paper No. 5.

Journal articles:

Hartigan, P. (2002), Series of articles written at the request of The Earth Times, publication of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg

1. "The Missing Link in Johannesburg: Social Entrepreneurs", July 2002
2. "It takes more than PR to Modify the US Image: US Social Entrepreneurs Abroad", July 2002
3. "Empowering the Consumer to Restore a Healthy Earth: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurs in Latin America", August 2002
4. "Think Garbage is Garbage? Think again!", August 2002
5. "How Big can Small Become? Lessons from Social Entrepreneurs", August 2002
6. "Seizing Opportunities to provide Market access to the Poor:Lessons from Social Entrepreneurs", August 2002
7. "Beyond Bugs and Drugs: Health Promotion by Social Entrepreneurs", Sept. 2002
8. "Innovating in response to Market Failure: The Art of Social Entrepreneurship Examples from Africa", September 2002
9. "Time and Ego: Obstacles to Sustainable Development -Examples from Asia", September 2002
Hartigan, P. and Schwab K. (2003), "Corporate Citizenship Comes of Age: the New Imperative". Journal of World Vision International, May

Schwab, K. and Hartigan P. (2004), "La Corporación del Siglo 21". Op-Ed in América Económica, November.

Hartigan, P. and J. Billmoria. Guest Editors. (2005) Co-authors of lead article: "Social Entrepreneurship: What is it and how can you support it?"
Alliance Magazine. Issue on Social Entrepreneurship, March.

Hartigan, P. (2005), "Social Entrepreneurship: "What is it and what are its challenges?" For A Change. Magazine of Caux Initiatives for Business. April/May issue.

Schwab, K. and P. Hartigan (2005), "Shaping the Future: The Work of Social Entrepreneurs", Op Ed in Terra Viva, IPS Service, Porto Alegre, Brazil. January.

Hartigan, P. and Schwab, K. (2007), "Social Innovators with a Business Case: Facing 21st Century Challenges one Market at a Time". Innovations Journal. MIT Press, Fall, pp 7-11

Earlier journal publications:

Hartigan, P. (1987), Understanding Social Constructions: A Study of Ecuadorean Adolescents from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds in Guayaquil,Ecuador. Ann Arbor: UMI Press.

Hartigan, P. and St. John, R. (1989), "AIDS Training in Third World Countries: An Evaluation of Telecommunications Technology", Educational Technology, March.

Hartigan, P. (1991), "A Special Report: Profile of People Living with HIV in Latin America", National Council of International Health Journal, Jan./Feb.

Hartigan, P. (1991), "Compromisos con las ONGs", El Nacional, No. 4, 19 enero, Ciudad de México.

Hartigan, P. (1991), "NGOs working in AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview", AIDS and Society, October.

Hartigan, P. (1991), "OPS Informa: Las ONGs en Acción,"
SIDAMERICA, Vol. 1, The Panos Institute, Washington, D.C. September.

Hartigan, P. (1992), "Stimulating NGO-Government Collaboration in Health"
Journal of The International Health Exchange, Feb/March, London.

Hartigan, P. (1995), "How Big Can Small Become? Building NGO Networks through Strategic Planning", AIDSCaptions. Family Health International, Vol. II, No. 2.

Hartigan, P. and Pittman, P. (1996), "Gender Inequity: An Issue for Quality Assessment Researchers and Managers", Women’s Health Care International, Vol. 1, Sept.

Hartigan, P. (1995), "The Health of Women and Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: It’s Time to Look through a Gender Lens", Directions, Partners of the Americas, December.

Hartigan, P. and Pittman, P. (1996), "Calidad de Atención y la Perspectiva de Género", Revista de ISIS International, Julio.

Hartigan, P. (1996-97), "Progreso sobre la Iniciativa para Combatir la Violencia Intrafamiliar contra la Mujer", Boletín de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe sobre Violencia, No. 11, abril 1996; No. 12, julio 1996; No. 13, dic. 1996; No.14, abril 1997, No. 15 julio 1997.

Hartigan, P. (1996), "The Economics of the Heart", rspectives in Health, Pan American Health Organisation, Vol. 1.

Hartigan, P. (1997), He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not’: Insisting that the Private Become Public in Dealing with Domestic Violence". Magazine, June.

Hartigan, P. (1997), "Promotion and Protection Approaches to Combat Discrimination in Providing Health Care to Women", Journal of the Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., August.

Hartigan, P. (1997), "Women’s Health in a Changing Global Context: The Impact of Globalization on women’s lives and women’s health". Monograph. Published by California Public Health Association, based on keynote address given at CPHA, University of Berkeley, California, 23 October.

Hartigan, P. (1998), "Gender, Environment and Health: Incorporating a Gender Perspective into Environmental Health Work". Pan American Health Organisation, Washington, D.C., December.

Hartigan, P. (1997), “Violence against women: The Critical path" .
Pan American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 2, No. 4, Oct. pp. 290-294.
Hartigan, P. and Gomez, E. Gender, Health and Development: A Facilitator’s Guide for Mainstreaming Gender into Health Work. Pan American Health Organisation, Washington, D.C.,1997.

Hartigan, P. et. al. (1998), La Ruta Crítica que siguen las Mujeres afectadas por la Violencia Intrafamiliar. Protocolo de Investigación. Washington, D.C., Organización Panamericana de la Salud.

Hartigan, P. 1999, “Communicable Diseases”, Gender and Equity in Health. Working Paper Series of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health, July.

Hartigan, P. (2000), "The Importance of Gender in Defining and Improving Quality of Care: Some conceptual issues". Health Policy and Planning, June.

Hartigan, P. (2000-01), Women’s Health Promotion: Best Practices: A selection of papers on Quality and Effectiveness in Health Promotion. Finnish Centre for Health Promotion, April, 2000, pp. 15 – 21.

"Health Promotion at the Crossroads". Population Bulletin, March 2000, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 14-15.

"Ensuring a Fair Go in Health: Changing the Rules of the Game". Health Promotion Journal of Australia, April 2001, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 10-13.