Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford
The Skoll Centre is an internationally renowned social impact centre, at Saïd Business School. We aim to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurship to address critical social and environmental challenges around the world.
University of Oxford
SKOLL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School is a leading academic entity for the advancement of social entrepreneurship worldwide. We foster innovative social transformation through world-class education, cutting-edge research, and collaboration among business, policy, academic, and social leaders. Our work and community are global in scope, and we uniquely use the power of networks to magnify the work of our researchers, students, and wider community beyond local and national boundaries.
SIHI INVOLVEMENT
As one of the founding members of the Social Innovation in Health Initiative in 2014, the Skoll Centre contributed to the creation of the initial case studies, and Pamela Hartigan, former director of the Centre, played a crucial role in spearheading the initiative. The Skoll Centre will continue to support and steer this initiative in its next phase of implementation to drive health innovation across the global south.
OUR FOCUS AREAS
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
We provide a variety of co-curricular courses, competitions, and events aimed at providing high potential, socially-minded graduate students across the University with the support, skills, and experiences to pursue their goals.
RESEARCH FOR ACTION
We work with Faculty and Early Career Researchers at the Saïd Business School and beyond to enable high-quality research that generates insights to address pressing environmental and social challenges globally.
CONVENINGS
Every year we organise a range of events seeking to catalyse deep exchanges with a global community of innovators. One of our main gatherings is the Skoll Foundation’s Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, which we host in Oxford each year in April.
MEET THE TEAM
DR PETER DROBAC
Director
A global health physician and social entrepreneur, Peter Drobac is the new Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford Saïd Business School. Peter was a co-founder and first Executive Director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Working at the intersection of health, education, and technology, UGHE aspires to train the next generation of global health leaders and to become a worldwide innovation hub for health care delivery science. Peter’s academic interests include implementation science and the development of high-performing health systems. As an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, he taught global health, social medicine and clinical infectious disease. He holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
JULIAN COTTEE
Programme Manager
Julian is the Programme Manager for Research and Insights at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Julian was previously at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where he worked on participatory scenario planning and stakeholder engagement for sustainable food, energy and water systems. Prior to that he was a consultant with 3Keel, an advisory firm specialised in responsible business and resilient natural resource supply chains. Julian was co-founder and retail director at community-owned social enterprise Cultivate, and co-founder of Good Food Oxford, the city’s sustainable food network, where he is currently a Steering Group member and Trustee. He has an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences and an MSc in Environmental Policy.
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Park End Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 1HP
