William Drayton was born on 1943 and is an American social entrepreneur.
17 Facts About Bill Drayton
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Bill Drayton is responsible for the rise of the phrase "social entrepreneur", a concept first found in print in 1972.
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Bill Drayton is the founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a 501 organization dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide.
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Bill Drayton was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Bill Drayton's father was an American who became an explorer.
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Bill Drayton's ancestors were some of the earliest anti-slavery abolitionist and women's leaders in the US Drayton was born in 1943 in New York City.
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Bill Drayton attended high school at Phillips Academy, where he established the Asia Society, which soon became the school's most popular student organization.
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Bill Drayton attended Harvard where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, where he created the Ashoka Table, bringing in prominent government, union, and church leaders for off-the-record dinners at which students could ask "how things really worked".
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Bill Drayton entered Balliol College, Oxford and received a Master of Arts degree in 1967.
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Bill Drayton attended Yale Law School where he received his Juris Doctor in 1970.
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At Yale Law School, Bill Drayton founded Yale Legislative Services, which, at its peak, involved a third of the law school's student body.
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Bill Drayton has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford University.
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Bill Drayton has received many awards and acknowledgments for his achievements.
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Bill Drayton was elected one of the early MacArthur Fellows for his work, including the founding of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
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On May 25,2009, Bill Drayton was awarded an honorary degree, Doctorate of Humane Letters, by Yale University at commencement.
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In 2011, Bill Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Awards for international cooperation for his work promoting entrepreneurs.
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In 2012, Bill Drayton was named an inaugural recipient of Middlebury College's Center for Social Entrepreneurship Vision Award, in recognition of the impact of his contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship.