Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Head of Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum. Dr Bonnici is a public health physician, university professor, social change practitioner, foundation leader and author of a new book, The Systems Work of Social Change. He was the former Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town, the first academic centre dedicated to social innovation in Africa, where he still serves as Adjunct Associate Professor.
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.
Rhodes Scholar, South Africa (1999); Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow (2013), Associate Fellow Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2018), Visiting Faculty, Geneva Graduate Institute (2019).
When Russian aggression in Ukraine turned into a full-scale invasion earlier this year, millions were displaced and businesses were disrupted. The situation prompted social entrepreneur K...
The social economy is advancing rapidly, with enterprises driven by the principles of equity and justice – rather than profit – now improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people a...
Imagine living in a remote village in Ogun State, Nigeria. You suffer from hypertension, arthritis, and poor eyesight. You are dependent on medication, but the nearest pharmacy is in Lago...
A lot can happen in two years – especially when our future is at stake. While the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted massive economic and social damage on the world, it has also prompted an ...
Social entrepreneurs matter now more than ever. Purpose-driven social enterprises, which measure success by the good they do rather than the profits they make, have been on the front line...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been no ordinary crisis. The worst health emergency in more than a century has been compounded by growing inequality and rapidly rising food and energy prices th...
As the world looks beyond the devastation of COVID-19 and confronts fresh dislocations caused by climate change, economic turmoil and war, the urgent need to bolster efforts towards the s...
我们应该如何使世界变得更好？我们缺的不是资源、解决方案或技术，而是聪明才智。我们需要研究我们如何扮演好公民、政府和企业的角色，从而促进转型。社会创新者和服务他人的系统颠覆者，为使世界成为一个更加公正、可持续和公平的地方提供了独特的见解。施瓦布基金会（Schwab Foundation）的社会创新者群体已经影响了来自190多个国家的7.22亿人的生活。
How do we make the world a better place? It’s not resources, solutions, or technologies that we lack, it’s resourcefulness. We need to work out how we organize ourselves as citizens, gove...
Few would disagree that the pandemic has pushed world systems to the brink. As development gains of the last 20 years eroded, supply chains disrupted, and health systems buckled, a new ur...
Across economic, social and political measures, COVID-19 has both revealed and amplified the world’s long-standing inequities. By walking alongside Black, Indigenous and People of Colour ...
Confronted by the devastation of COVID-19 and the rising threat of climate change, the world urgently needs new ways to tackle poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Working together a...
この2年という歳月は、私たちの仕事や交流のあり方をかつてないほど変化させ、誰もがより高いレベルの臨機応変さとレジリエンス（強靭性）を求められてきました。このことを一番よく知るのは、脆弱なコミュニティや排除されたコミュニティで働くソーシャル・イノベーターである、社会起業家や社内起業家たち。彼らは、危機に見事に対処してきたのです。
The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici, published by Oxford University Press will be released 1 September. Join the conversation on the World Economic Fo...
The following is an excerpt from The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici, published by Oxford University Press on 1 September 2021. Join the conversation ...
