Bill Drayton

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William "Bill" Drayton is a social entrepreneur. Born in 1943 in New York City, U.S. Drayton was named by "US News & World Report" as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005. [ [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051031/31drayton.htm USNews.com: The social entrepreneur: Bill Drayton ] ] He is sometimes mistakenly credited with having coined the phrase "social entrepreneur", although it was already in use by 1972. [see J Banks, "The Sociology of Social Movements", London, MacMillan, 1972.]

Drayton is the founder and current Chair of , a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide. Drayton also chairs the Community Greens and Get America Working! organizations.

Biography

Drayton's mother emigrated to the US from Australia. His father was an American who became an explorer. Public service and strong values run through the history of both parents' families - including several of the earliest anti-slavery abolitionist and women's leaders in the U.S. [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-magazine/good-qa-social-entrepre_b_75010.html GOOD Magazine: GOOD Q&A: Social Entrepreneur Bill Drayton On His White House Years - Living on The Huffington Post ] ] Drayton was born in 1943 in New York City.

Drayton attended high school at the Phillips Academy and went on to Harvard where received his BA in 1965. Drayton entered Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and received an MA 1967, after which he went to Yale Law School where he received his JD in 1970. Drayton became a manager and management consultant, working for McKinsey and Company as a consultant for almost ten years. [ [https://alumni.mckinsey.com/alumni/default/public/content/jsp/alumni_news/20060920_Bill_Drayton_Feature.jsp Bill Drayton Paints a Vision of Changemaking ] ] During the Carter administration (1977-1981) he was an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency where he launched emissions trading among other reforms. He has been a visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford. [ [http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/events/leadershipaward/07winner/index.html Events - Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship(CASE) ] ]

Drayton has received many awards for his achievements. He was elected one of the early MacArthur Fellows for his work, including the founding of Ashoka. [ He is not to be confused with William Drayton of reality television fame. [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142683/k.77C6/Fellows_List__November_1984.htm MacArthur Fellows, November 1984] , The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved February 9 2008.] The American Society of Public Administration and the National Academy of Public Administration jointly awarded him their National Public Service Award [ [http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_awardsnpsa_winners.cfm National Public Service Awards ] ] and he has also been named a Preiskel-Silverman Fellow for Yale Law SchoolFact|date=February 2008 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [http://www.amacad.org/members/alpha_list.pdf]

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