| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Seminar Room 208N, This event was held at 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 |
This lunch seminar, exclusively for Munk School students, is an opportunity to meet in a small group with Munk School Senior Fellow, Scott Gilmore.
Scott Gilmore has built a diverse international career as a diplomat, with the United Nations, as the founder of a successful international social enterprise, as an investor and entrepreneur, and as a writer and journalist. His work has taken him to over 30 countries from Switzerland to Iraq, and in his various roles he has often counselled students on the best and worst ways to start their international careers. Scott will be sharing what he has learned from the “mercenaries, missionaries, and madmen” he has worked with over the years.
Bio
Scott Gilmore is a writer, investor, and entrepreneur. He is the President of Anchor Chain which sets up, turns around, or transforms complicated projects. Recent examples of that work include rescuing a stranded asset in Africa and organizing the first deployment of Starlink terminals into Ukraine for SpaceX.
Scott founded the New York-based organization Building Markets, a social enterprise that has created over 70,000 jobs by connecting local entrepreneurs to global markets. Prior to this he was a diplomat specializing in conflict zones and helped open Canada’s first embassy in Afghanistan. Scott worked for the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor and established the new nation’s intelligence agency. He is an award-winning writer, the former Editor-at-Large for Macleans magazine, and has been a columnist for the Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, and the National Post.
Scott was given the EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, and was given the Skoll prize. President Obama awarded him the G20 Prize for innovation in impact investing, and the Globe & Mail named him a “Transformational Canadian”. The World Economic Forum has honored him as a Young Global Leader, and he is a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Ashoka Foundation.
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