Large scale social impact requires linking innovative social entrepreneurs with a new type of social change agent, the System Entrepreneur. The System Entrepreneur unites data, research, innovation and policy change through a new model that uses collaborative glue and managed egos. Using examples from the music and health fields, Jeffrey Walker describes this framework for population level system change.

JEFFREY C. WALKER is Vice Chair in the United Nations Envoy’s Office for Health Finance and Malaria. He also currently serves on the Boards of the University of Virginia, New Profit, Berklee College of Music and the Morgan Library. He is a partner in Bridge Builders investment fund. Jeff is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, serves on the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Contemplative Sciences at UVA. Jeff Co-Founded and was Chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits. Jeff recently co-authored a new book, The Generosity Network, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. For twenty five years Jeff was CEO and Co-Founder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia.

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