Biography:Gemma Mortensen
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| Occupation | Social entrepreneur, non-profit executive |
| Organization | New Constellations |
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Gemma Mortensen is an English social entrepreneur. She is the founder and co-creator of New Constellations and co-founder of More In Common. She previously served as Chief Global Officer at Change.org and Chief Executive Officer of Crisis Action.[1][2]
Mortenson has won the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the CNN Inspirational Women Award.[3][4] She has been named a Yale World Fellow[5] and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[6]
She co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on systems leadership, and worked in the European Commission, at the UN, and as a journalist.[5][7]
Education
Mortensen holds a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honors in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and a European Master's degree in human rights and democratization.[5]
Career
Mortensen served as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Crisis Action, an organization that coordinates networks of human rights, humanitarian, and foreign policy organizations.[5] Under her leadership, Crisis Action was awarded the 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions[8] by the MacArthur Foundation[9] and the 2013 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.[3] In 2014, she led a session on networking and collaboration at the Skoll World Forum.[10]
In August 2015, Mortensen was hired as Chief Global Officer at Change.org, assuming the role in January 2016.[11]
Mortensen is the founder of New Constellations, a platform for individuals and communities, such as disadvantaged towns in Scotland,[12] to explore social, political, and economic models.[13] She is also a co-founder of More In Common, a nonprofit that has worked on the European refugee crisis, where she has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the board.[14][15] In April 2017, she authored an article titled "10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions" for the Stanford Social Innovation Review.[16]
References
- ↑ "Gemma Mortensen". Global Teacher Prize. https://globalteacherprize.org/news/the-judging-academy/532/532-Gemma-Mortensen.
- ↑ "Gemma Mortensen". https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20043363?embedded-checkout=true.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Gemma Mortensen". The Skoll Foundation. https://skoll.org/contributor/gemma-mortensen/.
- ↑ "The women of the year | CNN Business" (in en). CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/19/business/gallery/leading-women-2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Gemma Mortensen". Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program. https://worldfellows.yale.edu/person/gemma-mortensen/.
- ↑ "Gemma Mortensen". The World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/people/gemma-mortensen/.
- ↑ "Towards a world of good relationships" (in en-GB). https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/world.
- ↑ "Crisis Action makes a big noise using quiet citizen diplomacy". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0217/Crisis-Action-makes-a-big-noise-using-quiet-citizen-diplomacy.
- ↑ "Crisis Action - MacArthur Foundation". https://www.macfound.org/maceirecipients/2012/crisis-action.
- ↑ Cahalane, Claudia; Seager, Charlotte; Brammall, Sally; Anyangwe, Eliza (2014-04-11). "2014 Skoll World Forum: as it happens" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2014/apr/09/2014-skoll-world-forum-as-it-happens.
- ↑ "Gemma Mortensen" (in en-US). https://jackson.yale.edu/person/gemma-mortensen/.
- ↑ Clegg, Alicia. "Charting New Futures (SSIR)" (in en-us). https://ssir.org/articles/entry/charting_new_futures.
- ↑ "Interview with Gemma Mortensen (New Constellations)" (in en-US). https://whatsworkingsolutions.org/resource/interview-with-gemma-mortensen-new-constellations/.
- ↑ "'Between Cosmopolitans and Nativists, There's a Conflicted Middle'" (in en). 2018-01-30. https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/refugees/community/2018/01/30/between-cosmopolitans-and-nativists-theres-a-conflicted-middle.html.
- ↑ "Team" (in en-US). https://www.moreincommon.com/about-us/team/.
- ↑ Mortensen, Gemma. "10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions (SSIR)" (in en-us). https://ssir.org/articles/entry/10_things_you_need_to_build_clever_coalitions.
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