Antony Kalm
CEO and Co-founder of the LINK Fund. Named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation at the World Economic Forum for his work with One Acre Fund, an agricultural social enterprise which has grown from 38 to 2.25 million farm families, from 7k USD in annual budget to nearly 1 billion USD. Tony has created and grown many non- and for-profit entities – a non-profit drug company, a seed vault protecting millions of crop samples, a billion dollar trust fund housed by the World Bank that invests in pro-poor agricultural technology, etc. – all financially sustainable. He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and INSEAD. Tony is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Sri Lanka.
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awardees
Our awardees
Mechai Viravaidya
Founder and Board Chairman, Population and Community Development Association (PDA)
Jean-Louis Ribes
Managing Director, Distribution Services Industriels (DSI)
Lejla Radoncic
Chief Executive Officer, Bosnian Handicrafts