Charmian Gooch

Charmian Gooch
Occupation Global Witness, Co-Founder
Known for Anti-corruption activist
Awards

2014 TED Prize
2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2014
Website
Global Witness

Charmian Penelope Gooch (born 1965) is an anti-corruption campaigner who in 2014 was named on Bloomberg Markets' 50 Most Influential list.[1]

With Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley, she founded Global Witness in 1993 to investigate the link between natural resources, conflict, and corruption.[2]

Awards

Charmian Gooch won the 2014 Ted Prize.[3]

$1 million Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2014.[4][5]

100 Most Creative People in Business in 2014[6] by Fast Company (magazine).

Gleitsman International Activist Award, 2005. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Corruption fighter named as one of the world's ‘most influential’ people. Lizzie Edmonds, London Evening Standard, 15 September 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  2. ↑ 20 Years of Global Impact. Global Witness. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  3. ↑ TED Prize Winner Charmian Gooch Announces Global Campaign to Abolish Anonymous Companies, 18th March 2014, accessed 1/25/2015
  4. ↑ "Charmian Gooch TED Speaker Profile.". http://www.ted.com/speakers/charmian_gooch/''. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "2014 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Awards Ceremony.". http://skollworldforum.org/session/skoll-world-forum-2014/skoll-awards-for-social-entrepreneurship-awards-ceremony/''. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Fast Company: 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2014.". http://www.fastcompany.com/3029506/most-creative-people-2014/charmian-gooch''. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Charmian Gooch, Skoll World Forum Profile.". http://skollworldforum.org/contributor/charmian-gooch/''. Retrieved 17 March 2015.

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