Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur and CEO & founder of Ashoka, an international non-profit organisation that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs into the Ashoka organisation.

Internationally lauded and recognised as a visionary for pioneering the field of social entrepreneurship, Bill Drayton has been named one of America's 25 Best Leaders by US News & World Report in 2005-6. He has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum, and has addressed audiences around the world.