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Bjorn Lomborg Featured Speaker at The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

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The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the impact of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage and large-scale social change.

Each year, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders and strategic partners gather at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to exchange ideas, solutions and information.

This year, Bjorn Lomborg was a featured speaker in the “Global Development: What Should We Focus On and How Will We Measure Success” session of the forum.

In the following clip, Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship asks Bjorn to speak to the use of cost benefit analysis to assist the creation of development policies.

In the following clip, Bjorn speaks to the benefits of having a fewer concise targets within the post-2015 development agenda.