Chris Bradford
| Chris Bradford | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States of America |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Yale University Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| 💼 Occupation | Educator and Social Entrepreneur |
| Known for | CEO and Co-founder of African Leadership Academy |
Christopher James Bradford (Born 1978) is an American entrepreneur, widely credited with being a co-founder of African Leadership Academy.[1][2][3] Bradford has served as the academy’s Chief Operating Officer and is currently its Chief Executive Officer.[4][5]
In 2004, while a graduate student at Stanford, Bradford and his colleague Fred Swaniker started African Leadership Academy (ALA) to address poor leadership and brain drain in Africa.[6] ALA is located on the outskirts of Johannesburg in South Africa and identifies, develops and connects Africa's future leaders with support from a variety of institutional, corporate and individual philanthropists.[7][8]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Bradford spent his early years in Michigan in the United States and attended Portage Northern High School. Chris then went on to earn a BA, summa cum laude, in Economics from Yale University, an MA in Education Administration and an MBA, both from Stanford University. Throughout his education Bradford was recognized for his academics, athletics and potential.[9][10][11]
Career[edit]
Chris has worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and in brand management at the Procter and Gamble Company.[11] In Africa Chris helped launch the Summer Academy at Cape Town, a highly successful international summer program for high school students. He also spent two years as a Peter Ling Teaching Fellow at the Oundle School, one of the largest coeducational boarding schools in the United Kingdom, and worked with the US-based education-focused Broad Foundation in the summer of 2005.[12][13]Bradford currently sits on boards of educational organizations such as Eduterra, Leaf Academy and Latin American Leadership Academy.
Recognition[edit]
While at Yale, Bradford received the Delaney Kiphuth Scholar-Athlete Award as the graduating varsity athlete ranking highest in scholarship. At Stanford’s Graduate School of Business he became one of five Siebel Scholars[11][14]in recognition of his academic excellence and extracurricular leadership. He graduated an Arjay Miller Scholar, the school’s highest academic honor, having finished in the top 10% of is class. In 2006 he and Swaniker were selected as Echoing Green Fellows, from over 900 organizations worldwide, for being two of the “leading emerging social entrepreneurs in the world."[13] In 2012, he received the inaugural Siebel Scholars Impact Award for his work developing African Leadership Academy.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "How the African Leadership Academy Is Fighting the Continent's Education Exodus". Fast Company. 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ↑ "In Johannesburg, the African Leadership Academy draws from all over the continent the elite of tomorrow". Le Monde (in français). 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ↑ "School for Africa's future leaders". Brand South Africa. 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "Leadership a choice and linked to service‚ says Machel". Sowetan Live. 2015-06-23. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "Diamond Empowerment Fund Awards $122,500 to African Leadership Academy". Business Wire. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ Barret, Victoria. "Fighting Africa's Brain Drain". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ↑ "Africa School Teaches Ethical Leadership". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ↑ "Africa: the roots of the future". Paris Match (in français). 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ↑ "Theme: South African Manifesting its Destiny". TEDx. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ "Chris Bradford". Skoll. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model, Harvard Business Review Press; 7.2.2009 edition (September 1, 2009), p. 26
- ↑ "Chris Bradford". Stanford Association for International Development. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Create long-term political stability and economic growth in Africa by developing future generations of principled, ethical African leaders". Echoing Green. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Mr. Christopher Bradford". Siebel Scholars. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ Siebel_Scholars 2007 Conference Program Guide (PDF) (Report). Siebel Scholars Foundation. p. 13.
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