Kate Robertson
| Kate Robertson | |
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| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British, South African |
| 🏫 Education | University of Cape Town |
| 💼 Occupation | Co Founder |
| 🏢 Organisation | One Young World |
| https://twitter.com/OneYoungWorld | |
| OneYoungWorld | |
| OneYoungWorld | |
| one-young-world | |
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One Young World[edit]
Kate Robertson is the Co-Founder of One Young World, the global forum for young leaders, which she set up in 2009 with David Jones. Dubbed by CNN ‘the junior Davos’, the first annual summit was held in London in February 2010 and the next will be held in The Hague in October 2018. The Summit is attended by over 2,000 delegates from 190+ countries – more than any youth event other than the Olympics – and luminaries such as Kofi Annan, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Sir Bob Geldof, Paul Polman, and Arianna Huffington among others.
Early Life and Career[edit]
Kate has worked pro-bono as a judge for the British Sports Industry Awards as well as for the Barclays Global Citizenship Awards with the CEOs of the Gates Foundation, of the Prince’s Trust and of the Clinton Global Initiative.
In 2009 Kate led Kofi Annan’s communications campaign, with former Havas CEO David Jones, to raise awareness before the COP15 (Climate Change) talks. The Tck Tck Tck campaign outperformed all the others with 18m online supporters by the time of the talks. She was also a non-executive director of YouGovStone from 2008 through to its sale in 2012.
Kate was formerly the Global President and UK Group Chairman of Havas Worldwide, where she was the most senior woman in the advertising industry worldwide.
Kate is also the co-author of How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World’s Most Effective Activists – a unique and practical guide to modern day activism which includes advice and experience from some of the world’s leading campaigners. Kate studied law at the University of Cape Town.
Awards and Honors[edit]
- Doctor Honoris Causa from the Business School of Lausanne 2014.
- Named 'Advertising Woman of the Year' by Women In Marketing 2012 and Advertising Icon by Advertising Week in 2014.
- Corporate Citizenship Award from British American Business
