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October 01 2008
Power Play: Freeplay Energy and the Freeplay Foundation Expand Access to Energy, Information, and Education (Innovations Case Narrative: Freeplay Energy and Freeplay Foundation)
Rory Stear,
Rory Stear
Rory Stear is the co-founder and chairman of Freeplay Energy. Stear is a member of the London chapter of the Young President's Organization; serves on the Dean's Council of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the advisory board of the business school at Nelson Mandela University; and is also a CNN/TIME/Fortune “Principal Voice.”
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Kristine Pearson
Kristine Pearson
Kristine Pearson is the CEO of the Freeplay Foundation. She serves on the Women's Leadership Board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was honored with the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award in 2005, presented by the Tech Museum of Innovation. In 2001, representing the Freeplay Foundation, she accepted the first Tech Museum Award in Education.
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Rory Stear
Rory Stear is the co-founder and chairman of Freeplay Energy. Stear is a member of the London chapter of the Young President's Organization; serves on the Dean's Council of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the advisory board of the business school at Nelson Mandela University; and is also a CNN/TIME/Fortune “Principal Voice.”
Kristine Pearson
Kristine Pearson is the CEO of the Freeplay Foundation. She serves on the Women's Leadership Board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was honored with the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award in 2005, presented by the Tech Museum of Innovation. In 2001, representing the Freeplay Foundation, she accepted the first Tech Museum Award in Education.
In 2003, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship recognized Pearson and Stear as Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs. In 2007, TIME magazine selected them as “Heroes of the Environment.”
Pearson and Stear have been married since 1995.
Online ISSN: 1558-2485
Print ISSN: 1558-2477
© 2008 Tagore LLC.
2008
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2008) 3 (4): 51–78.
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Rory Stear, Kristine Pearson; Power Play: Freeplay Energy and the Freeplay Foundation Expand Access to Energy, Information, and Education (Innovations Case Narrative: Freeplay Energy and Freeplay Foundation). Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2008; 3 (4): 51–78. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2008.3.4.51
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