Steve Davis (business)

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Steve Davis
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NationalityAmerican
OccupationSocial activist, academic, business executive
Known forWork in the fields of social innovation and global health

Steve Davis is a social activist, business executive and academic who is a global leader in the field of social innovation. He holds a faculty appointment at the Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching social innovation [1] and currently serves as Senior Strategic Advisor and Interim Director China Country Office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the World Economic Forum, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on several boards and advisory groups. [2] He also serves as the co-chair of the World Health Organization's Digital Health Technical Advisory Group. [3] [4] Steve is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism, published by Wiley October 6, 2020, [5] which won a Gold Star award from Axiom Books. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

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Early life

Davis grew up in a large family in the small ranching community of Dillon, Montana, [6] before attending Princeton University. [7] Following his undergraduate studies he pursued a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship teaching literature in Taiwan, [8] [9] after which he studied Chinese Studies at the University of Washington and Beijing University, and Chinese and human rights law at Columbia University. He also worked on refugee and human rights issues for many years. [10]

Career summary

Previously, he was an attorney for K&L Gates (formerly Preston Gates & Ellis); [11] CEO at Corbis, a digital media pioneer owned by Bill Gates; [12] [13] interim CEO of Infectious Disease Research Institute, a global health organization; [14] director of social innovation at McKinsey & Company, a global consultancy; [15] and most recently as president and CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization. [16] He speaks and writes regularly about the intersection of innovation, technology and social impact, and has extensive experience working with China.

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References

  1. ↑ "Steve Davis". Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  2. ↑ "PATH leadership: Steve Davis". path.org. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  3. ↑ "WHO expert panel on digital health meets for first time". www.who.int. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  4. ↑ Ren, Grace (2019-10-25). "WHO Launches Digital Health Action Plan To Guide Expert Group's Work". Health Policy Watch. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  5. ↑ "Undercurrents - Steve Davis". Undercurrents - Steve Davis. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  6. ↑ "Steve Davis' PATH: Seattle nonprofit CEO worked with Bill Gates, was a civil rights activist in China and loves Netflix". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  7. ↑ "Dave King '77 and Steve Davis '79: Paths Cross". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  8. ↑ "Bill Gates' other CEO". Salon. 2000-02-07. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  9. ↑ Africa, Middle East &. "Health Care Activist Steve Davis: Avoiding the 'I'll Give Back Later' Trap". Knowledge@Wharton. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  10. ↑ "Steve Davis, entrepreneur and rights advocate, to head PATH". Humanosphere. 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  11. ↑ "Steve Davis' PATH: Seattle nonprofit CEO worked with Bill Gates, was a civil rights activist in China and loves Netflix". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  12. ↑ "Bill Gates' other CEO". Salon. 2000-02-07. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  13. ↑ "Executive Q&A: Steve Davis on Overseeing Healthy Innovation at PATH". Seattle Business Magazine.
  14. ↑ "Xconomy: From Tech to Biotech: Former Corbis CEO Steve Davis Tackles Global Health With IDRI". Xconomy. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  15. ↑ "Steve Davis named to exec post at McKinsey". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  16. ↑ "Financial documents". path.org. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
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