Bill Drayton, C.E.O. and Founder. Bill Drayton has been a social entrepreneur since he was a New York City elementary school student. He was born to a mother who emigrated from Australia as a young cellist and an American father who, also unafraid to step into the unknown, became an explorer at an equally young age. Public service and strong values run through the stories of both parents' families -- including several of the earliest anti-slavery abolitionist and women's leaders in the U.S. These family influences, the rich diversity and openness of life in Manhattan-as well as America's deep cultural concern with equity, which flourished during the Civil Rights years-all interacted with one another and with Bill's temperament to plant Ashoka's earliest roots. In elementary school, Bill loved geography and history and was equally unmotivated in Latin and math. Bill's deepening commitments to Asia, especially South Asia, and to civil rights were closely linked.
For four years, he was Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Ordre de Malte - Accueil. Eternal Mewar. Volunteer. TakePart Social Action Network: Important Issues, Activism, Environmental, Human Rights, Political News | Secours Catholique / Caritas France - Association humanitaire caritative - ONG.