2019 Skoll Awards | Gregory Rockson of mPharma

At the 2019 Skoll World Forum, mPharma Co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson took to the stage to receive the 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

mPharma fixes the broken drug supply chain in Africa to make medicine accessible and affordable. It eliminates the inefficiencies and price fluctuations that keep drugs from sick people. mPharma does the thoughtful, data-driven work that takes the guess work out of how to get medicine to those who need it most.

Gregory Rockson is a Co-Founder and CEO of mPharma Data Inc. and is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Prior to co-founding mPharma, he worked at the Center for American Progress, New York State Assembly, and Center for the Next Generation. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Westminster College, was a PPIA Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a Rotary Scholar at the University of Copenhagen. He also founded the Big Brother Big Sister program in Denmark and the Six Days of Peace Project in the Middle East.

About the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship:
The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale

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