Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan C. Lewis is the founder and chief executive officer of the Opportunity Collaboration – a strategic business retreat and networking summit for 300 senior level anti-poverty leaders. Occurring annually on World Poverty Day, its purpose is to leverage resources, combine forces, share innovations and operate more effectively.

Jonathan is also the founder and board chair of MicroCredit Enterprises, an innovative social venture which leverages private capital to make tiny business loans to deeply impoverished people, mostly women, in developing countries. A rarity in the non-profit world, MicroCredit Enterprises is operationally sustainable without donations or grants.

Jonathan is a Lecturer at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley. He blogs weekly at the Huffington Post and the Skoll Foundation's Social Edge and is a frequent public speaker on economic development issues, social entrepreneurship and social change. Jonathan is a recipient of the Social Venture Network Innovation Award.

In his eclectic entrepreneurial career, Jonathan has served as the founder/CEO of a global business knowledge company, CEO of the California Association of Health Maintenance Organizations, Chief Budget Advisor to the President of the California State Senate, founder/CEO of an urban real estate investment company and founder/owner of a contemporary art gallery.