David Haskell strengthens social entrepreneurs inside hard places as Dreams InDeed’s co-founder and CEO. His resolve to empower those in hard places started as a graduate student stunned by an explosion in Beirut. David has three decades of entrepreneurial experience directing six start-ups and four turn-arounds in the public, private, and voluntary sectors. His best teachers have been the mentally challenged, genocide survivors, garbage sorters, HIV/AIDS widows, street children, and subsistence farmers. David has shared their wisdom at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Rising Global Peace Forum, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Social Enterprise Alliance, Social Venture Partners, Stanford Innovation Peace Lab; and at the American University of Beirut, Adelphi, Berkeley, Coventry, Duke, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Tufts, and Wheaton. A Pforzheimer Nonprofit Fellow at Harvard and Fulbright Scholar at University of Jordan, David received an Outstanding Teaching Award at UCLA. David earned his MPA in Leadership, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Harvard Kennedy School and his MA in Applied Linguistics at UCLA.