Bill Drayton

Bill Drayton

Bill Drayton is chair and CEO of Ashoka. Since 1981, Ashoka has launched and provided support to nearly 3,000 social entrepreneurs — individuals with systems-changing solutions to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Prior to founding Ashoka, Mr. Drayton held positions with McKinsey and Co. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Drayton is also chair of Youth Venture, Get America Working!, and Community Greens. He is a graduate of Harvard, Balliol College at Oxford University, and Yale Law School.

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The necessary allies: Jobs and environment

The necessary allies: Jobs and environment

over 13 years ago // Rio+Solutions

The single most effective way to increase jobs and protect the environment is to eliminate payroll taxes and substitute taxes on materials, energy, land and pollution, writes Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka and chair of Get America Working, in an exclusive guest opinion as part of Rio+Solutions.