Bill Carter

Bill Carter advises Ashoka’s International Board on the application of Fellow Selection criteria. He also chairs Selection Panels around the world for Ashoka Fellows and serves in an advisory capacity to Ashoka Teams around the world. Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide. He served on Ashoka’s International Board for twenty-nine years, focusing on strategy development, and was a founding member of that Board. In that capacity he interviewed many hundreds of candidates to become Ashoka Fellows. In 2009 he stepped down from the Board to lead Ashoka’s overall strategy in Africa. During that period he also launched a global initiative called the “Nourishment Economy,” and led a series of internal initiatives within Ashoka focusing on issues such as Arrival Cities, Mental Health and Migration. Currently he is exploring the intersection of Science and Social Entrepreneurship including areas such as combining Science and Changemaking Literacy and the growth of Social Scipreneurship.

From 1981 to 1994 Bill helped to start up and served as a senior officer and member of the Board of Long Lake Energy Corporation, one of the first independent companies to develop hydroelectric and gas-fired power projects and sell the electricity to utilities.

As a senior civil servant at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bill led the Agency’s effort to create the Federal Government’s first approved Agency Performance Management and Incentive System under the Civil Service Reform Act. Prior to serving at EPA, Bill was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where his assignments were in the fields of education, economic development, insurance and housing.