Tim Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics International; Co-Founder, Unite; Co-Founder and Chairman, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Timothy Shriver is the chairman of Special Olympics International, since 1996. He is also co-founder of Unite, an initiative promoting solidarity across differences, co-creator of the Dignity Index tool to ease divisions and co-founder and chairman of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning school-reform organization. An educator for 15 years, Shriver has produced six films, is the author of “Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most” and is co-editor of “The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening.” Shriver is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-chair of the National Commission on Social and Emotional Learning, president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and a board member of the WPP Group.
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