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Peter Bisanz
Director, The Power of Story; Former Director & Founder, Entropy Films
Peter Bisanz is a filmmaker, a social entrepreneur, and a pioneer in the emerging field of social impact entertainment (SIE). He was the founding Executive Director of the Skoll Center for SIE in Hollywood—the first of its kind in the world—created by Jeff Skoll and partnering with his film company Participant Media (Green Book, Roma, Spotlight, An Inconvenient Truth) to develop this new ecosystem.
Bisanz recently completed the first book on this topic ("The State of SIE"), helped to develop the first Master’s degree, and created some of the first and largest convenings in the space. Bisanz previously served as Head of Communications and Development for the think & do tank at the World Economic Forum, engaging 1,500 global experts working on the 80 great issues of our time, culminating annually in the largest brainstorming in the world (the Summit on the Global Agenda).
In 2009, he completed Beyond Our Differences, a feature-length film that focuses on the positive role of faith and spirituality in modern times by exploring the fundamental unity of the world's religions. He was Head of Development for Alan Ladd, Jr. (Braveheart, Bladerunner, Chariots of Fire) at the Ladd Company, developing movies like An Unfinished Life and Gone Baby Gone, and worked at Paramount Pictures for several years (including two of their Academy Awards campaigns).
Bisanz was named a Young Global Leader by the WEF in 2007, served on their Advisory Board for five years, was Reynold’s Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, and a Member of the Academy of Achievement. He earned his MBA from the University of Oxford, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, both focused on social entrepreneurship, and a BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts.
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