Robyn Scott
{{short description|New Zealand journalist, writer, businesswoman}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
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Robyn Scott (born 9 January 1981) is a British-born writer and entrepreneur.
She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle,{{cite book | last = Scott | first = Robyn | title = Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood | publisher = Bloomsbury | location = London | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780747596561 }} a memoir about growing up in Botswana, was published in March 2008. Her second book, Big Like Coca-Cola, is about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted AIDS orphans.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Robyn |title=About |url=http://robynscott.org/index.php/about |website=robynscott.org |accessdate=24 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024120042/http://robynscott.org/index.php/about |archivedate=24 October 2014 }} Scott is also a co-founder of start-up OneLeap,{{cite web|title=About|url=http://oneleap.to/about/team/|website=oneleap.to|accessdate=24 October 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104220320/http://oneleap.to/about/team|archivedate=4 January 2012}} and of Southern African social enterprises [http://brothersforall.org Brothers for All] and [http://mothersforall.org Mothers for All]. She is presently CEO of policy platform Apolitical.{{Cite web|url=https://apolitical.co|title=Home {{!}} Apolitical|website=Apolitical|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-09}}
Biography
Born in England, Scott moved with her parents to New Zealand briefly and then Botswana, where she spent most of her childhood. She attended high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and subsequently studied Bioinformatics at the University of Auckland followed by a Master of Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. She is an ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.{{cite web |title=About|url=http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/robyn-scott |website=weforum.org |accessdate=24 October 2014}} She was on Wired's 2012 Smart List of Fifty People Who Will Change The World.{{cite news|last1=WIRED UK|first1=Staff|title=The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/features/the-smart-list|accessdate=24 October 2014|publisher=WIRED.CO.UK Condé Nast UK|date=February 2012}} She is now CEO of Apolitical, a global platform for policymakers that specialises in government innovation.{{Cite web|url=https://apolitical.co/flagship/government-innovation-and-leadership/|title=Government Innovation {{!}} Apolitical|website=Apolitical|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-09}}
Bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book | last = Scott | first = Robyn | title = Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood | publisher = Bloomsbury | location = London | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780747596561 }}
- Scott, Robyn (Forthcoming). Big like Coca-Cola.
= Articles =
- {{cite news |last1= Scott |first1= Robyn| title= Housing challenge winners revealed |url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d351f7a-4cd7-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html#axzz3H1KFfo9r| accessdate= 24 October 2014 | work= Financial Times | date= 4 November 2005 }}
= Radio =
- {{Cite episode | title = Risk and reward | When crazy makes sense: the case for more radical social innovation| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lsmhz | accessdate = 24 October 2014 | series = Four Thought | first1 = Ben (host) | last1 = Hammersley | first2 = Robyn (speaker) | last2 = Scott | first3 = Giles (producer) | last3 = Edwards | authorlink1 = Ben Hammersley | station = BBC Radio 4 | location = London | date = 22 October 2014 | time = 8.45pm }}
= TEDx lectures =
- {{cite web|author=TEDx Talks | author-link = TED (conference)#TEDx |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm3GOYYeWeo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/pm3GOYYeWeo| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=The power of human | Robyn Scott at TEDxCalicoCanyon |publisher=Ted.com |date=15 May 2012 |accessdate=24 October 2014 }}{{cbignore}}
- {{cite web|author=TEDx Talks | author-link = TED (conference)#TEDx |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhRarI47_e4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/QhRarI47_e4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Leadership lessons behind bars | Robyn Scott at TEDxOxbridge |publisher=Ted.com |date=30 June 2014 |accessdate=24 October 2014 }}{{cbignore}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
- [http://www.twentychickensforasaddle.com/ Official book site: twentychickensforasaddle.com]
- [http://trust.gatesscholar.org/newsletter/docs/newsletter_summer2007.pdf Gates Scholar Newsletter Summer 2007]
- [http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/robyn-scott/ Author Biography on Bloomsbury.com]
- [http://oneleap.to/robyn Robyn Scott's contact profile on oneleap.to]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:New Zealand journalists
Category:New Zealand women in business
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:21st-century New Zealand women writers