World Summit 2009 Presenters: Keth Hammonds

Keith Hammonds is director of Ashoka's News & Knowledge initiative, a new program funded by the Knight Foundation to identify, seed, and connect social entrepreneurs whose innovations promise to better inform and engage change-making citizens.

Hammonds most recently was executive editor at Fast Company magazine, where he helped shape editorial strategy across the magazine-and where he co-founded the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards. Over eight years, he wrote many of Fast Company's defining articles, including: "Why We Hate HR," "Balance is Bunk," "Size is not a Strategy," and "The New Face of Global Competition." He remains a contributing writer for the magazine.

Hammonds also has been a bureau chief and editor for BusinessWeek in Boston and New York; a writer for The New York Times in London and Johannesburg; a consultant to New Nation in Johannesburg; director of an emergency food distribution program in Namibia; and (currently) coach of the Firebolts, a fearsome girls soccer team.