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Robyn Scott

After eight years of highly unstructured homeschooling, Robyn Scott had four highly structured years at a Convent in Zimbabwe. Afterwards, she read a BSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Auckland followed by an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge, where she studied trends in the pricing of medicines in developing countries and received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

In 2008, her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, was published. She is currently working on a second book about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted AIDS orphans. She’s also a co-founder of OneLeap, a social enterprise start-up, a co-founder of Mothers for All, and an Ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index and is involved with several not-for-profits working in developing world health, education and the environment. She was born in England, and grew up in Botswana and New Zealand.