Oliver B. Libby

About

Mr. Libby also chairs the Board of The Resolution Project, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City which he co-founded in 2007 and which recently acquired global entrepreneurship powerhouse Enactus as well. Through its Social Venture Challenges, held at leading youth conferences around the world, Resolution identifies undergraduate students who wish to launch new social ventures. The resulting Resolution Fellowships provide dynamic, hands-on mentorship and grants to implement their social ventures— a full ecosystem of support that empowers the recipients to become socially-responsible leaders. To date, hundreds of Resolution Fellows are working on diverse ventures in high-impact fields and have benefitted more than 7 million people to-date in nearly 100 countries on all six inhabited continents, including all across the United States, as well as amassing over $10.5B in market capitalization in social ventures, and training about 50,000 students a year via Enactus as well.

Mr. Libby began his career in the U.S. Government and later at a global managing consulting firm. Mr. Libby is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Board Member of Tech: NYC, among other organizations, and was previously also a Foundation Trustee of the Harvard Club of New York City and a member of the Advisory Council of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Mr. Libby is the author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling, a book about reigniting the American Dream from what he calls the Radical Center. Mr. Libby has been invited to speak at around the world. His work has been covered in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Venture Capital Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and in television appearances including on CNBC, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and News Nation. Mr. Libby graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.