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Nationality
  
New Zealander

Name
  
Robyn Scott

Role
  
Writer


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Born
  
9 January 1981 (age 43) United Kingdom (
1981-01-09
)

Occupation
  
Entrepreneur and writer

Books
  
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Education
  
University of Cambridge, University of Auckland

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Robyn Scott (born 9 January 1981) is a British-born writer and entrepreneur.

Contents

She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, 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. Scott is also a co-founder of start-up OneLeap, and of Southern African social enterprises Brothers for All and Mothers for All.

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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. She was on Wired's 2012 Smart List of Fifty People Who Will Change The World.

References

Robyn Scott Wikipedia


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