Awards and Distinctions
Wood has received the following honours:
- Included on the Forbes Impact30 List of the top social entrepreneurs
- Ranked #11 in 2009 and #9 in 2010 on Barron’s list of the “25 Best Givers”
- Microsoft Alumni Foundation Inaugural Fellow
- 2009 Asia Society Award For public service to Asia
- Three-time speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative
- Five-time winner of the Fast Company magazine and Monitor Group's Social Capitalist Award
- Recipient of Time Magazine’s “Asian Heroes” Award, recognizing “20 People under 40 who have done something brave, bold, or remarkable” (the only non-Asian ever chosen for this honor)
- Selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum
- Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute
- Four-time winner of the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation
- Second recipient of the Draper Richards Fellowship
- Profiled by the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) as one of “America’s Great Leaders"
- Honorary doctorate degree in humane letters from the University of San Francisco and additional honorary doctorates from Westminster College (2009) and Wofford College (2012). Wofford also honored Wood with the Sandor Tesler Human Rights award
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