jointly awarded him their National Public Service Award and he has also been named a Preiskel–Silverman Fellow for Yale Law School and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. On May 25, 2009, Drayton was awarded an honorary degree, Doctorate of Humane Letters, by Yale University at commencement. David Gergen has called Drayton the "godfather of social entrepreneurship." And in 2008, Drayton was named a "visionary" as one of Utne Reader magazine's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World". In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Awards for international cooperation for his work promoting entrepreneurs. The prize foundation described him as a "driving force behind the figure of social entrepreneurs, men and women who undertake innovative initiatives for the common good". Within the next two weeks, Drayton also accepted the John W. Gardner Leadership award, "established in 1985 to honor outstanding Americans who exemplify the leadership and the ideals of John W. Gardner", and the World Entrepreneurship Forum's Social Entrepreneur Award. In 2012, Drayton was named an inaugural recipient of Middlebury College's Center for Social Entrepreneurship Vision Award, in recognition of the impact of his contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship. References External links Ashoka Leadership page (Drayton profile and others) Video (and audio) of interview with Bill Drayton at Bloggingheads.tv MIT Press Journals - Innovations: "Everyone a Changemaker" by William Drayton Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs from Bill Drayton & Ashoka Foundation 1943 births American environmentalists Ashoka USA Fellows Harvard University alumni Living people MacArthur Fellows McKinsey & Company people Phillips Academy alumni Social entrepreneurs Yale Law School alumni Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Members of the American Philosophical Society