Social Enterprise World Forum

: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is the father of social business and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 other companies in Bangladesh. For his constant innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, in March 2012 Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus as “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.” In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Muhammad Yunus is the recipient of more than 54 honorary degrees from universities across 20 countries. He has received 112 awards from 26 countries including state honours from 10 countries. He is one of seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Other notable awards include the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1984), World Food Prize (1998), The Prince of Austria’s Award for Concord (1998), Sydney Peace Prize (1998) and the Seoul Peace Prize (2006). Professor Yunus was chosen by Wharton School of Business as one of ‘The 25 Most influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years’. AsiaWeek (Hong Kong) selected him as one of ‘Twenty Great Asians 1975-1995).” Ananda Bazaar Patrika (India) selected Professor Yunus as one of “Ten Great Bengalis of the Century (1900-1999).” In 2006, Time Magazine listed Professor Yunus under “60 years of Asian Heroes” as one the top 12 business leaders. In 2008, in an open online poll, Yunus was voted the 2nd topmost intellectual person in the world on the list of top 100 public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States). In 2010, The New Statesman (UK) listed him as one of “The World’s 50 Most Influential Figures”. Professor Yunus has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily show with Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Hardtalk on BBC and The Simpsons. He has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, Newsweek and Forbes Magazine.

: Gerry Higgins is Chief Executive Officer at CEIS (Community Enterprise in Scotland) and a Director at the Social Value Lab, Ready for Business LLP, Big Issue Invest Scotland and Social Enterprise World Forum CIC. He brings over 30 years’ experience in developing and running social enterprises and works with government agencies and third sector partners in the UK and internationally to develop supportive social enterprise ecosystems. His current work includes oversight of major programmes, to develop public sector markets for social enterprises, to build the capacity of social enterprises to create sustainable and effective businesses and to introduce new forms of social investment to support business start-up and growth. As CEO of the CEIS Group, Gerry leads a team of over 50 people to deliver business support, employability services, project consultancy, social research, social investment, business finance and event management. Gerry joined CEIS in 2006 having previously worked across the UK as the founding Chief Executive of Social Firms UK for 7 years. During this period Gerry was a founding director of the Social Enterprise UK and worked with the DTI to draft and introduce the first UK Social Enterprise Strategy in 2002. Gerry is interested in social change and committed to social justice and has spent over 30 years working in the social enterprise sector to assist individuals, communities and enterprises to fulfil their potential.

: Founder of the World Toilet Organization, a network of 200 organizations from 56 Countries that promotes sanitation practices among the low-income population. Jack (a.k.a. “Mr. Toilet”) is Ashoka Global Fellow, a member of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) for Water Security and of the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship, both funded by the World Economic Forum. Jack received many prizes and awards (“Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006″ awarded by Schwab Foundation; “Hero of the Environment 2008″ by Time Magazine; “Asian of the Year 2009″ by Channel News Asia). Jack holds a Master in Public Administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of Singapore.

: Michael Green serves as the CEO of the Social Progress Imperative. He is an economist and writer based in London. Mr. Green consults for governments, international organizations, companies and nonprofits on harnessing the tools of business to achieve social impact. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Impetus Trust and the B Team, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Mr. Green served as a senior official in the U.K. Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine and headed the communications department. He is co-author of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society.

: Peter Holbrook is CEO of Social Enterprise UK – the national body for social enterprise and a membership organisation. Social Enterprise UK, together with its members, is the voice for social enterprise. Prior to taking on this role Peter was CEO of Sunlight Development Trust. During his years at Sunlight, Peter became one of the country’s most well-respected social entrepreneurs, responsible for the regeneration, through social enterprise, of some of the UK’s most deprived communities. He developed ‘project sunlight’, based in Gillingham, Kent, from its inception to become one of the country’s most high-profile and award-winning ‘community anchors’. In 2007, Peter was appointed to be one of the UK’s Social Enterprise Ambassadors – a scheme supported by the Cabinet Office and coordinated by Social Enterprise UK. In this role he advocated for social enterprise through lobbying politicians, speaking at events and representing the sector in the media. In 2010, Peter was appointed as a member of the Cabinet Office’s Mutual’s Taskforce and Trustee of the Big Society Trust (overseeing delivery of Big Society Capital). In 2012, Peter was appointed a member of the EU Social Business Initiative Expert Group and took up the role of Chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum.

: Joyce Feng is Minister without Portfolio of Executive Yuan in charge of social welfare related policies starting Aug. 2013. Before this assignment, she has been the Professor of Social Work at National Taiwan University. She earned a PhD degree of Social Work in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. She was one of the major actionists in establishing the Taiwan NPO Self-Regulation Alliance in 2005, elected as a President in 2012. Her research interests and professional specialty in social work are Child Welfare and NPO developments. In the area of child welfare, she has published three books, over hundred papers in academic journals and conference proceedings on related titles. She also has conducted extensive research on Taiwan’s nonprofit sector, published book chapters, papers, and initiated the NPO self-regulation movement in Taiwan via an action research project. Apart from her academic research on the NPO and Third Sector, she has also directly participated in many nonprofit organizations. She established and had served as Executive Director of the Child Welfare League Foundation for 10 years, and is currently its President. She is also on the board of the United Way Taiwan, the R.O.C. Red Cross, and joined the board of international NPOs, such as Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, United Way World Wide, and Consortium of Institutes for Family-services in Asia, among others. She has also served the academic societies as board member, editor of Journals, and been invited as a social welfare consultant, human rights committee member, and gender equality committee member to the Central and Municipal governments in Taiwan. She was the National Policy Consultant to the President of the Republic of China during 2010-2012. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is the father of social business and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 other companies in Bangladesh. For his constant innovation and entrepreneurial spirit,

: Born in New York 28th January 1962, married and has a daughter. Founder and Chairwoman of Human Foundation, President of the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and Member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force. Graduated cum laude in Economic Policy at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, she was awarded an H.C. degree from the John Cabot University in 2000. In July 2003, she received the title of “Officer de la Legion d’ Honneur” from French President Jacques Chirac. Member of the Italian Parliament from 1994 to 2012 she has held the position of Minister of Culture (1998- 2001) and Minister of Youth Policies and Sport (2006-2008). During her political career, she has developed a wide and varied international experience as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chair of the Human Right sub-committee. She has been engaged cultural affairs, human rights, social and environmental policies. She was part of the Italian Delegation to Bergen Sustainable Development Conference and the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. Previous to her institutional role, between 1983 and 1987 she was heading a research team on Industrial Policy at Montedison, and from 1988 to 1994 Head of the International Office and Scientific Board of Legambiente (a major environmental NGO). Active member of several Italian and International Networks for the empowerment and a wider presence of women in public life, she has published several books and articles and writes monthly on Che Futuro! a blog dedicated to social innovation.

: Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker- and media executive-turned-Social Entrepreneur from Bangladesh, is the founder of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), the home of the world’s first social stock exchange and the world’s largest private placement platform for impact investing. Shahnaz also founded Shujog, the impact accelerator and knowledge platform for social enterprises in Asia and Africa. Shujog and IIX’s work has impacted lives of over 10 million people across Asia. Shahnaz began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York City and worked at Grameen Bank, World Bank, Merrill Lynch, Hearst Magazines, and Reader’s Digest. She also Professor, conducted research on impact measurement and ran the Program for Social Innovation and Change at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In addition, she founded, ran, and sold oneNest, a Social Enterprise and global marketplace for handmade goods which impacted lives of more than half million women across the world. Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College; a joint degree — MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Shahnaz is the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Joseph Wharton Social Impact award. Shahnaz is also an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the advisory board for CASE i3 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Catalyst Program. Shahnaz is also a TED speaker and a regular guest on Channel News Asia’s program ‘Views on News’ and BBC. Shahnaz serves as a Program Advisor for the Clinton Global Initiative and is on the Board of Advisor for National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content promoting Asian children’s literature across the globe.

: Sophia is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of AFRIpads Limited, a Uganda-based social enterprise established in 2009 with her husband Paul that specializes in the local manufacture and global supply of reusable sanitary pads. The product is a cost-effective and eco-friendly solution for menstrual hygiene management, and the company’s mission is to empower women and girls through business, innovation and opportunity. Since its inception, AFRIpads Ltd. has sold over 500,000 AFRIpads Menstrual Kits to more than 30 countries across Africa and the Middle East. Sophia has lived in Uganda full-time since 2008. She graduated from McGill University (Canada) in 2005 with Honours with Great Distinction. She received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Environment & Development, and a minor in Medical Anthropology.

: Mr. Daniel Andrade is founder & currently presides over the Board of Directors of ‘Fundacion Progreso’, widely considered the groundbreaking vehicle of social enterprise and impact investment in Bolivia. Mr. Andrade is regarded as a pioneering social entrepreneur and impact investor in South America and Bolivia. In tandem, Mr. Andrade acts as CEO of BILD. BILD is a for-profit social enterprise seedfunded by ‘Fundacion Progreso’, that researches, designs, develops hybrid business models and launches affordable and efficient products & services, specifically thought for low-income populations. To date, and under his leadership, BILD is currently developing and launching socially minded BoP-focused businesses in; access to water, alternative energy, housing, health & bio-conservation. BILD has recently launched a nation wide potable water initiative, partnered with LIFESAVER SYSTEMS technology.

: Heidi works with Shell Foundation’s core partners providing strategic and tactical communications and marketing support. She is also responsible for their digital engagement and broad communication activities. Before joining Shell Foundation in 2013, Heidi worked in a wide range of business and marketing roles in not-for-profit and commercial organisations. Most recently she worked for a solar energy brand leading strategy, brand building and expansion into emerging markets. Heidi graduated from the University in Kent with a degree in Law and has international business experience working in China, USA, North Africa and the Middle East.

: Mr.Corey Lien is an active serial entrepreneur. After completing the IPO of his B2B business in medical field at age of 28, he devotes himself into business strategy, technology and startups. Cross fields education, years of China & Taiwan experiences, and management expertise enable him to have macro view at social and business issues. As a father of three girls, he realized the importance of environmental protection and hence devoted his knowledge of business into social enterprise. His mission is to discover new and simple ways to engage business and public’s participation in environmental protection, lowering carbon emission and pollution using mobile, social media & technology. Mr. Corey Lien is the Chief Gardener of DOMI, a social enterprise that offers integrated service of energy conservation, renewable energy implementation and children environmental education. DOMI is the first B Corp certified company in Taiwan and Honorees of Best for the world 2015 at Overall and Community category awarded by B Lab. He is actively driving B Corp movement in Taiwan and advocates Company using Business as a force to solve social and environmental problem. He is also the founding member of “20 for future” in Taiwan- promoting business to delicate 20% of their net profit to the public. Mr. Corey Lien studied Physiology from University of Alberta, Canada, Chiropractic from Life University, Atlanta, US, MBA from University of Chicago, and Fashion from Domus Academy of Design in Milan, Italy.

: Jim Schorr is CEO of Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA), an organization representing 1000 members and 17 regional chapters that has been at the forefront of the social enterprise movement in the United States since 1998. With its origins as the first national conference for social enterprise, SEA is now in its 17th year of convening the field and advancing the cause of social enterprise in the US. As a student at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management in 1993, Schorr was inspired by emerging triple bottom line businesses and helped launch Net Impact, an organization that has since inspired a generation of MBA students at 200+ business schools to leverage the power of business and their careers to make a difference in the world. Schorr subsequently served for 10 years as a Director and Board Chair during Net Impact’s growth and global expansion in the 2000s. From 2000-07, Schorr was Executive Director of Juma Ventures, an organization that is widely admired as one of the leading social enterprises in the US. Juma develops businesses to create jobs for disadvantaged youth, and provides financial literacy and other programs that facilitate successful transitions to adulthood. Today, Juma’s enterprises have scaled to six US cities and more than 95% of youth participants advance to college each year. In 2007, Schorr accepted a teaching appointment at the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to develop a new course on social enterprise. His enthusiasm for teaching led to a full-time academic appointment at Vanderbilt University in 2009. Schorr continues to maintain his faculty appointment at Vanderbilt, where he teaches MBA and undergraduate coursework on social enterprise. He has served on the steering committee of the Social Enterprise World Forum since the event’s inception in 2008.

: Houghton Wan has been supporting local social enterprises, as a social business coach since 2006. In this time he has supported over 30 social businesses locally and overseas. Apart from this meaningful coaching work, he is also a Greater China Partnership Manager in Partners Worldwide as well as the Director of Fullness Social Enterprise Society. In 2006, he developed the first Diploma in Social Business for young people. In 2008, he was invited to present at the first Asian Social Entrepreneur Summit in Korea on social impact maximization. In 2009, he was then invited to speak at TEDx about social business development in HongKong. In 2010, he was invited as a strategic advisor of Jabbok IT Solutions – sponsored by a government funded programme called Enhancing Self-Reliance through the District Partnership Programme. Houghton attended the University of Manitoba and Hong Kong Baptist University for Computer Science and Social Science.

: Mr. Gauto is Paraguayan, and has worked extensively in the Latin American region in various capacities for the last 25 years. He is an Agricultural Engineer, who got his degree in 1979 from the National University of Asunción in Paraguay. Later, in 1986, he got a Master of Science degree on “Forest Economics and Resource Management” from the Virginia Polytechnic University, at Blacksburg, Virginia, in the USA. After graduating from the USA, he returned to his country, and opened a Conservation Data center, under a contract with The Nature Conservancy, from Washington DC. In 1988, along with other peers, he founded “The Moises Bertoni Foundation” dedicated to the Sustainable development of Paraguay. This is today one of the most prestigious organizations of the civil society of Paraguay. In 1998, Mr. Gauto started a 17-year-long engagement with Fundacion Avina. He began as the local Representative, in charge of Avina’s operation in Paraguay and Bolivia. In 2002 he was invited to become Regional Representative, to oversee Avina’s operations in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay. Since 2009, Mr. Gauto is responsible for supervising Avina’s “Access to Water Program” in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2012, he was also appointed Liaison to the Social Progress Imperative, with the responsibility of supporting the deployment of the Social Progress Index in the region. In March 2013, Avina asked him to head a strategic planning to start working in East Africa on WASH Issues, and to develop a Global Water Alliance along with several interested partners.

: Driven by development challenges and passionate about creating unique business models that lead to multiple impact and sustainable business ventures- Fiza Farhan has prudently taken Buksh Foundation & Buksh Energy Pvt. Ltd to great heights within a short span of time. With a strong background of business development, acute leadership skills, deep insight into market opportunities and immense business fervour – Fiza has led her teams to pioneer and introduce innovative business models in the development sector along with establishing a new model of “green economy” in Pakistan with multiple projects launched within the macro, meso and micro renewable energy space. Her strong outlook in developing win-win situations and models that create immense social, economic and environmental profitability for all stake holders involved have led both the organizations to develop strong business relationships with multiple local and international partners both within the development sector and the energy space. Fiza’s key professional strengths in addition to her dynamic leadership include resource allocation, renewable energy business models, customized solutions to developmental challenges, strategic planning and execution, operational systemization, team building and resource development, brand building & global relationships- all being critical to the fast paced institutional growth of both organizations.

: Tara McDonald has worked to enhance urban food systems and regional food economies in both Canada and the United States since 1995. As Director of Community Economic Development Programs at LIFE*SPIN in Ontario, Canada and, later, as Executive Director of SEEDS, Inc in North Carolina, USA, Tara led these organizations to develop innovative social enterprises that integrate and meet their members’ needs for food self-sufficiency, employment and neighborhood improvement, while also strengthening local food supply chains. Since 2005, Tara has led the Vancouver Farmers Markets (VFM) in Vancouver, Canada as Executive Director. With a mission to “transform our global food system by creating and nurturing a local, sustainable and vibrant marketplace for our community, environment and economy”, VFM is best described as a community-controlled local food distribution system: a multi-market network that produces powerful impacts for Vancouver’s regional food and social economy. After a decade of growth, Vancouver Farmers Markets’ 9 weekly markets now support over 200 farmers and value-added food processors – some of which are also social enterprises and cooperatives, sees 20 000 customers each week, generates $13M for the local economy and contributes to the viability of 16 000 acres of regional farmland. Tara holds a Master’s degree from the University of Western Ontario and serves on numerous boards, councils and action groups focused on enhancing local, sustainable food systems and people’s access to them.

: Before founding 17 Triggers, Mike was a creative adman working for clients ranging from Nike to Coca-Cola to United Colors of Benetton. He has worked with big ad agencies in USA, England, Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia where he earned the name ‘adman with a bleeding heart’. After the guilt of selling beers and cigarettes to people making less than a dollar a day caught up with him, he quit to start consulting for the development sector until opening 17 Triggers in 2010. Once called ‘the Rocky Balboa of Social Innovation Labs,’ 17 Triggers teaches organizations how to innovate like tech startups – using lean, design thinking, HCD, rapid prototyping, and quick and dirty RCTs. With work spanning across 16 countries, their clients include UNICEF Global, iDE, DAI, ADB, WSUP, Plan International, Stone Family Foundation, and MTV EXIT. Mike is also a 2013 Unreasonable Fellow, TEDx-er, and speaks on social innovation around the world, most recently at the 2015 Skoll World Forum.

: Rustam Sengupta is a social entrepreneur and base of the pyramid (BoP) expert. He researches on sustainable social enterprise design and implements his work first hand on the field. Rustam is the founder and CEO of Boond (www.boond.net | www.boondfoundation.org), a social enterprise that promotes solar energy access in remote and rural parts of India. He is an expert in designing and data analysis for products and services for the BoP and has also been consulting to numerous universities and institutions on market entry and emerging market economics. Boond has won a number of awards (Echoing Green Fellowship 2014, Economic Times Power of Ideas 2010, Nokia DLD Global Challenge, UN Women etc.) and more importantly has impacted the lives of over 50,000 people in remote villages of Rajasthan, UP and Kashmir over the past two years. Rustam is an INSEAD MBA graduate and also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He has lived across three continents and worked in banking and consulting for companies like Standard Chartered (in Singapore), Syngenta (in Switzerland) and Deloitte Consulting (in the US).

: Managing Director of Aqua for All, a Dutch non-profit foundation that helps world’s poorest people gain access to safe water and adequate sanitation. Previously he was Managing Director of the municipal water company in Eindhoven and Business Development Manager for a private company of the water sector. He lived for five years in rural areas of Mozambique working for the Ministry of Agriculture and contributing to the development of irrigation systems and infrastructure for access to drinking water. He has worked as a consultant of the UNEP and the Water Education Institute. Sjef has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology of Eindhoven (NL).

: Minister Plenipotentiary Giampaolo Cantini, Director General of Italian Development Cooperation, was born in Borgo San Lorenzo (Florence), 21 June 1957. After earning a degree in Political Science from the University of Florence, he joined the diplomatic service, beginning his career at the General Directorate for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He specialized in International Relations at the University of Florence and his posts included Commercial Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa as well as First Counselor at the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. From 1994 to 1996 he was assigned to the General Secretariat of the President of the Italian Republic and following that he was promoted to First Counselor at the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. Later he was Italian Ambassador in Algeria and Consul General in Jerusalem. On 16th January 2013 he was appointed Head of the General Directorate for Development Cooperation.

: was born in 1976 in Nizza, Sicily. He holds a degree in Political Science and has been a local politician for over 11 years. In 2007 he founded ANCI giovani, a national consultation that represents more than 20,000 politicians under 35 years old that administrate in Italian municipalities; he was the director of ANCI giovani until 2013. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Ufficio di Presidenza Nazionale ANCI. Journalist, Giacomo deals with communication and institutional relations and writes a blog on “Linkiesta” that talks about the new municipalities and Public Policy, with a particular inclination towards younger generations. In 2013 he published his book ” l’Italia cambiata dai Ragazzini ” (Marsilio Editore, with an introduction by Graziano Delrio, two reprints). In 2015 he published the book ” Città e nuove generazioni. Il futuro dell’Europa ” with Pierciro Galeone (Carocci Editore and an introduction by Sandro Gozi). Since December 2013 he has been the General Director of the Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (National Agency for Youth), a public body in charge of youth policy and that manages the program Erasmus+ for the Youth chapter.

: Sergio Urbani is the new Secretary General of Fondazione Cariplo (2014). Fondazione Cariplo is one of the main philanthropic organizations in the world. In 25 years the Foundation supported 30,000 projects, focused on youth, wellbeing and community-based welfare, with € 2,7 billion. Sergio pioneered social housing in Italy some twelve years ago, starting with a pilot project launched by Fondazione Cariplo. That project led to the formation in 2004 of Fondazione Housing Sociale (Social Housing Foundation) by Fondazione Cariplo with the support of the Lombardy Regional Administration and the Association of Italian Municipal Administrations (ANCI). Sergio served as Director and Managing Director of Fondazione Housing Sociale up until June 2012. While at Fondazione Housing Sociale, Sergio initiated numerous projects in social housing, an area that Fondazione Cariplo has always considered strategic. Among others, Urbani launched the ethical real estate fund Abitare sociale 1 (worth €85 million), which was the first Italian social housing fund and, in partnership with Lombardy municipal administrations, various other social housing projects carried out by the Fund. In June 2012, Sergio became Co-General Manager of CDP Investimenti Sgr, the asset management firm that manages FIA, Italy’s Social Housing Integrated Funds System, handling the development of 41 projects across Italy. Previously, Sergio had worked at ABN AMRO Corporate Finance (2000-2004), Deloitte&Touche Corporate Finance (1999-2000), Milan Bocconi University Department of Economics – Industrial and Commercial Companies – (fellow), and Bankers Trust International.

: LOCATELLI ANGELO

: David joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2001, bringing with him extensive knowledge and experience from the voluntary sector and heads up PwC’s national community affairs team in the UK, part of Corporate Sustainability. Responsibilities include national community partnerships and overseeing the PwC Foundation. David has presented at the SEWF in San Francisco (2010) and Brazil (2012 having initiated and developed PwC’s own social enterprise hub the Fire Station in London. This incorporates ‘Brigade’ in conjunction Beyond Food and DeVere, comprising of a restaurant training those at risk of homelessness in culinary skills. The Fire Station also houses the School for Social Entrepreneurs, a Centre for Social Impact, Social Enterprise UK and the PwC Social Entrepreneurs Club David is a Trustee of the PwC Foundation, sits on the UK Charities Management Board and is a board member of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. He was named SEUK’s Social Enterprise Champion of the Year and a BitC Game changer in 2012 and awarded the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award 2013.

: Simon Boyle is the vision behind Brigade and Beyond Food. Having started as an apprentice chef aged 16 at The Savoy, Simon has led a highly respectable career since, working for Saudi Princes, taking Head Chef roles on 5* cruise ships, becoming the first ever Culinary Ambassador for the global giant, Unilever and running his own private catering and events business. It was in 2004 however, when Simon returned from Sri Lanka where he volunteered as part of the post tsunami relief team assisting a small community to rebuild their lives, that Simon found his passion and commitment to help and support those less fortunate than himself. Since 2004, Simon has worked tirelessly to help homeless people across London to rebuild their lives, using food as a catalyst, imparting his passion, skills and knowledge of cooking and food on to them and encouraging them to move their lives forward. Following 6 years of relentless hard work, Simon was able to take his vision to the next level. Forging relationships with PwC, De Vere Venues and the Homes and Communities Agency, Simon secured a grant of £800k to invest into a restaurant that would change the lives of hundreds of homeless people across London. Simon is publishing his latest book, ‘Good Skills’ with Penguin/Random House. Good Skills is a helping hand to those that need supported guidance to move into full time employment. Simon is also currently working on a Brigade cookery book which encompasses his take on British classical cookery and the art of craftsmanship.

: After joining DC Central Kitchen in 2004, Mike drew on his experiences as an entrepreneur in the restaurant business to expand the Kitchen’s social enterprise program from less than $500,000 to over $7 million in 2014. The Kitchen’s social enterprise portfolio includes full-service catering, contract meals, locally-sourced, scratched-cooked school meals and a wholesale program that delivers fresh produce and healthy snacks to corner stores in Washington, DC’s food deserts. Since 2010, DC Central Kitchen has generated over $35 million through social enterprise which now accounts for approximately 63% of its total operating budget. As a result of this growth, the Kitchen now employs over 150 people, including 60 graduates of the Kitchen’s Culinary Job Training Program which trains formerly incarcerated, addicted, homeless or chronically unemployed individuals. Since the 2008 recession, the Kitchen’s graduates have earned over $8.5 million in wages and have less than 2% recidivism.

: Johannes Heeb Dr. phil. II in Geography. Co-founder of seecon and chairman of the executive board. Member of the cantonal parliament of Canton Lucerne between 1987 and 1995. Lecturer at the University of Basel and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Johannes Heeb has over 30 years of professional experience in the areas of regional development, sustainable resource management and ecological engineering. As developer of the “tropical greenhouse idea”, Johannes Heeb brought the sustainable production of tropical fruits and spices to Switzerland and serves on the board of directors of the Tropenhaus Wolhusen and Tropenhaus Frutigen. He is assistant director of regiosuisse and co-founder of the Centre for Applied Ecology, the International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES), the Centre for Ecological Engineering Tartu (CEET); as well as managing director of cewas – International Centre for Water Management Services in Willisau, Lucerne. In his spare time he embarks on cultural journeys and nature tours, goes diving or hiking and applies himself to oenology and culinary art. Fields of activities • Closed-loop recycling and resources management • Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management • Development cooperation • Management consulting and project management • Consulting for businesses, public administration and NGOs • Urban and Regional Development

: Antony Kamoto is the Co-Founder and the Managing Director of PureFresh, a water treatment and vending company based in Naivasha (Kenya). The company offers to its customers safe drinking water at a very competitive price: low-income customers can now have access to clean and affordable water. Before starting PureFresh with his wife Njambi, Antony worked many years as agronomist in different flowers farms operating in the region (Kenya is world’s third largest flower exporter). He became passionate about water-related issues after the birth of his two children, and he decided to commit himself to solving the problem in his community.

: SACCOMANDI IVO

: Nina Tellegen is CEO of the DOEN Foundation, since October 2007. DOEN is a charity organization that uses the annual proceeds it receives from the Dutch Charity Lotteries to invest in a wide-range of initiatives and has been active as a Foundation since 1991. These Lotteries include The Dutch Postcode Lottery, BankGiro Lottery and Friends Lottery. DOEN believes that a green, socially-inclusive and creative society is possible, as the world is full of committed entrepreneurs with sustainable, cultural and socially-engaged initiatives. These entrepreneurial people have the courage to take risks, in order to put their, often pioneering, ideas into practice and to also inspire others. DOEN offers these people financial support and also connects them with each other. Nina started her career at the African Studies Centre where she worked as a researcher and wrote her PhD thesis on the development of rural enterprises in Malawi. From 2001 until 2007 she was the managing director of Wemos, an advocacy organization working on international health issues.

: Nicola Morganti is a socio economist with 20 years’ experience in rural development in Africa. He has been country coordinator of the Fondazione ACRA up to April 2014. As a coordinator he has contributed to the set up and accompaniment of LUMAMA, a community based social enterprise managing a hydro-electric power plant of 300 kW in Njombe region providing electricity to 7 villages. He is member of ACRA since more than 30 years and since 2011 he is part of the Foundation Council. In July 2014 he has been elected as Fondazione ACRA President. In 2008 he has founded the consulting firm African Ways and he is still one of the Directors. He is also among the founder and board members of Education & Entrepreneurship Ltd, a Tanzanian social enterprise involved in promoting vocational training for rural youth. Passionate of cycling he is supporting the development of small workshops for the repair and maintenance of bicycles in Africa.

: Elena Casolari CEO of Fondazione ACRA-CCS, Board member of the Fondazione Umano Progresso and of Education and Entrepreneurship Ltd., a social enterprise in Tanzania delivering vocational training in rural areas. Since its establishment (late 2012) Elena has been Executive president of Opes Impact fund, the first Italian investment vehicle targeting early stage social enterprises in East Africa and India in key development sectors with the aim at contributing in covering the “pioneer gap”. Previously, she worked for over a decade in investment banking in emerging Countries (HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Nikko Securities). Elena graduated in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and she was a researcher at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo for two years.

: JURKOVSKAJA ROXANE Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, The D., Open Innovation 2.0 (OI 2.0), HackaMENA, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Roxane is an entrepreneur and strategic business developer with experience from the United Nations, NGOs, and startups in Africa, Asia, MENA, Europe and the USA. She is passionate about economic and social improvement and how we can apply purpose-driven tech to solve global challenges. She has been a consultant for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations since 2012, supporting the development of the Entrepreneurs for Social Change programme. In 2014 she co-founded Hacka{MENA}, which has the mission to promote and inspire technopreneurship and the development of purpose-driven tech that has a positive social impact in the MENA region. At the moment she is building OI 2.0 in Dubai, which brings together talented members of the diverse community and organisations from the public, private and people sectors to consider challenges, collaborate on ideas and co-create new solutions for the future. Besides this she is supporting the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the MENA region and figuring out how we can measure “impact” and “change” more effectively through open data. She holds a double-degree M.Sc. in Economics and International Management from Copenhagen Business School and the National University of Singapore. Originally from the island of Sakhalin, but grew up in Denmark and currently based between Copenhagen, Denmark and Dubai, UAE. Linkedin: https://ae.linkedin.com/in/jurkovskaja; Web: www.thed.io; www.hackamena.com; www.hackaexpo.com; : www.unaocyouth.org/e4sc

: Within the framework of the United Nations, Francesco manages Entrepreneurs for Social Change, a joint project of Fondazione CRT and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations on social business for intercultural understanding. Consultant for various projects on the outcomes of the Arab Spring in the Euro-Med region, from 2012 to 2014 he was the director of IFOR, a network of NGOs working on conflict resolution, present in 40 countries around the world. He just entered its 6th cumulative year within the United Nations, as before working for the Alliance of Civilizations, he represented the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute to the UN Headquarters, from 2008 to 2011. Francesco’s background is journalism, which he practices whenever time and rules of engagement allow. He was featured in major Italian newspapers, from La Stampa, to L’Espresso, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Riformista, Il Secolo XIX as well as in American magazines. He co-authored three books. Originally from Torino, after having lived, in the last 10 years, in Paris, Chennai, London, and Amsterdam, when he does not travel, he bases half of his life in busy New York City and half in peaceful Vermont.

: Lynn McCulloch was Chief Executive of Cube Housing Association for seven years and was instrumental in developing a partnership between Cube and GHA which paved the way for the creation of Wheatley Group. Lynn has a long record in the social housing sector, including leading business transformation and government housing inspection services. She has been a board member of Community Enterprise in Scotland and is a former Chairperson of the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland. She is currently working with CEIS on a joint Wheatley and CEIS project to encourage more cooperation between the housing association and social enterprise sectors.

: Susan Aktemel graduated in 1990 from Strathclyde University, Glasgow with a B.A Hons. in Spanish and German Studies. She started her early career as an adult literacy tutor, working in the most disadvantaged communities in Glasgow. She then worked in Glasgow and Strathclyde University as a lecturer, and has worked in social enterprise since 1994, when she created Impact Arts, now a leading Scottish cultural charity which changes people’s lives through the arts. She created Homes for Good (Scotland) CIC, and Homes for Good Investments Ltd. In 2013, and has combined her skills as an experienced property developer and private sector landlord with her commitment to social change to Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency, and first dedicated private sector social landlord. In the last two years she has raised over £4.2 million social investment into Homes for Good to create a portfolio of quality homes for people in social housing need, and to scale the social letting agency. Susan is also a director of Places for People Scotland, and a Business Fellow at Strathclyde University. Spare time is spent with her 3 teenage daughters.

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: Alex Hannant is the CEO of the Ākina Foundation – a charity focused on the development of social enterprise across Aotearoa New Zealand. Ākina provides a range of support services, from early-stage capability building through to investment readiness and capital raising. Ākina also works with a wide range of corporate and philanthropic partners, and plays a lead role in advocating for the development of New Zealand’s social enterprise and investment sector. Previously, based in London, Alex was Director of Programmes at LEAD – a global network focused on leadership and sustainable development. He was also Head of Partnerships at the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) – a global initiative providing technical advice and services on climate change and development to decision makers in developing countries.

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: Timothy Ma, a Registered Social Worker, and a Fellow of Certified Risk Planner. He is now serving as the Executive Director, Project Flame of the City Univ. of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was the founding Executive Director of Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, which is one of the biggest and the most successful social enterprise in Hong Kong. Owning to his success in running the SCHSA to serve more than 80,000 elders in HK, he was awarded as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award, East Asia in2009 by the Schwab Foundation. He is the Vice-President of General Chamber of Social Enterprise, and a Founding Member of Social Entrepreneurship Forum. He is also a Co-opted member of Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Fund Task Force, HKSAR Govt. He is a board member of Diamond Cab; Dialogue Experience (HK); Heart-to-Heart and OC member of the annual Social Enterprise Summit in Hong Kong. He also serves as member of Elderly Commission, Urban Renewal Authority, Social Worker’s Registration Board, as well as Lottery Fund Advisory Committee of HKSAR Govt. Lastly, he serves at the International Development Committee of AFP, and a ex-member of Global Agenda Council’s Aging Expertise Panel and finally a member of Leadership Task Force of World Economic Forum on Social Enterprise.

: Before the start-up of Fondazione Opes, Giovanni worked for 7 years in the MicroVentures Finance Group (today Credit Access Asia), where he managed the start-up phase and the build-up of the investment portfolio (as Chief Operating Officer of MicroVentures SpA and subsequently Investment Manager for MicroVentures SA). Previously Giovanni was Chief Operating Officer at Altromercato, Senior Brand Manager at The Coca-Cola Co. and Market Research Manager at Procter & Gamble. Giovanni has a degree in Economics from the University of Brescia.

: Alex Oppes is Associate Director in the Impact Investing team at Social Ventures Australia (SVA), where he is responsible for investing SVA’s A$9m Social Impact Fund, a fund that has made 9 debt and equity investments in social enterprises that address disadvantage in Australia. In addition, Alex works on development of new social impact bonds and impact investment advisory projects. Prior to SVA, Alex worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. across Australia, Asia and Europe, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. Alex has also established a small retail business and consulted extensively in the not-for-profit sector. Alex holds a dual BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

: She has worked 15 years in multinational companies in Italy and abroad. In 2012 she founded the company Piano C, – www.pianoC.it – to innovate the work’s organization and seize the energy of emerging resources such as women. In 2012 Piano C model won the first prize as “Best social innovator in Europe”, awarded by the European Investment Bank. Together with Andrea Vitullo, she launched maam® – motherhood as a master -http://maternityasamaster.com/en/: a project that, thanks to the new definition of “generative leadership”, challenges one of the most damaging stereotypes in the 21st century economy that considers motherhood as a crisis factor in women’s employment. In September 2014 BUR published the book” “Maam- motherhood is a master making stronger men and women”. Riccarda is a consultant and a professional keynote speaker on the topics of diversity, women employment, innovation and leadership : http://riccardazezza.com/

: Sunny Lin completed her undergraduate studies in Public Administration and Law with National Chengchi University and obtained her Masters in Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in management, social entrepreneurship, and policy. She was Research Intern at Flow (the first social venture capitalist in Taiwan) and Project Manager at Social Enterprise Associates, an US-based independent consulting firm serving social enterprises and nonprofits worldwide. The transnational and diverse engagement in the field of social entrepreneurship led Sunny to found Social Enterprise Insights (www.seinsights.asia) in 2012, which is the first Mandarin-based online information portal about social entrepreneurship and social innovation from Taiwan. SEI aims to share relevant knowledge and connect the dots together in the field, hoping to get people informed, inspired, and ignited. Sunny is also a fellow of the ECSEL (Empowering Chinese Social Enterprise Leaders) program, and recognized as “100 Heroes of the Year” of Global Views Monthly and “Innovative Entrepreneurship” by Common Wealth Magazine of Taiwan.

: Tim West has been working in the space where business and social mission meet for well over a decade. He is founding editor of Pioneers Post (pioneerspost.com; @pioneerspost), the digital and print magazine for social entrepreneurs, with readers in 60 countries. He leads mission-focused creative agency Matter&Co (matterandco.com), which delivers PR, branding, design, film and strategic support to social ventures, government and corporate clients. He is also founder of Good Deals (good-dealsuk.com), the UK’s leading international social enterprise conference, and he created the SE100.net, a market intelligence tool tracking the growth and impact of more than 1,300 social enterprises. A trained journalist, Tim studied Music at Oxford University and business at Warwick and Cranfield. He is also a director of Big Issue Invest, the investment arm of The Big Issue; a trustee of ECT, one of the UK’s leading transport charities; and serves on the UK Council of Social Value International.

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: Roberto Di Meglio is a Senior Technical Specialist at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. He mainly works on Local development and Social Economy. He began his career with the ILO in 1989 working on cooperatives and local development in Argentina, Bolivia, Central America and the Caribbean, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. From 1999 to 2003 he was assigned to the ILO in Geneva where he coordinated the activities of the Local Economic Development Programme for Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. As Senior Employment Specialist in the ILO Office in Chile, from 2003 to 2008, he published several titles and articles on local development, supervised technical cooperation programmes and projects and promoted networking with other international organizations, training centres and academic institutions. Prior to his current position, he leaded a Project – Promotion of Decent Work and social cohesion – within the International Training Center of the ILO in Turin, Italy. He co-authored and edited several ILO publications, in particular, “Social and Solidarity Economy: -building a common understanding” (2010); “Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work” (2011); Social and Solidarity Economy: An opportunity to enhance youth employment” (2013); “Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development (2014). He is co-editor of web sites on Social and Solidarity Economy at www.itcilo.org/socialeconomy and the “Collective Brain” at www.sseacb.net/

: founded a NPO “Pan Asia Innovation Association for Young Entrepreneurs and Retirees” (www.yere.asia) in 2013 in Taiwan. She serves as incumbent President. After 36 years of doing business in the United States, she returned to her homeland for retirement in 2010. With her entrepreneurial spirit and conviction to helping social exclusions, YERE is a platform that connects young people and retirees to cooperate and leverage each other’s strength to create new ventures. Economic growth is the common goal for participating parties. Ms. Tsao founded INTECS International Inc as a leading information technology firm in 1988. With Ms. Tsao’s software engineering discipline and keen marketing sense, INTECS marketed customized software development and system integration services in RFID Technologies, Voice Recognition, Geographic Information Systems, Combat system simulation and verification along with facilities management and management consulting services. Ms. Tsao received her Bachelor’s Degree of Science from Fu-Jen University, Taiwan, then she immigrated to the U.S. from her birthplace of Taiwan( Republic of China) in 1975. She received her Masters degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, Virginia in 1983. In 2002, she received the ODU “Distinguished Alumni Award”. She successfully completed the Advanced Minority Business Executive Program at Dartmouth University in 1994 and 1995. She received “The Overseas Chinese Young Entrepreneur” Award from the Republic of China government. She also received the “Woman Executive of the Year” from the Taiwan Industry Association. As a distinguished member of the U.S. Air Force Woman Owned Business Council, she has been a featured keynote speaker on international business issues. She also has been invited as a speaker at APEC and “Asia CEO Forum” by BusinessWeek. She was a founding director of “Association for Enterprise Integration” (AFEI) in the USA. She also served as a founding direct

: Peter Stadler is the Chief Executive of FAF (Fachberatung für Arbeits- und Firmenprojekte) and has held this role since 1996. FAF is a non-profit social firm support structure. FAF operates in all parts of Germany and offers consulting services to social firms, foundations, ministries, social firms and all kinds of social entrepreneurs. In addition FAF offers consulting services to implement innovative projects and develops strategies for inclusive work in an inclusive society in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 1983 Peter was active in founding the first social firm in Berlin for persons with psychiatric experience. In Germany there are approximately 700 market lead social firms for people with a disability, run by a large number of social entrepreneurs, which offer work to more than 25,000 people. Peter is one of the founders of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Integrationsfirmen (BAG IF), which developed to be the lobby organisation for the 700 social firms in Germany and is now a share- and stakeholder of FAF. Since 2010 he is member in the steering group of the Social Enterprise World Forum.

: Since 2011, Jean-Claude Mizzi is a Coordinator for the Single Market Act and the Social Business Initiative at the European Commission (DG GROWTH). Before, from 2008 to 2010, he was Head of Unit “French presence and influence in the European Union” at the General Secretariat for European Affairs (Paris). From 2004 to 2007, he was Political councilor at the French Embassy in Canberra and from 2003 to 2004 coordinator for land transports at the Ministry of Foreign affairs (Paris). From 2001 to 2003, he was Head of Unit “Asia-Americas” at DG Enterprises, Ministry of Economy (Paris). From 1999 to 2001 he worked as expert on Purchasing Power Parities at Eurostat, European Commission (Luxembourg). From 1997 to 1999 he was an expert on IST at DG CNECT, European Commission (Brussels). From 1993 to 1997, Jean-Claude was a Policy officer on IST at DG Enterprises, Ministry of Economy (Paris). From 1991 to 1993, he was at Ecole Nationale d’Administration – Promotion Condorcet (Paris), and from 1988 to 1991 Policy officer at the Ministry of Interior (Paris). He is graduated from the IEP Strasbourg and has a MBA on “Network companies”. He is 50 y.o., and a French citizen.

: James Dunbar is the founding Chief Executive of New Start Highland. He led its development from inception to an organisation with 80 employees and a multi-million pound turnover. The social issues tackled by New Start Highland are three-fold: poverty, homelessness, and long-term unemployment. James has created a range of services including: furniture upcycling, housing support, employment training, a retail chain, bicycle refurbishing and a storage, removals, and decorating business. James leads a team with a shared vision for creating opportunities to Transform Highland lives. He is a 2 time Institute of Directors “Director of the year” winner and winner of Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. He also led New Start Highland to win SCDI business excellence award winner for environmental sustainability. Last year alone, James led New Start Highland in saving over one million pounds for the public purse – but more importantly helped many people make lasting transformational change in their lives.

: Angela Melodia is a Social Enterprise Expert, working in Fondazione ACRA-CCS Social Enterprise Development Unit. She delivers technical assistance to social enterprises that fight poverty in developing countries and contribute to building an inclusive economic system in innovative ways. With a degree in Political Sciences and a Master in Development Cooperation from the University of Pavia, she has a long experience in the identification, management, monitoring and evaluation of international development projects in the sectors of water and sanitation, food sovereignty, poverty reduction and natural resources management with a focus on innovative solutions to fight poverty.

: I graduated in economics from Bocconi University and LSE (MSc Economics, 1988). I have been an economist, with a bank research department, for about 10 years, an asset manager with Italian and French houses, for another 10 years. I moved to social banking in 2008 and have been at it for the last 7 years, dispatching various job descriptions including research and PR, and now I am in charge of clients’ investments. Through most of this time I have also been teaching intermittently topics spanning finance, social business, and lately more esoteric subjects such as impact measurement and cultural economics.

: Jimmy Chiu has been suffering from poliomyelitis since he was a little child. With such background, he dedicated himself to the well-being of the needy. He started his career as a social worker and transformed to a social entrepreneur and then an educator. Jimmy is the Founding Chair & CEO of Charm Net Ltd whose mission is to advocate and promote social innovation in the mainland China. He actively involves in rendering training and coaching in social enterprise development and social service management in China. He also takes advisory role in different agencies such as Shunde Social Innovation Centre, Zhongshan Social Work Alliance, GuangDoing YouRan Cultural Communication LTD and Zhongshan Chi Hang Social Charity Association. Jimmy obtained BA in Social Policy and MA in Social Work in UK. He was then awarded MA in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution and Juries Doctor. His particular interests are the corporate governance in NGO, legal framework for social enterprise and Hong Kong Basic Law. Jimmy is a very active person with great zest for serving the community. In public service, Jimmy is the member of Community Investment & Inclusion Fund, Labour and Welfare Bureau, HKSAR; the NTW Cluster Clinical Research & Ethnic Committee, Hospital Authority; the Midwives Council of Hong Kong Preliminary Investigation Committee, and the Public Affairs Forum, Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR. Jimmy is also the Council member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprise, member of the Organizing Committee of Social Enterprise Summit, Director of the Fullness Social Enterprises Society and the Hon. Advisor of Hong Kong Association for Parents with Physical Disabilities. Jimmy believes that each of us has the potential to develop himself but also to contribute to the well-being of others and the world

: Biko Evarist is the General Manager of Education and Entrepreneurship Tanzania Limited (E&E), a social enterprise delivering high quality vocational training and education to vulnerable young people in the rural districts of Njombe, Tanzania. E&E replicates the proven self-sufficient rural school model by Fundacion Paraguaya. He is a solutions focused rural community development specialist with 12 years leadership, management, training and program development in various countries in Africa. Biko holds a Master’s Degree in Business Studies from the University of Florida U.S.A, a Bachelor of Education from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota USA, a post graduate Diploma in Community Development from the Catholic University of East Africa Nairobi Kenya and an advanced Diploma in curriculum development and Instructional methods from Kyambogo University, Kampala Uganda.

: President of FemS3, co-founder and Board member of the Cooperativa Chico Mendes, Board member of Consorzio Cgm Finance. He was also co-founder and CEO of the magazine Altreconomia and, for 9 years, vice-president of Altromercato. Stefano graduated in Physics from the University of Milan.

: Kevin Lynch served Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA), the membership association for the social enterprise sector in North America, since 2006, first as a Board member, then as President & CEO from June 2011 through January 2015, and mostly recently as CEO Emeritus. During these years, he revived the organization, returned it to credibility, restored its financial health and set it on a pathway to become a powerful movement builder for the common good. Lynch is, first and foremost, a social enterprise practitioner. After starting and selling a direct mail business in college, he worked from 1980 to 2001 in the advertising industry, the last 14 years as founder and principal of Lynch Jarvis Jones, the first social enterprise ad agency, whose mission was to create positive social change through the power of advertising and marketing. From 2003 to 2011 he was President of Rebuild Resources, Inc., a nationally recognized non-profit social enterprise in St. Paul, Minnesota that exclusively employed recovering ex-offenders. With Julius Walls, Jr., he wrote Mission, Inc., The Practitioner’s Guide To Social Enterprise¨ (2009), a highly regarded, practical book that focuses on the day-to-day challenges and opportunities faced by social enterprise practitioners. Most recently he has turned his attention to speaking about social enterprise in the context of the “privilege economy”. He has spoken across the United States and on five continents, and is a blogger on the popular Huffington Post. He is a neophyte tweeter at @missioninclynch

: 33- year-old, Alessandro was born and raised in the province of Milan. In 1999 he won a scholarship to attend the last year of high school at the United World Colleges in Canada. In 2001 he obtained a second scholarship at the University of Essex, where he graduated in Political Science in 2004 and was awarded Student of the Year. In 2006 he completed a master’s degree at the London School of Economic and began working as a researcher in London for IFF Research. In 2007 he started working for EdComs- public policy development and communication campaigns for the UK Government. In 2011 he returned in Italy as director of European Alternatives, NGOs active throughout Europe in the protection of human rights. In 2011 Alessandro created Con-Way, 2.0 communication enterprise, and followed several electoral and communication campaigns. Two years later he founded the project edu-care, branch of Con-Senso focused on education in the responsible use of social media for young people, parents and teachers. In 2014 he was selected as first director of Ashoka Italy. He lives in Rome, he is married to Julian.

Milano 1-3 luglio 2015 : Growing a new economy. Il Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) è il principale evento mondiale dedicato all’impresa sociale. Innumerevoli le voci di grande spessore di persone straordinarie che hanno trovato soluzioni sorprendenti a situazioni problematiche. Da Michael Green che presenterà per la prima volta in Italia il Social Progress Index, a Dureen Shanhaz, colei che ha creato il Social Stock Exchange a Singapore, a Harish Hande premiato del Magsaysay Award, l’equivalente asiatico del Premio Nobel, come migliore imprenditore sociale. E ancora Fiza Farhan , una delle migliori giovani imprenditrici al mondo secondo Forbes (30 under30 list), Sonia Grinvalds co-fondatrice di AFRIpads, Jack Sim conosciuto come Mr.Toilet, la rockstar della sanitation a livello mondiale. Fra gli ospiti anche il Premio Nobel per la Pace, Muhammad Yunus, che chiuderà il forum. FONDAZIONE ACRA-CCS via Lazzaretto 3 – 20124 Milan, Italy Ph +39 02 27000291 – F +39 02 2552270 – www.acraccs.org