International Social Innovation Research Conference
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Alex Murdock
London South Bank University

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Alex Murdock , Head of Centre for Government and Charity Management at London South Bank University. Alex researches  the intersection of the public, private and third sectors, the voluntary sector compact and stakeholder approaches to organisational strategy.  He is very actively involved in charities and social enterprises.  He is Chair of an Emmaus Social Enterprise  a trustee of Welcare, a charity for children and families. Interests in Italy France, China and Norway (where he is visiting professor) . Has worked at  the Sorbonne, Copenhagen Business School and Brunel University. Alex qualified as a Probation Officer and was previously a senior manager in Social Work.

Alex Nicholls
University of Oxford

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Alex is the first lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship, including: the interface between the public and social sectors; organisational legitimacy and governance; the development of social finance markets; and impact measurement and innovation. He is widely published in peer reviewed journals and has done consultancy work for not-for-profits, social enterprises, and the UK government. He is the co-author of a major research book on Fair Trade (with Charlotte Opal, Sage, 2005). His ground-breaking 2006 edition of a collection of key papers on the state of the art of social entrepreneurship globally was published in paperback edition by Oxford University Press in 2008. It is the best selling academic book on the subject globally.
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Anne-Claire Pache
ESSEC

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Anne-Claire Pache is assistant professor in social entrepreneurship at ESSEC Business School, France. Her research focuses on social enterprises, more specifically on how these organizations manage the tensions between their social and economic logics as they go to scale. In 2001, she co-founded ESSEC Social Entrepreneurship Center at ESSEC Business School, which became ESSEC Institute for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in 2009. Prior to joining the academic world, she co-founded and co-directed Unis-Cité, an innovative youth service program launched in France in 1994, which now mobilizes about 1000 young volunteers and 130 staff, and operates in 20 cities across France. She is still Vice-Chair of Unis-Cité’s board of directors. Anne-Claire holds and Masters in Business Administration from ESSEC Business School and a Masters in Public Administration (with a focus on non profit management) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She currently finishes her PhD in Organizational Behavior at INSEAD.

Benedetto Cannatelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Benedetto Cannatelli is a PhD student in Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. He is also actively involved as researcher at ALTIS, the Postgraduate School of Business and Society at the same University. His main research interests are Social Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. In 2009 he was visiting scholar at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HAAS School of Business , UC Berkeley. In 2010 he was international visiting scholar at the Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Farmer School of Business, Miami University.

Bob Doherty
Liverpool Hope University

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Dr Bob Doherty has spent six and a half years at Liverpool Business School (Liverpool John Moores University) heading-up the Sustainable Enterprise Research Group and associated postgraduate programmes in Social Enterprise. Bob has recently moved (1st September) to take-up an Associate Professor position as new Head of the Business School at Liverpool Hope University. He is also editor of the Emerald publishers Social Enterprise Journal and co-author of the text book titled ‘Management of Social Enterprise’.  Bob is also a member of the Co-operative Retail Group’s Responsible Retailing Advisory Panel (RRAP) and also Chairs Liverpool’s Fairtrade Steering Committee. Prior to moving into academia Bob spent five years as Head of Sales and Marketing at the Fairtrade social enterprise, Divine Chocolate Ltd.

Carlo Rossi Chauvenet
Bocconi University

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Dr. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet is a Research Fellow in Italian and European Private Law and Co-director of the National Observatory in Non profit Law at Bocconi University in Milan. His research is mainly focused on juridical models and corporate governance of non profit entities, including merger and transformation of foundations and NPO. Dr. Rossi graduated (summa cum laude) in Law from Bocconi University and received a PHD in law at the University of Padua. He also  studied in the US receiving a Master in Law (LLM) from the New York University School of Law and a Master in Law from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Charles Jardine
Social Enterprise Development Consultant

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Charles Jardine works as a social enterprise development consultant.  He has worked in the not-for-profit and the for-profit sectors, now specialises in cross-sector collaboration for social impact.  His background in accountancy and management consultancy has been useful in recent research into social performance metrics.  A staunch advocate of social justice and community regeneration in the UK and overseas, Charles has held senior positions in organisations committed to societal improvement. 
Charles can be contacted on [email protected] or on +44-(0)1323-833568

Justin Berk
Yale University

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Justin Berk is a current Master of Public Health student at Yale University, concentrating in both Health Management and Global Health. He recently graduated with a B.A. in Political Science – Health Policy and Politics, also at Yale University. His academic interests include social entrepreneurship and health systems in low-income countries. In the fall of 2011, he plans to attend medical school.

Karen E. Wilson
Kauffman Foundation

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Karen works as a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation representing them in Europe. She is also founder of GV Partners, a firm created in 2004 to work with start-ups as well as initiatives to facilitate the development of a broader entrepreneurial ecosystem, including in the areas of finance, policy and entrepreneurship education. Since starting GV Partners, Karen has worked with private sector firms, international organizations, foundations and universities. She currently is a Board Member and Advisor of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) and serves as a member of the European Leadership Council for Harvard Business School. She received, with honors, a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Katie Hill

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Katie has a degree in Economics and worked for the Government on oil price and supply.  Having worked in the UK and Brussels on EU social policy, she moved East and advised the governments of Lithuania and Poland on their employment strategies  prior to their accession to the EU. For four years, she was Executive Chairman of  a pioneering social enterprise in Bulgaria aimed at helping marginalised people become economically active.  She returned to the UK to study for an MBA at Said Business School last year and has subsequently worked in social finance and international business development.

Maria Irurita
Middlesex University

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After completing degrees in Economics and Anthropology in Colombia, Maria worked for an indigenous social enterprise in the Amazon region of Ecuador. She has been living in London since 2003 where she completed a Masters degree in Anthropology of Development and where she has worked in the areas of alternative currencies (LETS), refugee integration, corporate social responsibility and social enterprise. Maria is a certified social enterprise advisor, trainer and researcher and is currently completing an ESRC funded PhD in peer leaning and innovation within the social economy at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University.

Amy Fredeen
Cook Inlet Tribal Council

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Amy Fredeen, CPA, is of Inupiat heritage. Graduating from Gonzaga University, her accounting background was heavily influenced by Gonzaga’s emphasis on altruistic efforts. Ms. Fredeen is CFO of Cook Inlet Tribal Council, one of Alaska’s largest Native social service providers, a position she has held for four years. With 18 years of accounting experience, including simultaneous Controller for up to 44 additional non-profit agencies – a total of $85 million in budgets–Ms. Fredeen has extensive experience in nonprofit budget management. 

Gloria O'Neill
Cook Inlet Tribal Council

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Gloria O’Neill is of Yupik and Irish descent. She has served for 10+ years as the President/CEO of Cook Inlet Tribal, a nonprofit social service provider for Alaska Native/American Indian participants. She also serves as the Chair of the Board of the Anchorage Museum, a board member of the Anchorage Community Land Trust, Cook Inlet Housing Authority, the Alaska Federation of Natives, and the National CASA Association. She is a member of the National Tribal Budget Advisory Council of the BIA, and a Fellow of the Annie E Casey Foundation. Ms. O’Neill earned her MBA from Alaska Pacific University.

John Grimes
Cook Inlet Tribal Council

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John Grimes, of Irish/Scottish/English descent, has served as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Cook Inlet Tribal Council since 2008. Previously, he served as Director of the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Deputy Director for Research, New Media, and Information at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He has curated exhibitions on historic and contemporary Native American and Indigenous art, and written and spoken extensively on Indigenous creativity, intellectual property rights, the presentation of Indigenous art, and values/vision-based strategies for nonprofit sustainability.

Paola Grenier

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Paola Grenier gained a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science on the role and significance of social entrepreneurship in UK social policy. An edited version of the PhD is due for publication in 2010.  She has a BA in psychology from Cambridge University, and an MSc in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London University. She specializes in the voluntary sector, and has published on global civil society, social capital, social movements, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. She lives in Hungary where she has also written on the Hungarian non-profit sector.

John Pepin
JPA Partner

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John Pepin has worked for over 15 years as a Chief Executive of a variety of charities/social enterprises and associations of differing sizes and complexities and has extensive experience as a consultant working with third sector organisations across all sectors and of all sizes in rural and urban settings, and as a Board Trustee, Board Chair and Executive Committee member.   He has worked in all aspects of the JPA consultancy including strategic and business planning, social enterprise development and growth, revenue generation of all types, collaboration and change management, and mentoring. John has also published a number of articles on a variety of subjects including social enterprise and venture philanthropy; governance, commissioning and research mapping social investment funds in the UK.

Ilan Vuddamalay
JPA Europe Limited

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Ilan Vuddamalay is a Consultant specialising in third sector revenue generation and diversification and improving organisational management. She has worked with a variety of organisations on projects including business planning for social enterprises, fundraising, membership development and strategic planning and evaluation. Ilan has researched topics including venture philanthropy (presented at the European Venture Philanthropy Conference and the Institute of Fundraising National Convention in 2008), collaboration and fair trade marketing.  Ilan graduated from the LSE with a Master’s in Management and has worked in the national and international co-operative movements and has been working with JPA Europe Limited since 2007.

Tom Mansel
JPA Europe Limited

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Tom Mansel is a consultant with JPA Europe. Tom has helped set up and grow a variety of businesses, firstly for a financial mailing company in New York then in the United Kingdom for a fundraising company Justgiving, which he joined at its formative stage and helped build into a household name. Latterly he was at ClearlySo, an online hub and marketplace designed to help social enterprises find investment, scale up and become mainstream players.

Robert Gailey
Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego

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Robert Gailey, Ph.D., directs the Center for International Development (CID) and serves as associate professor of business at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) in San Diego, CA. Rob has lived and worked in Africa and served two years as research director for the Microcredit Summit Campaign in Washington D.C. He served six years as director of Microfinance Consulting Services for World Relief. Rob serves on the organizing committee for the San Diego Microfinance Alliance and directs the sub-committee for Academic/Research interests. He also serves as the faculty advisor to PLNU’s Microfinance Club. Rob is married and has two children.

Sharon Zivkovic
Community Capacity Builders

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Sharon Zivkovic is the Principal Facilitator at Community Capacity Builders; a for-profit social enterprise that has developed a project based, trans-disciplinary, active citizenship education program that embeds into government infrastructure.  She is also the Lecturer for the University of Adelaide’s Social Entrepreneurship Course.  Prior to establishing Community Capacity Builders, Sharon held positions in the non-profit, private and public sectors.  These positions included Case Manager for welfare recipients, Finance Manager for Kosmea Australia, Local Government Employment Development Officer, and positions as Senior Community Development Coordinator and Senior Project Officer Community Capacity with the South Australian State Government.

Robin Zhang
Venture Adventure

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Robin Zhang is the Co-founder and Managing Director for Venture Avenue, a not-for-profit advisory providing evaluation and consulting services to China philanthropy sector. Prior to VA, Robin was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, where he led BCG’s Pro Bono services for Jet Li’s One Foundation. As Strategic Planning Director, Robin developed OF’s long-range strategic plan, managed social enterprises and Philanthropy Grants programs
In his earlier career, Robin was Sales & Marketing Director for Kennametal in U.S. and China. Robin holds MBA degree from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and BS/MS (Material Science) from Tsinghua University.

Maria Anastasiadis
Institute of Educational Science in Graz

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Maria Anastasiadis, born 1973, holds a PhD in Humanities and Social Science and is a member of the academic staff of the Institute for Educational Science in Graz (Austria). She is specialised in research on Third Sector and the labour market situation.

Ben Huybrechts
University of Liege

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Ben has recently got his PhD in Management at HEC Management School, University of Liège (Belgium). His research examines social enterprises from an institutional perspective, looking at issues such as organizational diversity, governance, and partnerships with mainstream businesses, in different countries and fields (Fair Trade, work integration, etc.). In the context of a new Master program in the management of social enterprises, to be launched in September 2010 at HEC Management School, he will be teaching classes on governance and organizational diversity in social enterprises. Ben is a member of several academic networks (EMES, ISTR, Fairness) and he is a founding member of the recently created Belgian Fair Trade Federation.

Fergus Lyon
Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR)

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Professor Fergus Lyon is Professor of Enterprise and Organisations in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include social enterprise, trust and co-operation between enterprises, enterprise behaviour in public services and business support. He is leading a 5 year programme of research on Social Enterprise as part of the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by ESRC and Office of the Civil Society. Previously he has carried out research in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Nepal.  He is also a founder and director of a social enterprise preschool.

Silvia Dorado
University of Rhode Island

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Silvia Dorado is an Assistant Professor of Management at University of Rhode Island.  Silvia received her B.A. degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, her M.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. from McGill University.  Her research focuses on actors who confront social problems by bridging confounding rationalities (such as banking and development, community service and learning, or revenue generation and employment).  She has published in Academy of Management Journal, International Review of Administrative Science, Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Public Administration and Development.

David Shaffer
DePaul Industries

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Dave has been with DePaul Industries since 1997 and has been its CEO since March 2007. He previously served as its COO and CFO. Prior to coming to DePaul Dave was one of the founders of Moonstruck Chocolatier and was its President from 1996-1997. From 1987-1993 Dave served as the Vice President of Finance and Operations for the US operations of VTech Computers, a technology company based in Hong Kong.  Upon graduation from Purdue University in 1980, Dave was with the Chicago office of Touche Ross and Co, CPA’s. (now Deloitte).  He lives with his wife Jean, in Portland, Oregon.

Phil Sital-Singh
KTP Associate - London South Bank University

Phil Sital-Singh is a KTP Associate working with London South Bank University and the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Holding an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations from the University of Nottingham, and early experience in both academic and applied social research, Phil applied for the KTP project as a starting point to building a career within the not-for-profit sector. His KTP scheme is due to end in February 2012.

Lindsay Hodgson
KTP Associate - London South Bank University, RNID and RNIB

Lindsay Hodgson is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Research Associate working in collaboration with London South Bank University, RNID and RNIB. She leads a 2 year project developing a model of tracking real-life outcomes and social impact measurement for RNID and RNIB’s social care services. Lindsay’s academic background includes a BSc in Psychology, MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour and certifications in Deaf Studies and three different sign languages. Her previous employment was in Boston, USA for the Massachusetts Association of the Blind where she worked with people with neurological injuries and learning disabilities supporting independent living. Lindsay believes that a person-centred approach, led by the people who organisations set out to serve, is the most effective way to change lives and that organisations should rise to the challenge of capturing subjective impact in objective ways.

Cristina Cerulli
University of Sheffield

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Cristina qualified as an architect in Florence in 1999. Since then she has worked in practice and academia in Sheffield and London. After completing her PhD research on supporting learning within design practices in 2004, she has been a full time lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield.  At the School of Architecture Cristina coordinates Knowledge Exchange and International activities, she is responsible for the teaching of management and practice across all programs; she also co-runs a MArch design studio (with Tatjana Schneider), Housing +, teaches in the MA of Urban Design, supervises student research at various levels and is involved in several funded research projects. Within the University of Sheffield she is a founding member and director of the Built Environment Theme of the Social Enterprise Research Exchange (SERX), a centre leading knowledge development with and for social enterprise. Her research interests span across several areas, including community lead housing development models and shared models of living to `alternative´ and creative forms of management and procurement.  She co-founded, in 2008, Studio Polpo, a social enterprise architectural practice.

Frank Hajek
SE Peru and University of Oxford

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Frank is a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment and Director at Servicios Ecosistémicos Peru, a Peruvian non-profit founded in 2009 with the purpose of supporting rural people in the development of ecosystem service payment schemes. Before SePerú, he worked as an environment operations and appraisal engineer with Shell in the Dutch North Sea (1994-1998), as Programme Leader for the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Peru (1999-2006), as Chief Technical Advisor to the Zambia Wildlife Authority (2006-2008) and as Coordinator of the Oxford University Ecosystem Services Working Group (2008-2009). Frank holds a Masters in Engineering from Imperial College, London, and a MBA from Oxford University’s Said Business School. His research interests are in natural resource management, environmental change and conservation innovation. Frank is married to biologist Jessica Groenendijk and has two children, Saba and Luca.

Steen Svendsen
Public Futures

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Steen Svendsen is a futurist, policy strategist and co-founder of Public Futures. He is former Head of Research at the Danish think-tank House of Monday Morning and The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He is also former consulting futurist to Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, UK. He is educated in political science and PhD counselor at the University of Aarhus as well as associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. His main areas of work are policy developments including political participation, social innovation and strategy, and futures methods and techniques. He is an adviser to political parties, organizations, ministries and international companies through research projects, sparring and lectures.

Søren Steen Olsen
Public Futures

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Søren Steen Olsen is a futurist, policy strategist and co-founder of Public Futures. Originally trained as an economist, he has taught economics at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School. Worked as a professional futurist at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies for more than a decade. He has consulted, written and lectured extensively on a broad range of subjects including labour market, family patterns, international economics and futures studies. He specialises in political strategy and policy development . At Public Futures he has helped pioneer social innovation in Denmark, working with the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs, The Danish AIDS Foundation, Danner's Shelter, DaneAge Association, various Danish municipalities, and the National Association of Join-In Centres, among others.

Heerad Sabeti
Fourth Sector Network

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Co-Founder and Convening Trustee, Fourth Sector Network. An entrepreneur and systems thinker, Heerad Sabeti has been pursuing systemic solutions to societal challenges. For the past 20 years, he has been working toward the development of a “Fourth Sector” of organizations at the intersection of the public, private and non-profit sectors. The Fourth Sector is comprised of “For-Benefit” enterprises that are designed to seamlessly integrate public purposes with business means, harnessing entrepreneurial energy to shape a more just and sustainable future. Sabeti is co-founder and former CEO of TransForms, FB, a social enterprise that pioneered an innovative category of art and décor products for consumer and commercial use worldwide. TransForms served as a laboratory for the development of the For-Benefit enterprise model, with embedded commitments to a social purpose, inclusive ownership and governance, social and environmental responsibility, fair compensation, and transparency. Sabeti serves or has served on the Advisory Boards of the Center for International Business Education and Research at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Aspen Institute's Intersectoral Relations Initiative.

Harri Kostilainen
Diaconia University

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Harri Kostilainen is a researcher at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences and PhD candidate at the University of Eastern Finland. He graduated from University of Helsinki (Social Policy) and is having 15 years experience developing co-operatives and social enterprises. He is secretary of recently established Finnish Network for Social Enterprise Research. His main research interests are social innovations and social enterprises in the context of renewal of social and welfare services.