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Mr. Allen became the Leadership Editor of Forbes in December 2008, just as the American business world was crashing down and taking the jobs and homes of millions with it. Had Mr. Allen started the job a year or two earlier, he might have found that covering things like how to be a manager, corporate strategy, risk management, governance, and corporate social responsibility was worthy but possibly sometimes a little dull. Now Mr. Allen found that the beat was everything that had gone terribly wrong and was going to have to go very right to get us all back to prosperity. Since then, Mr. Allen has had the pleasure of publishing some of the world’s best minds on every aspect of leadership.
Previously Mr. Allen was a senior editor of Forbes magazine, and before that he was for many years the managing editor of American Heritage and the editor of the quarterly Invention & Technology. Mr. Allen has emceed the annual induction ceremony at the National Inventors Hall of Fame, done the play-by-play over the P.A. system on a cruise ship as it passed through the Panama Canal, and written on the history of bourbon whiskey and the making of Steinway pianos, among many, many other things. Mr. Allen prepared for all that by majoring in music in college and writing a senior thesis on the music of Hector Berlioz.

Santiago Alvarez joined Actis in 2011 as part of its responsible investment and ESG team where he is responsible for creating shared value initiatives and implementing social, environmental and governance best practices across Actis’ portfolio of companies. He has been particularly involved with energy deals in Central America and has been responsible for the development and implementation of the Actis Energy Impact Model across all the portfolio of energy investments in Latin America and Africa.

Mr. Alvarez has significant experience working with SMEs in Latin America, South Asia and Southern Africa, in particular promoting access to capital. Prior to Actis, Santiago worked for Adobe Capital in Mexico, which is an impact investment fund created in collaboration with New Ventures Mexico. He also worked in management consulting in Latin America for several years and has spent time working for Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and a financial mobile payment services start-up in Zambia. He is also the co-founder of Prosperitas, a small microfinance institution in Colombia that participated in the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder Colorado last year.

Santiago was an Investors Circle Fellow in 2011 and a Skoll Centre Associate Fellow in 2010. He holds an MBA from Oxford University Saïd Business School, a Masters in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from Birmingham University in the UK and a degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

Esfandiar ("Es") Ardalan is Chugai Relationship Manager and Pharma Sustainability Officer at F.Hofmann-La Roche AG in Basel, Switzerland. He has been with the company for 20 years, holding high-ranking positions in business development, financial and relationship management. Due to his keen interest in the different aspects of responsible management, he was put in charge of the group’s sustainability office in 2005.
At Roche, sustainability is a high priority: the company is firmly committed to ethical and responsible management and to creating long-term value for society. Out of a firm belief that environmental and social responsibilities are mainstays of long-term success, Roche is dedicated to maintaining a sound balance between the three elements of society, environment, and economy.
Before joining Roche in 1990, Esfandiar was with Proctor&Gamble (1980-85), R.J.Reynolds (1985-87) as well as self-employed as a management consultant. He also taught Industrial Economics at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland (1987-89).
Esfandiar holds a B.S.F.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., as well as an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. In his spare time he enjoys outdoor activities, in particular anything to do with mountains and the sea: He is an avid skier, hiker and scuba-diver.

German Arguelles is the co-founder and CMO of adidas International Training Program and eSoccer, a sports marketing and travel company based out of Atlanta, United States. He has over 10 years of experience in the United States soccer market and was formerly a Business Methodology Consultant and a Product and Project Manager for Microsoft Corporation. He lived in the United States for 7 years where he graduated with a BA in International Economics while playing collegiate soccer for Carson Newman College, as well as going to Graduate School to the University of Tennessee to earn an MSc in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics. Most recently he has studied an Executive Program in Corporate Responsibility at Instituto de Empresa , and he has founded an NGO “inspirasports” specialized in the field of development through sports. He was born and raised in Asturias where he grew up playing the beautiful game with his dad and three brothers.

Enrique joined Millicom International Cellular in March 2011 as Head of Corporate Governance & Compliance – Chief Integrity Officer. Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa. It also operates cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central America. The Group’s mobile operations have a combined population under license of approximately 260 million people. Enrique is based in the company’s headquarters in Luxembourg and reports to the Chief Executive Officer and to the Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is responsible to implement Millicom’s Integrity and Corporate Social Responsibility program in the company’s operations and is also responsible for monitoring the company’s worldwide activities and transactions to ensure that business is conducted in an ethical and legal manner and that policies and procedures are followed to reduce the risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations. Before joining Millicom, Enrique was Nokia Siemens Networks’ Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, based in Finland, from where he managed NSN’s Ethics and Compliance function in its 150 operations worldwide. Between May 2005 and January 2009 Enrique was Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Europe, Middle East & Africa for Tyco International. He was a member of the Tyco EMEA Legal Leadership Team responsible for the development of the innovative legal services model that Tyco successfully implemented in EMEA known as ‘SMARTER’ (Segment and Subject Management, Regional Teams and External Resources). Enrique is a qualified lawyer in Spain and England and Wales. He earned a Master of Arts in International & Comparative Business Law in London in 1993 and obtained a Business Management Program certificate (PDD) at IESE Business School in 2002. Previously, he worked as Western European Regional Counsel at Dell Inc. (Madrid, 2000-05), Senior Associate at Freshfields (Madrid, 1997-2000), Solicitor at the Office of the General Counsel of Price Waterhouse (London, 1994-97) and Tax and Legal advisor with Arthur Andersen (Barcelona, 1989-92). He speaks Spanish, Catalan, English, French and Italian.

Doug, an American national, is currently the Lead Results / Social Business Development Officer in the Private Sector Department (PSD) of the African Development Bank, located in Tunis, Tunisia.
He joined the Bank in 1991 and has more than 25 years of work experience on the continent.
Doug also worked as Manager of the Transactions Support division in the PSD. Previous positions included serving as Manager of Environmental Safeguards, and Quality Assurance divisions in the Policy Department, and the Transactions Analysis division of PSD. He was also Acting Director of the Post-evaluation Department for 18 months. Before joining the Bank, Doug worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, DRC where he assisted Congolese in designing agri-business projects. He has worked for international NGOs and USAID and holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Prof. Berasategui teaches business situation analysis, high-performance teams, and project management analysis across the MBA, Global Executive MBA and company-specific programs (Novartis, Banco Santander, Abengoa) at IESE, on top of 5 years as a full-time professor at EADA Busienss School in Barcelona and 4 years at IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 1998, Prof. Berasategui has taught as a visiting professor at a number of business schools across Europe and Latin America. Prior to teaching, Prof. Berasategui has held various management positions during 20 years in the financial sector wherein he specialized in Trading and Capital Markets and Asset Securitization. His main areas of interest are Self-Knowledge, Coaching, Team Work, Cultural Change Management and Managerial Decision Making.

Prof. Berasategui won the 2007 and 2004 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) prize for case writing. He is also the author of numerous technical notes, books and articles. Born in Argentina, Prof. Berasategui is married with 4 children and lives in Barcelona.

Rafael Borreguero Figols is an Insurance Actuary and also an IESE MBA alum. He also holds an Economics degree and has worked extensively in Spanish textile companies as well as with leading actuarial departments of several Spanish insurance companies.

For more than two years, Rafael has been developing a project in the Philippines with RIMANSI (Organization for Asia and the Pacific), which aims to assist their MFIs partners (microfinance institutions) in establishing their own microinsurance programs, especially MBA’s (Mutual Benefit Associations) that serve millions of poor households. The first step was to study the creation of a reinsurance pool to cover excess losses that occur in the MBA’s throughout the country.

Rafael is also collaborating with international programs that are being developed in the Philippines, all linked to the improvement of living conditions and financial education of the country’s most disadvantaged families. One of these programs is to make accessible to rural populations solar energy sources for professional or domestic financing through these microfinance institutions.

Peyton is a Senior Consultant for Axia Value Chain in North America, heading business transformation initiatives. Simultaneously he is leading the internal design and management of Talent Management since Axia’s expansion to North America from Brazil in early 2010. Peyton holds a dual Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management and Logistics Engineering from MIT in Zaragoza and an International MBA from IE in Madrid. His undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

Peyton has around ten years of worldwide experience, working on projects in Europe, Australasia, South America and in the United States. His Masters research involved sustainability and energy in the supply chain which subsequently led to supply chain and CO2 life cycle analysis projects in the timber, transportation and utilities industries. Related to sustainability, Axia is currently assisting some customers with a variety of sustainable projects ranging from reviving favalas in Rio de Janiero to development of sustainable reporting of the supply chain in the private sector.

Sr. Operations Associate at the Inter-American Development Bank Office in Europe, Yann Brenner is responsible for institutional relations in France and Israel, as well as for relations with the private sector. Mr. Brenner holds a Master’s Degree in Business and Financial Markets Management, and post-graduated in European Geopolitics and International Affairs.

Within his 10 years of experience at the Paris-based IDB Office in Europe, Yann has been successively responsible for the inter-institutional cooperation with international organizations such as European Commission, the OECD or for the IDB participation in the World Summit on Information Society. He has also coordinated IDB studies and research on European Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, he is in charge of supervising IDB-Multilateral Investment Fund operations executed from Europe.

Prior to joining the IDB, Yann had experience in both the private sector, as business controller and credit manager, and public sector entities, such as Regional Government and the French Institute for International Strategic Studies (IHEDN).

Yann has contributed to a number of research papers on FDI and Remittances.

Max has over 10 years’ experience working in the field of sustainable international development and cooperation. He is part of i-propeller, a social enterprise, promoting social business innovation and crowdsourcing ideas from other social entrepreneurs world-wide. Prior to joining i-propeller, he has spent 7 years working on development aid projects (EC, WB, DFID, UNDP) in EMEA. Max is a development practitioner and over his career he has developed links and working experience with NGOs and universities among which University of Navarra (Spain), London School of Economics (UK), University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and others. Max is fluent in English, French and Russian and holds a Bachelor degree in Economics, Master degree in European Integration from VUB and Solvay Management School (Belgium) and an MBA from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium).

Bruce is creating GoodBank™(IO), a high-transparency, impacts-aware bank built in and for the Information Age. (See, http://bit.ly/CahanFRBSF) Bruce is a serial social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow, Stanford Visiting Scholar (School of Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Stanford CodeX Fellow (Computer Science and Law Schools’ Center for Legal Informatics). Beginning in 1991, Bruce pioneered capital investment strategies for governments to create open geospatial data now used in Google Maps and similar web services. He provided geospatial data and logistical support as an emergency responder at the Command Center in NYC after the 9/11/01 World Trade Center Attacks. In March 11, 2012, Bruce is convening www.TEDxNewWallStreet.org in Silicon Valley to broaden public input into in banking for the Information Age.

Miquel, just finished his training at the Chemical Institute of Sarria, was able to start his career in Nicaragua, where for two years I worked in International Cooperation for the AECID, on projects related to the environment. Coming back to Spain, he worked in several engineering companies in the environmental sector, and in early 2001 ended up at the catalan association of EWB Spain.
He had to lead an era of growth and consolidation of the organization as a leader in the field of technical cooperation and grassroots associations, developing a high level of professionalism.
He also developed specialized consulting in water and development.
His career goal is beyond the stage of change facing the cooperation sector, carrying out the mission of EWB Spain.

Carrillo, Miquel’s Website

Ricard Casas Bedós is the General Director of ISS Facility Services S.A., a company that currently employs 30,000 in Spain, 1,000 of whom are individuals with disabilities. He has been with the company since 1999 heading other units such as Operations and Human Resources. His academic background is in economics from The London School of Economics & Political Science.

Alejandro Castro was born in San José, Costa Rica. This 26-year-old business manager specializes in marketing and tourism, and is currently finishing up his MBA at INCAE Business School. His passion for the environment and responsible business drove him to lead the “I Dare You To Plant A Tree” campaign. This initiative resulted in the planting of over 6,300,000 trees in Costa Rica in 2007, and was one of the largest private-public initiatives ever carried out in the country. Mr. Castro is a Founding Member and President of the INCAE MBA Oath Club – the first graduate level business ethics club in Latin America. This groundbreaking club is designed to encourage MBA graduates to sign the MBA Oath and help them live the oath during their MBA career.

David Clemmons is the founder of VolunTourism.org. Since 2000 he has been a student of the intersection of voluntary service and travel & tourism and has shared his growing understanding of this travel trend through such publications as The VolunTourist Newsletter, The VolunTourist Weekly Review, and the VolunTourism.org Blog. In collaboration with colleagues around the world, his insights have influenced the development of such programs as Give Back Getaways™ at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, and similar initiatives throughout the international tourism and NGO sectors. He currently resides in Amman, Jordan, where he is coordinating efforts to develop a countrywide initiative – VolunTourism Jordan.

Clemmons, David’s Website

Jo Confino is an executive editor of the Guardian, chairman and editorial director of Guardian Sustainable Business and sustainability consultant to parent company Guardian Media Group (GMG).
As a journalist for the past 24 years, he has worked on regional and national newspapers and websites.
He was Wall Street correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and subsequently finance and business news editor for the Guardian.
As well as producing an award-winning annual sustainability audit for GNM, the first one in the sector to be independently verified, he launched one of the world’s first interactive sustainability reporting websites (guardian.co.uk/sustainability).
He managed a unique multi-stakeholder development project in the village of Katine (guardian.co.uk/Katine) and helped create the new Guardian global development website (guardian.co.uk/global-development).
Jo sets the strategic direction for the Guardian Sustainable Business website, as well as writing stories, features and blogposts.
He has completed an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at the University of Bath and is also a qualified executive coach.
Jo is on the management board of environmental justice NGO Capacity Global and is also a trustee of the charities Theatre for a Change and Chance for Change.

Núria Danés is the Marketing Director of MicroBank, the bank specialized in microfinance of "la Caixa" Savings Bank that was established in 2007. In this role, she is responsible for the commercialization of microcredit through the extensive network of "la Caixa" branches and the development of new products and financial services with social value.

Núria Danés joined “la Caixa” Group in 2006. Prior to MicroBank she was in “la Caixa” Foundation; as Program Manager she was in charge of social projects aimed at people in risk of social exclusion. Before joining “la Caixa” she took part as communication consultant in the European Union Trade Enhancement Program in Egypt. Prior to 2004 she held different positions in several public institutions in Spain such as the Barcelona City Council and the European Parliament Spanish Office.

Núria Danés has a Degree in Political Sciences from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a MBA from ESADE Business School and New York University and a Master in Business Communication from UPF.

Antonio Dávila is professor of entrepreneurship and accounting and control. Furthermore, he is the head of IESE’s Department of Entrepreneurship. From 1999 to 2006, he was part of the faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he still teaches periodically.

Prof. Dávila earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Business School and his MBA from IESE. His teaching and research interests focus on management systems in entrepreneurial firms, new product development and innovation management, and performance measurement.

In 2005, he was awarded IESE’s Research Excellence Award. He was also granted the Ramón y Cajal Scholarship awarded by the Spanish government (2004). Other prizes and awards he has received include the Carlos Cubillo Valverde Accounting Research Paper Award (2003), the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association Best Dissertation Runner-Up Award (1999) and the McKinsey Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society (1998).

Prof. Dávila is co-author of Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It (2006) and Performance Measurement and Management Control Systems to Implement Strategy (2000). He has also edited a third book, The Creative Enterprise (2007). He has contributed several book chapters and published various research articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Research Policy, and Harvard Business Review.

Miquel de Paladella, (Barcelona, Spain) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of 1x1Microcredit, an organization promoting microfinance tools to support people on their way out of poverty. Based on micro-lending web platform offering the possibility to lend money to the poor, 1x1Microcredit seeks to support people in their efforts to escape poverty through impact-focused microfinance.
Miquel is also the co-founder of UpSocial, a community of social entrepreneurs promoting innovation in solving critical social problems, based in Barcelona. He is also a member of the Board of the Grup33, a citizen platform promoting a model of prisons orientated at rehabilitation.
Miquel has worked for 20 years in development and human rights organizations and institutions, including the Global Movement for Children (GMC), UNICEF, Plan International and the Society for International Development (SID). Miquel is an active advocate for social justice and community-led development and has written extensively on development, civil society, education and citizenship.

Giuseppe De Palma has been in charge of ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical’s EU Public & Government Affairs office since 1997. He is responsible for all advocacy, communications, and public and government affairs activities throughout Europe. He also held the role of Region General Counsel in 2002 and 2003. Prior to his role of Vice President of EU Affairs, Mr. De Palma was part of Exxon’s Law department in various locations in Europe and in the United States. He was the General Counsel of Esso Italy from 1992-1996, responsible for all legal matters concerning the company’s operations in Italy. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Attorney of Performance Products for Exxon Chemical from 1990-1991 based in Darien, Connecticut in the U.S. Mr. De Palma began his career with Esso Italy in Rome and served as Junior Counsel and then four years as Counsel for Exxon Chemical in Milan, Italy. He became Region Counsel in 1981 for Exxon Chemical based in Brussels, Belgium. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. De Palma held positions as European Counsel for Exxon Enterprises in London and then Exxon Chemical’s Senior Region Counsel in Brussels, Belgium. In these positions, Mr. De Palma was responsible for the management of the legal aspects of increasingly complex business initiatives.
Prior to joining Esso Italy, Mr. De Palma performed his Italian military service as 2nd Lieutenant in Nizza Cavalleria from 1972-1973. He was also a board member of the International School of Brussels from 1988-1990.He has served as a member of the board of Europia, the refining industry’s EU trade association, since 1997. From 2004-2007, Mr. De Palma served as the Vice Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. He is currently a member of the board of Junior Achievement Young Enterprise – Europe.
Mr. De Palma graduated with honors in Law in 1971 from the University of Genoa, Italy. He was admitted to the Italian bar in 1975. In addition to his native Italian, he is fluent in English and French. He is married with two children.

Iñigo is an Industrial Engineer (UPC) & Business Administration (Universidad de Barcelona). Prior joining IESE MBA he worked as an Strategic Consultant in different industries (Consumer Goods, Banking, Utilities). He is the founder of Africamira.org that has built 4 schools in 4 years in Northern Ethiopia (and they starting their 5th school with the help of Group Intercom, Fundacion Roviralta and Ibercaja). He is an avid traveller with an special interest in Africa (of course) where he has visited 10+ countries so far.

Mr. de Rocafort is currently Strategic Advisor to Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild and CEO of Balmoral Capital Partners and Corporalia Investments. He also serves at the Board of a number of companies in US, India, UAE and Spain and four family offices. He has 20 years experience in the private wealth and investment banking industry at top executive positions at Banco Santander, BNP-Paribas, A&G (Banque Cantonale de Vaud), having worked in several countries (US, Switzerland, France, Spain and UK). Law, BS International Finance, MBA Madrid Business School, Carnegie Mellon (Corporate Negotiation)

James Dixon was born in Wisconsin in the United States and was educated at the Business School of the University of Madison in International Finance. He joined Olympus Medical Europe in 2005 as the Responsible for Sales and Marketing – Systems Integration. He continues at Olympus as the Sales Manager for Systems Integration for Southern Europe and Russia.
Mr. Dixon began in IT sales and marketing in 1995 containing in that field until after a brief period as Project Manager for a Catalan medical publishing house starting in 2001, he joined Olympus Europe Medical with the ENDOALPHA systems integration project.

Fionn Dobbin is from Riga and holds a Diploma in Industrial Design from the UdK-Berlin (University of Arts). He is the Creative Industry Program Director at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and founder and Creative Director of MAMMU. His previous experience includes: Social Business Designer for the GCL, the Creative Think Tank of Dr. Muhammad Yunus; Creative Director of ZNAK Design (Riga); company Brand Manager for MOOZ! Advertisement (Riga); and Innovation Team Designer for Adam Opel GmbH | GM Global Technology

Charles attended the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada and graduated with a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980. He then joined GE’s GEDP Program and had assignments with GE Energy in different departments related to Hydro Turbine. Charles undertook graduate courses and obtained a diploma in Management from McGill University in Montreal Canada in 1982. For nine years, from 1980 to 1989, he worked in Engineering holding different positions from development to design before moving in 1989 to International sales.

Charles held positions as Sales Engineer, Manager for Latin America, Manager for South East Asia including an assignment for 3 years in Asia (Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia) covering North and South Asia.

In 2000, Charles took the position of E-Business leader for GE Hydro, before moving to Europe early 2001 for GE Industrial. In Europe, he managed the International business. In 2003, he led the Utilities and Key Accounts and in June 2004 he ran the Industrial Channel (Vertical Markets, Projects) for Consumer & Industrial – Europe. In 2006 he took the responsibility for South Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and North Africa) for all the industrial products.
In 2009, he took the responsibilities for Marketing and Strategic accounts for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

In 2012, he will be taking on the responsibilities of Components Leader, in addition to his current role as Director of Marketing with Industrial Solutions, EMEA.

James Farrar has almost 20 years in the sustainability field covering the agriculture, financial, aviation, NGO and software sectors. In his current role as VP sustainability at SAP his team are responsible for the company’s sustainability strategy including operational performance, product performance and solution innovation.

Paulo has a Bs in Economics, and an MBA from IESE Business School. He is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience managing companies in Brazil, Spain and Portugal. In 2006 Paulo co-founded Clarity, a branding boutique agency. At Clarity he has led the company and managed many fashion, branding and events projects for Nike, Parah, Cinesa, Santa Eulalia, K*Swiss, Ferragamo, Emporio Armani, P&G, Adidas, among many others. In 2007 Paulo initiated the internationalization of Clarity and opened an office in Lisbon and in 2009 in Sao Paulo. Before Clarity, he co-founded and managed Circuit, an independent talent incubator platform that was part of Barcelona Fashion Week, and launched many designers and upcoming brands to the market. Prior to Circuit Paulo managed the independent fashion label Paulinha Rio. He began his career at the investment banking industry at Banco Pactual in Rio de Janeiro. Paulo collaborates with different academic institutions and weekly writes in a think-tank independent blog.

Feferbaum, Paulo’s Website

Amanda Feldman works with Volans, shaping social innovation strategy with global businesses, government leaders and entrepreneurs. She has grassroots experience in nonprofit management and public health policy across North America, Europe and Asia. Amanda founded a youth volunteer group that launches global service projects around health and education, leading to service on the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Volunteerism and Community Service and the American Red Cross Atlantic/Cumberland Chapter Board of Directors. Recent projects before joining Volans included developing impact evaluation capabilities for the Prince’s Trust Youth Business International and building corporate citizenship strategy as a TISES Fellow with Tata Steel Global Wires in Mumbai, launching their first social enterprise to manufacture low-cost spectacles from steel wire. She holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from the London School of Economics.

Feldman, Amanda’s Website

Jérémie Fosse (1976, Paris) is co-founder and president of eco-union, an environmental NGO with offices in Spain (Barcelona, Malaga) and France (Paris) focusing on education, innovation and advocacy for sustainable development; director of the Global Eco Forum, an annual and international multi-stakeholders conference on sustainability in the Euro-Med region ; partner of the strategic sustainability consulting company ecodigma; and academic collaborator at Esade Business School, researching and teaching around corporate environmental sustainability.
Jérémie Fosse graduated as an industrial engineer from INSA Lyon, France (1994-1999), completed an Executive MBA at Esade Business School, Spain (2008-09).
Between 1999 and 2009 he worked for almost ten years in the energy and telecommunication sector in different public and private companies, of various sizes (multinationals and SME’s) and from diverse countries (France, Germany, South Africa).
In 2005, he joined the sustainability movement to improve the quality of life of urban societies within one planet limit, co-founding the environmental NGO eco-union, a think and do tank to promote, train and research around sustainable development from a global and holistic perspective.
As professor and researcher at Esade Institute for Social Innovation, he coordinated the study “Business Going Green” and published academic articles in peer reviewed Journals such as “Journal of Management Development” as well as business cases on corporate transformation towards green sustainability. He is teaching in the Global Context of Management course within the Full Time MBA program and in the Business & Sustainability program for Msc students.
He is also actively participating as speaker, actor or facilitator, in various conferences, training and workshops all over Europe from Business schools (IESE, Ashridge, Bocconi,…), companies (Axa, PepsiCo, Danone..), governments (Spain, Catalonia, France…), IGO’s (UfM, UN), NGO’s (WWF, IUCN…).
Through eco-union, he is involved in different international networks such as Environmental European Bureau, MIO-ESCE, IUCN, Green Economy Coalition, Smart CSO’s, among others.

Antoni Gelonch-Viladegut obtained his Degrees in Pharmacy and in Laws at the University of Barcelona. Also, he obtained a Degree in Enterprises Direction (IESE, University of Navarra). His first job was in hospital as a pharmacist, and then had worked for ten years in the Public Administration (Education and Health Departments) of the Catalan Government. After 1997 he worked in the Pharmacy industry sector. Just now, he is the European External Stakeholders and CSR Associate Vice-president in SANOFI and he is based in Paris. He is member of the ORSE and EDH Board of Directors, and former member of CSR-Europe Board.

Raphael is CEO of Omnia Molecular, a Barcelona-based biotech that applies its proprietary technology to develop new antibiotics against multi-drug resistant pathogens. Omnia has development programs targeting the most difficult-to-treat hospital infections, and a project on Tuberculosis with the Neglected Disease Unit of Glaxo Smithkline.

Prior to joining Omnia, Raphael was based in Johannesburg (South Africa) as CEO of Solvay Pharma for the SADC countries of Southern Africa. He served on the board of Pharmaceutical Industry Association (PIASA) in South Africa, and was involved public-private initiative to build a sustainable path towards improved access to health care services for low-income South Africans.

Raphael represented Solvay´s emerging market subsidiaries on the corporate CSR committee. As a result, he has been involved several projects: In Vietnam, a program to provide corrective surgery to children born with congenital heart defects, in India, a treatment program to provide care to children with a rare pancreatic disorder, and in the Philippines, a program to build capacity to diagnose the cause of debilitating vertigo in the public sector.

Raphael received his MBA from IESE’s GEMBA program in 2004 and holds dual degrees in Molecular Biology and Health Care Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Gernot Klingmann, Raphael’s Website

Mr. Graffam joined Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. in 1997 as a Managing Director. He has been instrumental in creating and managing Darby’s Mezzanine Finance business, which comprises eight funds with aggregate capital commitments in excess of $1.3 billion equivalent. Mr. Graffam has been personally responsible for raising and managing investment funds in all three regions where Darby is active: Latin America, Asia and Central & Eastern Europe. Darby’s mezzanine team comprises over 30 full time professionals located in Washington, D.C. and 11 regional offices, and has invested in over 50 companies.
In 2006, Mr. Graffam was appointed Senior Managing Director, Europe and is responsible for overseeing Darby’s investment activities in Central & Eastern Europe across all product lines. Mr. Graffam continues to support Darby’s mezzanine opportunities in Latin America and Asia through, among other things, his ongoing role on the Investment Committees of these funds. In addition, Mr. Graffam serves on several Boards of investee companies.
Prior to joining Darby, Mr. Graffam worked at the World Bank Group from 1978 to 1997. During approximately half of his 19-year career at the World Bank Group he was an Investment Officer and subsequently Deputy Director of the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Capital Markets Department. The remainder of Mr. Graffam’s career at the World Bank Group was spent in treasury functions. During the last six years of his tenure he was IFC’s Treasurer and Director of Loan Syndications and Financial Policy.
Mr. Graffam was raised in Latin America and holds a BA with a double major in Economics and English from Fordham University, and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Columbia University. In addition, Mr. Graffam was Professor of Finance at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Murray Grainger earned the Global EMBA from IESE Business School in October 2009.

Since then, Murray has served as Head of Airbus’ Ethics & Compliance Programme Office. Based at headquarters in Toulouse, Murray leads a team working on ethics and compliance across the Airbus group and manages a global network of business compliance representatives.

Before the Global EMBA at IESE, Murray worked as a finance and commercial lawyer. He worked first with Denton Wilde Sapte, an international law firm based in London, and then moved to Sydney with the Australasian firm Allens Arthur Robinson. As in-house counsel with Airbus, Murray advised on financing transactions for airline customers in many countries and regions and then supported Airbus Military on government contracts in France, Spain and the US.

He received a Masters in International Relations and German from the University of St Andrews, including an Erasmus year studying political science at the University of Bonn, and post-graduate law qualifications from The College of Law and BPP Law School in England.

Murray currently chairs the Global Business Interest Group of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association and is leading a European Business Ethics Forum working group on the evolving responsibilities of ethics and compliance practitioners.

Elodie GUILLERM is the CEO of NODOVA and has an MA in International Business Management (2006 – 2010). Her thesis topic was: how can Corporate Social Responsibilities improve brand equity?
Nodova was started as a result of her life-changing trip to Ecuador. While her objective was helping improve conditions for children in schools, she was also able to share workshops with indigenous women. That’s when the idea came to create a cooperative of women to make eco-friendly jewelry. To connect with the initial goals of educating kids through action, she decided that a part of the profits would be given back to finance scholarship for kids in the village.
Elodie has personally invested in the workshop, the raw materials, and the training to enable women to work. In 2012, 8 women are working in fair conditions to make European jewelry, while they are proud of keeping their Quichuas’ traditions.
NODVOA has financed 25 scholarships in 2011. They want to double that in 2012, in partnership with their association, “AVENIR NODOVA”.
NODOVA is truly committed to economic empowerment of women, sustainable development and focus on transparency through positive change.

Susana Guitar Jiménez, Regional Public Policy Manager at Merck, Sharp & Dohme de España, S.A. (MSD) since 2010, where is responsible for creating share value initiatives and implementing RSC and Reputational projects in Spain.

Forest Engineer from the University of Córdoba and MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School, she also holds a master degree in Industrial Organization from the University of Seville and coursed an Executive Education Program in Innovation Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She was appointed General Directorate of Research, Development and Transference of the Andalusian Regional Government in May 2008.

Previously, she served as Manager of the Knowledge Management Department and the Relational Management Department simultaneously at EMASESA (Water Management Local Company).

She started her career as Vice-Director of the Planning Department at the IE Business School. She has also served the EOI Business School as Director for the Environmental Master Programs and the Sustainability Club – eoi. From this position, she has actively participating in the development of the Sustainability Annual Report of EOI (Informe de Sostenibilidad EOI), in collaboration with the OSE.

She has broad experience both in public and private sectors, also in different complementary fields. She has been member of the board of different research foundations, vocal of the board of directors of the Andalusian Agency for Energy, Vice president of the Regional Committee of Research with Stem Cells, and member of the Andalusian Council of Universities. She is lecturer of the sustainability area in the Professional Master in engineering and environmental management at eoi.

She is an active member of the committee of promoters of Foretica.

While completing her MBA at IESE, Anna-Marie spent three months working as an Investment Manager at Promotora Social Mexico, a social venture organization focused on reducing inequality in Mexico by funding sustainable businesses in the sectors of health, education and economic development. She also worked as a research assistant to IESE Professors Liechtenstein and Grabenwarter on their Impact Investing research which resulted in the paper entitled "In Search of Gamma, an Unconventional Perspective on Impact Investing". Prior to IESE, she spent six years with Credit Suisse in London and Zurich in their fund linked products department where she focused on structured lending transactions linked to portfolios of hedge funds. Anna-Marie has an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in the UK and a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Grenoble, France. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French.

Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is the Research Director of the European Venture Philanthropy Association, the European membership association for high engagement grant making and social investment. As research director, Lisa runs EVPA’s Knowledge Centre that conducts and publishes research, organises workshops, participates in practitioner and academic conferences, and collects and disseminates data and knowledge. Lisa has a PhD in Management from IESE Business School and a Master’s degree in Business and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and HEC (CEMS). She has written her doctoral dissertation at IESE Business School on venture philanthropy. She has presented several papers at academic conferences such as those organized by the Academy of Management, EGOS and EURAM. Prior to embarking on an academic career, she worked in investment banking at UBS Warburg and GB Investment Banking in London, Madrid and Barcelona. Lisa is a Swedish national, based in Barcelona, and speaks five languages.

Carlos P. Hornstein holds a Master´s Degree in Industrial Engineering (1992 – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) and a Masters in Business Administration (2005) from Goizueta Business School (Emory University, Atlanta, USA).
He works as Director of Business Development for the Executive Education Division at IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and is responsible for the Latin American and African regions. He also manages the delivery of two top executive programs at CEO level and the relationship with the associated schools in both continents.
Carlos P. Hornstein is Founder, President and Managing Director of the Global Play Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improve the quality of life of children in developing nations. He is also a Founding Member of Global Impact, a consulting company that aims primarily to inspire companies to introduce corporate responsible and sustainable practices in their organizations.
In the past, he worked for more than ten years for Siemens Power Generation Group in Germany, Malaysia and USA, and for Lutron Electronics in Spain as a Sales Director, and travelled to more than 60 countries in all five continents.
He has extensive sales experience, speaks five languages fluently, and loves photography, sports and travel. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and son.

Amy Jones earned a BA in Economics and Public Policy from the College of William and Mary (US) and subsequently worked for the Mayor of Los Angeles as a Budget and Policy Analyst while studying toward a Masters in Public Policy at Pepperdine University. She also attended IESE Business School and earned an MBA. Following business school, Amy worked as a management consultant for Booz Allen for 4.5 years in the Strategy and Organization practice group, where she advised clients on organization/business model design and performance management. She left the corporate world in Dec 2010 to join the Grameen Foundation, a non-profit based in Washington DC, where she manages corporate strategic initiatives such as performance management and knowledge management, as well as supports programs in designing and implementing scalable, sustainable business models that reach the world’s poorest populations (generally those surviving on less than USD1.25/day).

Stewart Jordan is co-founder of Golden Gekko, one of the largest mobile application developers in Europe. Having started his professional life within Investment Banking, he relocated to Cambodia to work for UNICEF and UNAIDS, before Golden Gekko was born. He has lived in Phnom Penh for 7 years developing mobile apps for industry leading brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Heathrow airport and Yellow Pages. Whilst there, building on his initial exposure to the world of international development, amongst other projects he has produced databases for tracking orphans and mobile applications for monitoring well water quality in remote Cambodian provinces. He is currently working on an interesting partnership to revolutionize the provision of eye care in rural Africa with a trial project set to launch later in 2012.

Ariel Kestens currently serves as Head of Learning and Organizational Development at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a grass-root movement that saves lives and changes mind in 187 countries.
He is an expert in organizational development and management and helps national associations to do more, do better and reach further.
He volunteers for the Red Cross since 1986 and has worked in community-based social initiatives enabling healthy and safe living, and, promoting social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace in several countries of the Americas.
He was Director General of Argentine Red Cross and Head of the Pan-American Disaster Response Unit of the Red Cross. In 2010, he oversaw the initial response to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
He holds a postgraduate degree in Health Management and Policies and a Master in Business Administration of IESE Business School. He taught Public Administration at the University of Buenos Aires.
Ariel has visited and worked in more than 100 countries and leaves in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2011. He loves to play sports, compete and contribute to causes like the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® that he run in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2011. He is from Santa Fe, Argentina, a city surrounded by rivers and a lake.

Gunther Faber retired as Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, for GlaxoSmithKline end of May 2008. He qualified as a veterinarian specializing in genetics and nutrition and also completed a B Com degree before moving into general management. He joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1979 for the then Beecham Group plc and was appointed as Director of the International Division in 1980. During successive mergers, his area of responsibility increased, with him being accountable for pharmaceuticals, consumer health and manufacturing in SmithKline Beecham. Following the merger between Glaxo Welcome and SmithKline Beecham he was appointed as Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa.

Besides his accountability for the commercial operation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gunther also led the company’s Policy Team on Access to Medicine, as well as being a director of the International Division, which covered all countries with the exception of the USA, Europe and Japan. Gunther interacted at senior political and bureaucratic level with African governments, as well as those of the OECD countries.

In July 2008 Gunther moved into social enterprise as CEO of The Healthstore Foundation and in April 2011 he started his own foundation One Family Health and is in the process of applying for US501(c) (3) tax-exempt status. One Family Health also controls a low-profit limited liability company (L3C). Both these vehicles are being used for maximum flexibility in targeting diverse markets.

Gunther was a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School. He is a Board member of Sproxil an electronic anti-counterfeit company based in Boston MA. USA and is also a member of MMV’s Access and Delivery Advisory Committee (ADAC) as well as an innovator member of IPIHD (International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery) which is a unit within the Medical Faculty at Duke University.

Dr. L Faber, Gunther’s Website

Alejandro Lago is Associate Professor in the Production, Technology and Operations Management Department at IESE. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as a Gordon F. Newell Fellow. He also holds a degree in civil engineering from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and has completed a Program for Management Development at IESE Business School.
Dr. Lago’s interests focus on the management of complex operations systems, both for manufacturing and services environment. Early in his career, his research focused in the optimization of large transport and distribution system, and the design and operations of logistics partnerships. Currently his research interest has gradually shifted to the design of service systems, with a focus on the studying the involvement of both suppliers and customer in the operations through the use of new technologies.

Before joining IESE, he worked as a researcher for the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA) and Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS). He has also extensive experience as a senior consultant in the area of operations and service management, having worked for large industrial and retail firms, airlines and airport authorities, and lately for banks and insurance companies, among others.

He also developed his entrepreneurship spirit, by joining a Californian start-up during the 2000 Internet bubble. And now he is a partner in some initiatives around the use of new mobile technologies.

Professor Lago, Alejandro’s Website

Sophie Langer-Hansel is managing the Awareness, Consulting and Information Unit at ICEP, the Austrian Institute of Development Cooperation. She is responsible for research, publications and events on topics at the interface of global business and society. One specific focus currently lies on Global Corporate Volunteering. Langer-Hansel frequently writes on those topics for the corporAID magazine, Austria’s bi-monthly on business and development issues.

Prior to starting her career at ICEP she studied International Business Management at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

André Laude is Chief Investment Officer, Western Europe, focusing on Climate Change. Prior to that, André worked as Principal Investment Officer for IFC in global financial markets with a worldwide focus on micro and small business finance. André also worked in IFC’s regional departments in Southern Europe and Central Africa. He has over 15 years of financial markets experience in Wall Street, in London, Mexico City and Casablanca, including management consulting for the Financial Institutions Group at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Educational background: M.A. international economics at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. André was also a Hoover Foundation Fellow for the Development of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

André holds and has held several Board positions of which: Chair, Global Microfinance Facility; Director, CoopEst Fund in Eastern Europe; Director, MicroCred S.A. Investment Holdings and Director for Zhong An Credit in Shenzhen, China; Director, Média Finance, Morocco; Director, Settavex, Morocco; Director, Tuninvest, Tunisia.

Dr. Tillmann Lauk is the CEO and Founding Partner of eM Investor – Fund 1 (eM1), which is a late stage TMT venture capital fund. He authored the book: The Transition of the Occident – a Plea for a New Political-, Financial- and Currency System (to be finished at end of Q/1-2012.) Prior to eM1, Dr. Tillmann Lauk served as a Divisional Board Member for Deutsche Bank AG.

Josephine is managing director and owner of Eyelander (www.eyelander.org), an independent third party quality assurance and inspection company for agricultural products. Eyelander also provides monitoring and verification services in responsible, sustainable and fair agricultural practices, and is an Approved Verification Organization for Starbucks Ethically Sourced Cocoa (Cocoa Practices). Josephine grew up in Sweden and Liberia studied business in Sweden, France and the USA. She holds an MBA in International Business from European University Barcelona.

Francesc Magrinyà, b. 1963, is Professor in Urban Planning (Technical University of Catalonia. Barcelona Tech). He is a civil engineer (Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos de Barcelona- Technical University of Catalonia. Barcelona Tech, 1988) and holds a MSc and a PhD in Urban planning at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées-Paris I Sorbonne (2002). His research addresses the evolution of infrastructures and urban form; urbanism of networks, and sustainable transport planning.

He teaches in different Masters (Master on Sustainability and Development, Master of Civil Engineer, Master of Urban Project (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)).

He has been Technical Director of the Exhibit Mostra Cerdà. Urbs i Territori (1994) It has travelled more than 60 cities around Europe and Latin America (1994-1998). He has been Curator of the Exhibit “Cerdà 150 años de modernidad” (2009).

He has been Consultant of Agencia de Ecología Urbana de Barcelona where he has developed a new design of public transport network in Barcelona (TMB & Agencia de Ecologia Urbana de Barcelona).

He is a member of the Research Group on Human Development and Cooperation and responsible GRECDH-UPC (Urban service Area). Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technology for Human Development. He has directed several projects and dissertations degree in human development in cooperation and collaboration with the Center for Cooperation and Development (CCD-UPC), two with Prize Contest Final Year Projects for Development Cooperation, the Spanish Federation of Engineers Without borders. UPC-UPM-UPV (2002 and 2004).

He has directed a doctoral thesis on urban services in developing countries Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of Development Cooperation, the Spanish Federation of Engineers Without Borders. He edited (in 2002) one volume on the evolution of engineer in the urban plan published by Edicions UPC (“Evolución de la Ingeniería en la urbanística”); and one volume on urban space and mobility (“Espacio urbano y movilidad”) published by Edicions UPC (2007) and “Cerdà, 150 anys de modernitat” (Ed Actar, 2010).

Professor Magrinyà, Francesc’s Website

Alicia is Member of the advisory board at Avalon Network of Experts, Member of the advisory board at IOU and Managing Partner of CuVitt. She is an expert in evaluation and development of managerial behaviour.
After working in Lopez-Ibor neuropsychiatric clinic and few other clinics Alicia decided to apply psychology to business. With more than twenty years of experience in consulting, she has had different responsibilities in different companies such as: Director of Assessment and Development Centers division, Training Director and Director of Technology, Entertainment and Multimedia at the search firm Hay Group.
She was Managing Partner of Actua consulting firm until its merger with leading Spanish training firm Elogos where she currently holds the position of people development director.
She is actively collaborating with social entrepreneurs and start-ups. She is a member of several advisory boards and advisory expert in development of social intelligence in organizations and she considers the social intelligence critical to business development.
Beside her roles in different companies she is a teacher and lecturer at various universities and business schools and Co-author of the books “Entrevistas de selección,” “Experiencias creativas para liderar equipos” and “Factbook de Recursos Humanos”, in “Clave de Talento” y “Personal Branding” She is also a Member of AECOP (Spanish Association of Coaching and Process). She has been trained as a Director at the Instituto de Consejeros Administradores (ICA), educational Institution for Corporate Governance, with the approval of Risk Metrics and other international organizations.
She graduated in Psychology from the Complutense University with a specialization in Clinical Psychology. She is married with three children.

Malumbres, Alicia’s Website

Ramon Marmolejos is the Executive Director and co-founder of Emzingo Group. Emzingo is a hybrid leadership and social development company. Emzingo has created an applied learning model by combining an innovative leadership training program with social impact consultancy projects in an emerging market. He has a passion for the intersection of business and society, and how to create authentic linkages between the two. Ramon has worked in consulting for 8 years, with a focus on human capital strategy and leadership development. He has designed curriculum and facilitated sessions on topics ranging from emotional intelligence, cross-cultural competency, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Most recently as a consultant for Monitor Group, he also worked in economic development projects in Africa for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. His previous experience includes working for a US education non-profit and working for the strategic planning team of Pepsi-Cola North America. Ramon graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and completed an International MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He is fluent in Spanish and has spent time living and working in a variety of different geographies, including the US, Europe and Africa.

Mr. Mas has been Senior Advisor in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and at the Technology Program at CGAP. Previously Mr. Mas was Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, Executive Vicepresident of Marketing and Account Management at DoCoMo interTouch, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments in Europe for Intel Capital.
Mr. Mas has undergraduate degrees in maths and economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.Mr. Mas has been Adjunct Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He is an Associate at Bankable Frontier.

Simon Mingay is a research vice president in Gartner Research. Mr. Mingay is currently researching environmental sustainability and climate change, their impact on organizations, and their impact on IT and the IT industry. He has researched and written extensively on issues related to the management of IT, such as the evolving IS organization, business-IT alignment, governance, service management, ITIL, process improvement, disaster recovery and business continuity management.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mingay worked in the semiconductor industry in various roles within the IT organization, from IT service management to strategic planning within the group function.
"I enjoy the exposure my job affords to a wide variety of clients and client situations. Such diversity is highly stimulating."
Simon has 15 years of experience in total with Gartner, with 29 years in IT Industry. He has a professional background in ST Microelectronics as Group OA Strategy Manager for 4 years; at ST Microelectronics as IT Manager for 4 years; and at Inmos as IT Support Manager for 10 years.
He received a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Decision Making and an M.B.A. from Cardiff Business School post a B.Sc., with honors in Computer Studies from Glamorgan University.
Top 5 issues he helps clients address: Developing green IT strategies and programs; Developing sustainability strategies for organizations and IT vendors; Carbon management; CSR and sustainability reporting capabilities; ITIL and service management programs
Top 5 Key Initiatives he covers; Sustainability; IT Governance; ITIL and Process Improvement.

Mr. Pique currently holds the position of Director in Strategic Sectors for the Barcelona City Council, where he supports the Department of Economic Promotion. He is currently a leader in the 22 @ Barcelona project, which pushes for Urban, Economic, and Social Innovation. Mr. Pique has a strong background in entrepreneurship and science, having studied under Prof. Henry Etzkowitz (co-founder of The Triple Helix) and serving as President of the Catalan Network of Science and Technology Parks. Mr. Pique has published several papers and participated in international forums for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from La Salle and an MBA from ESADE.

Miquel Pique, Josep’s Website

Jordi is a founder member of EIG, through which he looks to help re-establish the pact between man and nature, broken many years ago. He feels fortunate to form part of a team of committed, enterprising people who are positively convinced that there is a different way of tackling the challenges we face.

He studied Telecommunications at the University of Barcelona ETSETB School of Telecommunications Engineering, followed by a Masters in Environmental Engineering and Management at the ICT and a Masters in Remote Sensing and GIS at the Catalan Institute for Space Studies.

He enjoys sports, travelling and being with family and friends, doing everything he can to reduce his ecological footprint, from riding a bike to work to eating locally-produced foods.

It was reading William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things that finally made him embark upon a new stage in his professional life -a book that he stumbled upon by chance whilst surfing the ‘net and which offers a serious, well-though-out proposal for making man’s industrial activity one that regenerates and sustains our surroundings.

Monjo, Jordi’s Website

Susan Moody is Director of Marketing and Communications for Worldreader. She has worked in online marketing in Spain and the US including Icon Medialab and Teletech, and has written some children’s books. She was part of Worldreader’s first launch of e-readers in Africa in 2010 and is currently building a community around Worldreader’s work. Susan received her BA from Princeton University in 1994 and a MBA from IESE in Barcelona in 2001. Follow her on Twitter @soozmoody.

Macarena Morales works as a consultant at the Innovation and Social Research Department of CODESPA Foundation, in projects of CSR, Global Corporate Volunteering and Impact Evaluation.
CODESPA Foundation is a nonprofit organization with 25 years of experience in the international cooperation field. Based upon their confidence in human capacity, CODESPA provides working and training opportunities to help people develop their skills through their work and become protagonists of their own progress.
Macarena has developed all her professional career in the non for profit sector, working as a researcher, program evaluator, consultant and co-Executive Director for different organizations in Peru, Belgium, USA and Spain.
She holds degrees in Law and Business Administration from the Pontificia Comillas University of Madrid, a Master Degree of International Humanitarian Assistance from University College Dublin, and a Master in Administration from Harvard University.

Tony has been working with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the last 16 years. His banking experience consists of 30 years doing corporate and project finance in Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Central Asia, Balkans and Eastern Europe and acting as a business unit and representative office manager.

In 2008, Tony was appointed Senior Banker in the Small Business Finance, Financial Institutions Team in London, where he worked on structuring and monitoring credit lines and equity for institutions, both bank and non-bank, that specialize in providing small and micro credits to small businesses.

Prior to this position, Tony was Head of Office of the EBRD in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, where he worked as a representative for the Bank in the country, managed of an office staff of five and liaised with Sectoral teams in London. The office was responsible for the bank portfolio, which was EUR 28 million (including EUR 12 million of equity) covering seven projects. Representing EBRD investments, Tony was on the Board of one of the biggest textile producers in the country with annual sales of USD 60 million and also Chairman of the Board of a small Swiss/Turkmen JV involved in exporting washed wool.

Ana Palencia has a Degree in Chemist by the University of Barcelona and a DEA in Nutrition and Metabolism.

From January 2006, she is the Communications Director of Unilever Spain. Responsible for the Internal Communication, External Affairs, Media and Corporate Social Responsibility.

From September 2011, she has been appointed Unilever Communications Coordinator Southern Europe.

Professional Memberships: Vice President FIAB (Spanish Industrial Federation of Food & Beverages), President of the Platform from FIAB Diet, Physical Activity and Health, working on NAOS Strategy (Spanish Strategy Against Obesity). Member of the scientific committee of Flora Institute.

She has experience in R&D, Quality Assurance, Nutritionist and Care line.

Ana is married, with one daughter

Gopinath Parayil (Gopi) 38, studied computers, business management and disaster management. However, he attributes his tipping point as a social entrepreneur to his experience of volunteering at the Pain and Palliative Care Society starting in 1993 in Kozhikode, Kerala.
Gopi set up Nila Foundation in 2004 out of the passion for the region he comes from and a concern for a unique river (Bharatapuzha) civilization that was under threat. While exploring a sustainable financial support for the foundation and initiatives surrounding creating meaningful connection for local people with the river, he came up with the idea of The Blue Yonder (TBY), a pioneering travel company designed on the premises of Sustainable and Responsible practices. Ever since, his company has been breaking every single norm that is associated with a conventional tour operator business. TBY, one of the most innovative responsible travel companies in the country has successfully linked tourism to work in conservation, cultural and natural heritage preservation, livelihood generation and community health care among others. Now it works in South Africa as well.
2009 December Outlook Business magazine featured Gopi amongst the 50 Social Entrepreneurs in India who enrich the nation. TBY has won multiple international awards and recognitions for their responsible tourism initiatives including Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards 2007, World Travel Market First Choice Responsible Tourism Award 2006 and was featured among the ’8 great trips that give back to communities’ by Condé Nast Traveler magazine in 2009. 2011, ITB Berlin, world’s largest Travel show in Germany has chosen The Blue Yonder as it’s official sustainable tourism partner. Recently, INDIAFRICA, an initiative by the Public diplomacy division of Ministry of External Affairs in India has selected TBY as it’s first corporate partner for its signature initiative in 27 African countries. ‘Indiafrica – A Shared Future’ aims to create a dynamic platform for students and professionals across India and Africa to collaborate through competition, innovation and entrepreneurship.
The collective experience of building a responsible tourism initiative through The Blue Yonder and being part of Palliative Care movement in Kerala from the scratch led him to believe that many socio-economic issues can be addressed and resolved by ordinary people if their energies are channelized in the right direction. It was this thought that led to the conception of niiti consulting a firm that now works in urban affairs, sustainable construction, community healthcare and social entrepreneurship.
An MBA from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and MSc in Disaster Management from Cranfield University, Gopi studied computer management from Pune University.

Parayil, Gopinath’s Website

Tomás Pastor, based in Madrid, has 14 years experience as a consultant, six of those specialising in sustainability related issues, is leading and developing the Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice in Spain. Tomas is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid.

Ignacio holds a BSc in Physics in 1994 at the University Complutense of Madrid.

He started his career in 1994 as researcher in the Wind Energy Department of Ciemat, the main research centre specialised in energy in Spain. In that period he participated in R&D projects with private companies as well as in 6 EU funded R&D projects.

Between 2000 and 2002 he was Head of Wind Resources Assessment and Forecasting Project at Ciemat. From this position he leaded the development of a new forecasting system for wind farms and was coordinator of some working groups in the main European R&D project on wind forecasting: ANEMOS.

Between 2002 and 2009 he was Head of Wind Resources and Forecasting Service at CENER, coordinating a group of 14 multidisciplinary researchers. In this period new methods and models were developed for simulating and forecasting the wind over land and sea, based on CFD and atmospheric numerical weather prediction models.

From 2009 he has been Deputy Technical Director for R&D at CENER, where he coordinates R&D activities of the centre, with more than 200 employees and activities in wind energy, photovoltaic energy, solar thermal energy, biomass, bioclimatic architecture and grid integration.

He currently is a member of the Steering Committee of the Joint Program for Wind Energy of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), and elected member of the Steering Committee of the European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind).

Perez coordinates and manages the Research and Social Innovation Department at CODESPA. Perez has more than ten years of experience managing socioeconomic development projects with Private Sector Actors in developing countries.
She holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration, a Master in Development and Project Planning from the University of Bradford (UK) and a graduate of the Executive Development Program from IESE Business School, Madrid.
Pérez has been responsible of CODESPA in El Salvador and Middle East, where she specialized in microfinance and social performance field. She has also worked as a consultant for development agencies and the private sector.

Frederik, from Germany, is leading Mambu business operations and is helping us partner and expand the great Mambu reach. He holds a degree in Computer Science and previously worked as a web developer and project manager in fields as different as marketing and artificial intelligence. With seven years of experience in the industry he worked on a wealth of projects creating enterprise web applications.

Marc builds on 20 years of experience as advisor to executives in the private and social sector to help surface new insights and collaborative efforts against our global challenges. Marc has overseen over 70 projects for FSG touching on strategy, program and organizational design, issue research and evaluation. Marc leads FSG’s corporate “Creating Shared Value” practice and has led all of the firm’s work in Europe to date. He has presented at dozens of conferences and written on numerous subjects spanning corporate social investment, agricultural development, performance measurement in the social arena, and the mechanics of collaboration. Marc heads FSG’s Geneva office, and engages directly with many of the office’s projects and field trips. Prior to FSG, Marc served as Principal at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based in Zürich. Prior to BCG and during his studies, he worked at the World Economic Forum. Marc holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and a B.A. with honors from Harvard in Government and History. He speaks English, French and German.

Antonio is the Senior Country Manager at EADS Airbus Miltary. He has over 25 years of Human Resources experience, and more than 2 years each of experience in Industrial & Commercial Compensations and Ethics & Compliance. He is a graduate in Business Administration from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, ICADE E2 Madrid Spain. Prior to 2012, Antonio was working in Risk Management and Internal Control across various regions for Airbus. Prior to joining Airbus, Antonio was working with CASA Spain.

Antoni Plasència is Deputy Director of the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB)-Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, the research branch of the Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Dr. Plasència graduated in Medicine at the University of Barcelona and holds a PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Master of Public Health from Yale University. From 2004 to 2011, he was Director General of Public Health of the Government of Catalonia, Spain. He is also Associate professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

His professional activity has been mainly dedicated to epidemiology and public health in various positions, combining practice, research, teaching and management activities, with a broad biological, social and environmental perspective on health and its determinants, with a longstanding involvement in policy-making, strategic planning and program implementation and evaluation, including key global health areas such as the reduction of health inequalities, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, injuries and environmental health.

Plasència, Antoni’s Website

Francesc Prior Sanz has extensive international experience both in academia and in the financial services industry. In academia, he currently serves as Research Associate at IESE Business School (Barcelona) and as Associate Professor of Banking and International Finance at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona). From 2005 to 2008, he was Director of the Financial Inclusiveness Program at Florida International University (Miami). He has also taught microfinance courses at Universidad Metropolitana de México (Mexico) and Escuela de Ingenieros Julio Garavito (Bogotá).
As a development financial consultant he has undertaken numerous technical assistance projects for a vast number of donors worldwide mostly in the area of access to finance, microfinance and remittances in Latin America, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and the USA. Previously, as an executive within the banking industry (BBVA), he had managerial positions in electronic banking and remittances activities in Spain and Latin America; and a consultant in the financial consulting industry (Arthur Andersen & Co) in France, Spain, Israel, Portugal and Italy.

Mr. Puig currently serves as Energy Services Director at Enertika and is leading its ESCo Department. In this role, he assesses potential projects and clients, performs financial analysis, and provides financing appraisal and legal advice to both public and private organizations in order to execute and operate multi-disciplinary projects under the ESCo model. Eduard also oversees the Company’s R&D department and its office in Mexico. Mr. Puig’s prior work experience includes industry and construction. He worked at Hitachi Europe Ltd as Regulatory Affairs Manager leading product and sales strategy development. Prior to that position, he served as Product Manager. Eduard started his professional career in France, where he worked as Project Manager in a construction company located in Paris. Eduard is an Industrial Engineer and holds an MBA from ESADE.

Puig Mac Lean, Eduard’s Website

Tim Radjy is the founding CEO of AlphaMundi Group in Switzerland, as well as the Chairman of SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) in Luxembourg, a Board member of FINAE in Mexico, and a Trustee of the Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI) in the United Kingdom. He previously worked first for Morgan Stanley Capital International and then for UBS, from 2000 to 2007. In 2004, he became a founding member of UBS Philanthropy Services, providing the bank’s wealthiest international clients with guidelines on foundation governance, NGO selection and impact evaluation. Tim also spent time in Bolivia in 2006 to review the Swiss Development Agency’s microfinance program and help it spin off into an independent foundation. Tim holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Geneva and a Private Banking Diploma from UBS. A Swiss citizen with Bolivian and Iranian roots, he is fluent in English, French & Spanish and conversational in German and Italian.

Tommaso Ramus is post doctoral student in the Center for Business in Society of the IESE Business School. He received a MSc in Business Administration (University of Trento, Italy) and a PhD in Business administration from University of Bergamo (Italy). His research interests have centered on the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship fields with a particular focus legitimizing strategies of social enterprises, stakeholder management and ethical issues in nonprofit organizations. Tommaso Ramus’ publications have appeared in Journal of Business Ethics and Voluntas, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
Tommaso Ramus teaches in courses and seminars for managers of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises.

Mr. Regan is Director of Process Engineering & Technology for Endesa Ingenieria (Enel Group) in Spain. Since 1992 he has worked for the Spanish utility Endesa, holding a series of different positions in areas covering Power Distribution, Renewable Energies and applied technology. Mr. Regan holds an Honours Degree in Industrial Design from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and a Degree in Marketing from the Faculty of Economics, Seville University, Spain.

Regan, Christopher’s Website

Hans Reitz was born in 1966 in Bad Abbach in Bavaria where he grew up. He founded the event agency "circ" in 1994 and began to continuously develop its fields of activity. Today circ serves such renowned companies as adidas, Autostadt, BASF, Bertelsmann, Caterpillar, E.ON, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, T-Systems, and Volkswagen, for whom the Wiesbaden agency has become a fixed live communication anchor, and was awarded two times as the most creative agency in Germany. Since 1992 he has supported his friend Reinhold Treitinger in South Indian Kumily/Kerala as he founded "Natural Shakti" (= power of nature), a sustainable farm of natural goods in harmony with the jungle’s ecological system. As Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus’ creative advisor, Hans Reitz has devoted himself to spreading the idea of "Grameen Social Business" since 2007. He founded the Grameen Creative Lab, which now advises various large-scale enterprises throughout the world, a short time later along with Prof. Yunus. Today, he accompanies Prof. Yunus to official events.

Reitz, Hans’s Website

Villageboom is a social enterprise to improve lives in the rural part of developing countries.
A student of the 80ies, a time where the current concepts of market based approaches to economic development and BOP science was not known yet, Thomas Ricke studied business administration on top of economic development, in hindsight a great combination. He was fascinated by the possible solutions to overcome poverty. Due to his passion for economic development, at the age of 34, he gladly accepted an offer by his former employer Procter & Gamble for a 3-year assignment in Yemen. This continued with subsequent assignments in Egypt and Nigeria for another 5 years.
As Finance Manager of P&G West Africa he convinced Procter & Gamble to expand distribution towards rural – a move that was initially met with great resistance, but finally took off in a big way. A win-win for P&G and the semi-urban/rural consumers who now can buy detergents and hygienic products at 20-30% lower prices than before.
In 2008, encouraged by this success, Thomas founded Villageboom, a social enterprise to improve the lives in the rural part of developing markets. The Villageboom solar lamps – meanwhile in the 3rd generation – are the answer to Villageboom’s question: how can we make them so attractive that there is no reason anymore to stay with a kerosene lamp.

Mr. Ricke, Thomas’s Website

Pepa Rodríguez was born in Madrid in 1974. Economist, she is a specialist in corporate communications. Pepa has spent most of her professional career at BAT, the company she joined to in 2001. She is currently the person responsible at the tobacco company for external communication and the development of local reputation initiatives, which include youth smoking prevention campaigns and a long-term afforestation programme in the Canary Islands during seven years, which concluded in 2011 and was possible through the agreement with the local authorities of the Canaries.
Prior to her professional experience at BAT, she has worked as Communications Manager in different private companies and at the University of Alcalá de Henares. She speaks English and German.

Elena Rodriguez Blanco is an entrepreneur and a practitioner of social innovation and change. She is the co-founder of Bloom Microventures, a social enterprise that has a unique model that harnesses the power of tourism to alleviate poverty in Vietnam. Currently, she is co-founder of an evolving social venture that seeks to use design and collective intelligence methodologies to tackle some of the main challenges Spain is currently facing. She also works for ESADE Business School (Barcelona) as an assistant professor and researcher for the Institute of Social Innovation. Previously she worked as a project management expert for large institutions such as the European Central Bank (Frankfurt), General Electric (Milan, Paris, Barcelona) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (UK). Originally born in Costa Rica, she studied International Business and Finance in Grove City College (USA), and has a Masters in Business Administration from SDA BOCCONI (Italy) and a Masters in Development Management from The London School of Economics (UK).

Rodriguez Blanco , Elena’s Website

Dana Roelofs joined Triodos Bank in 2006 and is currently a Senior Investment Officer for Latin America, covering Mexico and Central America. Prior to Triodos, Dana worked with KAHSF in Pakistan to develop a home improvement loan product for the MFI. She also worked with Project Enterprise in the USA, an NGO, where she managed a loan portfolio of microloans available to low income and immigrant communities in Brooklyn, NY. Dana completed her undergraduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. She is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer having served three years in Guinea, West Africa.

Mike Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of strategic management at IESE Business School. He teaches long-term strategy, scenario planning and analysis of business problems in IESE’s MBA, Global Executive MBA and executive education programs.

Rosenberg’s research is concerned with how long-term technological and socio-economic trends affect the business climate and has a particular interest in the potential of alternative energy sources to change the competitive dynamics of a number of industries, including the automotive sector.

Prior to joining the faculty, Rosenberg worked as a management consultant to the international automotive industry for Heidrick & Struggles, A.T. Kearney and Arthur D. Little.

Magda Rosenmoller is senior lecturer in the Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management. She teaches the second-year MBA elective course on health sector management and is also a lecturer in the executive education department. She lectures at a number of other schools and institutions in Europe, Latin America and Asia, including the China European International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai.

She holds a Ph.D. in health policy from the University of London, UK; an M.D. from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France, and an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain. Her research experience includes collaboration with social businesses in the health sector.

Carsten Rübsaamen founded BOOKBRIDGE in 2009 out of a scout exchange in Mongolia. Affected by the impact of one container full of books on children’s life, he decided to make use of his business background and prior work experience as a consultant in the pursuit of a worldwide balanced access to education. At BOOKBRIDGE, he currently serves as President and CEO. BOOKBRIDGE actively pursues worldwide balance in education. By setting up teaching libraries in countries with poor learning materials, we provide access to education, enhance its quality and foster social entrepreneurship. With 14 libraries in Mongolia and Cambodia, we have reached 500,000 people so far. As a social business, we reach our goal in an entrepreneurial way. Our teaching libraries become financially self-sustained, providing people with a basis to help themselves. As a foundation, we designed an innovative leadership development program, helping us to finance our organization and enabling you to become a changemaker. You want to make a difference? Join us at www.bookbridge.org .

Esther Sarsa is the Sustainability Development Manager at Danone where she leads the activities on CSR and Corporate Reputation.
She is MSC in Telecommunications and holds an MBA from IESE. Before joining Danone, she worked at EPSON in Paris and as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

Dr. Sharma is currently the Head of Business Development for Africa and Middle East at Syngenta, a global agribusiness company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The role encompasses exploring new ways of working and developing new business models to address the needs of African farmers. He has been working with investors to develop ecosystems solutions to mitigate risks in large scale investments in African agriculture and was instrumental in the creation of a Large Scale Business Unit for Africa. Dr. Sharma has also contributed as a panelist, author and speaker in various international discussions on African agriculture (COMESA, CNN, FC Business Intelligence). Syngenta aims to deliver solutions to improve the productivity and sustainability of agriculture by bringing plant potential to life. Prior to this role, Dr. Sharma worked in a variety of commercial and technical roles in agriculture development, Strategy & Planning, biofuels, Oil & Gas, product formulation and sustainable development. Dr. Sharma holds a BSc (H) in Chemistry, an MSc and PhD in Formulation Science, and an MBA in Strategy & Marketing.

Rafal Siepak has founded SENStation and has overall responsibility for management and strategy. SENStation.org is an online social media platform inspiring people about social entrepreneurship and positive change. It serves as a place where like-minded people may share their social ideas and develop sustainable business models. Rafal holds a pan-European CEMS double master degree in International Management from Rotterdam School of Management and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Previously he graduated with a Bachelor in International Business from Maastricht University. Rafal was a president of UNICEF-CEMS International Humanitarian Project Committee at Rotterdam School of Management. He has done research in the field of framing and self-efficacy.

Thomas Smith has worked on food and agriculture projects in Africa, as well as the Middle East and Central America. Recently, he has consulted to new investments in Malawi and Tanzania where he helped to establish plantation crops including coffee, macadamia, jatropha as well as maize production for local consumption. His experiences included everything from financial modelling for project design and investment decision, designing irrigation systems as well as training local people to operate agricultural machinery. He has also worked as the operations manager of a highly mechanised 10,000ha desert farm in Libya, growing wheat, maize and alfalfa and using advanced centre-pivot and linear overhead irrigation. In 2004, he worked to develop agriculture in Southern Iraq where he helped establish an agricultural micro credit scheme, and refurbish giant government irrigation projects. He has also undertaken projects for a global tractor company and for Syngenta Crop Protection. Thomas is an agricultural engineer and holds an MBA from IESE Business School.

María Sotomayor Ruiz holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Institut Químic de Sarriá in Barcelona, Spain, and did her Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering in Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also completed an MBA from IESE Business School.

Maria started her professional career in 2004 in Biokit, a biotechnology company in Spain, working as Project Manager and Regulatory Affairs Manager. In 2008 she worked in KENCALL EPZ, the biggest call center in East Africa developing an Ambulance Emergency System. After the MBA, she joined the International Career Development Program at Novartis and worked as CSR project manager in Sub Saharan Africa as well as Brand Manager, Assistant to the Country Head and in new commercial models in Spain.

Since she joined Novartis, she has been responsible for Novartis’ CSR initiatives in Spain and has developed several initiatives in Kenya and Zambia in conjunction with Spanish medical societies and major Spanish hospitals.

Sotomayor Ruiz, Maria’s Website

Mei Li Tan has responsibility for Citi For Cities within Citi’s Global Transaction Services (GTS) business. Citi For Cities is a global initiative involving innovation and cross-business collaboration with governments and industry to enable efficiency reform, urban infrastructure modernization and improve citizen engagement.
She is also the business lead driving the development of GTS’ sustainability practice, a strategic unit that not only ensures that the business division proactively embraces sustainable business practice but enables the sustainability objectives of its clients and partners, from incentivising sustainable supply chains and setting up funding frameworks for microfinance to developing carbon market solutions, enabling socially responsible investment of institutional investor funds, and participating in alternative energy financing projects.
Mei Li also manages executive communications for the Global Transaction Services business to staff, clients and industry. As part of her communications responsibilities, she is leading the effort to embed social computing across the business as the workflow paradigm to improve business agility, responsiveness and collaboration.
Born in Singapore, educated in Australia and now based in London, Mei Li has been with Citi for over 20 years and has held various product management, marketing, operations and business development roles in consumer banking, wealth management and, for the last 8 years, in transaction banking. She joined the company as a Management Associate in 1989. Prior to joining Citi, Mei Li worked in the technology consulting industry for International Data Corporation and the Gartner Group in Australia. Mei Li has a degree in Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge’s Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

Luca is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ambers&Co Capital – an asset management firm focused on impact investments which currently manages the a €21 million fund focused on financial inclusion. Luca spent most of his last 12 years working with and advising microfinance, SMEs and financial institutions. His experience includes:

•Credit Suisse Latin America Financial Institutions Group working on a variety of microfinance related transactions, including the Initial Public Offering of Banco Compartamos and Financiera Independencia. Mr. Torre also spearheaded a commercial microfinance initiative to increase Credit Suisse’s market share in the sector.
•Annapurna, a cooperative microfinance bank located in Pune, performing a turnaround of the organization to support financial sustainability.
•International Finance Corporation in Cambodia to support local Social Entrepreneurship
•The Boston Consulting Group focusing on the Financial Services sector and worked extensively with the largest Italian banking group in better serving the Small and Medium Enterprise segment.

Luca received a First Class BSc from University of Brighton and a Master of Business Administration from The Kellogg School of Management where he was awarded the Siebel scholarship for leadership and academic achievements. He is the Chairman of the Credit Committee of the Lower East Side People Credit Union in New York City.

Manuel leads Accenture Sustainability Services in Spain where he also works as strategy consultant for public service organizations. Manuel holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a PDD from IESE Business School, he also followed some PhD courses in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

Torres Núñez, Manuel’s Website

After graduating from ESADE in 1998 Carmen’s career has been linked for more than twelve years to wealth management, the world of family office and family business. After working at Merrill Lynch she managed real estate investments at Exea Family Office for eight years. Carmen also collaborated in the development of strategic projects.

Carmen participated in specialized programs such as at the IMD and has been a Lecturer on various topics of family business issues in forums such as Loedstar. She was a professor in the finance department for eight years at Esade with Professor Joan Massons. Then she finished her PDA at the London Business School 2007.

In parallel to her position in Exea, in 2005, Carmen founded Accord, a company dedicated to maintain diversified investments today.

In 2011 Carmen founded, together with another partner, Ecoology, an e-shop organic and environmentally friendly fashion company.

In 2012 Carmen entered into Treball Foment as vocal.

Tous, Carmen’s Website

Alejandro currently works at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (‘EBRD’) as Associate Banker, Agribusiness. He originally joined the EBRD as an analyst in 2008, after finishing his MBA at the London Business School. At EBRD he has carried out several debt and equity investments in the Agribusiness, Food and Drink sectors for the Bank in several countries, mostly focused in Southern and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Russia.

Before his MBA Alejandro worked in real estate in Spain for four years, first as a lawyer, with a real estate developer, and then as a real estate consultant. Alejandro studied Law in Barcelona.

David is a Civil Engineer by the UPC Barcelona, enjoying the 5th year in the EPFL in Lausane (Switzerland).During his studies, he participated in two different NGO programs in Morocco and Senegal. In 2006, David started his professional career in Saida (Algeria) as Project Manager of the new Water Treatment Station of Saida (150,000 inhabitants) built by the Catalan company COMSA. From September 2009 to the moment, David is the General Manager of Deisa Algerie, an Algerian company specialised in the water treatment business. At the moment, seven Urban Water Treatment Stations are in construction (for hardly a million inhabitants), as well as some other industrial projects.

Antonino Vaccaro is the Academic Director of the Center for Business in Society and an Assistant Professor of the Business Ethics Department at IESE Business School. He received a MSc. in Engineering (Politecnico of Milan), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management (IST, Lisbon) and two Post Doctoral Research Fellowships respectively in Ethics and Technology Policy (Carnegie Mellon University) and in Information Ethics (University of Oxford). He is an expert of corporate transparency, corruption and fraud in organizations. Antonino Vaccaro has worked in consultancy and applied research projects for such companies as FIAT, Southern Company, Artsana Group, Tecnotre, EDP Foundation, Alcoa and Volkswagen. He is currently collaborating with the Portuguese Judiciary Police (Anti money laundering unit) and with the UN Global Compact on projects related to the prevention and identification of frauds in multinational companies.

Siddharth Wadehra, an author and entrepreneur has been the winner of numerous business innovation awards across the globe. A Computer Engineer by education, not only has Siddharth has worked on numerous software applications for which he holds patents/copyrights but also presented papers in different forums on a range of technical topics. Siddharth has close of three years of credible work experience with Silicon Valley giants Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) and IBM before studying business at the Asian Institute of Management, Manila.Siddharth has been a technology buff, sports enthusiast and an avid quizzer. He enjoys studying Business Laws and has industry knowledge on Cyber Laws and E-Commerce Laws. Siddharth is coming out with his book ‘Asia Incredible’ this March in which discusses the changing business landscape in Asia, the opportunities which the huge Asian markets pose and urges youngsters and aspiring MBA’s to take up to entrepreneurship rather than the conventional path.

Debra Wheat believes the successful intersection between business, education, and development is the best way to create sustainable positive change. She has ten years of professional experience on three continents focused on getting the necessary stakeholders to the table to better solve complex problems. She has been a teacher, curriculum writer, community outreach coordinator, consultant, small business owner, and advocate. Raised in DC she has been active in civil service since an early age. She served on the President’s Education Commission where she co-­hosted a conference with President Clinton and lobbied for education reform. In Brazil, she used her Portuguese and ability to cross socio‐economic and cultural barriers to develop and pilot an interdisciplinary curriculum and complimentary workshop series to teach favela (slum) residents to advocate for themselves against slumlords. In Uganda, she used her mediation skills to help former child-­soldiers transition back into communities while simultaneously working to raise international awareness of the plight of the Night Commuters. During her teaching career, she developed the community-­outreach strategy for a charter school, facilitated professional development workshops for high school and university faculty, and has written curriculum for both secondary and higher education in the Humanities and Wellness content areas. While earning a dual degree in International Development and International Business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management she facilitated pro-­bono consulting work for non‐profits, spearheaded a sustainability and ethics conference, and helped rural villages in Ghana start socially responsible businesses. As an Education Pioneers fellow, she served as a link between the business and education sectors while training principals to create and analyze comprehensive stakeholder maps, interpret data, think strategically, and conduct market research. She is excited to leverage her experience in education, business, and development to help others rethink both the purpose and power of business in her role as Executive Director of The Oath Project.

Wheat, Debra’s Website

Mr. Zubelzu is Innovation Manager in Agbar, Barcelona’s public water utility, where he has worked since 2007 in research and innovation. At the present time, he leads the Digital Initiatives Innovation Unit, where the Agbar’s Smart Cities project is being developed. In addition, he has worked in the aeronautic field at Airbus, where he worked to develop the Vision System of a tanker aircraft. He has published several articles in the Robotic and Water field. Mr. Zubelzu holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Girona and a Master in Water Management by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is currently pursuing an Executive Master in Digital Business in ESADE.

Zubelzu, Jordi’s Website

Clare Zurawski holds a Masters Degree in Business at the University of New Mexico. She works as a Fundraising Specialist at Street Football World. Her mission is to use the unique power of football to help young people overcome poverty, discrimination, and lack of education.

After completing her Masters in Business, she immersed in microenterprise development and worked primarily with low-income women and minorities in New Mexico. During 13 years, she held 5 positions in 3 locations and became passionate about helping “underdog” businesses make it. She has extensive experience in grants management and delivery of technical assistance to entrepreneurs, in particular Search Engine Optimization and internet marketing.

Although Street Football World has a 10-year history in Europe and other parts of the world, it is effectively a start-up in the United States. The primary focus of her position will be developing and implementing a fundraising strategy that is tailored to the American cultural and philanthropic environment. She will be working on a 3-person team that includes the founder and CEO of the organization.

Clare’s expectations: “How thrilling to transfer my skills to a totally new professional arena and offer service to a global social enterprise! The one-year commitment with structure and support appeals to me as I transition from long-term employment with a U.S. microenterprise development organization.”