Mark Albion spent nearly 20 years at Harvard University and its business school as a student and professor. A seven-time social entrepreneur, he left Harvard to develop a community of service-minded MBAs, co-founding Net Impact in 1993. He's made 600 visits to speak at business schools on five continents (including the opening keynote for the first "Doing Good, Doing Well" conference at IESE), for which Business Week magazine dubbed him “the savior of B-school souls."

Mark is the author of seven books, most recently More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer, with a foreword by Net Impact executive director Liz Maw. This past fall, the book was distributed electronically to up to 55,000 MBAs in 75 schools, including IESE. In January 2009, a company was launched to help MBAs and other professionals implement the book's framework. An animated movie based on the book, "The Good Life Parable: An MBA Meets a Fisherman," was awarded the largest environmental film festival's official short-film selection last month.

Philanthrocapitalism, his new book (with Michael Green) on the global boom now under way in philanthropy, has just been published by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of Essential Economics, the official Economist layperson's guide to economics. Before joining The Economist, Matthew was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for Oxford University Press. He has served as a member of the Sykes Commission on the investment system in the 21st Century. He was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005. He has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a graduate of Oxford University.

Stewart J. Paperin serves both as Executive Vice President of the Soros Foundations and as a consultant to Soros Fund Management. Mr. Paperin manages the administration and operations of the Soros network in over forty countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the United States, Africa and Latin America. He also provides leadership to the foundations economic reform and economic development activities and serves as President of Soros Economic Development fund, a $150mln investment fund.

Mr. Paperin earned BA and MS degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has served as a member of the Boards of Directors of Western Union Corporation, PennOctane Corp., Global TeleSystems Group, Inc., Golden Telecom Inc. and OAO Svyazinvest (Russia’s national telephone company) as well as a variety of emerging internet and telecommunication companies. Mr. Paperin has also served on the boards of directors of several economic policy institutes in Central and Eastern Europe and continues as a director of the National Urban Reconstruction Housing Authority of South Africa.

Mr. Paperin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was also awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the State University of New York.

Anil Soni is the Chief Executive Officer of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, which assists governments in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to implement national HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs and which works to improve market dynamics for related medicines and tests.  Previously, Anil was the founding Executive Director of Friends of the Global Fight and Advisor to the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  Anil was also a consultant at McKinsey and Company and has worked for the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and with NGOs in Ghana and the Middle East.

Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi is the Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS), the largest division of Citi’s Global Transaction Services (GTS) business offering an integrated set of cash management and trade solutions to corporate, financial institution and public sector clients worldwide.

Prior to his current appointment, Francesco was Global Head of Cash Management and before that, Head of Global Transaction Services for Europe, Middle East and Africa, where he had responsibility for the Cash Management, Trade Finance and Services and Securities and Fund Services businesses across the region.

Francesco has served in numerous leadership roles in his extensive career at Citi.  He joined Citibank in 1983 as a Management Associate in New York.  In 1984, he moved to the Corporate Bank in Lima, Peru, as a Relationship Manager, and later took on the role of Treasury Marketing Manager.  In 1986, he was appointed Country Treasurer for Peru.

In 1987, Francesco moved to London to launch Citibank's Southern Europe Structured Finance business.  In 1993, he was appointed Corporate Finance Head for Italy, based in Milan.  In 1996, he returned to London as Co-Head and Managing Director for Global Mergers and Acquisitions.

In 1998, Francesco was appointed the Market Manager for Iberia responsible for the Corporate Bank and customer relationships in Spain and Portugal and Country Corporate Officer of Citigroup for Spain, based in Madrid.  In 2001, he was named Chairman and CEO of Citibank International plc and the European Customer Group Executive for Citigroup’s Corporate Bank headquartered in London.

Francesco graduated Magna Cum Laude from the American University in Washington DC with a B.S.B.A. degree in Finance.  He received the Stanley I. Posner Award given to the graduating senior with the highest overall academic average.  In 1983, he obtained an M.B.A. In Finance and International Business from Columbia University.

Francesco is the Chairman of Citibank Holdings Ireland Ltd and Citibank Europe plc.  He serves on the boards of Mapfre America S.A., Clearstream International, LCH.Clearnet, Business in the Community.  He is also a board member of Junior Achievement Worldwide, a member of its Board of Governors, and is the Chairman of Junior Achievement – Europe and the ENGAGE network.

Reuben is a professor and Executive Director of the Center for Emerging Markets Solutions at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad. He serves on the global board of directors of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), which aims to catalyze growth in emerging markets. Under the aegis of SEDF, he has helped set up a unique India-focused SME early stage fund with Google and Omidyar Network as co-investors, which he is a senior adviser to. He serves as an adviser to several companies, including a financial services company; a large real estate company; and three start-up companies. A TED Global Fellow in 2007, he now serves on the TED Fellows selection committee, and is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. Before ISB, he did his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York. During his time at Columbia, he was an Associate Fellow in Global Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and also a Fellow at the Public Policy Consortium. He was a Sloan Foundation/CITI Telecommunications Fellow in 2000.

Mr. Adao da Fonseca is a member of Management and is the Company’s chief business development officer. In 1998 Mr. da Fonseca held the position of assistant lecturer in the Economics and Business Sciences School and in the Human Sciences School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, until leaving later the same year to become a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Mr. da Fonseca left McKinsey & Company in July 2000 to enter into a master in business administration degree program at INSEAD, which he concluded with distinction in 2001. He then assumed the role of management for renewable energy development projects with the EDP Group development division. Mr. da Fonseca was appointed as chief financial officer of NEO in 2005, a position he held until becoming chief development officer of NEO in 2007. As chief development officer, Mr. da Fonseca has responsibility for new business initiatives and international markets. In 2007 Mr. da Fonseca served on the executive committee of ENEOP II, S.A. Mr. da Fonseca holds a master’s degree in economics from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, a master of business administration degree from INSEAD, as well as a postgraduate degree in leading change and organizational renewal from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Malik Bakayoko is a native Ivorian with international education and work experience in financial institutions and multinational manufacturing companies. He also worked for the public sector in Ivory Coast by participating in the review of the Mining Industry environmental impact Act and has been involved in two major university studies on the review of the Ivorian Labor Code and the updating of the private sectors bylaws following the adoption of the OHADA Uniform Acts harmonising  the commercial regulation in 16 French speaking countries in West Africa.  Malik Bakayoko was teaching at the Inter-African School of Insurance and Banking from 2001 to 2003. Currently he is Legal Counsel of Coca-Cola North, West and Central Africa Business Units, co founder of a micro-credit institution in Ivory Coast and owner of Versud School, a family business in Ivory Coast. His fields of interest include the development of African entrepreneurs and alternative sources of funds on the African Continent.

Bruno Berthon is the Accenture Global Sustainability Practice Lead, based in Paris. He has worked with the top management of multinationals across several industries, including consumer goods, retail, telecommunications and media, on their transformation agenda. Over the last 14 years, he has specialized in helping organizations address the challenges of globalization, large-scale operating model change and innovation. As the global lead of the sustainability practice, Mr. Berthon’s expertise lies in helping multinational clients evaluate business opportunities related to climate change and sustainability challenges across sectors. He was previously Accenture’s strategy Practice Lead for the Gallia region (Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and also led Accenture’s Business Launch Center focusing on Internet-related activities.

Jan Willem Bode is the Managing Director of OneCarbon and is located in the Barcelona office in Spain. He was previously the Managing Director of the International Corporate Carbon Solutions Group within Ecofys and the Managing Director of Ecofys Spain and Ecofys UK. He has been involved in policy studies, project development and strategic consultancy in the areas of Emissions Trading and the Kyoto Mechanisms, since 1995. He has been responsible for a large number of carbon management projects, with various blue-chip companies. Jan Willem Bode is a member of both the Gold Standard Technical Advisory Committee as well as the Voluntary Carbon Standard steering Committee. His professional career started with a technology assessment of the carbon abatement potential of specific industrial technologies in the EU, and the evaluation of national and international policies and measures in the areas of climate change, energy efficiency and renewable energy. After joining Ecofys NL, he was responsible for the Ecofys activities in the area of Emissions Trading and the Kyoto Mechanisms.

Gib is the co-Founder and Executive Director of Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a ring-fenced not-for-profit consulting group within Accenture, whose clients include many of the major international NGOs and development agencies. ADP's main focus is bringing affordable business and technology expertise to the international development sector and promoting private sector engagement in sustainable development. In his role as Executive Director of ADP, Gib travels and works extensively in developing countries and is a regular speaker on the role of business in development, corporate social entrepreneurship and cross-sectoral partnerships. 

Ms. Colatrella is Executive Director, Global Health Partnerships, within the Office of Corporate Responsibility at Merck & Co., Inc., responsible for key global health and access partnerships and Merck's relationships with a wide range of stakeholders in the global health arena.

Prior to assuming this position,  Ms. Colatrella was the Executive Director, HIV Policy and External Affairs for the Europe, Middle East, Africa, Canada region, with a primary focus on driving Merck and industry initiatives to improve access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world.  From 2003 until April 2006, Ms. Colatrella served as Senior Director, Office of Contributions and Senior Vice-President of The Merck Company Foundation where she was responsible for all Foundation and corporate cash grant making activities, product donation programs administered by the Office of Contributions (e.g., the Merck Mectizan Donation Program for the treatment of onchocerciasis and prevention of lymphatic filariasis), relationship management with key internal and external partners involved in Merck's corporate responsibility (CR) activities  and representation of Merck's CR portfolio and policy positions on issues related to CR and public-private partnership.

Prior positions at Merck also include: Director, Worldwide Product Donations Policy & Programs (1999-2003), Manager, Product Donations, in the Office of Contributions/Corporate Public Affairs Department at Merck (1992-1999); and Systems Associate, Merck Corporate Financial Systems & Programming (1989-1992) with responsibility for the development of financial applications and database management systems.  Before joining Merck in 1989, Ms. Colatrella spent six years (1982-1989) with First Fidelity Bank in the Commercial Lending Division as an Assistant Vice-President (1985-1989) and Financial Analyst (1982-1985).

Ms. Colatrella received her B.A. from Muhlenberg College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business where she was the recipient of the Dean's Award.

For seven years (1997 through 2003), two of which as Chairperson, Ms. Colatrella has served on the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD), a coalition of pharmaceutical companies and private voluntary organizations dedicated to raising the standards for product donations globally.

Antonio Dávila is director of IESE's Ph.D. program and professor of entrepreneurship and accounting and control. He has held teaching and assistantship positions at the Universities of Stanford and Harvard.

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 Excellency Award. He was also the winner of the Ramón y Cajal Scholarship awarded by the Spanish government (2004). Other prizes and awards he received include the Accounting Research Paper Award Carlos Cubillo Valverde (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) and has edited a third book, The Creative Enterprise (2007). He has also 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.

Since joining the firm in 2005, he has built up extensive experience in the areas of global health, institutional reform and social investment. Most recently Wouter managed Dalberg’s support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s implementation work of the Affordable Medicines Facility – malaria (AMFm), an innovative financing initiative to lower the price of anti-malarial medicines. Wouter also worked with GAVI on their procurement strategy, designed an innovative financing mechanism to fund R&D towards neglected diseases and he has been engaged in managerial reform projects for the WHO, UNEP, UN Habitat and the UN Secretariat.

Prior to Dalberg, Wouter worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company in Europe and the US, advising leading companies on strategy and organization.

Wouter holds a Master’s degree in Management from the London School of Economics as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam

Tal Dehtiar, a proud Canadian, is the Co-Founder and President of MBAs Without Borders. He received his MBA from DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University and has a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Tal has a diverse background which includes previous work in the Healthcare and Mining industry in Canada. He has worked on a number of international projects as well, prior to starting MBAs Without Borders, including launching an agri-business to support rural communities in Belize, creating a small-scale volunteer program in Costa Rica and starting-up and producing a radio show in Singapore. Tal has traveled, worked, studied or lived in over 50 countries and speaks English, Russian, Hebrew and Spanish. He is a recipient of the 2004 Ontario Global Trader Award, 2005 Arch Award, was nominated for the 2005 YMCA Peace Award and Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2005 and 2006. Tal was named one of the Youth Action Fellows for 2007 and a Semi-Finalist for Echoing Green in 2008.

Jordi Dolader is an expert in energy policy and regulation, with an extensive experience in Latin America and Europe. From April 1999 to 2005, he was Commissioner at the National Energy Commission, Spain (CNE). Previously (1998-1999), he was Director of Distribution and Commercialization of the Spanish National Electricity Commission (CNSE); from 1992 to 1998 he was Vice- president of the power utility Edenor, Buenos Aires (Argentina); from 1996 to 1998, he was Director of the Dock Sud Thermal Power Plant in Buenos Aires. He worked previously in the company Enher (Spain) as manager of planning and electricity demand forecasting department (1973-1992). He started his professional career in the utility Fecsa (Spain). From 2000 to 2005 he cooperated with the European Commission, through CEER and ERGEG, in the construction of the internal energy market.

Zachary Dominitz joined Cafédirect in July of 2007 as Head of the Corporate Affairs Department.
He is a strategy and communications expert, with extensive experience in consumer goods, the environment, and social enterprise. He’s helped organisations such as UnLtd and Belu Water and worked for companies including Sony, Columbia Records, Nokia, and British Telecom.
He was a member of the Media Affairs Department at the White House during President Clinton’s first term, and spent five years prior to that as a journalist. He has a Masters in Business Administration from London Business School.

Charles Donovan is the Head of Structuring and Valuation for BP’s global thermal power activities. Previous to his current role, Charles was part of the strategy team that launched BP Alternative Energy in November 2005.  Alternative Energy combines BP’s worldwide activities in solar photovoltaics, wind energy, biofuels, advanced thermal power, and technology venturing.

Charles began work on climate change and energy issues as an Energy Policy Analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC.  He subsequently worked for the Enron Corporation in its London and Houston offices where he was responsible for project financing and investment risk analysis.  He also spent several years in private sector consulting where he advised national governments and multinational energy companies in Europe on the impacts of climate policy on investment in power generation and primary energy sectors.

Charles holds a bachelor degree from the University of Washington and graduated with honors from The Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt University.  His MBA work included a concentration in corporate finance.  He is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration at Instituto de Empresa (IE Business School) in Madrid.

With more than 30 years business experience both as a general manager and a consultant, Andy runs his own firm, Eggleston Partners. He advises management teams on performance improvement, strategy, marketing, customer and channel issues, and as a CEO and corporate VP has led four re-structuring initiatives and two turnarounds. He has extensive experience in business process and organisational design, notably in the marketing, sales and customer-handling areas. He delivers results for clients through consulting and interim management assignments, and non-exec roles. His special interest is new technologies, with particular emphasis on the environment.

Prior to forming Eggleston Partners, Mr. Eggleston worked for the last twenty years in the automotive industry. His roles include President of R. L. Polk Europe and Vice-President of Marketing for Ford of Europe. He was hired into that role after six years with A. T. Kearney where he was Head of the Automotive Practice in the London office. Prior to that he was a Director of FMM Group Ltd  (now part of DHL), based in Paris, from where he ran the European operations supplying fleet management, leasing and logistics services to corporates and automotive OEM’s. Latterly he was the Project Director for the award-winning ENV hydrogen-powered motorcycle.

As a consultant, Mr Eggleston has worked in the automotive, IT, aviation, forestry, retailing, bio-tech, horticultural and steel sectors. Clients include Ford, GM, British Steel, Jaguar, Aston Martin, the royal families of two Gulf States, Kemira, the Pon-CAT group and DEC. He has worked in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Far East.

Mr. Eggleston was Chair of the UK Government's Broadband Competition and Co-operation task group, and a member of the Confederation of British Industry's e-commerce committee. He has appeared frequently on BBC radio and television, CNN, Sky News, Reuters TV and Discovery channel as a subject matter expert on the automotive sector, and has presented on behalf of Ford, A. T. Kearney and R. L. Polk at many automotive conferences.

Mr. Eggleston holds a Master’s degree in Modern Languages and Linguistics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Cranfield Management School. He speaks fluent French and Spanish, and has a working knowledge of German (which he is actively improving).

Stéphanie Engels is Account Manager in the SAM Sustainability Services team, a business unit created to answer the needs of companies requesting information and know-how about sustainability issues. She joined SAM in 2007.

Stéphanie Engels studied environmental science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. She conducted her PhD on “determinants of environmental innovations in the food and beverage industry” at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (ETH Zurich), Chair for International Political Economy, under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Bernauer. Additionally she was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

On May 31, 2008, Dr. Gunther L. Faber retired from his position as Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, for GlaxoSmithKline. He qualified as a veterinarian specializing in genetics and nutrition, 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 Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham he was appointed as Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa. Besides being accountable for the commercial operation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Faber was also a member of the company’s Policy Team on Access to Medicine, as well as being a director of the International Division which covers all countries with the exception of the USA, Europe and Japan. Dr. Faber interacts at senior political and bureaucratic level with African governments, as well as those of the OECD countries. Dr. Faber is a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School.

On July 1, 2008, Dr. Faber became CEO of The HealthStore Foundation®, the franchisor of the CFW franchise (“Child and Family Wellness) in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The HealthStore Foundation® has accumulated nearly a decade of experience developing and operating a healthcare franchise network in Kenya.  Its 67 for-profit CFW outlets served over 500,000 people in 2007, and an additional 15 CFW outlets are being opened Fall 2008.  The HealthStore Foundation® is continuing to improve and grow its flagship network in Kenya as well as beginning to expand the CFW branded franchise system to more countries in the developing world, beginning with Rwanda in 2008.  Dr. Faber is based in London.

Michael C. Fields currently holds a Sr. leadership position with a major International Consulting Firm.  Mr. Fields has the responsibility of actively supporting firm-wide pro bono engagements in the United States and International communities.  Past and current client engagements include:  The Smithsonian, Special Olympics International, Children’s Hospital Washington DC, Evidence Dance Company, Chance To Shine Cricket Foundation London, Youth Orchestra’s of the America’s, and the MTV Europe Foundation.  Mr. Fields has experience in developing and implementing high profile CSR projects with domestic and international non-profit organizations as well as wide experiences on nonprofit boards and as a volunteer leader, advocate, and public speaker.

Mr. Fields holds a Master of Science degree, Applied Behavioral Science with a Concentration in Organization Development from Johns Hopkins University, and a  Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce with a Concentration in Marketing and Human Resource Management from The University of Virginia. Michael is also a Net Impact Board Member.

Robert Filipp brings a wealth of experience in development finance and private banking to the Global Fund. Robert began his professional career at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) when at the age of 24 he became a Regional Coordinator for the Global Environment Facility at UNDP in New York. Following a stint at The World Bank in Washington, D.C., he joined a private equity firm and eventually founded his own venture capital firm, Pimacom S.A. with investments in India and other emerging economies.

In 2005, intrigued by the model of the Global Fund and the potential to create synergies between traditional donor financing and new approaches to aid, Robert joined the Global Fund as an advisor on innovative financing and subsequently became Head of Innovative Financing. During his tenure at the Global Fund, the Debt2Health initiative has been launched, which increases domestic investments in health from debt conversions.

Robert Filipp has been educated in Law, Economics and International Relations at Bonn University, Harvard University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at The American University in Washington D.C. and Cairo. Besides his native German, he speaks English, French, Hindi, Polish, Russian as well as a little Arabic and Spanish.

ANTONI GELONCH-VILADEGUT obtained his Degrees in Pharmacy and in Laws at the University of Barcelona. Also, he obtained another Degree in Enterprises Direction at IESE of The 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, first as External Relations Manager in MSD, second as Institutional Relationships Director in sanofi-synthélabo Spain and finally as CSR Director in sanofi-aventis Spain.

Just now, he is a Senior Project Director, Sustainable Development at sanofi-aventis Group level in Paris and, in addition, he assumes for interim the position of Sustainable Development Director.

He is also a member of a large number of Councils and Boards of some Foundations, in the fields of Health Sciences and Arts Promotion.

Sam joined Apposite Capital a specialist healthcare venture capital and private equity investor in July 2007. Sam has been involved in deal-making in the healthcare sector since 2000 when he joinedDeutsche Bank's European mergers and acquisitions practice. At Deutsche Bank, he worked with a number of multinational corporate and private equity clients on divestitures and acquisitions, including public takeovers and leveraged buy-outs. Following this, Sam joined the Business Development team at Belgian pharmaceutical company, UCB, working on global product licensing and M&A, including UCB's $2.7bn acquisition of the UK public biotech company, Celltech, as well as anumber of in-licensing deals and divestitures. Sam has a first degree in Natural Sciences and a master's degree in Chemistry from Cambridge University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.

In 2004, Nyame foresaw the importance and value of future emissions trading, and took initiatives to get Essent Trading in on the ground floor of this new market. He developed the business plan, and since then has played a key role in managing the emissions desk. Under his guidance, Essent Trading enjoys a leading role in the market with many "first time ever" deals (first international spot deal, first exchange traded CER, first registered Gold Standard Project in China). The emissions desk is not only profitable but has led to the development of a new core competence within the company.

Before joining Essent Trading in 2000, Nyame worked as a market maker on the European Option Exchange, the predecessor to AEX/Euronext. As a market maker he ran proprietary books in both stocks and options.

Nyame holds a Masters degree in Business Economics from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and has completed post-graduate studies leading to a qualification as a Certified Financial Analyst.

Bill Hargett is COO/Director of Commercial Development with BG-Capital, a solar energy development company based in Barcelona.  BG-Capital develops and arranges financing for large-scale ground -mounted and rooftop solar installations and recently closed 5.1MW of ground-mounted projects in July of this year. Bill graduated from IESE Business school in May 2006.  Prior to BG-Capital, he worked primarily in the microfinance sector in New York, assisting in the training and development of small banking networks in Latin America and other developing economies and has led consulting projects with USAID in Serbia.

Jasmine Hyman works on strategic relations and programmes for the Gold Standard Foundation. She also oversees Gold Standard initiatives to boost demand for quality carbon offsets in Europe and the U.S.  From 2001-2005, Jasmine worked on climate and sustainable agriculture issues at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She was the head writer and correspondent for the International Year of Rice in 2004, where she wrote speeches for the Food and Agriculture Director General and varying representatives to ASEAN.  Jasmine began her study of greenhouse gas emission markets in earnest while doing a Masters of Science at the London School of Economics in Environment and Development in 2005.  She earned an honors B.A in Urban Studies at Columbia University in 2001.  There, she received academic distinction for her thesis, "Recipe for a Green State" which examined the economic, social, and historic influences upon state-level environmental policies.

Jessica Jackley Flannery is a co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer online microlending website. Kiva lets internet users lend as little as $25 to specific developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business. Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites in history, connecting hundreds of thousands of people through lending across over 120 countries.

Jessica first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jessica is sector-agnostic about social change, and has worked for public, nonprofit, and private organizations including the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others.

Jessica’s work with Kiva has been featured in a wide array of media and press including Oprah, the Today Show, CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, the WSJ, NYTimes, the Economist, and more.  Jessica speaks widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship, and serves as a director on several boards related to microenterprise development, including Opportunity International.

Jessica holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University.

Jessica is a trained yoga instructor, avid surfer, and poet.

Matthew Jowett is Senior Health Financing Specialist with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Two of his current priorities are advising the Governments of Moldova and Armenia to develop health financing strategies to move towards universal coverage.

Prior to joining WHO, Matthew spent seven years in Asia working as a health economist advising governments on public policy issues related to health financing. In the Philippines, he was resident advisor to PhilHealth, the government health insurance company, developing partnerships with microfinance institutions to extend health insurance coverage to informal economy workers. He organised a GTZ conference on this issue in Manila in October 2006 together with the World Bank, WHO, the Asian Development Bank and the ILO.

Matthew has published extensively on the issue of health insurance in lower income countries, much of which is based on his PhD thesis analysing the voluntary part of the Vietnamese national health insurance programme, whilst based at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, UK. He is also co-author of a health economics text book. Prior to working at York, he managed health programmes in rural east and central Africa..

Dr. Unni Karunakara is the Deputy Director of Health at the Earth Institute at Columbia University for the Millennium Villages Project and is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Between 1995 and 2007, Dr. Karunakara worked for Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). He was until recently the medical director for MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, where he worked to improve access to treatment and diagnosis in resource-poor settings and advocated for more R&D in neglected tropical diseases. Prior to this he was based in MSF's Amsterdam office where he worked in the medical department for several years. Here, he advised numerous programs in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, and was a member of MSF's international working group on neglected diseases and managed MSF responses to outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers.

Dr. Karunakara has a great deal of experience working in international health. He has worked in Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Colombia, Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. He has a master’s degree in International Health from Yale and a doctorate in Population Dynamics from Johns Hopkins, with a focus on forced migration, was a visiting fellow at the Refugee Studies Center of the University of Oxford, and completed his medical degree at Kasturba Medical College, India.

Dr. Karunakara is currently a member of MSF's board of directors in the United States.

Shainoor Khoja has a BSc in Physiotherapy, an MBA in Health Management, a basic background in Law and several Postgraduate qualifications in Corporate Social Responsibility.

Shainoor has successfully operated projects and businesses in four different continents working within diverse cultures, in challenging environments and in multiple languages.

For the last four years she has focused on the mobile technology sector setting up a new division within the mobile technology industry in corporate social responsibility from start up to project delivery and operation. The project manages a budget of over $2 Million USD and integrates social development mobile technology projects such as mobile money, village phone models and bottom of the pyramid business strategies. Over the years she has built collaborative relationships with large international agencies and the private sector for joint projects and funding including USAID, Mercy Corps, CISCO, Vodafone, Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, French Medical Institute for Children and One laptop per child through MIT.

Shainoor continues to develop the programs by researching and creating innovative uses of technology for business expansion and societal benefit in areas such as Telemedicine, transfer of educational content through mobile phones, training programs to build in country human capacity.  She has expanded the program to develop the promotion of strategic tri-sector partnerships, manage partner relationships and direct PR and media efforts. Shainoor is also working with academic institutions such as Harvard and Berkley Haas Business School MBA students assisting their understanding of business in emerging markets.

Most recently she is also advising start-up companies in insurance, financial services and healthcare within Central Asia and the GCC.

Started the creation of MYC4 in 2005 together with Tim Vang and they established the company in 2006. MYC4 is a web 2.0 marketplace and a tool for people to end poverty through business. Prior to this, Mads has been working in Kjaer Group A/S since 1984 whereas the last 20 years as CEO and from August 2006 as the Chairman. Mads has 25 years market experience from emerging countries and lived in Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa and he is the Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Denmark.

LET'S END POVERTY BY 2015: MYC4 connects people and capital online to facilitate investments in African Businesses - in support of the United Nations 2015 Millennium Development Goals and Global Compact.

Emmanuel Lagarrigue is the Business Development Senior Vice-President for Europe at Schneider Electric, one of the worldwide leaders in energy management for buildings, industrial processes and data centers.

Emmanuel is in charge of sales and marketing organization optimization, channel management, M&A and, above all, of the development of new businesses for Schneider Electric in Europe. Developing technologies for the optimization of energy usage and accelerating their introduction in buildings, industry and datacenters is definitely the first priority for Schneider Electric today.

Prior to his current appointment, Emmanuel has served in several leadership roles in France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina. Emmanuel graduated as an engineer and holds a degree in marketing management.

Zain Laher is a Vice President of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) based in Johannesburg. ECP is the first private equity group to raise more than $1.6 billion for investment in companies across the African continent. The ECP team has been investing in Africa since 2000. Today, the firm has a nine-year track-record of investing in Africa through six successful funds and over 50 investments, 20 exits and a strong portfolio of remaining transactions. At ECP, Mr Laher is involved in deal sourcing, investment appraisal, execution and monitoring. Prior to joining ECP in 2006, Mr. Laher was with Standard Bank Plc in London where he focused on emerging market resource banking. He was previously in the Investment Banking Division in South Africa  where he focussed on project finance transactions in South Africa and other emerging markets. He started his career as a graduate trainee at Standard Bank’s Investment Banking Division in South Africa and worked in various divisions including Corporate Finance; Project Finance; Global Markets and Credit. Mr Laher currently sits on the board of Spencon International Limited and Blue Financial Services.  He is a citizen of South Africa.

Lily Lapenna is the founder and Managing Director of the award winning social enterprise, MyBnk (www.mybnk.org) and has worked tirelessly to make it a success.

Lily started her career in international development in Africa and Asia, focusing on empowerment and participation of young people through non-formal education, encouraging them to be active and to be heard. Whilst in Bangladesh, she became aware of the positive impact of micro-finance and saving services. She saw how a small loan can unleash potential, and give way to entrepreneurial ideas and lead to self sufficiency. Enthused by what she had seen, she returned to London and set about creating a project that would allow young people in the UK to benefit from the same ideas.

Lily created the first ever FSA friendly youth led banking scheme called "MyBnk-in-a-Box" run by young people for young people, allowing them to save regularly and take out interest free loans to set up enterprising activities. Through this banking scheme and accompanying workshops and assemblies, young people build the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their money effectively and to make enterprising choices throughout their lives. MyBnk also promotes the idea of social enterprise - that success is not just about making money, but being a force for positive change in the world.

Lily has taken MyBnk from a single pilot project to an organisation reaching 9,500 young people in the space of 2 years, illustrating her drive, tenacity and commitment to the project. Her passion is infectious, the MyBnk office is home to an enthusiastic team, inspired by Lily's vision. She has inspired and guided countless young people to believe in themselves and their ideas, and to empower them to instigate the change they want to see in their own lives, their communities and the wider world.

Lily was recently awarded the young social entrepreneur of the year by Ed Balls the UK Secretary of State for Children, schools and families.

Jan Levy joined Three Hands in 2005 to help develop our relationships with companies and charities, and to devise and deliver innovative community-based learning — all of which has kept him both busy and fulfilled. Prior to that he had gained experience in both the private and voluntary sectors. Jan spent three years at Business in the Community, working on various corporate community involvement projects, including setting up and launching the Croydon Commitment, a local business-community partnership. Jan has an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, and he has worked with NGOs in La Paz, Bolivia dedicated to assisting orphaned and deaf children. In an earlier part of his career he was a director of a successful publishing and marketing business.

Professor Liechtenstein holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from The Economics School of Vienna, Austria, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IESE Business School, and a BSc in Business Economics from the University of Graz.

Professor Liechtenstein specializes in entrepreneurial finance and the management of wealth. He is co-author on several publications on private equity and angel investing. His ongoing research in this field focuses on operational value creation in private equity.

As a consultant he collaborated with leading families and financial institutions and serves on the board of three family controlled companies.

Charmian is the COO of Volans, a for-profit company focused on developing and scaling entrepreneurial solutions to social, environmental and economic challenges. Prior to her move into the social innovation, Charmian was a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she worked with clients in the financial services and social impact practice areas. Her projects included the organization of the inaugural Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Summit and the coordination of the selection process for the Schwab Foundation's Canadian 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' award. Charmian has also been involved in strategy roles with both non-profit organizations and private/public partnerships including MaRS, an innovation centre focused on creating economic and social value. Currently Charmian holds the position of Past Chair at the Flavelle Foundation and is a member of the British Council's TN2020 global leadership programme. She holds an honours degree in Art History from Queen's University in Canada as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Shadab Mahmud is the Program Manager for Grameen Health, the grand vision of 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank, Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Shadab graduated from Boston University in 2007 with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, and his childhood goal has been to bring health care to the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. Shadab hails from the same ancestral village near the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh as Professor Yunus, and the two met for the first time at Boston University, where Shadab invited and hosted Professor Yunus for an inspirational lecture on Grameen Bank to an audience of nearly 3000. Since then, Shadab has begun his professional career by working for the cause of Grameen Health with the goal of bringing sustainable health care not only for the poor in Bangladesh, but for those in other developing countries worldwide.

Johanna Mair is a Professor of Strategic Management at IESE, the Business School of the University of Navarra in Barcelona. Her research and teaching lies at the intersection of Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact and her work has been featured extensively in academic journals, books and the global press. She was recognized as a "Faculty Pioneer" by the Aspen Institute and received the "Ashoka Award for Social Entrepreneurship Education” in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 Gold Prize of the IFC-Financial Times Essay Competition and the 2007 Strategic Management Society "Best Paper for Practice Implications Award". She serves on the advisory board of a number of companies, foundations, and social investment funds; and consults with large multinational companies and international organizations such as the World Bank.

Rustom Masalawala is the Director of Business Development at Millennium Promise and a Research Associate at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He brings a combination of public/private sector experience. In his prior job he worked as the Health Portfolio Manager at Acumen Fund, a leading Social Venture Organization. Mr. Masalawala has also served as a consultant to a number of organizations working in the developing world.

As Director of Business Development, Mr.  Masalawala is responsible for identifying key business opportunities in each of the Millennium Villages clusters, building sustainable businesses with the eventual goal of putting the clusters on a path to self-sustainability.  To that end, he works closely with partners in both the private and public sector.

Mr. Masalawala holds a Bachelors in Physics/Math from the University of Mumbai, a Masters in Computer Science from SUNY and a Diploma in Business Management from Xaviers University. 

Richard joined Trucost in July 2001 and is responsible for directing Trucost's overall research programme. Richard has an in-depth understanding of corporate environmental performance and in particular the environmental impacts of the supply chain. He is also responsible for leading Trucost's projects with the UK Government, the Environment Agency, the International Finance Corporation and the Carbon Disclosure Project. Richard is a member of the UK Government's Sustainable Development panel and is a regular public speaker on environmental matters.

Prior to this role, Richard was a strategy consultant at the Mitchell Madison Group and marchFIRST, where he developed the retail financial services practice in London.

Richard has a PhD in Neuroscience and a BSc (Hons) in Physiology from Edinburgh University.

Dr. James Mwangi is the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Equity Bank since 2004.  Before taking up this position, he served as the Finance and Strategy Director for a period of 12 years.

Dr. Mwangi’s involvement in Microfinance has been recognized through accolades and awards both globally and locally. He serves on the UN Advisory Group on Inclusive Financial Systems since April 2006. In 2007, Dr. Mwangi was appointed advisor to the United Nations Environmental Program on Commercialization of Microfinance in Africa. He served on the 8 member global round table team that discussed the intervention that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is playing in Microfinance. In June 2007, Dr. Mwangi received the 2007 Global Vision Award in Microfinance, alongside Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus in recognition of Microfinance as one of the “Concepts of the Future” that will change the world economy. Dr. Mwangi is enrolled to the membership of the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative bringing together the world’s most influential leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

In July 2008, Equity Bank was voted the Best Bank in Kenya in the 2008 Euromoney Awards for Excellence on the grounds of “…achievements in lending to the retail sector and reaching out to the “un-banked”, pioneering efforts which bigger banks are now trying to cope with”. Euromoney 2008 a position we have held for two consecutive years. Locally, Dr. Mwangi serves on the Technical team Operationalizing Kenya’s Vision 2030, and his contribution to the country has been recognized by being accorded the award of the Head of States Commendation (HSC) and the Moran of the Burning Spear (MBS).

Under the leadership of Dr. Mwangi, Equity Bank has transformed from a technically insolvent Building Society to the leading Microfinance Bank in Africa, converted into a fully regulated Commercial Bank, a publicly listed Company and home to 42% of all bank accounts in Kenya. US based Micro Capital rated Equity Bank as the best microfinance bank in Africa, and third best in the world in 2007. Equity Bank has now become a case study for Strathmore Business School, Lagos Business School and Stanford Business School among others.

Nicholas Nesbitt is co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of KenCall EPZ Ltd, the first and leading international BPO/call centre outsourcing company in Kenya.  KenCall began operations in early 2005 and has grown from humble beginnings into the largest single employer of college graduates in East Africa with almost 700 staff today.  The company focuses on outsourcing customer service, sales and technical support for American, UK and East African banks, mobile phone and insurance companies.

KenCall recently won the award for the Top Non European Call Center at the CCF event in Birmingham. KenCall was also recognized by KPMG as the fastest growing mid size business in Kenya in 2008 and by Legatum as the runner up for the best mid size business in East Africa.

Prior to founding KenCall, Nicholas lived in the USA for over 20 years.  In his last position, Nicholas was a Vice President at Qwest Communications. Previously, Nicholas ran the indirect channels organizations at Rhythms NetConnections, US WEST and Square D Company.  He began his professional career working in Boston for The Boston Consulting Group.

Nicholas received his MBA from Stanford University and both his Master’s and Bachelor’s engineering degrees from Dartmouth College.

The President of Kenya, His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, recently appointed Nicholas to the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Kenya for a four year term. The President awarded Nicholas a presidential medal of honor in 2006, the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW), in recognition of his pioneering spirit in creating and growing the Kenyan BPO outsourcing industry.

Todd Onderdonk is a Senior Energy Advisor in ExxonMobil's Corporate Planning Department.  In this capacity, he is responsible for assessing economic and energy trends, emerging energy technologies, and related market and public policy issues around the world.  He is a principal contributor to ExxonMobil's long-term global energy outlook, including the identification of potential implications for energy markets and the Corporation's strategic plans.  He is also active in communicating ExxonMobil's view of the energy future -- including underlying fundamentals and related implications -- to a wide variety of audiences.

Todd has worked in the energy industry for over 30 years in a wide variety of executive management and advisory positions involving business activities in the United States and around the world.  He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and a M.B.A. in Finance from Indiana University.

He and his wife have three boys and reside in Texas.

Mercedes is the Project Manager/Administrator of the Kianda Foundation. Kianda has been promoting women for over 48 years. The Foundation is determined to empower Kenyan women & girls with quality/all round education.  Over 50,000 have benefited directly from its projects. Mercedes has worked in Kianda for the last 31 years. Involved in: Technical Training, Formal & Informal Education, Adult Literacy, Micro Enterprising, Aids Awareness, Health Programmes.

Stephen Parker joined Ricardo on 1 August 2002 from A. T. Kearney, one of the world's leading management consulting practices, and was appointed to the Board on the same day. Parker established and grew the Strategy Consulting Business of Ricardo to become one of the larger dedicated Automotive Consulting firms with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, China and Japan. In December 2008 he became Chairman of the newly formed Advisory Board of Ricardo Strategy Consulting in addition to his other responsibilities. He also leads Ricardo activities in the Clean Energy sector where they have a growing presence and is an advisory to the regional development agency in the UK.

At A. T. Kearney he was employed as a Vice President of their Global Automotive Practice, having responsibility for the provision of strategy and operational consulting to the executive teams of both automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers. Previous roles include Director of Business Development and General Manager for Perkins Technology Ltd at Perkins Engine Group, a position he held for eight years in management positions in, as well as eight years in management positions at PSA Peugeot Citroën.

Aaron Pereira's work has focused on the intersection of individuals, finance and change. He founded CanadaHelps and Vartana to inspire more donors to give and to open up new avenues of financing for social sector organisations. CanadaHelps has raised over $50 million for social sector organisations across Canada, engaging over 150,000 people, and has also helped build the capacity of thousands of social sector organisations. Vartana is a new financial institution focused on the Canadian social sector aiming to meet a critical need for the 180,000 organisations that work to strengthen Canada's social fabric. It is being created through a unique collaboration with two of Canada's largest financial institutions.  At the age of 23, Aaron became the youngest ever Ashoka Fellow.  Aaron completed a degree in economics from Queen's University, and is currently studying at Oxford University.

Dr. Steven C. Phillips is the Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities include overseeing the Corporation's "outside-the-fenceline" community and public health programs throughout its global operations.  In this capacity, he has worked closely with governments, NGO's, U.N. agencies, multilateral, faith-based, and community organizations, and the private sector in fostering "public-private partnerships" as a development platform to address urgent global health priorities.

Dr. Phillips currently serves on the Boards of malaria NO MORE™, Net Impact, and the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative.  He serves as an advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria.  He is a member of the Harvard School of Public Health's Leadership Council and the advisory panels of Medicines for Malaria Ventures, the UCSF Global Health Group, Episcopal Relief and Development's "NetsforLife" Initiative, the World Bank Malaria Booster Program, and the Strategic Advisory Group of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.  He is also a Private Sector Advisory Board representative to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria.Dr. Phillips received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University.  He did his post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, received a Master of Public Health from UCLA, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.  Dr. Phillips is a member of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.

Prior to joining Exxon, Dr. Phillips served in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Lluis G. Renart Cava, IESE Professor. Lluis G. Renart, is the single author or co-author of more than forty cases and related documents and  has won five prices in the European Case Writing Competition. He has been Visiting Professor at 14 business schools located in Europe, Africa and South America and  in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 he was highly active in Africa (a) as Member of the Advisory Board of the newly created Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenia), and (b) field training local Kenyan and Senegalese business school professors in the art and science of real business case writing, spending each of those years about a month teaching and doing field work in Africa.

Industrial engineer since 1992 and Ph.D. since 1999, both from Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI). Researcher at the Institute for Technological Research (IIT) from the same university till 2007. Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Markets of the University of New South Wales, Australia, during the the course 2005-06. He has been Director of the Official Master in the Power Sector of Comillas, and coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Economics and Management of Network Industries and the BP Chair on Sustainable Development. Since 2007, he works at Iberdrola Renovables, were he has been responsible for the Energy Management and now is head of the Markets Department.

He has extensive experience in regulation of Renewables Energy Sources (RES), distribution networks, distributed generation, electrical tariff design and electrical markets. He is author or co-author of several scientific publications on these topics, and has participated in numerous specialized courses. He has been a consultant of all the main Spanish utilities and been a leader or participated in several research projects in collaboration with both Spanish and foreign utilities and energy regulators.

Today his main areas of interest are RES integration in power systems, electric market regulation and functioning, and RES supporting schemes.

Industrial engineer since 1992 and Ph.D. since 1999, both from Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI). Researcher at the Institute for Technological Research (IIT) from the same university till 2007. Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Markets of the University of New South Wales, Australia, during the the course 2005-06. He has been Director of the Official Master in the Power Sector of Comillas, and coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Economics and Management of Network Industries and the BP Chair on Sustainable Development. Since 2007, he works at Iberdrola Renovables, were he has been responsible for the Energy Management and now is head of the Markets Department.

He has extensive experience in regulation of Renewables Energy Sources (RES), distribution networks, distributed generation, electrical tariff design and electrical markets. He is author or co-author of several scientific publications on these topics, and has participated in numerous specialized courses. He has been a consultant of all the main Spanish utilities and been a leader or participated in several research projects in collaboration with both Spanish and foreign utilities and energy regulators.

Today his main areas of interest are RES integration in power systems, electric market regulation and functioning, and RES supporting schemes.

Mike Rosenberg teaches long term strategy, scenario planning and analysis of business problems in executive education and full time and global executive MBA.

Mr. 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, Mike Rosenberg worked as a Management Consultant to the international automotive industry in Heidrick & Struggles, A.T. Kearney and Arthur D. Little.

At IESE, Magdalene Rosenmöller teaches the second-year MBA elective course on health sector management and is also lecturer in the executive education department. She delivers lectures in other settings 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; a M.D. from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France, and an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain.

Magda Rosenmöller gained valuable executive experience at the World Bank's Latin American and Caribbean Region where she worked as health economist for two years (2000-2002). Frequently serving as expert in different assignments for the European Commission (health research and health policy) and the European Parliament, she has extensive experience in health policy and health research issues in Europe, particularly the new Member States. She is currently in charge of the scientific coordination of the EC FP6 SSP research project on patient mobility in Europe (www.europe4patients.org) and previously served as expert evaluator on the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI).

Juan Roure is professor in the entrepreneurship department, and Member of IESE's International Advisory Board.

He teaches negotiation entrepreneurship and private equity in IESE's executive education programs and MBA program. His current areas of interest include venture capital, intra-entrepreneurship, growth, strategies, family venturing and corporate and family governance.

Prof. Roure is co-author of "The Venture Capital Cycle in Europe" and of "Good Governance in the Family Business" and has published several studies and documents. Within the Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business, he leads the Business Angels Network, which has resulted in the founding of 18 companies in the last two years, and other initiatives and projects such as the Venture Academies in Central Europe for biotech entrepreneurs. Other activities include the organization of the Entrepreneur of the Year award in Spain and the Europe's 500 Entrepreneurs for Growth Conference.

Dr Joseph Saba is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Axios International. Dr Saba is an infectious diseases physician with expertise in clinical research and medical management.

From 1988 to 1993, Dr Saba worked as a physician in Paris at the Claude Bernard Hospital, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases.  In 1993, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in Rwanda to help develop the National Plan for HIV Vaccine Development.  And from 1994 to 1995, he worked for the WHO Global Programme on AIDS in the Department of Clinical Research and Drug Development.

In January 1996, he joined the newly-established Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS where he coordinated an International Working Group on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and supervised a multi-center clinical trial in three countries in Africa. He spearheaded discussions with GlaxoWellcome that led to the announcement of substantial price reductions (up to 75%) on AZT for PMTCT.  Dr Saba also designed and coordinated the UNAIDS HIV Drug Access Initiative in four countries (Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda and Viet Nam), a program that pioneered delivery of antiretroviral therapy through public health systems in resource-constrained environments.

Axios specializes in strategic advice and technical assistance to improve access to treatment and care in low- and middle-income countries. It is now recognized as a leading global consultancy in this field, with 130 specialized and multidisciplinary staff in 14 countries. Under Dr Saba’s leadership, Axios has launched a number of successful drug access programs and developed new models for health systems strengthening. The creative access strategies currently being spearheaded by Axios are widely-recognized as changing the paradigm for affordable access to new medicines and diagnostics in the developing world.

Dr. John Sargent has extensive experience in developing, implementing and managing large-scale healthcare programs in the US and the developing world.  He is one of the Founders of BroadReach Healthcare and currently serves as President.  Dr. Sargent is responsible for the delivery of all client engagements and for the design and implementation of BroadReach’s innovative HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs. He conceived and designed the South African ARV Treatment Program and established the company’s operations in South Africa and Kenya.   In addition to his work in South Africa, Dr. Sargent has worked on HIV/AIDS strategy and program design consultancies for governments, multi-lateral funding and assistance agencies, and global NGOs.  Before assuming founding BroadReach, he served as Senior Director and National Practice Leader at the Advisory Board Company – a Washington, DC based healthcare research, consulting firm, and think tank.  At the Advisory Board, Dr. Sargent helped found and manage a $25M operations consulting practice, and was responsible for the overall leadership, management, and delivery of all operationally focused client engagements. Prior to this, he served as a management consultant within the New York office of APM/CSC Healthcare, a leading US healthcare consulting firm.  Dr. Sargent received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dartmouth College, his master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology as a Fulbright Scholar from Oxford University, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

Mr. Onno Schellekens is Managing Director of the PharmAccess Foundation.  PharmAccess is a not for profit organization that provides medical, administrative and financial support to public and private health care providers and health insurers.

Mr. Schellekens also founded a sister organization – the Health Insurance Fund (HIF) in 2005. The HIF is funded through, amongst others a 150 million USD grant from the Dutch government which is used to provide premium subsidies to health insurance schemes that provide coverage for low-income groups. It purchases services through private & public healthcare providers.

Mr. Schellekens is co-founder of the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA). The IFHA was established in 2007 with substantial financial support from several large Dutch banks, insurers, investment funds and multinationals SNSReaal, ACHMEA, AEGON, FMO, Goldman Sachs, Heineken, Shell and Unilever. It provides risk-capital for the health sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mr. Schellekens graduated from the University of Groningen with a Master’s degree from the School of Management and Organization in 1989. After graduation Mr. Schellekens worked for 10 years in various positions for Solvay Pharmaceuticals. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Schellekens was CEO of MarviQ, an application service provider.

Mr. Schellekens is the author of several publications on health insurance, medical treatment and HIV/AIDS in Africa. In 2008, he won a prize from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times for a provocative essay entitled “A new paradigm for increased access to healthcare in Africa”.

In 1989 he won a price from the Dutch Employer Federation for the best study on the future of the European pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Schonenbach is the CEO of Trestle Group and on the Board of Trestle Group Foundation.  He has held senior positions with the firms Andersen and Ernst & Young.  Over the span of his career, he has established several successful consulting practices with a primary focus in the financial services industry and has advised high-level executives around the world on how to transform the way they manage and deliver services, as well as how to tackle the pressures brought about by resource constraints.  Through Trestle Group Foundation, he is passionately involved with providing support to both women and emerging entrepreneurs in developing countries.  Mr. Schonenbach frequently speaks at conferences and has authored a variety of publications.  Mr. Schonenbach earned a degree in Business Management from Goucher College.

Alexander Schulze, Master in Sociology (Social Anthropology and African Studies) at the University of Mainz, Master in Development Cooperation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Manager at the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in Basel, in charge of some health initiatives which the Foundation supports in Mali and Tanzania. PhD student in Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, working title of the research work: “Health protection in the context of social differentiation in Africa”. Main areas of work and research: Access to healthcare, healthcare financing, social security, social differentiation.

Christian Seelos is the Director of the IESE Platform for Strategy and Sustainability (IPSS) and a senior lecturer and senior researcher in the Strategic Management Department at IESE. He teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Global Strategic Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Sustainability at various business schools in Europe, Africa and the United States. Recent appointments include Visiting Scholar at SCANCOR, Stanford University; Visiting Executive Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.

Prof. Seelos researches emerging topics at the interface between company strategy and the global sustainability agenda. Topics include poverty and inequality, new approaches at the "bottom of the pyramid", climate change, water stress, and emerging governance aspects. His research also focuses on innovative business models and social entrepreneurs that create new markets and foster economic and social development in the poorest countries. His insights on novel corporate strategies in emerging markets were recognized by the Strategic Management Society (Best paper award for practice implications, 2007) and also won him the Gold Price of the highly contested IFC-FT essay competition on private sector development in 2008.

Hugh is an economist and ex-investment banker. He has been an Africa/Latin America microfinance consultant since 2002, working with Microfinance institutions, funds, platforms, networks & software providers. He has worked throughout Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Peru & Tanzania. He specialises in turn-around, product design, back-office restructuring, competitive positioning, IT systems, training, funding, due diligence and increasingly M&A. His 2008 projects have included back-office advisory work for MyC4 (Denmark & Africa); IT system to facilitate M&A and freeware IT for microfinance (Ireland & Panama); fund advisory (Europe & Central America); portfolio restructuring (Brazil). He graduated from IESE in 2001. He currently lives in Amsterdam, Panama & Bariloche.

Sahba Sobhani is the programme manager of the Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative, a United Nations Development Programme led multi stakeholder initiative that aims to raise awareness and disseminate information on how businesses can contribute to human development and to the Millennium Development Goals. He is the lead author of its first report, recently launched in over 30 countries, on "Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor" which offers strategies and tools for companies to expand beyond traditional business practices and bring in the world’s poor as partners in growth and wealth creation. Creating Value for All showcases 50 case studies by researchers in developing and developed countries that demonstrated the successful pursuit of both revenues and social impact by local and international small- and medium-sized companies, as well as multinational corporations.

Previously, he managed two key private sector initiatives in  the executive office of the former Administrator of UNDP, Lord Malloch Brown, including the Commission on the Private Sector and Development by headed by Paul Martin, the former Prime Minister of Canada, and Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico’s former President and the African Financial Markets Initiative. In this capacity, he was the co-author of "Unleashing Entrepreneurship" Report, the seminal report of the Private Sector Commission produced at the request of then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the managing editor of the African Stock Markets Handbook.

Mr.Sobhani has also worked in the private sector at Idealab in Palo Alto and Newscom Limited in Singapore. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Jacques Toureille is the General Manager of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Jacques was seconded from the World Bank in January 2001, to manage the development and institutionalization of the microfinance practice within the Aga Khan Development Network.

As head of the Agency, he is responsible for overseeing the implementation of microfinance, microinsurance, and small business development programmes, through sixteen financial institutions operating in thirteen different countries (Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, and Tanzania), with assets of over USD 250 million and employing over 3,500 staff.

At the World Bank, Jacques had been responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of major financial sector reforms successively in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and in South Asia.  Prior to joining the World Bank in 1985, Jacques held the position of Chief Executive Officer at the Oman Bank for Agriculture and Fisheries in the Sultanate of Oman, and prior to that was a Management Consultant with Arthur D. Little.  Jacques is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Lyon (1970), and holds an MBA from INSEAD (1973).

Jacques is a member of the UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors.

Noel is Ashoka fellow since 2006. With the conviction that Africa’s greatest assets are its people, its cultural heritage, and its natural resources, Noel de Villiers is creating a continent-wide network of community- owned and operated tourism routes that leverage these resources to create economic and social development opportunities for African rural areas, towns, and cities.
Through his organization, Open Africa, Noel is building a pan-African network of urban and rural tourism routes that are locally owned and managed, but marketed internationally. The vision behind this network is to create economic and social opportunities by harnessing the growing potential of tourism in Africa for marginalized communities. He is putting control of this potential into the hands of local communities by working with them to identify, promote, and manage their own cultural and natural assets. These efforts create new businesses, preserve cultural heritage, and foster community pride of civic cooperation and leadership in a new generation.
Noel’s model encourages marginalized local communities to form their own businesses to serve the tourism market, thereby affording them entry to a previously unreachable economic system. Through creative online marketing and industry partnerships, these enterprises are brought to a new level of quality, marketability and potential. The shared effort of developing and sustaining not just individual enterprises but linked tourist routes leads to infrastructure development, increased political participation, and links to the international community. Open Africa also creates a platform for community leaders to champion a new path of growth and development for their communities.

Barbara Wagner is a Senior Consultant in Dalberg’s Geneva office. She has worked extensively on strategy projects in the areas of organization, change management and policy.

At Dalberg, Barbara has advised a number of UN Agencies – most recently through her work on “Delivering as One”, where she helped selected countries identify how the United Nations system in the country could work more coherently and effectively in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.

Prior to joining Dalberg, Barbara worked with McKinsey & Company, where she advised leading multinational corporations and multilateral organizations on strategy, operations management and finance.

Barbara holds a Master of Science in Economics from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain and a graduate degree in International Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria.

Tricia Wallace is the Director of Capital Raising for TechnoServe/Mozambique.  In this capacity she assists clients who are seeking growth capital by providing support in business plan development, optimal balance sheet analysis, and introductions to appropriate investors.  Previous to this, she served as Director for a program that supports the coconut, cashew and horticulture value chains in the Province of Inhambane.  Her tenure with TechnoServe began as the Biofuel Program Director, during which she supported several biodiesel pilot projects, maintained a dialogue with the Ministry of Energy on regulatory issues, and assisted large consumers of fossil diesel evaluate the feasibility of biodiesel production.  Prior to joining TechnoServe she spent 8 years as an investment banker with J.P. Morgan Securities working with clients in the Oil & Gas and Mining & Metals industries. 

Molly is responsible for developing and coordinating The Climate Group activities across the ICT sector. Current work includes developing a SMART 2020 Initiative based on the report she co-authored SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age (June 20, 2008). The initiative is developing projects that accelerate ICT sector opportunities to enable climate change solutions. Prior to joining The Climate Group, Molly was a Researcher at Demos, a London based think tank, where she focused on science, innovation and environmental policy, and co-authored The Disrupters: Lessons for low-carbon innovation from the new wave of environmental pioneers (2007).

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is the founder of 13mbas.com, a professional network for Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, IESE, and nine other top-tier business schools. He also works as an consultant specialising in innovation and creative cultures, and has assisted companies such as Abbott Laboratories, Joost, MTV Europe and The Danish Parliament. Prior to his business career, he spent four years as an infantry officer with the Danish Army. He is currently working on a book about innovation together with Professor Paddy Miller of IESE Business School (see www.miller-wedell.com)

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg holds an MBA from IESE Business School and a Master’s degree in Media Science from the University of Copenhagen. Personal website: www.wedellsblog.com

Following studying macro economics in Amsterdam and South Africa, Lukas Wellen worked as a country risk analyst at Rabobank. Afterwards he set-up MFIs in Yugoslavia and Ukraine for ProCredit bank and in Vietnam for the Women’s Union.

Since 2006 Lukas works for Triple Jump as an advisor to microbanks in east Africa and in the Caucasus. He is also responsible for implementing mobile payment systems at MFIs in east Africa. Lukas Wellen has been BoD-member of an MFI in Cambodia and is currently BoD-member of an MFI in Georgia.

As president and co-founder of First Book, an organization providing newbooks to children in need, Kyle has earned a reputation as a leader inthe fight to end illiteracy. She is a member of the Board of Directorsfor Ashoka and was named 2007 Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of theYear in the United States by the Schwab Foundation for SocialEntrepreneurship. In 2008, Kyle was named the first ever AmericanMarketing Association Nonprofit Marketer of the Year. Under Kyle'sleadership, First Book has distributed more than 60 million books tochildren in thousands of communities since 1992.

Alessio Beverina is Principal in charge of investments in the energy related sectors, focusing in the semiconductor, components, materials and systems for storage, creation, metering… Alessio started as an analyst with Sofinnova Partners in April 2005. He began his career in 1997 as a researcher at LETI, one of the most important European Labs in the research field applied to electronics. From 2000 to 2003, he worked in the central R&D group for STMicroelectronics, in charge of advanced CMOS technologies. Alessio holds 5 patents and has published several publications.
Graduated from Politecnico di Milano, in chemical engineering, with specialisation in chemistry and physics of solid materials, and with an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP).


Sofinnova Partners is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris. We invest in early stage companies and corporate spin-offs, in the technology, energy and life sciences spaces.Sofinnova finances early stage companies and corporate spin-offs that have the potential to become world leaders, primarily in Europe.
Sofinnova invests progressively in the development of our portfolio companies: over several rounds of financing, Sofinnova may commit up to €25 million in a single portfolio company, up from  a few hundred thousand euros in a seed project.

Jordi Costa has extensive public company experience as a former Executive (VP Finance Europe) of United Tecnologies Automotive and Lear. During his involvement with the company, sales soared from 20 M € to 4500 M € in 20 years.
Jordi is also involved in Private Equity. He has invested in two companies, namely Roni (Chile), and Emedicalfiles (USA), with a focus in Nutrition and Health, as well as in the following three companies: TecnoArtes (Spain), Picvisa (Spain) , CMV (Spain)  focusing on sustainable development, more precisely respectively in Renewable Energy and Power Generation, Recycling and Reduction of Resource Consumption. Finally, has also invested in Rioja Winery, L.A. Independent Producer, and Real Estate.

Jordi has lived in 7 countries (Spain,US,Portugal,Germany,France,Sweeden,Monaco), and has travelled in more than 50 countries. He is fluent in English, French, Catalan and Spanish, and has a good command of Portuguese and Italian. He has also studied Japanese and Russian. Jordi Costa studied Business Administration at ESADE Business School in Barcelona (Spain) and holds a Master Degrees in International Management obtained at Thunderbird, AZ (USA).

Yvette is Associate at SET Venture Partners, powered by Chrysalix and Robeco, B.V. (SETVP), a clean energy VC with €50mln committed capital. Her focus is on companies in biofuels, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydrogen and fuel cells.

Before joining SETVP, Yvette worked at DSM as the global Product Portfolio Manager for the company’s Powder Coating Resins Business Unit. She has worked in the chemical industry, at DSM and Shell International Chemicals, for 10 years, during which she held posts in Sales & Marketing, Purchasing and Product Development.

Yvette holds Masters degrees in Business Administration (IESE’s Global Executive program) and Chemical Engineering (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands).

Mathieu Goudot is based in the Paris office and is responsible for conducting due diligence, analytical analysis and market research on investment opportunities.  Mathieu is a graduate from Insitute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris with a specialisation in finance.  He is also a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan with a major in mechanics and technology.  Mathieu previously held a variety of internships at Goldman Sachs and Paris Orleans (the Private Equity investments holding of Rothschild Bank) where he has been involved in the review and evaluation of incoming business proposals. He dedicates some of his time in two think tanks: one on the "service economy" and the other on natural resources supply.

Until recently, Robert Huber Bürmann was a Senior Associate at Good Energies AG, a private investment firm in renewable energies.

Prior to joining Good Energies Robert was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey&Company, Inc., a management consultancy.

Robert Huber Bürmann gained his MBA from IESE Business School, in 2003. He holds a Diploma in Geology and a Bachelor in Economics from Munich University. Robert is married and has two children.

Bernhard Mohr joined BASF Venture Capital in 2006 as Investment Manager. Bernhard has held senior positions in the BASF Group since 1996 and brings to BASF Venture Capital an international expertise in marketing, finance, corporate development and chemical research & development. In his previous position, he was Head of Global Strategic Marketing in the Business Unit Performance Chemicals. He also worked and lived in Spain for four years in his responsibility as Head of Corporate Development and Controlling for BASF Espanola.

Bernhard studied chemistry at the Universities of Stuttgart and Cincinnati and earned a doctorate from the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz/Germany. Prior to joining BASF he held postdoctoral appointments in Japan, France and USA.

Christopher Pommerening started his professional career in Spain in 1998 co-founding AutoScout24 Spain S.A. In 1999 he established venture catalyst company VCMORE GmbH by offering consulting services and investment to start-ups through a network of business angels. In the year 2000 he also set up B24 Networks, a Europe wide market place on the internet for the yachting sector. Christopher was appointed Managing Director of Scout24 Spain in 2001 in order to prepare the internationalisation of the Scout24 Group. 2002 he co-founded Active Capital Partners, one of Europe’s few entrepreneurial driven Venture Capital companies and he co-started the Spanish chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) being one of the largest entrepreneur organisations in the world. In 2006 He has been elected to be the Ambassador for EO Europe & Africa, in order to grow the organisation in 10 different countries.  In 2007 he created the terminology for Venturepreneurship and together with his partners he created the concept for the Venturepreneurs’ Organisation. In 2008 he initiated the Global Entrepreneurs Week in Spain and founded the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Community, in order to promote Barcelona to become one of the leading hubs for entrepreneurship in Europe.

Currently he is Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners, member of the Board of Directors of Vinus & Brindis, Polymita Technologies and BuyVIP. He also is advisor of Linqia and Gild International and a member of the Venture Committee of ASCRI.