Amanda Berlan
University of Manchester
Dr Amanda Berlan is a Research Fellow at the Brookes World Poverty Institute and Sustainable Consumption Institute of the University of Manchester. A Social Anthropologist by training, she has worked extensively on social issues in agriculture with a particular focus on cocoa. Her research interests include Fairtrade, corporate social responsibility, education and child rights and issues relating to productivity and sustainability. She completed a DPhil on child rights in cocoa production in Ghana in 2005. Since then she has consolidated her expertise on cocoa and other crops in West Africa and the Caribbean and is currently working on a new project on agriculture in India.
Debbi D. Brock
Anderson University
Debbi D. Brock joined Anderson University as Assistant Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2009. Previously, Brock served as the William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Assistant Professor in the Economics and Business department and Director of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program. Brock is a professional trainer and consultant for various organizations focusing on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and scaling social impact. Her passion is social entrepreneurship and how students can identify and seize new opportunities to become agents of change. In 2003, she created the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook for faculty interested in understanding and teaching in the field of social entrepreneurship.
Celine Chew
Cardiff University
Dr Celine Chew teaches strategy and nonprofit marketing to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervises MBA, MSc and PhD projects/dissertations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. Her research interest is in the application of strategy and marketing, strategic positioning, innovation and performance in public service and nonprofit organizations and in social enterprises. She sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Public Management Review, is a member of the Wales Third Sector Reference Group, a founding member of the International Research Society for Public Management and a Research Associate of the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society in Cardiff University. Before academia, Dr Chew held senior management and marketing positions in the private and non-profit sectors for 17 years.
Timothy Curtis
University of Northampton
Reverend Timothy Curtis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton, and former Senior Research Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, Oxford, with whom he led a programme of research into public sector involvement in social entrepreneurship. He now leads the Northampton BA (Hons) and Masters programmes in social enterprise as well as teaching business ethics and community development. He has just been appointed as an Unltd/HEFCE Ambassador in Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. He is a non-stipendiary Orthodox Christian priest and leads a multinational community in Northampton.
Edward F. Fischer
Vanderbilt University
Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on issues of economics, identities, and moral values; he has conducted long-term field work with the Maya of Guatemala and in Germany; and he has consulted for companies and government agencies on culture and strategic change.
Matthew Grimes
Vanderbilt University
Entering his fourth year of doctoral studies at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Matt’s research interests are focused on the origins and impacts of social entrepreneurship. Specifically his work explores the collective action and organizational identities associated with the emergence of social entrepreneurship and asks whether or not such activities and identities hold consequences for organizing as well as for organizational efficacy. Matt also teaches several courses at Vanderbilt University that explore the intersection of business and society.
Rebecca Harding
Delta Economics and the World Entrepreneur Society
Dr Rebecca Harding, founder and managing director of Delta Economics and the World Entrepreneur Society, is an academic researcher, a business economist and an entrepreneur. She has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, a Senior Research Fellow at London Business School, Global and UK Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), an Associate Director of Research at Deloitte and the Work Foundation’s Chief Economist. She was Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and Chief Economic Adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. Her research has influenced policy and thinking about enterprise and social enterprise, most recently through her input into the Women’s Enterprise Task Force and the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Expertise in the West Midlands and her new report, ‘Hidden Social Enterprise’. In 2008 she was awarded the Prowess Women’s Researcher of the Year award.
Ben Huybrechts
University of Oxford
Ben has recently got his PhD in Management at HEC Management School, University of Liège (Belgium). Based at the Centre for Social Economy (HEC Management School) as a research and teaching assistant , he currently is on a post-doctoral research stay at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research examines social enterprises from an institutional perspective, looking at issues such as organizational diversity, governance, and partnerships with mainstream businesses, in different countries and fields (Fair Trade, work integration, etc.). In the context of a new Master program in the management of social enterprises, to be launched in September 2010 at HEC Management School, he will be teaching classes on governance and organizational diversity in social enterprises. Ben is a member of several academic networks (EMES, ISTR, Fairness) and he is a founding member of the recently created Belgian Fair Trade Federation.
Paul C. Light
New York University
Paul C. Light is Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and is the founding director of the school’s new NYU/Abu Dhabi Center for Global Public Service and Social Impact. Before joining NYU, he was vice president and director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, Douglas Dillon Senior Feller, and founding director of its Center for Public Service. He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and director of the public policy grant program at the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is the author of 23 books, most recently A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (Harvard University Press, 2008) and The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
Fergus Lyon
Middlesex University
Professor Fergus Lyon is Professor of Enterprise and Organisations in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include social enterprise, trust and co-operation between enterprises, enterprise behaviour in public services and business support. He is leading a 5 year programme of research on Social Enterprise as part of the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by ESRC and Office of the Civil Society. Previously he has carried out research in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Nepal. He is also a founder and director of a social enterprise preschool.
Piera Morlacchi
Sussex University
Dr. Piera Morlacchi carries out research on the relationship between people, organizations and technologies. Her research on how people attempt to solve social problems by creating and managing new ventures and technologies has enabled her to contribute to an improved theoretical understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship, technology, social change and policy. She has published in journals like Research Policy and Innovations: Technology Governance and Globalization. Since joining Sussex and SPRU in May 2003 as Lecturer, she has been teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship, organization and research methodology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In parallel to her post as lecturer at Sussex, she has held visiting positions at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Santa Fe Institute.
Scott L. Newbert
Villanova University
Scott L. Newbert is an associate professor at Villanova University. He received his Ph.D. in strategic management and entrepreneurship from Rutgers University. His research interests include the processes by which existing and nascent firms create value through the entrepreneurial use of available resources, the determinants of firm creation, and the socioeconomic impacts of entrepreneurial activity. His research has appeared in leading management journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Business Ethics. In addition to his academic endeavors, he also provides consulting services on entrepreneurship issues to non-profit and for-profit organizations, with clients including the United States and Dutch governments and Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D., he worked in sales for a Fortune 500 company, worked as a collegiate athletics coach, and co-founded a privately owned marketing firm serving clients including Colgate-Palmolive and McNeil Nutritionals.
Jacob Park
Green Mountain College and Oxford University
Jacob Park is Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability at Green Mountain College in Vermont specializing in sustainability, innovation, and the social & environmental dimensions of entrepreneurship with a special expertise/interest in Japan, China, and the Asia-Pacific region. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and has served as a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD Business School Middle East Campus (2010); POSCO Visiting Fellow, East-West Center (2008); Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Central European University (2007); International Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney’s Faculty of Business and Economics (2007); among others.
Darryl Reed
York University
Darryl Reed holds degrees in Ethics (PhD, USC 1997) and Political Economy and Public Policy (PhD, USC 1995) and teaches in the multidisciplinary Business & Society program at York University (Toronto). His broad area of research is Business and Development. Within this field he examines the practices of both conventional, for-profit firms and alternative (social economy) businesses, including how such firms cooperate and compete. Professor Reed has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2009) and has been the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1997-1998). He is the in-coming president of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC).
David Robinson
Duke University
David Robinson is a Professor of Finance and the William and Sue Gross Distinguished Research Scholar at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Research Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Fuqua School. Professor Robinson teaches a popular elective at Fuqua, Entrepreneurial Finance. His past research has focused primarily in two areas: one concerns the role that capital markets and organizational design considerations play in promoting startup activity, the other concerns the role that personality traits play in shaping entrepreneurial decisions and outcomes.
Eleanor Shaw
Strathclyde Business School
Dr Eleanor Shaw is a Reader in Marketing at Strathclyde Business School and a Principle Investigator working within the UK-wide, ESRC-funded Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP). Eleanor’s research interests lie in the area of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial marketing. She is especially interested in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial philanthropy. She has published in leading journals including Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice and the British Journal of Management. Eleanor has presented her work at numerous peer reviewed conferences including the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Eleanor has more than 15 years of teaching experience and has taught at various universities through the UK, US, South America and Europe.
Thierry Sibieude
ESSEC
Thierry Sibieude started teaching in 1992 and joined ESSEC in 1996. He teaches Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in the MBA and executive education. Thierry is also the Director of the Institute for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, co-Director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Management, and Professor of the Social Entrepreneurship Centre. In addition to his teaching work, Thierry is regional councillor for the Val d’Oise département and member of the National Council for Sustainable Development. He is also involved in the associative field, being Founder and Chairman of “La Clé pour l’Autisme”, and member of the board of FEGAPEI (Union of associations in charge of mental disabled people) and Croix Rouge Française.
Roger Spear
Open University
Roger Spear is Chair of the Co-operatives Research Unit, Member of the Ciriec Scientific Committee, founder member and vice-president of EMES research network on social enterprise. He teaches organisational systems and research methods at the Open University. His most recent research projects are: Governance and Social Enterprise; an EC Peer Review of the social economy in Belgium; and an OECD project on the social economy in Korea. He is visiting professor at Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark, on a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Simon Teasdale
Birmingham University
Simon has worked in and around social enterprise for 15 years, beginning at the Big Issue in the North in the early 1990s. He completed his PhD thesis: The potential for social enterprise to combat exclusion, in 2005. Since then he has lectured on the University of East London’s BA Social Enterprise. He moved to Birmingham University in 2009 to take up a position as social enterprise research fellow within the Third Sector Research Centre. He has recently published papers on social enterprise and disadvantage; models of social enterprise in the homelessness field; the role of impression management in resource acquisition; and social entrepreneurship and gender.
Alfred Vernis
ESADE Business School
Professor Alfred Vernis is a member of the Institute of Social Innovation at ESADE Business Scool. He co-directs the courses The Managerial Function in Non-Governmental Organizations, and Leadership and Social Innovation, with the collaboration of Fundació "la Caixa". He currently manages the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) research at ESADE, led by the Harvard Business School and supported by Fundación Avina. He has published various articles and books on management in the third sector. He is a co-author of "La gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Deusto, 1998), "Los retos en la gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Granica, 2004), "Nonprofit Organizations: Challenges and Collaboration" (Palgrave, 2006) and "Effective Management of Social Enterprises" (Harvard University, 2006).
Jennifer A. Wade-Berg
Kennesaw State University
Dr. Jennifer A. Wade-Berg joined Kennesaw State University as the Chief Diversity Officer in August 2008. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services in the Department of Social Work and Human Services where she teaches nonprofit management. Her research interests include alternative funding sources for nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise (nonprofit business planning), diversity, and sports philanthropy. Dr. Wade-Berg holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration (concentrations in public administration, public policy and nonprofit management) and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs; and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT).
Fiona Wilson
Simmons School of Management
Fiona teaches MBA and Executive Education courses in Strategy, with a special focus on the intersection of strategy and society, as well as running experiential, service learning courses conducting projects for social ventures. Her dissertation, completed in 2009 at the Boston University School of Management explored the phenomenon of “Socially Conscious Capitalism” and her current research continues to focus on for-profit social entrepreneurship. Fiona spent almost 20 years as a practitioner including serving senior roles for CMGI Inc. and Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. She has also undertaken extensive work with nonprofits organizations, including being the co-founder and Director of a social venture, the Team With a Vision, an initiative of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind.
Emmanuel Yujuico
LSE IDEAS
Originally from the Philippines, Emmanuel Yujuico is currently a research fellow in Southeast Asia International Affairs at LSE IDEAS. With regard to social entrepreneurship, he is interested in the application of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach to challenges of poverty alleviation via enterprise. His current work focuses on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), especially remittance technologies for migrant workers and affordable computing for basic education. His publications have appeared in the Socio-Economic Review, Global Networks, and Business Horizons.