Leaders Shaping Markets
London Dialogue
February 11-12, 2013
Biographies of Attendees
Joy Anderson, Founder and President, Criterion Institute
anderson@criterioninstitute.org
Anderson is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change. She began as
a high school teacher in New York City Public Schools. She went to New York to understand how power
works in big systems and stayed for eight years because she fell in love with the students. Joy played
leadership roles in the teachers union and managed federally funded programs for the school and the
district.
After leaving New York, Joy transitioned from a school teacher to an entrepreneur, founding Criterion
Ventures in 2002, co-founding Good Capital with Tim Freundlich and Kevin Jones in 2006 and leading the
development of Rockefeller-funded Healthcare_Uncovered from 2006 until 2009.
Literally hundreds of ventures have been shaped by Joy’s insights and experience. As faculty on the
leading social innovation award programs, including Unreasonable Institute and Echoing Green, she
advises the next generation of leaders. As chair of the board of directors of Village Capital and through
involvement in Investor’s Circle, she is actively involved in shaping early stage social investments. And
through her role in developing and leading Structure Lab© workshops she has helped over 300
organizations think through their legal and financial structures.
A serial entrepreneur and consummate networker, Joy’s leadership and expertise have been at the
forefront of the development of the social capital markets over the last 10 years. Her interest in the role
of finance in changing the world was sparked during her eight year consulting relationship with the
General Board of Pensions of the United Methodist Church. She was instrumental in her board position
at Lutheran Community Foundation in their recent $10 million allocation to social investment. As a
recognition of her business leadership, in 2011, Joy was ranked 51st in Fast Company’s annual of the 100
Most Creative People in Business.
Currently, she leads Criterion Institute which serves as a think tank around shaping markets to create
social and environmental good. Criterion houses three field building initiatives, Structure Lab, Women
Effect Investments and Church as an Economic Being. Her speaking and thought leadership is focused on
the practices of shaping markets, whether that is focused on how the church is both an actor and
implicated in the economy, on how legal structures shape the possibilities of enterprises, or a gender
lens on investing.
Joy’s intellectual interests draw on her research for her Ph.D. in American History from New York
University. Her dissertation examined prison reform in the 1830’s and how individuals and organizations
in democracies claim expertise in order to shape public institutions.
Vineet Bewtra, Omidyar Network
vbewtra@omidyar.com
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Suzanne Biegel, Catalyst at Large, Catalyst at Large Consulting
suzanne@biegel.net
Investor. Strategist. Board member. Successful entrepreneur. Activator. Catalyst. Inviter. Connector. On
the senior team at ClearlySo which raises capital for social entrepreneurs and funds primarily in the UK,
and is part of a global network of impact investing networks. I'm vice chair of Confluence Philanthropy,
which aims to move Foundations to 100% investing for mission. I co-lead a group I started within
Women Donors Network moving women philanthropists into values based investing. I sit on a number
of other boards and in many networks, and make rain in the impact investing arena. I'm a founding
member of the Women Effect project. My work in shaping market systems is focused towards changing
philanthropy to be total asset deployment for impact, redirecting flows of capital from individual high
net worth investors and families TOWARDS social impact across all of their assets. Changing angel
investing to count social impact, and re-orienting the connection points, intelligence, networks, and
vehicles between entrepreneurs & mission aligned capital.
Matt Black, Business Development Manager, Matter + Co
matt@matterandco.com
Matt has worked with some of the leading social enterprises in the UK and South Africa. He has an
impressive track record in developing partnerships and collaborations between social enterprises,
corporates and civil society organisations.
Matt joined Matter&Co in 2010 to create partnerships between Matter&Co and other organisations all
in the business of having a positive impact on the wider world.
He has applied this to a number of projects and campaigns, including Good Deals,
socialenterpriselive.com and the SE100 Index. His claim to fame is cooking dinner for Winnie Mandela,
despite barely being able to operate a tin opener.
Nicole Boyer, Managing Director, Adaptive Edge
nicole@adaptive-edge.com
Nicole is a strategist, futurist, and social entrepreneur with a passion for creating better futures. In 2004
she founded Adaptive Edge to work on innovative breakthroughs to critical long-term challenges— using
cutting-edge methods, ideas, and collaborative approaches. Adaptive Edge’s clients are Fortune 100
companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations. Recent projects include the future of: urban
design, Detroit, Dubai, ports in a post-carbon world, to the future of socially responsible investing (SRI).
With 15 years of experience, Nicole learned her unique trade at Global Business Network in San
Francisco. An educator as well, Nicole was program director at CEDEP and lectured at INSEAD while
living in Paris for six years. Before that, she worked in venture capital in Singapore, financing digital
infrastructure in the late 1990s, and before that was pollster and public opinion analyst. Nicole holds
two degrees from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives in San Francisco.
Mark Campanale
mark@campanale.co.uk
"Mark has some twenty years experience in sustainable financial markets.
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Recruited as one of London’s first sustainable & investment analysts in 1989, Mark is a co-founder of the
sustainable investment businesses firstly at Jupiter Asset Management with the Ecology Funds (19891994); NPI with Global Care Funds (1994-1999); AMP Capital with the Sustainable Future Funds (20002001) and Henderson Global Investors with the Industries of the Future Fund (1999-2006).Mark is a cofounder Director of the UKSIF–the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (1990-2008), he
served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets
leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; he is an advisor to a number of philanthropic foundations and is
founder Director of The Social Stock Exchange, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and Big Society
Capital; and a Founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative, funded by Rockefeller Family and the Joseph
Rowntree Charitable Trust. Mark holds an
M.Sc in Agricultural Economics."
Kelly Clark, Managing Director/Director, Marmanie Consulting/Tellus Mater Foundation
kelly.clark@marmanie.com
Kelly Clark is the Director of the Tellus Mater Foundation, responsible for the strategy and day to day
running of the organization, and the Managing Director of Marmanie Consulting, an impact investing
and advisory firm that she founded in 2006.
The Tellus Mater Foundation (TM) is a private family foundation dedicated to addressing the underlying
issues that contribute to climate change. We do this through funding capital market interventions that
promote the preservation of natural capital.
Beginning in January 2013 TM is adopting a new strategic framework focused on two key areas 1)
field/capacity building to promote systemic, cross-sectoral thinking and innovation in addressing climate
change and 2) a rolling 3 -year ‘deep dive’ focused on a specific issue that uses the power of free
markets to drive positive change for the environment.
The Foundation’s 2013 focus will be on the pension fund industry; specifically on encouraging pension
funds to fully assess the climate risk in their portfolios and begin to take action to address that risk.
In order to do this we will be mapping the pension fund industry and forming a coalition of individuals
and organizations working across a broad spectrum of interventions to join us in applying pressure from
as many angles as possible. We will be looking at civil society, legal, media, policy, advocacy and
research (to name a few) initiatives.
Marshall Clemens, Principal, Idiagram
mclemens@diagram.com
After working at a number Boston-area technology companies I turned my attention from the
engineering of opto-electronics to the ‘engineering’ of complex socio-technical systems. In 1996 I
founded Idiagram, a consulting firm dedicated to the application of systems thinking and ‘knowledge
visualization’: the visual representation of conceptual knowledge. Idiagram’s focus is on the use of
systems mapping as a tool to facilitate understanding, alignment, and strategy-making for complex
multi-stakeholder problems – where the integration and coordination of diverse knowledge, people, and
resources is required to create large-scale system change.
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Cheryl Dahle, Founder & Executive Director, Future of Fish
cdahle@futureoffish.org
A journalist and entrepreneur who has worked at the intersection of business and social transformation
for more than a decade, Cheryl Dahle conceived and co-led the effort to found Future of Fish. Prior to
her work with fisheries, Cheryl was a director at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, where she distilled
knowledge from the organization’s network of 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations
and corporations. As a consultant, she has served leading organizations in the space of hybrid
business/social solutions, including Humanity United, Nike, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at
Duke University. Cheryl spent 15 years reporting on social entrepreneurship and business for
publications including Fast Company, The New York Times and CIO magazine. Cheryl founded and led
Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist awards, a competition to identify and recognize top social
entrepreneurs. Before her work with nonprofit organizations, she was part of an incubation and startup
team for which she helped secure $12 million in venture funding to launch an online environmental
magazine.
Amanda Feldman, Engagement Manager, Volans
amanda@volans.com
Amanda Feldman shapes social innovation strategy and impact with global businesses, government
leaders and entrepreneurs, while actively contributing to Volans' research initiatives. She brings
grassroots experience in social enterprise, public health policy and corporate social innovation. She
founded Peer Partners, a youth volunteer group that launches global service projects around health,
poverty and education. Her projects have brought her to classrooms and conferences across Europe,
Africa and East Asia, collaborating internationally on public health and education policy. Amanda’s
passion for youth advocacy led to prior service on the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Volunteerism
and Community Service and the American Red Cross Atlantic/Cumberland Chapter Board of Directors, as
well as recognition by the American Lung Association and US Congress, among others, for her efforts.
Recent work before joining Volans focused on developing impact evaluation capabilities for social
enterprise, and consulting on corporate citizenship strategy for Tata Steel Global Wires in Mumbai,
India. She holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master
in Public Administration (MPA), focusing on Public Policy and Management, from the London School of
Economics.
Mark Hand, Oxford SBS Seed Fund
mark.c.hand@gmail.com
Kurt Hoffman
kurt@enterprise-answers.com
Patrick Holden, Chief Executive, Sustainable Food Trust
patrick@sustainablefoodtrust.org
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Patrick Holden is Chief Executive of The Sustainable Food Trust whose mission is to promote
international cooperation between all those involved in sustainable food production.
Patrick was Director of the Soil Association, from 1995 to 2010, where he played a leadership role in
developing the UK organic market.
Previously he was founder and chairman of British Organic Farmers.
He trained in Biodynamic farming at Emerson College, Sussex.
In 1973 he established his mixed organic dairy holding in Wales which produces cheese from the milk of
75 Ayrshire cows.
Other positions: Patron, Bio-dynamic Agricultural Association, Living Earth and Soil Association Land
Trust; Senior Environmental Advisor, JCB and International Ambassador, Soil Association.
He received a CBE for services to organic farming in 2005.
Indy Johar, Co-founder, 00:/
indy@research00.net
Indy is a co-founder of 00:/ a qualified architect and regeneration consultant with particular experience
in socially driven sustainability. He has delivered significant large scale multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder projects from Future Planners [with DEMOS, RICS, English Partnerships, CPRE] to
Sustainable Suburbia joint funded by RICS, CABE, BURA and NESTA. He has worked on a series of
research projects focusing on sustainable futures; from affordable neighbourhoods, future planners,
sustainable suburbia to High Utilization workspaces. Indy previously worked at Penoyre & Prasad
Architects, leading, wining and delivering several Local Investment Finance Trust [LIFT] health workspace
projects within Public Private Partnership [PPP] frameworks. Indy is a Demos Associate and has taught at
TU Berlin, University of Bath, Architectural Association and University College London. Indy has recently
lectured at Art and Ecology Conference [London], Commission for Architecture and Built Environment,
London School of Economics and the Royal Academy.
Kim Kiszelnik, Program Manager, DOEN Foundation
Kim@doen.nl
Kim is a program manager at DOEN Foundation, helping to shape the New Economy programme. DOEN
focuses on the initiatives of start-up sustainable entrepreneurs and of organisations that create change
within economic structures. Previously, Kim built a microfinance programme which focused on raising
awareness of Microfinance and matching the skills of ING staff to Microfinance institutions in developing
countries. In 2008 Kim moved from ING to DOEN Foundation, where she started working as a
programme manager focused on financial sector development, mainly in Africa.
Mike Klassen, Africa Director, Agriculture Value Chains, Engineers Without Borders Canada
mikeklassen@ewb.ca
While I've only been working directly in market systems for the past 3 years, it has been an intense
immersion. I lead a small team of high capacity organizational change consultants across Africa concentrated in Uganda and Kenya, but with rich history in Ghana and Zambia. Our approach is to
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embed agile, fast-learning staff in some of the highest capacity organizations who are implementing
donor-funded aid projects that aim to create systemic change in markets that have disproportionate
affect on the poor (In DFID terms, Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), or in USAID terms, Value
Chain Development). Our value-add is to develop a fundamentally new culture within aid organizations one of iterative learning at multiple levels - and alongside that we sharpen the strategy and tactics being
used to support and influence the transformation of business models in local (and international)
businesses. I am responsible for driving our overall systemic strategy for shifting aid towards market
systems change, and interact/liase with a large number of project managers, international consultants
and key change agents within the aid bureaucracies like USAID.
Manon Klein, DOEN Foundation
manon@doen.nl
Charmian Love, Chief Executive, Volans Ventures
charmian@volans.com
Charmian Love is Chief Executive of Volans. She works with leadership teams in corporations and
country-based stakeholder groups to design and implement innovation strategies. In addition to her
client work, Charmian also works on Volans’ research projects. Her recent report is The Future Quotient,
launched in October 2011 in partnership with JWT, which focuses on the need for future-focused
leadership and intergenerational innovation.
Prior to joining Volans, Charmian was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as well as an
Appraiser and Fine Art Specialist with Chubb Insurance. She co-founded the United Way’s GenNext
Cabinet in Canada and is the Past Chair of The Flavelle Foundation. Currently, Charmian sits on The RSA’s
Fellowship Council and the RSA’s Catalyst Selection Panel, and is an Advisory Board member of the
Queen’s University Centre for Responsible Leadership. She graduated with a degree in Art History from
Queen’s University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Charlotte Millar, Strategist, WWF-UK
CMillar@wwf.org.uk
My work is to develop the knowledge, skill, mastery and leadership needed for systems change. I work
at depth with leaders of transformative change. Within the Finance Innovation Lab, I am the lead
strategist, with most interest in developing the strategy for the entire Lab and in particular, our
incubator programmes and leadership work. I have worked in WWF-UK leading systems change
programmes since 2005. Prior to this I worked for EABIS - an international network of companies and
business schools - integrating sustainability into business school teaching and research. I frequently
teach on leadership programmes around the world and am a Fellow of the RSA. I love my work and I also
love meditation, dancing, eating and London's cultural life.
Laura Miller, Executive Director, Synchronicity Earth
laura@synchronicityearth.org
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Laura Miller is Executive Director of Synchronicity Earth—a charity/foundation set up in 2009 to increase
environmental philanthropy and identify key intervention points which, together, could bring about
change. Laura is responsible for building the organisation's strategy, focus and approach: drawing on her
experience of overseeing large research and policy projects, she ensures that Synchronicity Earth is both
evidence based and true to its vision—namely, a sustainable planet where the relationship between all
living things is understood, respected and nurtured.
Jen Morgan, Innovation Finance Lab, WWF-UK
JlMorgan@wwf.org.uk
"Jen is a pioneer, a proactivian and a possibilian. She is passionate about bringing the ‘new’ into the
world – so that life thrives and prospers long into the future. She leads in a way that embodies
authenticity, creativity, appreciation and the intelligence of natural systems.
She does this at scale through her work with WWF-UK at The Finance Innovation Lab – which has been
named as one of ‘Top 50 Radical Ideas Shaping the Future of Britain’. She loves asking big questions,
connecting with people deeply, bridging paradigms and professions, being a mega matchmaker of
people, ideas and resources and just simply getting stuff done. Her deep belief is that we all have
responsibility and a role to play in the humanity’s evolution and that we must be intentional about the
future we want to create.
Jen previously held creative orchestrating roles with British Airways, The Body Shop and HSBC. Being
fascinated by culture and relationships she earned a BBA in International Business (Hofstra, USA) and an
MSc in Responsibility in Business Practice (Ashridge University). Although now working across business
and civil society spheres, she is an activist at heart and sits on the Board of FairPensions and is Scholar at
The Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at Cumbria University.
She loves all sports, limes, the theatre and finds her energy and her source people, yoga and nature. She
is a global citizen -born in the USA and lives in London.
Anthony Murphy, Founder and Managing Director, Prime Advocates
anthony@primeadvocates.com
Over the last 12 years, I have worked in senior counsel positions at leading international law firms and
market leading financial institutions. Prior to founding Prime Advocates, I spent the last 5 years as the
head of Prime Brokerage at J.P. Morgan in London, where I was responsible for building the firm’s multimillion pound international prime brokerage platform. In particular, I was responsible for drafting the
key sub-custodial agreements, customer facing security documents and product suite. I also lead J.P.
Morgan's regulatory analysis and response team on market significant issues as disparate as the
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), client asset protection, post-Lehman security
issues and bank resolution. I was a leading member of the AFME Prime Brokerage committee, lobbying
the EU Commission on the draft text of the AIFMD, and I was instrumental to the development of the
2010 GMSLA - industry standard stock lending agreement. I guided J.P. Morgan EMEA through its
merger with Bear Stearns (acting as the principal equity finance lawyer) and acted as counsel in the
firm’s EMEA MF Global close-out.
As J.P. Morgan’s London legal Pro Bono representative, I perceived that there was a need for a strategic
Social Finance and structured commercial legal support organisation for Social Enterprises. Prime
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Advocates fulfills this need by supporting the market infrastructure and working directly with Social
ventures. Prime Advocates is an independent not-for profit Social Finance consultancy supported by 6
global law firms. Our work helps shape market systems through two core limbs: i) by fostering
knowledge with an independent legal / commercial lens and encourages the alignment of traditional
Financial Services within the emergent third sector of Impact Investment and Social Finance; and ii)
strategic commercial and legal support for Social Enterprises (foundations, charities, NGOs, financial
institutions). Our services include:
A. “Think-tank” (Macro Industry Development):
i. Corporate client or industry internal Social Finance issue awareness training and junior
lawyer and legal issues training (including work-shop support and student competition
propagation (International Impact Investment Challenge [I3C]- London impact support)
ii. Regulatory analysis and lobbying
iii. Industry thought leadership and education (including the Prime Advocates Social
Finance Leaders lecture series) and article writing
B. Consultancy Services:
i. Strategic Social Finance and Impact Investment market and general commercial advisory
services
ii. Social Finance strategy development and implementation
iii. Business, management and organisational analysis and consultancy
iv. Social Finance enterprise, institutional investment firm, commercial and hedge fund
brokerage services, including: Capital Introduction, strategic partnership alignment and
market placement
v. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) [in co-operation with our partners] and corporate
governance strategy
vi. Sustainability or Social Responsibility Investment criteria generation and review
C. Legal Counsel Services:
i. As practical continuous commercial counsel – we know and work with our clients on a
continuous basis covering every day and transactional matters
ii. Legal market strategic partnership creation and analysis
iii. Legal advisory services, liability management, negotiation and contract negotiation
iv. CSR and regulatory advisory services
v. Transaction and project management
vi. Pro bono legal counsel delivery or at cost provision of leading legal counsel support
vii. Legal cost management and fee suppression
Lucho Osorio-Cortes, International Market Systems Specialist, Practical Action Consulting
luis.osorio@practicalaction.org.uk
I have experience in:
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Design and implementation of inclusive market development strategies.
Technical support to and mentoring of field practitioners in facilitation of inclusive market
development
Design and implementation of strategies to boost innovation and scale up within market
systems.
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International networking, influence and advocay to create enabling environments for inclusive
market development facilitators worldwide.
Design and implementation of sustainable and effective learning systems within development
organizations.
I have experience in Colombia, Peru, Nepal, Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe,
Italy and the UK.
Examples of initiatives I am involved in:
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Making Markets Work for the Jamuna, Pabna and Teesta Chars (M4C), Bangladesh. Swisscontact
and SDC
Ongoing design and implementation of Practical Action's learning and knowledge management
systems for inclusive market development (legacy of the USAID New Partners for Value Chain
Development initiative)
Coordination of the SEEP Network's Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)
I moved from Chemical Engineering into appropriate technologies in 1995 and then worked for seven
years in the Colombian NGO Fundacion Social in the field of International Cooperation and Integrated
Local Development. During that period I acquired experience on participatory development, project
design, monitoring and evaluation.
I was a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in two different programs. I have a degree in International
Cooperation and Development Projects and an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the Institute of
Development Studies (University of Sussex - UK) where I focused mainly on value chains, certification,
innovation systems and social networks.
Specialties: Participatory Market Systems Development (PMSD), organisational learning, facilitation,
innovation systems, international cooperation, project design &management, and networking (circa 1K
LinkedIn connections)
Kyra Maya Phillips, Author, MISFITS
misskyrac@gmail.com
Kyra Maya Phillips is an author and innovation strategist with extensive experience in networks,
sustainability and digital engagement. Kyra’s work is centred around understanding where innovation
comes from and how we can create the environments which spur it. “Asking the right questions” rather
than constantly searching for answers, is a catch-all for projects and concepts that Kyra spends her time
working on.
Most recently, Kyra embarked on a research and writing project that seeks to determine what the black
markets can teach us about innovation. It's called MISFITS and it will be published by Simon & Schuster
in 2014. She is also the London ambassador for the Sandbox Network, a global community of young
innovators. And she's a storyteller and consultant at Sidekick Studios, an agency that helps big
organisations innovate like start ups.
Cassie Robinson, Director, Point People
cassie@thepointpeople.com
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Cassie is a Director of the Point People. The Point People open up the untapped potential of networks,
of people who work across disciplines, to crack big challenges and catalyse systemic change. They do
this by assembling collective intelligence, speeding up learning and scaling solutions, through mapping,
conversation, analysis and strategic support.
Rachel Sinha, Sustainability Manager, ICAEW
rachel.sinha@icaew.com
Rachel works in the sustainability think tank of ICAEW, is one of the four original co-conveners of The
Finance Innovation Lab.
Rachel has 9 years of business experience spanning the consumer goods, property, financial services, ICT
and design industries and worked for companies including Orange, GuestInvest and CapGemini. She has
worked for 5 years on sustainable business in the UK and Sydney, Australia. Prior to ICAEW she worked
at Futerra Sustainability communications, where she led projects for clients including L'Oreal and the
London Development Agency.
She speaks regularly at events, recently including the TBLI investor salon, Carbon Trust Standard, KPMG,
Environment Agency road show on the Carbon Reduction Commitment, the ICAEW SME conference and
the ESRC sponsored seminar series 'When worlds collide: contested paradigms of corporate social
responsibility'. She is secretary of the ICAEW CR Committee and sits on a Green Futures Social
Entrepreneurship Advisory Group for Unltd*.
Rachel is an experienced convener and facilitator on sustainability issues and has led roundtables on
issues including; ‘Tomorrow's Global Company’ report for UK Finance Directors; on David MacLeod’s
independent review on employee engagement for BIS; how to embed sustainability into the ACA
qualification for ICAEW members; and for The Finance Innovation Lab she has led a work stream looking
at how the Lab can communicate about its work effectively, facilitated at the internalising externalities
workstream and at Lab Assemblies.
Experienced in academic writing and trained in Research Methods and market research Rachel has a BA
in Psychology, an MA in Marketing, specialised in CSR for which she won the Brian Francis Memorial
Award and was invited to present findings at various conferences including the Academy of Marketing
and European Marketing Academy in 2007.
Linda Scott, DP World Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford
linda.scott@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Professor Linda Scott is DP World Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Said Business School,
University of Oxford. Her research, which focuses on market-based approaches to women’s economic
empowerment, has ranged widely. She has studied various “entrepreneurship networks,” including
Avon’s operation in Africa as well as the CARE Rural Sales Programme in Bangladesh. As an experienced
researcher in consumer behavior, she has begun studying the impact of consumer goods on rural
communities in development settings, including, for example, determining the impact of sanitary pads
on girls’ retention in African schools. Before coming to the Said School, Professor Scott was at the
University of Illinois, where she was appointed in Communications, Women’s Studies, Art & Design, and
Advertising. Her concentration was the interaction between women, commercial messaging, and
consumer culture. She has published a number of articles, as well as books, such as Persuasive Imagery
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(2000), an edited collection on response to advertising images, and Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion
and Feminism (2004), a critical history of the birth and growth of American feminism alongside that of
the fashion industry. Her book, Consumption and Spirituality, edited with Diego Rinallo and Pauline
Maclaran, was published by Routledge in summer 2012 and she has a new single-authored book in
development, The Double X Economy: Women, Power, and the Global Marketplace. Professor Scott
has worked with a number of multinational corporations, such as Procter & Gamble, as well as not-forprofits, such as CARE, Plan, and UNICEF. She is on the board of the Advertising Educational Foundation,
is the editor of Advertising & Society Review, and has recently joined a US State Department
subcommittee on women’s access to markets. Professor Scott blogs regularly on her website:
www.doublexeconomy.com.
Suki Laniado Smith, Partner, Shirlaws UK Ltd
ssmith@shirlawscoaching.com
I am a partner at Shirlaws UK Ltd. We are a global business coaching organisation which focuses on
supporting businesses to understand their intent.
We understand that business that use this a main driver have a far more sustainable future. I
specifically focus on working with businesses and social entrepreneurs who are committed to building
their business models based on triple bottom line economics. At this time I am supporting the Finance
Innovation Lab to develop a strategy to scale the lab globally as well as working with other businesses
with a sustainability agenda.
Richard Spencer, Head of Sustainability, ICAEW
Richard.spencer@icaew.com
Dr. Richard Spencer is Head of Sustainability at ICAEW. He joined ICAEW in 2005 and set up the
sustainability practice within the Technical Strategy department, ICAEW’s think-tank. Richard leads on
the Institute’s thought leadership programme Sustainable Business.
This has included designing a conference in Beijing on Environmental Corporate Responsibility with
Peking University and the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration, acting as content lead
on the Institute’s Business Sustainability Programme and running a session on sustainability for Cass
Business School executive MBAs, producing technical guidance on environmental reporting written in
conjunction with the Environment Agency.
Richard is also one of the co-conveners of The Finance Innovation Lab, an initiative designed to cocreate a new model of capitalism, one that serves society and the environment. This is a project that
ICAEW has undertaken with WWF-UK.
The aims of the Lab are: to create a community of innovators who can bring about breakthrough change
in the financial sector; to innovate and prototype a portfolio of solutions that can tip the finance system
so that it better serves humanity and the environment; to support our community to build the
knowledge, skills, attitudes and resources they need to innovate and change and to build a system of
influence by leveraging from the relationships created in the Lab community to influence others and
create wider system change.
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Before joining the ICAEW Richard worked as a strategy consultant in the Natural Resources division of
Accenture. Prior to that he worked at N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd for eight years in the bank’s treasury
and project finance teams with a year at Rothschild Australia. He began his career at the Bank of
England in the banking supervision arm which regulates banks in the UK.
He sits on the technical working group of the Carbon Disclosure Standards Board, FEE Sustainability
Working Party and the Advisory Group for the Social Return on Investment Project for the Cabinet
Office- Office of the third sector. Richard is a visiting fellow at Cass Business School and a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts. He holds a degree from Leeds University, an MA from the Courtauld Institute in
History of Art, a PhD in History and a post-graduate certificate in economics from University of London.
Hendrik Tiesinga, Co-Founder, Natural Innovation
hendrik@natural-innovation.net
Hendrik is an experienced developer and facilitator of collaborative learning and innovation programs
and projects. He is a co-founder of Natural Innovation and a co-initiators of the Finance Innovation Lab.
His projects range from multi-stakeholder dialogues on nano-technology, culture change in the NileBasin, trainings on sustainable innovation and creative labs with artists and the cultural sector.
Hendrik is currently pursuing a Phd on the topic of systems transitions and societal innovation labs at
the Warwick Business School. He is currently based in Cairo to do fieldwork as well as to support the
development of the Nile Project. Find out more about his research on www.societal-innovation.org.
Marc Ventresca, University Lecturer and Fellow, University of Oxford, Said Business School
marc.ventresca@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Marc J Ventresca is an organisational and economic sociologist at Oxford University. He is on faculty at
the Saïd Business School and a Fellow of Wolfson College, with research and teaching focus on
innovation, organizations, and markets. He is also an affiliated research associate professor of global
public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School.
His research investigates cases at the intersection of economic sociology, strategy and innovation:
Market-building strategies in ecosystems services markets in Amazon Peru and for inclusive markets in
Bangladesh, emerging models of venture funding and incubators, security and innovation regimes, and
diffusion of governance innovations in global financial markets and in U.S. higher education His industry
expertise is based in knowledge- and -information-intensive organizations with emphasis on emerging
energy and mobile sectors. Recent research and views are published in Academy of Management
Journal, Environmental Science and Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science, Theory
& Society, as well as in blogs and Twitter postings (@marcventresca) and a TEDxOxbridge video.
His teaching focuses on strategy and innovation, social networks and market creation, implementation,
and entrepreneurial leadership and leadership for complex operations. At Oxford, he is Academic
Director for the Science Innovation Plus initiative, supports many student and research activities for the
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, and serves as a core faculty member for the Goldman Sachs
10K Women Entrepreneurs Programme in China. He is advisor/mentor to several 'system-changing'
startups founded by recent Oxford alumni, and a strategic advisor for Oxford Entrepreneurs, Global
Thinkers, Local Insight/Global Impact, and the Oxbridge Biotechnology Roundtable.
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He earned degrees in political philosophy/governance, education policy analysis and organizational
sociology at Stanford University, held a postdoc at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
at Stanford University, and served on faculty at Kellogg/ Northwestern University before joining Oxford.
Shelagh Wright, Mission Models Money, ThreeJohnsandShelagh, Demos, Independent
shelagh.wrightg@demos.co.uk
I work with a diverse range of people and projects around the world on developing cultural and creative
economy policy and sustainable practice, wearing many hats - as a Director of Mission Models Money,
an Associate of the think tank Demos, a Director of ThreeJohnsandShelagh or just as me. I've written a
bit on this stuff: Creativity Money Love; After the Crunch; So.What Do You Do?; Making Good Work and
Design for Learning; as well as research work on sustainable cultural and creative enterprise, skills and
investment policy. At the moment I'm working on trying to model and then illuminate places where
people are working with values and creativity to subvert the dominant market and create the enabling
conditions for renewal.
Soushiant Zanganehpour, Strategy & Operations Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
soushiant.zanganehpour@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Soushiant joined the Skoll Centre in May 2012 to help scale up the centre’s outputs and refine its focus,
craft future strategy whilst also running the centre’s day-to-day operations.
Soushiant’s experiences span the fields of management and strategy consulting, policy and
entrepreneurship. He has helped both non-profit (universities and NGO’s) and for-profit (health care
and global extractive industries) clients overcome strategic and operational challenges. In London, he
was an Associate at Adam Smith International and advised government officials from developing
countries on governance reforms for the extractive industries. Prior to this, Soushiant was Consultant at
Volans, where he co-authored a background policy paper with Chairman John Elkington for the
European Commission assessing natural resource management and CSR uptake by multinational
corporations in emerging markets as well as contributed research to Elkington’s latest book, The
Zeronauts. Between 2006 and 2009, Soushiant led a policy program at a leading Canadian disarmament
and non-proliferation think tank (The Simons Centre) exploring the motivations and implications of
Iran’s nuclear technology advancements, and advised the Canadian and US governments on appropriate
policy responses.
With regards to this workshop, Soushiant is deeply interested in entrepreneurial ventures and initiatives
that attempt to correct and rebalance the inequities that the market system and predominant capitalist
economic development paradigm generate. In particular, he is interested in better understanding and
devising disruptive initiatives to unhinge inequitable systems that benefit a minority of people at the
expense of the broader majority. He’s broadly interested in change initiatives; in particular the clever
use of language to support policy/regulatory change as well as building "business cases", economic logic
and new analytical frameworks supportive of systemic change. Lastly, he is interested in designing
systemic instruments/mechanisms to support greater risk taking and leadership for the benefit of public
good.
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