Speaker Bio
Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor at ESADE Business School and Founding Director of its Center for Social Impact. She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact investment, and impact measurement. She is actively contributing to building the social impact field through her participation in expert groups set up by the European Commission, the OECD and the G8 and through advisory board seats in impact funds and foundations. Notably she is the Chief Impact Advisor of Oryx Impact, a member of the Board of Directors of the GSMA Foundation, and sits on the impact committees of Rubio Impact Ventures, Suma Capital and Impact Shakers, and is a member of the Purpose Board of GHO Capital. She is a member of the independent expert panel advising COFIDES FIS, Spain's first fund of funds investing in Spanish impact funds. She is on the Scientific Board of the OECD Global Action "Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems" and is a member of CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the academic partner of the Spanish National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (Spain NAB) and served on the French National Advisory Board and the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Task Force established by the G8 (now GSG). Dr. Hehenberger is the author of numerous books, policy papers, and practitioner reports and has published in the most prestigious academic peer-reviewed journals in management, such as the Academy of Management Journal, as well as in practitioner-oriented publications, such as Stanford Social Innovation Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.