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Professor Barrett has studied extensively the use of mobile and other information technologies for business model innovation in emerging economies. For example, he has researched the role of collaborative innovation between large and small hi-tech firms in the development of MPESA for financial inclusion in Kenya. He was recently commissioned by the World Bank to co-author a report on the use of information technologies, for improving access and affordability of rural workers in agriculture.

Professor Prabhu leads the Centre for India and Global Business at CJBS. He has studied extensively innovation in low-income environments. He recently co-authored a book called Jugaad Innovation, described by the Economist “the most comprehensive book yet” on so-called ‘frugal innovation’.

Dr Ansari’s research examines social and environmental issues in management. His recent work has focused on the experience of Fair Trade on the part of Rooibos farmers in post-apartheid South Africa. A specific focus has been on the challenges of developing common social standards and defining what constitutes a “fair” minimum prize for goods and services.

Dr Stiles’s research focuses on human resource management (leadership; high performance working; organisational culture; change management) and corporate governance (the dynamics of boards of directors; chief executive succession; the influence of self-conscious emotions such as shame, pride and guilt on work motivation).

Mr Stockley teaches entrepreneurship and runs a social enterprise focusing on trafficked women.

Dr Munir studies social and institutional change, with a particular focus on technological shifts in society. A particular focus has been on socio-economic changes in South Asia. He published an influential study on the effects of ending child labour in the soccer ball industry in Pakistan.

Dr Soufani has published extensively in the area of financial management, corporate restructuring, M&A, private equity, venture capital and family business, and also the financial and economic affairs of small-medium sized enterprises. His work is widely cited and included in policy reports by organisations such as the EU, OECD, and the Institute of Directors and he is on the editorial board of a number of international academic journals. Before joining academia, Dr Soufani worked in investment banking in the area of bond and money market trading.

Jennifer Howard-Grenville contributes to organisation theory through in-depth studies of how people work from within to change organisations, communities, and occupations. By focusing on the processes through which people seek change, her scholarship advances theoretical understanding of organisational routines, culture, identity, and identification. Jennifer is recognised as a leading qualitative researcher with a focus on process theorising, and frequently presents on these topics at business schools, conferences and junior scholar academies.

Professor Bell is Professor of Marketing and Director of Executive Education at the University of Melbourne. Previously Simon worked at Cambridge Judge Business School. He has worked extensively with industry for the purposes of research, consulting and executive education. He writes and consults on a range of issues including sales force management, services and relationship marketing, and customer satisfaction and loyalty. His research has focused on the retail and financial services industries and has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and the Sloan Management Review. Simon also sits on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Professor Doug Creed is a Professor of Management at the College of Business, University of Rhode Island. Most of his research has looked at issues of workplace diversity and organisational change processes for greater inclusion and equity. In the late 1990s, he conducted groundbreaking research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) work place and career experience and employee grassroots efforts to end workplace inequities based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He received his PhD and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a MA in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a BA, Magna Cum Laude, with Distinction in English, from Yale College.

Tina Dacin is the E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour in the Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. She is the Director of the Queen’s School of Business Centre for Responsible Leadership and Area Coordinator of the Organisational Behaviour group at the school. She is also a member of the University Senate at Queen’s University and Chair of the Principal’s Innovation Fund Committee. Professor Dacin’s research interests include cultural heritage and traditions, social innovation/entrepreneurship, and strategic alliances. Her work has been published in leading management journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. She has also served as Senior/Consulting Editor for Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry. She has previously served for multiple terms on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Organization and Strategic Management Journal. 

Wesley S. Helms is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Brock University’s Goodman School of Business. Wes received his PhD from the Schulich School of Business at York University. His research has focused on understanding how “marginalised” organisational actors, rather than being powerless, negotiate, compete, and manage conflict with competitors and sanctioning audiences in order to influence their social contexts. Specifically, he has examined how marginalised actors negotiated and shaped the meaning of CSR, how mixed martial artists used the stigmatising labels that discredited them to garner broader social acceptance, and, most recently, how social enterprises compete with, and contest, new market entrants to control the meaning of social entrepreneurship.

Professor Nelson Philips is Chair in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour at Imperial College Business School.

Prior to joining Imperial, Professor Philips was the Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2005 and an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Organisation Area at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1993 to 2002. While on sabbatical in 2000/2001, Professor Phillips spent six months as the Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellow at Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia and six months as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Professor Phillips completed his PhD in Organisational Analysis from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1995.

His research interests lie in four main areas. First, much of his work focuses on various aspects of new institutional theory. His work in this area connects conventional approaches to understanding institutional process to new theoretical perspectives such as discourse analysis or to new empirical areas of study such as entrepreneurship. Second, he has been increasingly engaged in a program of research looking at a range of different but related issues in entrepreneurship, family business and social entrepreneurship. His interest in this area lies in applying social theory to developing deeper understandings of these important forms of organization. Third, Professor Phillips has a strong interest in technology strategy and innovation, where he has been working for several years on various aspects of the social dynamics of technology adoption and the ramifications of these dynamics for technology strategy and innovation.

Simone T. A. Phipps, MBA, PhD, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business at Middle Georgia State University, where she teaches organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, principles of management, strategic management, human resource management, and leadership. Her research interests include management history, entrepreneurship, HR practices, leadership, and relationships between the organisation and society. Usually, her research involves the exploration or examination of gender, racial, and ethnic minorities, with the aim of highlighting their struggles and contributions, as well as finding possible solutions to improve the minority experience in business and society.

She has published articles in many scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management History, Strategic HR Review, and Society and Business Review. As well as presenting her research at many conferences such as the Academy of Management (AOM), Midwest Academy of Management (MAM), Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), she serves as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Management History (JMH). She and her co-author have been recognised by the Academy of Management for publishing “ground-breaking African-American management history research,” some of which has been included in a number of prominent management textbooks. She and her co-author have also written a book entitled African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage.

Leon Prieto, PhD is an Associate Professor of Management at Clayton State University. His research areas are in African American management history, social issues in management and minority social entrepreneurship, and his research is focused on the contributions of minorities (gender as well as racial & ethnic) to the development of management as a discipline and the interrelationship between organisational management and society.

He has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management History, Society and Business Review and others. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Management History. The Academy of Management recognised his (and his coauthor’s) African-American management history research as being ground-breaking, and some of this research has been included in prominent management textbooks. His first book, co-authored with Dr Simone Phipps, is entitled African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage.

Dr Natalie Slawinski is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is a co-founder and academic adviser to Memorial’s Centre for Social Enterprise. Dr Slawinski received her PhD in strategic management from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Her research focuses on business sustainability, temporality in organisations, and organisational paradoxes, in a variety of contexts including social enterprises, industry-wide strategic alliances and multinational corporations. Dr Slawinski’s articles have appeared in such journals as Organization Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies and Business & Society. 

Wendy Smith earned her PhD in Organisational Behaviour at Harvard Business School, and is currently an associate professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Alfred Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware. 

Her research explores how leaders and their organisations address strategic paradoxes – contradictory, yet interrelated demands embedded in an organisation’s strategy. She has investigated how organisations manage to achieve social and financial performance, explore new opportunities and exploit existing competencies, or enable short term and long term success. Her current research investigates how social entrepreneurs create conditions to sustain both their social mission and business purpose.  Her research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Organization Science. Wendy also serves as an editorial board member for Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Business Ethics Quarterly. 

Wendy teaches leadership, organisational behaviour and business ethics. She has taught MBAs and undergraduates at University of Delaware, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania – Wharton. She was nominated for the MBA Teacher Award at the Lerner Business School each year from 2007-2014 and nominated for the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013. She has taught leadership to executives. 

Wendy lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children.  

Dr Thang is an Associate Professor at the National Economics University (NEU), one of the first universities in Vietnam. She is founder and director of the Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship under NEU. NEU CSIE is among the leading hubs of research, education and incubation of social innovation and entrepreneurship in South East Asia. 

CSIE and Dr Thang herself is an ecosystem builder for social innovation and social enterprise in the country. She serves on the advisory board of the British Council South East Asia Social Enterprise, and is the deputy lead for the government taskforce, developing entrepreneurship in high schools and universities in Vietnam. She is also on the board of directors of social enterprises in Vietnam. 

Dr Thang chairs the Vietnam Social Enterprise Scholars Network and leads the country’s report on the social innovation and social enterprise sector in Vietnam. CSIE works as strategic partner with the British Council, UNDP Vietnam, Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Korean Social Enterprise Promotion Agency to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship, and businesses for SDGs in Vietnam and Asia.

Dr Norah X. Wang is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences part of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

Her subject areas are social entrepreneurship and enterprise, social capital, human capital development, and research for policy and administration. Prior to joining PolyU, Dr Wang was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong. During her eight years at HKU she developed her research interests in the Third Sector, cross-sector collaborations in welfare provision, and social innovation. 

Not only has Dr Wang worked on the management and governance issues of large charities, she has also provided consulting services and served on the board of directors for small charities. Her recent research areas include “Third-party Government/Governance”, “Institutional Analysis on Social Innovation”, and “Hybrid Organising”. 

Jimmy Childre, Jr. was the Chief Executive Officer of Washington County Regional Medical Center, a not for profit rural health care facility located in Washington County, Georgia, US. He is founder and owner of Childre Ford located in Sandersville, Georgia.  

Childre is a recent graduate of HEC, Paris and the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford earning a Master’s degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change. Jimmy received a Masters degree from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He earned a Global MBA and the Health Sector Management certificate from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Other academic pursuits include graduation from Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program and a BBA in Accounting from Georgia Southern University. Jimmy is a frequent guest lecturer at Duke University on topics in health care management and corporate restructuring. His current research is focused on organisational restructuring and strategic decision making in US community hospitals. 

Mr Childre is a Fellow in Great Britain’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. He served on the Alumni Council of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and is a trustee and past chairman of The Georgia Southern University Foundation. Jimmy serves as a director on the boards for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, the Citizens Bank of Washington County and the Buckley School of Public Speaking and Disciplined Thinking. He also serves on the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce. Jimmy is a graduate of Leadership Georgia and is active in the Sandersville Rotary Club.

Jimmy is delighted to share his philosophy and practical experiences as a Fellow of CSI. Enriched with 40 years of practical experience from the auto industry, non-profit healthcare and a cross section of boards, Jimmy looks forward to conducting research with the Judge’s faculty, lecturing, and mentoring students. He believes that by working across the public, private and third sector, this opportunity at CSI will produce solutions to some of the ‘wicked problems’ facing society throughout the world.   

“In my role at Allia I have been able to help advance the fields of social investment and support for social enterprise. We are a social enterprise which issues social investment bonds nationally and provides support for social ventures through business centres and programmes. I led the development of Allia’s ‘Future Business Centre’, an £8 million purpose-built social and environmental business incubator opened in Cambridge in late 2013, and led the bid for the Social Incubator East programme which is delivering a full package of support for the most promising scalable social ventures in partnership with Cambridge Judge Business School.

“I regularly contribute on social enterprise at CJBS and Anglia Ruskin University, and have been a judge for the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) £1k and £5k Business Plan competitions since 2011. I have also represented social enterprise on various bodies including the Greater Cambridge Partnership and Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service, as well as the advisory boards of e-Luminate CIC and the Cambridge Student Hub. 

“I am passionate about using social enterprise to tackle social problems, and am the author of The Social Entrepreneur Revolution (Marshall Cavendish 2009) which aims to popularise social entrepreneurship. 

“I am excited by the potential impact that will result from getting social innovation higher on the agenda of the business school in one of the world’s greatest universities. 

“Through my Fellowship I hope to develop a two-way link with Allia’s work on social innovation, through research in action which both informs and seeks to better understand key areas especially:

• How social investment finance can best support social ventures;
• The difference that effective provision of space, funding and business support makes to the success and impact of social ventures;
• Developing and testing social innovations capable of addressing key social and economic challenges.

“I am interested in how social entrepreneurs in all sectors create systemic change in key areas of domestic and international economies, especially in: 

• Strategies for reducing unemployment, maximising employment and meaningful activity;
• New models of affordable housing benefiting young people and first time buyers;
• Finding ways to enable citizens to build an asset or stake in society, and the extent to which this changes their economic status and social wellbeing.”

J. William “Bill” DeMarco, Colonel USAF (ret), serves as the Director Air University Innovation and Leadership Institute, Chair and Dean of Education Leadership Department, and Professor of Leadership Studies Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) Maxwell AFB, Alabama. His Leadership and Command experiences include command at the squadron, group, and region level, as well as serving as the Staff College’s 44th Commandant.

Bill is an adjunct professor with Auburn University in Leadership. He served as a National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and is a fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, as well as a senior associate with GiANT Worldwide leadership consulting. He also contributes as a leadership consultant for the National WWII Museum’s Corporate Leadership Academy in New Orleans, LA, and is the founder and CEO of the Mastermind Century Group 

A command pilot having qualified in five different weapons systems (C-23A, C-12F, C-141B, KC-10A, and the KC-135R), he holds three masters degrees and is a graduate of the USAF’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. 

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Noa Gafni is the CEO of Impact Squared, a movement building consultancy. Impact Squared has advised clients, including United Nations Foundation, the George Lucas Education Foundation and Estee Lauder, on their digital strategy, social impact and millennial engagement.

Noa began her career as an entrepreneur, founding a social network for women in 2005. She then joined the founding digital team at Hearst Magazines as Head of Social Media. Noa then spent several years as an independent digital strategist with a client roster that included Real Madrid, Xiaomi and Lloyd’s of London.

During her MBA at London Business School, Noa became deeply interested in social enterprise as a driver for change. After completing her MBA, Noa joined the World Economic Forum as a Global Leadership Fellow and the Head of Communications for the Global Shapers Community, which brings exceptional young people together to impact their local communities and shape the global agenda.

Noa has spoken on issues of social impact at the World Economic Forum, Financial Times and Harvard Social Enterprise Conference. She holds a Bachelors Degree (High Honours) in Psychology from Dartmouth College and an MBA from London Business School.

Nicole Helwig heads the Centre for Social Enterprise at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she is responsible for setting strategy and direction to fulfil the centre’s mandate to nurture social entrepreneurs, strengthen social enterprise and drive social innovation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Nicole is also the programme co-ordinator for Memorial’s MBA in Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (MBA-SEE), which is the only MBA programme in Canada purposefully designed to develop business leaders who are committed to sustainable and social business practices. Nicole’s circuitous career path has provided her with a wealth of experiences and exposure to societal issues around the world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University (humanistic studies programme) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde (Malaysia International Centre). With a background in performing arts, Nicole also holds a classical ballet pedagogue diploma from the Hungarian Dance Academy.

John is a serial entrepreneur who builds businesses that achieve social innovation. He created a new model for accounting firms that was radical at the time and continues to thrive with its mission for CPAs to “pursue their profession while promoting the public good.” He is founding director and vice chair of a community bank that reinvests in the community as a “locally owned, locally loaned” bank which has grown 600 per cent in a decade that witnessed the disappearance of 2,000 local banks in the US. John created a pop-up corporation to accomplish agricultural exports to a cooperative in a developing country with the goal of triggering market behavior to improve price and availability of imports.

John, a member of the House of Representatives for Pennsylvania since 1997, currently chairs the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee and has served as Speaker pro tempore during five legislative sessions. John believes that governments on all levels perform best when the public can keep an eye on things. His open records law was the first expansion of the public’s access to state and local records in more than a half century. His lobbying regulation law ended Pennsylvania’s sad distinction as the only state among the United States to have absolutely no law concerning lobbying behavior and disclosure. His legislative accomplishments are heavily geared toward, “Benefits that will endure long after my public service is complete.”  

In the NGO sector, John has served on the Board of Trustees that governs the University of Pittsburgh since 2004 and served a decade as a member of the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania – School of Veterinary Medicine. He has served as a board member for many other NGO’s and helped guide innovations to alter business models so that their missions could be sustained.

John earned a bachelors degree from Duke University, magna cum laude, with departmental honors in Management Sciences & Accounting and undertook non-degree scholarships at Oxford University and the Australian Graduate School of Management.  

John began his professional career in Sydney, Australia, with an international accounting firm and advanced through Pittsburgh to the US National Office where, in addition to addressing issues for Fortune 500 firms, he interfaced with the profession’s standard setting bodies and conducted some negotiations for a world-wide audit approach for the firm.

“Opportunities for social innovation surround us in every sector.  Sorting out which sector might best serve the mission should be a carefully considered, early decision in every case.”

Jody Day is the British Founder of Gateway Women, the first global friendship and support network for childless women and the author of Rocking the Life Unexpected: 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life Without Children (2013). In addition to the online community, she also runs retreats and workshops for childless women and contributes widely to print and broadcast media on issues relating to childlessness. She is a training integrative psychotherapist, a Founder Member of the Ageing Without Children collective (AWOC), an Ambassador for the ‘What I See Project’ (a global film project to recognise and amplify women’s voices) and in 2013 was selected by the BBC to be one of 100 women chosen to represent 100 years of feminism. 

Childless and childfree women (‘childfree’ is the term for chosen childlessness) make up 1:5 of the cohort of women born in the 1960s, and there are signs that it may rise to 1:4 for those born in the 1970s. This is twice the number of their mother’s generation. However, the status of childless/childfree women in society is extremely problematic.  

In Jody’s work, she calls those born in the 60s and 70s (broadly Gen X) as ‘the shock absorber generation for the sexual revolution’. It is clear that we are living through a profound moment of social change in both men and women’s lives in the area of relationships and identities – one that merits both research and support. The reasons for not becoming a parent (for both men and women) are diverse, and don’t reflect the received notion that it’s a question of ‘didn’t want’ or ‘couldn’t have’ and include broader socio-economic and structural factors such as social infertility and economic and housing insecurity.

Furthermore, childless adults are expected to make up circa 25 per cent of the ageing population by 2030 and face a grim prospect in terms of the attitudes towards ageing and the state’s current reliance on the provision of informal social care to ageing parents. Jody is a Founder member of AWOC (the Ageing Without Children collective), which is creating a platform for informed discussion to develop creative solutions. This is a prime area where social innovation can really make a difference. 

Never before in Western history have there been so many intelligent, educated, financially independent women not involved in the day-to-day responsibility of bringing-up children. Gateway Women aims to liberate and mobilise this group so that they can take their place in the vital work of shaping a fairer and more diverse society for all our children to inherit. 

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Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE is the Founder and Managing Director of Stepping Out a Cambridge-based business founded in 2010 to helps English Councils and National Health Service (NHS) bodies to plan, develop and launch ventures across sectors ranging social care to woodland management.  Ventures range in size from three person micro-enterprises to large firms employing thousands of people who used to work for the state.

Craig is a passionate advocate of the potential for enterprise as a force for good in the public sector.  He is the author of How to Step Out the leading text on the creation of new public sector enterprises.  He also works for the UK Government as a Public Service Mutuals Ambassador.   

Beyond the business, Craig chairs the Stepping Out Foundation, an angel fund which recycles a portion of profit from Stepping Out into start-up social ventures. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Impetus-PEF, the UKs biggest venture-philanthropy fund.  Finally, Craig lectures at London Cass Business School where he leads their new Masters module on social enterprise.

Before all this Craig spent 15 years growing VoiceAbility, a social enterprise helping disabled people to shape their own lifestyle, from local beginnings in Cambridge to a large, multi-award winning national organisation that now employs over 300 people.     

A serial entrepreneur, mentor, angel investor and one of the UK’s leading authorities on female entrepreneurship, Beverly Hurley, CBE, has spent more than 30 years building successful businesses – and sharing her expertise to create and grow others. With a wealth of experience in enterprise creation and growth, sustainability and innovation, diversity and inclusion and capacity building consultancy, Bev has devoted herself to projects that create social and economic impact and offers an approach underpinned by social innovation values.

As Chief Executive of YTKO Group, Bev’s commitment to product and service innovation and relentless customer focus has driven strong year-on-year growth. Clients range from disadvantaged individuals to new knowledge economy entrepreneurs in science and technology to SME and corporate clients in the UK and Europe. Bev has spearheaded a mission to create 6,000 new businesses by 2020 and generate £1 billion for the UK economy, with over 50 per cent delivered on a non-profit basis. 

As part of this pursuit, Bev has pioneered a range of core services:

• Outset, the enterprise creation and support service that helps people develop the skills and confidence to start their own business, has been internationally recognised as a best practice model.
• GetSet For Growth works with ambitious entrepreneurs and business owners to help them meet their growth potential, become investment ready and ensure their survival beyond the critical first three years.
• Enterprising Women is the largest community devoted to growing female entrepreneurship in the country and was awarded the Prowess Flagship of Flagships award for excellence in supporting women’s enterprise.
• The Outset Foundation – most recently Bev set up The Outset Foundation, an independent charity charged with raising finance through a range of channels, to ensure the future of services like Outset and GetSet.

Bev offers a rich network of connections and has a proven track record of working with a variety of partners to deliver innovative solutions and strategies. Among other things, she is a Member of the Secretary of State’s Entrepreneurs’ Forum and a board member of the Institute of Economic Development and she was made a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s 2014 Honour Roll.

Jen Morgan is the co-founder of The Finance Innovation Lab – an award winning social innovation organisation empowering positive disruptors to transform the financial system.  With 20 years practical experience working at the nexus of civil society and business, Jen previously led WWF’s global partnership with HSBC. She has also held product and service innovation roles at British Airways and The Body Shop where she was responsible for large scale change programmes which inspired new boundaries in travel and health and wellbeing. 

She is a Sustainability Advisor to Earth Capital Partners, a member of UK Values Alliance and has been a Board member of ShareAction and BankTrack. She is professionally acknowledged as a speaker, writer and mentor on systems change, values based leadership, sustainable finance and innovation processes. Jen has an MSc in Responsibility in Business Practice from Ashridge Business School – and her thesis focussed on ‘the relational reality of change’.  Outside of work she loves to be in nature and exploring humanity’s great cultural expressions.

As a Fellow of Social Innovation she hopes to contribute and leverage her wealth of practical experience and relationships in social innovation so that CSI can help to accelerate the large scale evolutionary change that is required- for the prosperity of people and planet.

Dr Owusu is an innovative social entrepreneur with ten years’ experience of operating a public Loan Fund for financially excluded entrepreneurs in London. She has co-created two innovative social businesses in telemedicine and financial information services: iHealth-direct and Insight Report. Both were outcomes of Freda’s studies in social entrepreneurship in Cambridge, and PhD in Social Policy at the Open University. Freda is focused on the use of research, enterprise and technology to achieve social goals, with interests including poverty reduction, transnational living, health and well-being, and behavioural finance.