CCSI people

Dr Philip Stiles is a tenured faculty member at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management.

He has worked at the University of Cambridge for 25 years. He previously worked at London Business School.

He has written 3 books, the most recent of which is “Board Dynamics” published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Philip’s principal research area is in board dynamics, people management, leadership, and culture. He has researched with major organisations, including developing a research consortium of companies worldwide – including American Express, BT, EDF, GE, General Mills, Glaxo-SmithKline, IBM, IKEA, Infosys, Matsushita, Oracle, Procter and Gamble, Rolls-Royce, SANYO, Sealed Air, Shell, Siemens, TCL, TNT, and Unilever. This research is focused on the linkages between leadership, culture, and innovation.

Most recently he has worked on a major piece of research, funded by the UK Government to $5 million, on the future of work and technology.

He consults to several organisations in both the private and public sector and is on the advisory board of a start-up organisation in London. He conducts board reviews for a number of organisations.

His executive education work has involved working with a wide range of firms from around the world, from professional service firms in law, accountancy, management consulting and advertising, to corporations such as Barclays, IBM, BT, HSBC, non-profits such as Nature Conservancy, NHS, and UNICEF and scientific organisations such as the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, as well as many start-ups and sports teams.

He teaches 2 core courses on the MBA – Organisational Behaviour and Corporate Governance and he teaches Corporate Governance on the Executive MBA He also teaches Corporate Governance on the Master of Accounting course.

Philip has won several awards for research and teaching, including the University of Cambridge Pilkington prize for Teaching Excellence and teacher of the year for the MBA.

He has also won an IBM faculty award for his work with IBM in the area of Services Science.

He is a board advisor to 2 companies, both start-ups, in the Cambridge area.

Professor PB Anand is Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development at the Department of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. His research interests include: human development and the capability approach; environmental and corporate governance; sustainable cities; ethics of smart technologies for advancing capabilities. He has board level experience on 2 learned societies, a university, a community grammar school and a charity. He is very keen on leadership development within social enterprises and public and non-profit sector organisations.

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.

Moritz Gruban is as a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Lausanne and was a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He was also a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College.

Moritz’s research interests include social evaluations of organisations (in particular legitimacy, stigma and trust), organisational misconduct and greenwashing.

Currently, Moritz is involved in several research projects focusing on the legitimation of morally questionable organisational practices, the behavioural implications of legitimacy judgments, and how individuals deal with stigmatised identities.

Moritz teaches organisation studies, human resource management, and research methods.

Dr Lilia Giugni is a trans-disciplinary researcher and feminist activist. Her research, teaching, and public engagement work explore gender and intersectional inequalities across multiple social processes and spaces, alongside inclusive digital and social innovation and feminist perspectives on alternative futures.

Lilia holds a PhD in political sociology from the University of Cambridge, and she is currently a Lecturer in Inclusive Innovation and Sustainable Learning Environments at University College London (UCL). At UCL, she directs the MSc in Design and Management for Sustainable Education and co-directs the Gender and Feminism Research Network.

Lilia’s work has been featured in The Guardian, The Scotsman, Vanity Fair, BBC Radio 4, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, and RAI TV. She sits on the boards of several charities, social enterprises, and activist networks, and has been invited to present recommendations based on her research to policy including the EU Equality Commissioner, G20 delegates and the Italian Parliament.

Danielle Logue is Professor of Innovation & Impact at UNSW Business School and Director of the UNSW Centre for Social Impact. Professor Logue’s research portfolio draws on a broad base of organisation and management theory to examine how enterprises and markets engage in processes of social innovation. Recent projects investigate new forms of organising, governing, and financing to address social and environmental problems including impact investing, civic crowdfunding platforms, social stock exchanges, social impact bonds, and social enterprises.

In recent years, Danielle has led major external research contracts including for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Social Services, and the Wayside Chapel. She was awarded an ARC DECRA and is currently Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project examining impact investing markets and gender equality. Professor Logue’s research has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Studies, and Human Relations, and her latest book is ‘Theories of Social Innovation’ (Edward Elgar).

She is currently Senior Editor of Information & Organization, and serves on the editorial boards of Organization Studies and Journal of Management Inquiry. Previous leadership positions include Director of the Centre for Business & Sustainable Development, Deputy Head (Engagement), at the UTS Business School. Danielle has held visiting positions at Judge Business School Cambridge University, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship University of Oxford, IAE Business School Argentina, and Stanford University. She completed a Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Science at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Prior professional experience includes industry and innovation policy, business and international development for organisations such as the World Bank, and Australian Federal and State Departments of Industry.

Nelson Phillips is Professor of Technology Management in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Originally from Canada, he holds a BSc in electrical engineering and an MBA from the University of Calgary, as well as a PhD in Organisational Analysis from the University of Alberta. Prior to joining UCSB, Professor Phillips was Professor of Innovation and Strategy at Imperial College Business School in London, UK where he was also the Associate Dean of External Relations and the Co-director of the Centre for Responsible Leadership. He was also the Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, from 2001 to 2005, and a faculty member in the Faculty of Management, McGill University from 1993 to 2001. He is currently the Co-editor of Innovation: Management and Organization, sits on the board of governors of the Academy of Management, and is on the advisory board of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.

Professor Phillips’ research interests cut across organisation theory, innovation and technology, and he has published widely for both academics and practitioners including papers in AMJ, AMR, Annals, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review. He has also written six books including Discourse Analysis (with Cynthia Hardy) and Constructing Organizational Life (with Tom Lawrence). He is currently working on a book on qualitative methods in organisational research to be published by Cambridge University Press and a book on linguistic methods in management research that will be published by Sage.

Leon C. Prieto is a Professor of Management & the Director of the Center for Social Innovation & Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at Clayton State University. He has published articles in respected academic and practitioner journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management History, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Review. His first book (co-authored with Dr Simone Phipps) is entitled African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage.

His scholarship has received recognition from Thinkers50, the Academy of Management, the ThinkList (University of Bath’s Center for Business, Organisations and Society), and the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in Human Resource and Leadership Development from Louisiana State University, a Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies, concentration in History & Social Justice from Harvard University, an Executive Certificate in Leading Sustainable Corporations from Oxford University, an MBA from Georgia Southern University, and a BSc in Management from Claflin University.

Wendy Smith earned her PhD in Organisational Behaviour at Harvard Business School, and is currently a professor of management and Co-director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative 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.

Professor Simon Bell is Head of School of MSPACE, the University of Melbourne’s School of Professional and Continuing Education. Simon is also a professor of marketing in the Faculty of Business & Economics. He studies how firms can become more effective organisations by engaging with customers more meaningfully. He focuses on how frontline employees interact with customers to create value for the customer, the firm, and themselves. He also studies how regional clusters can sustain performance of individual firms and create conditions for innovation. Behind all his research is the idea that by recasting how firms connect with others, whether that is their customers, staff, or other firms, they can improve their performance.

Simon has worked extensively with industry in a research, consulting, and executive education capacity. He has delivered executive education courses for the University of Cambridge and Duke Corporate Education. He has conducted research projects with a range of organisations including Goldman Sachs, Target, PWC, and Safer Care Victoria. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Service Research and is a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute (FAMI).

Tina Dacin is the Stephen J.R. Smith Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior and a Scotiabank Scholar in the Smith School of Business. She is the Principal Investigator of the Community Revitalization Research Program at the Smith School of Business. Tina’s current teaching is in the areas of AI, bias and ethics, community resilience, social impact and inclusive leadership. Tina is former Chair of the Principal’s Innovation Fund at Queen’s University and former Director of the Centre for Social Impact at the Smith School of Business.

Tina’s research has been published in leading management journals and she has served in a variety of editorial positions for these journals. Tina received her doctorate from the University of Toronto and prior to joining Queen’s University, she spent nine years at Texas A & M University. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the Winspear Scholar at the University of Victoria. Tina has served on the Advisory Boards of the Community Foundation for Kingston, PRME Champion and Advisory Council Member, UN PRME, Board of Trustees member of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative Foundation (GRLI).

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 corporate social responsibility (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.

Based upon his research, teaching, and consulting with social enterprises in Ontario, North America, and internationally he was recently named the Goodman Social Innovation Research Scholar at Brock University.

Ella Henry is a New Zealand Māori woman with tribal affiliations to the Far North region. Ella holds a Master of Philosophy, which focused on Māori women and leadership; and a PhD which focused on Māori entrepreneurship in screen production.

In 2022, Ella was appointed a professor of entrepreneurship in the School of Business Economics & Law, Auckland University of Technology. Ella is also the Director of Māori Advancement for the Business School. Her role is to enhance the participation and success of Māori students and scholars.

She has worked extensively with her own tribe, as a Negotiator for their Treaty of Waitangi Claim, and as Chair of the Post-Settlement Governance Entity. Alongside work with her own and other tribal organisations, Ella has also been involved with the Māori screen industry, helping to develop capability and training within, and advocating for, an authentic Indigenous voice in and across screen production.

In August 2023, Ella, as part of a group of Indigenous business scholars, is launching the International Academy of Research in Indigenous Management and Organization, with an inaugural consortium at Telfer School of Management, Ottawa, hosted by the Canada Research Chair in Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Professor Ana Maria Peredo.

Professor Colin McLeod is a Professor in Residence at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Investment Committee of the University’s Genesis Pre-Seed Investment Fund.

Colin has played a leading role in building entrepreneurship and innovation capability within universities. He was one of the architects of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Entrepreneurship and he later became the inaugural Executive Director of the Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre, bringing major university entrepreneurship and research translation programmes under one roof.

Colin holds a BA, MBA and PhD, with his doctoral thesis focusing on the successful commercialisation of deep tech innovation, and he has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Haas School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley.

Alongside his academic leadership, Colin has been a founder, investor and/or board member of around 25 ventures, including ventures focused on aged care, health and wellbeing and occupational health and safety, following an earlier corporate career including executive roles at Telstra, Goldman Sachs and the Australian Football League.

His community activities include being part of the committee that raised over $AUD 170 million for the Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Centre at the Austin Hospital, a major public hospital in Melbourne.

Simone T. A. Phipps, PhD, is a Professor of Management in the School of Business at Middle Georgia State University (MGA), where she teaches organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, principles of management, strategic management, human resource management, and leadership. She is the winner of the 2021 MGA ‘Excellence in Scholarship Award’. She is also a member of the Thinkers50 ‘Radar Class’ of 2021, a winner of the Thinkers50 ‘Breakthrough Idea Award’, and a member of the University of Bath’s Impact Think List of 2022.

Her research interests include Management History, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Social Innovation, Social Sustainability, and relationships between the organisation and society. Her research usually involves the exploration 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 in a number of scholarly outlets including the Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of Management History. She and her co-author have been recognised by the Academy of Management for publishing “ground-breaking African-American Management History research,” and have also written a book entitled African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage.

Natalie Slawinski is Professor of Sustainability & Strategy and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. She earned her PhD from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on understanding sustainability, temporality and paradoxes in organisations, and has been published in such journals as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Studies. Her most recent research examines these themes in the context of social enterprise. Natalie serves as an Advisor to Memorial University’s Centre for Social Enterprise and is a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She is also a member of the editorial review board at Organization & Environment.

Dawn Chow is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne.

Dawn’s research focuses on the political ideology of top management teams, organisational identification, attachment to home country, and the sociology of morality. By combining neo-institutional theory with new theoretical perspectives on political ideology, Dawn has been able to publish influential research on the topics of workforces, directors and political ideology, in journals such as the Journal of Management, and Organization Studies. Her thought leadership can also be found in high-impact practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review.

In terms of other services to the profession, Dawn is also an Editorial Board Member for the Academy of Management Review, the leading theory journal in her field. Finally, Dawn is also Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Management Studies, Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research, and Consulting Editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Dr J. William “Bill” DeMarco, Colonel USAF (ret), DProf, serves as the Chief of Innovation Development for Air University (AUiX). AUiX connects AU students, faculty, and staff with partners in DoD, academia, and industry identifying opportunities for collaboration, and for developing new capabilities, strategies, and technologies. AUiX’s vision is to increase Air University’s contributions to national security, strategic competition, and the profession of arms by taking ideas and concepts – “One Step Beyond.” Bill is the founder and former Chair for the Leadership Department and is an Assistant Professor at the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Bill is a five-time commander with experiences commanding at the squadron, group, and region level, as well as serving as ACSC’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, England, a guest lecturer at Ross Business School, Michigan University, and at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, as well as a master coach with GiANT Worldwide leadership consulting. He has contributed as a leadership consultant for the National WWII Museum’s Corporate Leadership Academy in New Orleans, LA.

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 and holds a doctorate from Middlesex University, London.

Judy Muthuri is a Professor of Sustainable Business and Development and the Research Director in the Strategy and International Business Department at Nottingham University Business School.  She chair’s the Social and Environmental Responsibility Group mandated to drive the school’s sustainability agenda.  Judy is a Business and Social Development expert with an interest in understanding and influencing how organizations address various sustainable development goals.  She enjoys working in cross-sector partnerships to co-produce research that has positive and sustained societal impacts.  She is currently working with mining stakeholders on interventions for a more sustainable mining in Taita Taveta County, Kenya

Dr Jarrod Pendlebury is a senior strategist in the Royal Australian Air Force who has held key strategic positions, most recently as Director Strategic Design – Air Force, where he led the development of The Air Force Strategy 2020 (AFSTRAT).

As Australia’s Military Advisor to the United Nations (UN), he is leading the establishment of the UN Department of Peace Operations Innovation Hub, a partnership between Australia and the United Nations connecting researchers, innovators and industry with the UN and Member States to solve the acute problems of global peace operations.
He has vast operational experience in warlike and peacetime air operations as a pilot, and commanded Australia’s air response in support of the Philippine Government following Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

Jarrod maintains an active profile in academia, focusing on the sociology of strategy and military organization. He holds a Master of Human Rights from the University of Sydney, a Master of Philosophy (Military Strategy) from the United States Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and a PhD from The University of Sydney.

Dr Rick Colbourne is an Associate Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business.

He is an award-winning educator and Fulbright Fellow, who has taught at universities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Rick teaches entrepreneurship (international, Indigenous, social), ethics, research methods, strategy, leadership and management on Indigenous and non-Indigenous undergraduate, MBA, and Executive Education programmes. His research interests centre on entrepreneurship, hybrid venture creation, economic development, and business ecosystems with and for marginalised, racialised and equity seeking communities to facilitate socioeconomic health and wellbeing.

Rick is a recipient of the University of Northern British Columbia’s University Achievement Award for Teaching; the Government of Canada’s Deputy Minister’s Recognition Award for Collaboration and Partnerships (AANDC); Canadian Council for Learning’s Award for Excellence in Learning (Learning Strategies Group); and the University of Westminster’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Dr Colbourne sits on several advisory boards and committees.

Christian Hampel is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London. His research interests lie at the intersection of entrepreneurship and organisation theory. Christian has a particular focus on exploring how new ventures experience and manage social evaluations (eg identity, stigma, legitimacy). He currently primarily studies these dynamics in the social innovation and fintech spaces. Christian’s research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review, among other outlets. He teaches entrepreneurship and social innovation at master’s and MBA level. Christian received his PhD from Cambridge Judge Business School and was one of three finalists for the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Dr Neuberger holds a doctoral degree in Organisation Theory from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focused on advancing institutional perspectives on social change involving marginal actors and was sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Isabel’s research on social venture legitimation in authoritarian regimes was awarded the Best International Paper Award 2019 of the Academy of Management (OMT division). Her research was awarded the Best International Paper Award 2019 of the Academy of Management (OMT).

Isabel leads the MSc Business Strategy and Innovation Management programme, at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton.

Dr Antonios Saravanos is Clinical Associate Professor of Information Systems Management at NYU’s School of Professional Studies, where he co-ordinates the undergraduate degree programmes in information systems management and applied data analytics and visualisation. His contributions to the NYU community have been recognised twice. In 2016 through the NYU School of Professional Studies Outstanding Service Award and in 2019 through the NYU School of Professional Studies Teaching Excellence Award. Dr Saravanos chaired the NYU’s School of Professional Studies Faculty Council between 2015-2017 and between 2017-2020 served as a member of the NYU Senate. He holds a doctorate in instructional technology and media from Columbia University and a masters degree in software engineering from the University of Oxford. Dr Saravanos has over 15 years of experience in managing and developing information systems. His current research interests reside in the field of human-computer interaction at the intersection of technology and social innovation.

PhD candidate at The Open University, Faculty of Business and Law, Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise.

Rosie Boparai is an experienced educator specialising in computer science, mathematics and physics pedagogy. She is a graduate of the MSt in social innovation, where she focused upon teacher-led organising as a driver for innovation and systems change. Her present PhD research is concerned with navigating intentional change, and the impact of organisational contradictions upon agency.

Rosie is particularly interested in ethical decision making and the role which moral reasoning plays in producing shared understanding in organisations, collaborations and social movements. With a background in particle physics research, scientific publishing and documentary television, Rosie maintains an interest in the ways organising and technology act together to produce and shape knowledge, and embraces a range of methodological approaches in her research. Rosie also sits of the editorial board of the Journal of Physics Education.

Yvonne Lardner is a specialist in brand and corporate communications. She has held senior leadership roles within the luxury-goods sector and has consulted for corporate innovation and full-service consultancies. Having completed an MSt in Social Innovation from Cambridge Judge Business School, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie primarily in the field of organisational sociology. Yvonne has a particular focus on exploring the social construction of race within organisations, and her current research explores the intersection of race and organisational leadership. She has presented her research at the Academy of Management conference (AOM), European Group for Organizational Studies conference (EGOS) and the British Sociological Association conference (BSA). Yvonne has also conducted workshops at Executive and MBA level.

Sandra is a Director within Financial Services Consulting at EY. As a management consultant, she supports global banks and insurance companies in their digital transformation journeys.

Sandra graduated Cambridge Judge Business School with an MSt in Social Innovation in 2023. Her research focused on the lived experience of working-class people in elite institutions.

Her dissertation received the Christopher Charles Stott prize for Best Dissertation. She has presented her research at the Academy of Management conference (AOM), where she received the 2023 Information Age Publishing Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award. Sandra continues to explore how class and organisations intersect both through academic research as well as a practitioner.

Dr Sophie Harbour is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Peaceshaping and Climate Lab and the Coordinator of the King’s E-Lab at King’s College, Cambridge. She earned her PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge with a research focus on democratic theory and particular emphasis on care ethics, representative claims-making and political judgment. In addition to her academic work, Sophie has served as a research consultant for the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), contributing to their flagship projects on the social economy and social innovation and has collaborated with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on research analysis related to water, migration and climate.

Dr Nick Milner is the first Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation graduate research associate. He originally trained and practiced as a human factors/ergonomics research scientist and joined BT Research Labs directly from a PhD in Occupational Medicine (University of Nottingham). His early research interests were on physiological and psychological issues associated with sedentary work and human computer interaction (HCI). A paper on his doctoral research won the International Ergonomics Congress prize.

He was part of the first MSt in Social Innovation cohort at Cambridge Judge Business School where his dissertation investigated managing mission and money in social enterprise using behavioural economics. His current research interests at Cambridge are further exploring how people’s decision making on behalf of others is influenced by prosocial factors and prospect theory framing.

Nick is the CEO of TranQuality which uses EEG to identify brain activity associated with anxiety and depression (phenotypes) prior to treatment using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). He is currently leading an Innovate UK-funded development using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyse brain activity and propose treatment protocols to support clinicians. Outside his research and consultancy work, he lectures on marketing at the University of Bristol’s Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre (QTEC), the Cambridge University Maxwell Centre Impulse programme and Cambridge Judge Business School’s Ignite programme.

Jessica Rose is the Director of Philanthropy & Development for the Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) in Madrid. Her work has spanned the government, higher education and charity sectors in Australia, the UK and Spain. In 2018, Jessica completed her MSt in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, where her pioneering research explored donor-perpetrated sexual harassment of fundraisers and the pervasive dynamics of gendered harassment in the charitable sector. Jessica is continuing her research on power in the charitable industry via a part-time PhD at the University of Cambridge, whilst actively working with academic and industry bodies to confront sexual harassment in the third sector.

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”.

As Operations Manager of Glenboig Development Trust, a third sector Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Teresa has played a pivotal role in the establishment, evolution, governance, and development of the organisation since its inception in 2000 (formally known as Glenboig Neighbourhood House). Her background in Company Administration, Strategic and project Management, hands-on palliative care, and knowledge, has been pivotal in her propelling the organisation from a small but essential body to the all-encompassing structure it is today, serving all levels and members of its community together with impacting on surrounding communities through mentoring, advising and supporting their development in providing similar services, hopes and dreams.

Recognised and widely respected by major UK national funders, Scottish Funders, Scottish Government and many other partners, Teresa is instrumental in creating and developing projects that regenerate the vibrancy and spirit of the community.

Her latest major achievement has been securing over £2 million to enable the organisation to take ownership of their centre and transform it into a state-of-the-art Life Centre which will encourage the continuation of social enterprise and innovation for the well-being and sustainability of the vibrant community where she lives and works.

Jimmy Childre, Jr. grew up in Georgia, USA and is a third generation auto dealer, hospital CEO, consultant, researcher and community leader.

Jimmy founded Childre Ford, Inc. at age 25, and the dealership celebrated its 40 anniversary in 2020. While continuing in the auto dealership, Jimmy served as chairman and CEO of his hometown hospital, Washington County Regional Medical Center.

Jimmy is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He also is a Fellow of Practice in the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.  In the Academy of Management, Jimmy serves as a Representative-at-Large for the Management Consulting Division.

Childre earned a Master of Studies from the University of Cambridge and a research master degree from HEC Paris in Consulting and Coaching for Change. He also earned a global MBA and a Health Sector Management certificate from Duke University. He graduated from Harvard Business School’s Owners/Presidents Management Program and holds a BBA in Accounting from Georgia Southern University.

Jimmy Childre has served on dealer boards for Ford Motor Company, The Georgia Chamber of Commerce, statewide healthcare organisations, nonprofit and civic organisations, and his universities.

Bill has extensive experience as Chief Probation Officer, Regional Offender Manager and Senior Civil Servant within the Ministry of Justice. He is currently Culture and Transformation Lead with Doncaster Council, and Trustee of the Astrea multi-academy group. Throughout his career he has promoted learning as a means of positively impacting on the lives of everyone in society; particularly those in hard-to-reach communities. His MSt research ‘Can organised shoplifting ever produce social good?’ typifies a wish to challenge accepted norms and ways of thinking and has led to his doctorate into the impact of mandated education on offenders.

Bill has described his experiences of studying in Cambridge as life-changing , having  impacted on his ways of thinking and professional practice; believing  ‘people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and lives will be the movers and shakers in our society’— Brian Tracy.

Laura Claus holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, specialised in social innovation under the supervision of Professor Paul Tracey. Having spent eight years in academia, most recently as Junior Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management, she decided in 2021 to explore new paths in different social enterprises.

Dean is Associate Director in the Johannesburg office and BCG’s Global Water & Nature expert. He provides expert advice on water, nature and biodiversity in support of sustainability strategies for BCG clients.

8 years in the international non-profit sector and 7 years in mining and consulting across Africa with a focus on natural resource management.

A member of the House of Lords, Baroness Thornton has had a career in the voluntary, co-operative and private sectors for over 30 years. She was chief executive of The Young Foundation from June 2015 to October 2017 and continues to support as a senior fellow. Former Government Health Minister, and Women and Equalities Minister (2008/2010), Shadow Minister in House of Lords 2010/15, Health, Equalities and DCMS, she was also founding Chair of Social Enterprise UK.