President of esela – The legal network for social impact
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Marcus Bleasdale
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Managing Director
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Wingee Sampaio
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Global Program Director
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Robert Monas
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Tommy Hilfiger (PVH Europe)
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Director of TommyCares
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Profile – Robert B. Monas
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A variety of commercial functions within Dutch and international Marketing Communication consulting agencies, among others: FVH/BBDO, HVR Advertising
Founder/owner European Teleshopping Services bv, an international consulting agency for (then) nonexistent distribution forms of goods/services through television, and later Internet
Furthermore, various director roles in NL, UK, France, Japan for Kinnevik Media (Investment AB Kinnevik, Sweden)
Approximately ten years on a ‘sabbatical trip’ in Latin America, Canada and USA
Since 2006, working for Tommy Hilfiger, global HQ in Amsterdam (Since 2010 part of PVH Corp. NYSE):
• (Re-) organisation of the internal marketing-communication agency, then approx. 50 FTE
Mark-comm responsible for divisions of Childrenswear, Bodywear, Global Corporate Identity and Karl Lagerfeld
• Co-initiator of CR development Tommy Hilfiger 2010
• Director of the Tommy Hilfiger Europe Foundation, founded May 2012
María Peña
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Symbiotics SA
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Head of Risk, Legal & Compliance
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Carla PINTO
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PME Investimentos - Sociedade de Investimento, S.A.
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Tecnical Advisor
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Johann Heep
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Erste Group Bank AG- Social Banking
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Social Banking Development
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Geneviève Wehry
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UNICEF The Netherlands
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Major Donor & Foundations Manager
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Adelise Baha
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SOS Children Villages International
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Regional Advocacy Advisor and Government Subsidies Coordinator
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Silvia Steisel
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Banque Degroof Petercam
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Managing Director Degroof Petercam Foundation
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Alan Wagenberg
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Latimpacto
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Knowledge Centre Director
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Ha My Nguyen
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Fondation Demeter
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Coordinator
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Panagiotis (Panos) Ketikidis
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The European Business Angel Network (EBAN)
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Professor Panayiotis (Panos) Ketikidis is the co-founder of the Hellenic Business Angels Network (HeBAN), Member of the Board of Directors (2018-current) of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), Chairman of the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) and the Vice Principal for Research, & Innovation of CITY College - An International Faculty of the University of Sheffield. He has over 30 years of experience in management, innovation, education and research. He is invited regularly as Keynote speaker in several national and international business and academic conferences.
Alexandra Lebedeva
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VEB.RF
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Managing Director
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SIBs, impact investing, intermediaries, risk-modelling for impact investment, impact measurement, Russia, international SIBs
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Implement SIBs in Russia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandralebedeva/
Telegram-channel about impact (in Russian) t.me/impact_in_Russia
Agustin Landa
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Latmpacto
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Senior Adviser
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Peter Surek
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Erste Group Bank
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Head of Social Banking Development
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Peter is a retail and social banker with 20 years of experience in different CEE markets. He started his career from the bottom in retail banking in Slovakia, continued with co-founding a direct bank in Austria. Since 2013 he leads social banking at Erste Group and acts as CEO in Este Social Finance Holding. In 2018 he was elected to Board of European Microfinance Network.
Wendy Braeken
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Ellinor Schweyer
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FASE Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship GmbH
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Managing director
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Interested to meet new impact investors, project partners and social entrepreneurs
About me
Ellinor discovered her passion for financing sustainable business models in 2012 when working as an investment manager for German impact fund Bonventure. Before Ashoka Germany approached her to become a co-founder of FASE, she also supported social entrepreneurs in her role as a fundraiser and social impact lecturer at the Munich-based Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA). For FASE, Ellinor contributes her broad network of investors, multiplyers and supporters as well as her extensive marketing and fundraising knowledge to build a pool of engaged impact investors. Through her father, Rolf Dienst, a seasoned venture capitalist, she knows the VC business from scratch and leverages her own entrepreneurial experience as a start-up founder. Ellinor is a frequent panelist for impact investing and social finance in workshops and conferences within and outside the impact sector. Originally, she obtained a bachelor degree in hotel and restaurant management from Lausanne and Oxford and ran marketing initiatives for premi
Mirjam Niessen
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Stichting DOEN
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Director
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Food, Agriculture, Circular Economy
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Always looking for entrepreneurs that will do things differently and make impact in food, agriculture and the circular economy
Roberto Navas
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Fundación Arturo & Enrica Sesana
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Director
Interests
Aging, Systems Change, Strategic Philanthropy
About me
Impact Investor, Wealth Advisor for families, board member of several foundations, member of Latimpacto.
Irina Tsay
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SOS Children's Villages International
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Simon Wouters
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Shaerpa Fund Management NV
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Impact investment analyst Intern
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Impact investing
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Christoph Tiefenbacher
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Private Person
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Private Person
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System thinking, impact investing, grants with impact, meta projects
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David Hirschfeld
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blueplanet Investments AG
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Chief of Staff
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Sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate governance
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Joao Machado
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Portugal Inovação Social (EMPIS) (Portugal Social Innovation)
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Social Innovation Fund Manager
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Alexander Juschus
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blueplanet Investments AG
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Chairman of the supervisory board
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Seda Olmez Cakar
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TTGV
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Programme Coordinator
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Lisa Hynes
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Associate Marketing Communications Manager
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Hélène Fendt
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FEDORA
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Development and events coordinator
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Carolina Hess
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Swiss Re Foundation
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Senior Manager
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Tim Straight
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Homeland Development Initiative Foundation (HDIF)
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Founder/Executive Director
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Development of smaller communities, product development using traditional skill sets, entrepreneur mentoring, female entrepreneur empowerment
About me
Born in the US, lived 16 years in Norway before moving to Armenia in 2000. Represent both Finland and Norway as their honorary consul in Armenia. Founded the Homeland Development Initiative Foundation (HDIF) in 2013, as a reaction to reporting to Helsinki and Oslo on poverty, stunning, domestic violence and more in rural Armenia. Decided to do something about it.
Eka Datuashvili
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The Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG)
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Program Manager, Social Enterprise Development
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Social entrepreneurship, impact measurement, VPO
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Nikola Jovanović
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EVPA
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Representative for Balkans
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VP, SI, impact funds, building networks, attracting corporate investors...
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Friedrich Neuhaus
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AUMENTA GmbH
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Managing Director
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Sarah Dobson
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Company
esela - The legal network for social impact
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Executive Director
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Law; lawyers engaged in social and environmental impact; Impact Economy; community building; event curation; sustainability and climate; Business and Human Rights; impact investing; profit and purpose; global networks.
About me
Sarah is Executive Director of esela – The legal network for social impact, an international network working to create a sustainable economy, which is run from the offices of Bates Wells, the first UK law firm to become a B Corp.
Sarah’s career spans social investment, having worked at Big Society Capital as a Fellow of On Purpose, the profit with purpose leadership programme, and the third sector, as Head of Trusts at Support Through Court, an access to justice charity.
Sarah is chair of trustees of KDC Theatre, a central London arts charity and, in her earlier days, was called to the Bar of England and Wales.
A. Mete Cakmakci
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Technology Development Foundation of Turkey
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Secretary General
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Technology, Impact, Policy, Inclusive Development
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Electrical engineer by training, I have been working at TTGV since 2003. I am a strong believe r in technology to solve our shared challenges and my current interest is to build models and platforms for community action in this mission.
Xavier Giamporcaro
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Fairtrade International
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Strategic Partnerships project manager
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Matthijs Tiemens
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Oranje Fonds
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Project Consultant
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Lilian Lehmann
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Masawa
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Impact Partner
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Patrick Hoese
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Impact Hub and Handicap International
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Senior Business Partnerships Manager
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Social Entrepreneurship
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The Impact Hub is one of the world’s largest networks focused on building entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale — home to the innovators, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.
The more than 100 Impact Hubs all over the world offer:
- Community & Workspace
- Startup Support
- Programs and Events
We use the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a lens through which to view our impact in the world.
Contact me to partner with us!
Currently, I am working on a project which aims to support African startups after COVID-19 in Nigeria and Ghana. Other projects in Africa related to social entrepreneurship and education will follow soon.
Feel free to connect with me via LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hoese/
or email: patrick.hoese@impacthub.berlin
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I am volunteering for Handicap International - a well established and highly respected NGO which supports people with disabilities.
Handicap Internationa
At the Red Cross, Simon is responsible for developing alternative financial instruments to unlock private capital in support of the movement’s mission. He also currently chairs the investment committee of Community Investment Partnership, and sits on the Impact Investing Steering Group for BOND network
Jouni Lounasmaa
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Startup Foundation
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CEO
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Silke Horakova
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Tilia Impact Ventures
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Co Founder & Partner
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Impact Investment CEE
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Andreja Rosandic
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Jonny Page
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Big Issue Invest
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Investment Manager
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Meri Helleranta
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Advisor / Angel investor
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Ingrid Maurstad
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Ferd
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Finance and project Manager
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Oliver Hunt
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Robert Manz
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Valores Foundation
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Board Member
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Following a 30 year career in the leading private equity investment firm in the region of Central & Eastern Europe, I am focused on venture philanthropy actvities. I head the Philanthropy Committee of the Polish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and am also a co-founder and Board member of the Valores Foundation, the first venture philanthropy fund in Poland.
Antoine Veyrassat
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Fondation Botnar
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Senior Portfolio Manager
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Andrea Ruzo
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UNEP MAP Sustainable Consumption and Production Center
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Project Manager ENI CBC Projects
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Luca Salassa
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Fondazione CRT
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Birgitte Frost Mathiesen
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Den Sociale Kapitalfond
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Director and Partner
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Tatiana Chopova
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Oxfam Novib
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Impact Investment Expert
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I am looking to connect with impact investment funds and impact investment specialists in Africa and Asia.
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Tatiana is an Impact Investment Expert at Oxfam Novib.
Prior to Oxfam, Tatiana was a Partner/Managing director at AlpInvest (part of the Carlyle Group), a private equity asset manager.
Laurens Coeveld
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Oxfam Novib
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Project Lead SME Development
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Arnau Picón Martínez
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Research Analyst
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Deaconu Raluca
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Head of Life Sciences and Impact, Legal Services
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Eka Urushadze
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The Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG)
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Executive Director
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Community Development work; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Impact measurement;; GOAL 1: No Poverty, GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
About me
During 25 year career in the civil sector, I gained valuable experience in working on local, central and international levels leading network programs, coordinating coalition projects. At the same time I am a community development practitioner experienced in organizational development and financial management issues, mostly working with CSOs, CBOs, Social Enterprises.
Ann Runnel
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Reverse Resources
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Founder & CEO
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