SIT Jury 2021

Concepción Galdón is IE University’s Social Innovation Director/Academic Lead. At IE she is mandated to promote social innovation academic content across schools and programmes, encourage more research in social innovation and reach out to organisations and partners interested in social innovation. Concepción is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IE. Concepción is also President of the social venture Puentes Global, which she co-founded in 2009. […]

Justina is a Fund Manager within the Financial Inclusion fund management team at Triodos Investment Management (a globally recognised leader in impact investing, making money work for positive change). In that role, she manages Triodos Microfinance Fund, Triodos Fair Share Fund and SFRE Fund. Justina has over 18 years of experience in the financial services sector, focusing on investment management, impact investing and financial inclusion. Before joining Triodos IM, she held several positions at EY and at ING Group.  […]

Filipe Almeida is currently President of the Mission Unit Portugal Inovação Social (Portugal Social Innovation), a public entity created to promote social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and to develop the social investment market in Portugal. This government initiative is a pioneering public programme in Europe that mobilises around €150 million of European funds. He is also a professor at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre of Social Studies (CES/FEUC) and the Centre of Cooperative and Social Economy Studies (CECES/FEUC). […] 

Elena believes in the transformative power of impact investing and the social enterprise movement​, she is an advocate and practitioner of gender smart investing. She is the co-founder and partner of OPES Italia Sicaf EuVECA, which invests in impact enterprises in Italy, and OPES-LCEF Fund, an impact investment vehicle that provides financial resources and management support to early-stage social enterprises whose businesses serve low-income people and disadvantaged communities. […]

Olivier co-founded GT Finance/Cristal Finance in 1987 before joining Credit Suisse Asset Management in 1998 as a Managing Director. In 2003 he founded PhiTrust in order to support families and foundations in the implementation of financial, social and philanthropic strategies, believing that investors have responsibility through their financial and social investments. […]

Katell Le Goulven joined INSEAD in April 2018 as the founding Executive Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society. Previously with UNICEF, she founded a Policy Planning unit to analyse global trends and emerging issues and inform UNICEF’s strategic positioning, and led UNICEF’s corporate engagement with international financial institutions. She has held senior positions in high-level commissions that defined the policy implications of the data revolution, climate change, and global public goods for the development agenda. […] 

Pieter Oostlander’s professional background is in accountancy and finance. He held various top-level finance functions in several international companies. In 2004, he switched to the social investment and venture philanthropy sector, driven by the aspiration to make societal impact a significant part of his professional life. He became director of the Noaber foundation and co-built the foundations of Shaerpa, a consulting and fund management agency. […]