Lisa Hehenberger

Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade Business School and Founding Director of its Center for Social Impact. She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact investment, and impact measurement. Lisa has published in the most prestigious academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, and is the author of numerous books, policy papers, and practitioner reports.

Lisa is very active in both practice and policy work. She is the Chief Impact Advisor of Oryx Impact, a member of the Board of Directors of the GSMA Foundation, and sits on the impact committees of Rubio Impact Ventures and Suma Capital. She is on the Scientific Board of the OECD Global Action "Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems", is a member of CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council and is a member of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium. For six years, she was the Research and Policy Director of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA – now Impact Europe), the pan-European association for venture philanthropy and social impact investment and was their representative in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Social Business (GECES). She is the academic partner of the Spanish National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (Spain NAB) and served on the French National Advisory Board and the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Task Force established by the G8 (now GSG).

Lisa has a PhD in management from IESE Business School and a master's degree in business and economics from Stockholm School of Economics and HEC (CEMS). Previously, she worked in investment banking at Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in London and at GB Investment Banking in Madrid and Barcelona.