Harry Barkema is a Professor of Strategy, Social Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at LSE. He is the Founding Director of LSE's Social Innovation Lab for Human Flourishing. He earlier founded and directed the MSc. programme in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at LSE. His research and knowledge-exchange programs focus on purpose-driven organisations (shared value), meaningful work, and social impact for marginalised groups in Africa and South Asia. He splits his time evenly between the global North and South.  

h.g.barkema@lse.ac.uk 

Lamees Tanveer is a phenomenologist specialising in gender, work, and well-being in emerging markets across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She serves as the Associate Director of the Social Innovation Lab for Human Flourishing and leads Firmly, an evidence-based platform advancing workplace gender equity. 

l.tanveer@lse.ac.uk

Anna Nadolska is an Associate Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Her current work covers how entrepreneurs in emerging economies become successful and flourish over time, and how entrepreneurial teams become successful in the online gig economy.   

Radboud University, Nijmegen School of Management

anna.nadolska-denouden@ru.nl

Annika Surmeier is a Senior Lecturer and the Academic Director of the CEMS Master in International Management at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Her teaching and research investigate how actors can drive social innovation in value chains and tackle societal concerns in the global economy.

University of Cape Town

annika.surmeier@uct.ac.za

Caroline Oloo serves as the Chair of the Department of Business Administration & Management Science at Maseno University, Kenya. Her works primarily focuses on entrepreneurship orientation and growth, with a specific interest in non-formal start-ups and entrepreneurial innovations.

Maseno University, Kenya

coloo@maseno.ac.ke

Camille Meyer is Associate Professor in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Executive MBA at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa. His research focuses on commons management, social entrepreneurship and inclusive innovation for building sustainable economies and societies.

University of Cape Town

camille.meyer@uct.ac.za

Chia-Huei Wu is a Professor of Management at King's Business School, King's College London. His research focuses on organizational behaviour from a psychological perspective; employee proactivity, work design, the interplay between work and personality development, job transitions, and well-being.

King's College London

chiahuei.wu@gmail.com

Christian Busch’s research focuses on purpose-driven leadership, social innovation, and cultivating serendipity. He has extensively studied the mechanisms that individuals and companies in resource-constrained settings use to succeed, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Serendipity Mindset.

Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

christian.busch@marshall.usc.edu

Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. His research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. In 2024 he was appointed as the Charles F. and Alann P. Bedford Professorship of International Business at TCU.

Texas Christian University

g.bruton@tcu.edu

Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro is Emerita Professor in Organisational Behaviour at the LSE and Professor at Cal State University San Bernardino. Her research looks at working for a purpose, exploitation at work, and social impact. 

LSE & Cal State University San Bernardino

J.a.coyle-shapiro@lse.ac.uk

Juli Huang is Senior Lecturer and economic anthropologist whose research focuses on social enterprise and the use of new technologies, approaches to data and markets, and moral logics for money's circulation in the pursuit of social and environmental aims. She is Founding Co-Director of the MSc Data, Inequality & Society Programme at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh Futures Institute).

University of Edinburgh

juli.huang@ed.ac.uk

Kenneth Amaeshi is a Professor of Business and Sustainable Development at the University of Edinburgh, and a Professor of Sustainable Finance at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is also the Chief Economic Adviser to the Imo State Government, Nigeria, where he is championing the One Kindred One Business Initiative (OKOBI) – a group-based entrepreneurship programme with a significant impact on grassroots economic development.

University of Edinburgh and the European University Institute

Kenneth.amaeshi@eui.eu

Pankaj Jain is a Senior Research Fellow of Practice and was professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India. Since 2000, he has pioneered innovative and cost-effective schooling solutions, addressing the needs of socio-economically disadvantaged children, under the Gyan Shala program.

pjain2002@yahoo.com

Paroma Bhattacharya is the Head of Social Innovation at LSE Generate, where she leads research and program delivery in social innovation. Her research focuses on social innovation, entrepreneurship, and early-stage social venture development, particularly in emerging economies.

London School of Economics and Political Science

p.bhattacharya@lse.ac.uk

Ralph Hamann is Professor and Deputy Director: Faculty and Research at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. He works on business sustainability and social innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the co-founder of the Embedding Project (South African) and the Southern Africa Food Lab.

University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business

ralph.hamann@uct.ac.za

Soydan Soylu is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology and the Leader of the Science and Technology Communication Research Cluster at Middlesex University Business School. His research interests include the dark side of workplace behaviours, open social innovation, intergroup relations, and the determinants of societal inequality.

Middlesex University

s.soylu@mdx.ac.uk

Tim Weiss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College, studying urban informal economies and technology ventures in Nairobi, Kenya. He is cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Network for Technology and Entrepreneurship Research in Africa (INTERA) and editor of Digital Kenya: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making. 

Imperial College

timweiss@imperial.ac.uk

Natasha Haffajee is a people practices leader with 15 years of experience advocating for youth empowerment, gender equality, and creating environments that foster success. She collaborates on bold projects with the Reach Alliance to uplift hard-to-reach communities and, as a Research Fellow at the Social Innovation Lab, supports research on social and environmental business models in South Africa.

University of Cape Town

HFFNAT@myuct.ac.za 

Wenbo Zheng is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with extensive experience in the international corporate sectors of FinTech and advertising agency. Her research explores decision-making factors that impact mobile money interoperability as a practice to promote financial inclusion.

University of Cape Town

ZHNWEN003@myuct.ac.za