Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Directora - Esade Center for Social Impact, ECSI - Esade Center for Social Impact
Investigador, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Biography
Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and General
Management at ESADE Business School and Director of its Center for Social Impact.
She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact
investment, and impact measurement. Dr. Hehenberger is the Chief Impact Advisor of
Oryx Impact, a fund of funds investing in African impact funds, 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, a group of leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship,
and is a member of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium set up
by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. She sits on the advisory boards
of impact investing fund Creas, as well as Seastainable Ventures and Lyfebulb. Dr.
Hehenberger served on the European Commission's Expert Group on Social Business GECES
for almost ten years, and was a member of the OECD's Social Impact Investment Expert
group. She 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 and helped launch the Spanish National Advisory Board SpainNAB for the Global
Steering Group on Impact Investing GSG for which ECSI is now the academic partner.
She was a member of the Academic Working Group on Impact Measurement and Management
of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship CASE at Duke with the
United Nations Development Program UNDP that developed the Coursera course on the
SDG Impact Standards. She has advised organizations such as World Wide Fund for Nature,
Repsol Foundation, and Meridia Capital Partners on their impact investment strategies.
For six years, she was the Research and Policy Director of the European Venture Philanthropy
Association EVPA, the pan-European association for venture philanthropy and social
impact investment. Dr. Hehenberger's research focuses on market building as an entrepreneurial
project in the contexts of social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, and impact
investing. She is the author of numerous books, policy papers, and practitioner reports
and has published in the most prestigious academic peer-reviewed journals in management,
such as the Academy of Management Journal, as well as in practitioner-oriented publications,
such as Stanford Social Innovation Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She has
served as advisor to the EU-funded research projects SEFORIS social entrepreneurship
for innovative and inclusive societies and ITSSOIN impact of the third sector as social
innovation. Dr. Hehenberger launched the ESADE Center for Social Impact, through which
she is engaged in numerous research projects and set up ESADE's impact community and
the Social Impact Lab of the MBA to connect ESADE students with the impact sector.
Dr. Hehenberger 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.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2709
Fax: +34 932 048 105