Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at
Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Investigador, GRIIS - Grupo de investigación en Innovación Social
Biography
Guillermo Casasnovas is Assistant Professor at Esade's department of Society, Politics,
and Sustainability, and he is affiliated with the Esade Center for Social Impact and
the Institute for Social Innovation. He teaches and researches on the fields of social
entrepreneurship and impact investing. His research looks at the formation of markets
at the intersection of 'business and society' from an economic sociology perspective.
He focuses on the early moments of those markets as well as on processes of intermediation
and policy support. He has studied extensively the cases of the UK and Spain's impact
investing fields.Guillermo studied his PhD at Saïd Business School, University of
Oxford, and he was an Early Career Research Fellow at Oxford's Skoll Centre for Social
Entrepreneurship. Before his academic career, he worked in the Corporate Finance industry
at Deloitte, running the Momentum Project social acceleration program at Esade, and
as lecturer and consultant at the Central American University UCA in Nicaragua.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 5899
Fax: +34 932 048 105