Associate Professor, ESADE Business School
Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor at ESADE Business School and set up its Center for Social Impact. She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, impact investment, and impact measurement and contributes to both policy and practice. Lisa’s research explores how enterprises and funders develop and measure impactful solutions and how multiple and diverse field actors generate institutional contexts that enable such work to flourish. She has published in the most prestigious academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Business Ethics, 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), 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.