lisa hehenberger

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 Board Member of the GSMA Foundation, an Impact Advisory Board Member of Rubio Impact Ventures, an Impact Committee member of Suma Capital’s climate fund and sits on the advisory boards of impact investing fund Creas, of Seastainable Ventures and of Lyfebulb. She is on the Scientific Board of the OECD Global Action ""Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems"". 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, co-developing a European Standard on Social Impact Measurement and the guidance documents for the development of the European Union’s financing instruments to foster the Social Economy. 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.

Dr. Hehenberger 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. 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.