The role of public and non-profit sectors for social entrepreneurship INTRODUCTION / WORKSHOP 1

This workshop is part of the International conference “Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy – Forthcoming Challenges and Realities” that took place in June 2022, in partnership with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Conference gathered some of the most prominent scholars in the field as well as government representatives and other important stakeholders engaged in fostering social entrepreneurship. It aimed at stimulating the development, exchange, and dissemination of ideas related to this social entrepreneurship.
Workshop 1 focused on the role of public and non-profit sectors for social entrepreneurship.

Key Speech by Helen Haugh: “How can public and non-profit sectors sustain the social enterprise movement?”
Panel discussion on “How could public and non-profit sectors better help the social enterprise movement and what should be changed or done therefore?”
Moderation by Prof. Giulia Neri-Castracane



o Prof. Henry Peter, Head of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy of the University of Geneva (GCP), Switzerland
o Prof. Giulia Neri-Castracane, Faculty of Law, UNIGE, Switzerland
o Prof. Helen Haugh, Associate Professor in Community Enterprise and Research Director, Centre for Social Innovation, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, U.K.
o Prof. Rana Dajani, Founder Taghyeer/ We Love Reading, Jordan; Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A.
o Prof. Paulo Gonçalves, Professor of Management and Director of the Humanitarian Operations Group, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
o Marcello Palazzi, Co-Founder, B Lab Europe & Global Ambassador, B Corps, Netherlands