Financing Social Entrepreneurship: doing well by being philanthropic

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 5 focused on Financing Social Entrepreneurship.


o Dr. Giedre Lideikyte Huber, Senior Lecturer (tax), Faculty of Law and GCP (UNIGE), Switzerland
o Philipp Fischer, Attorney at Law, Partner, Oberson Abels avocats, Geneva; Academic fellow GCP (UNIGE), Switzerland
o Karen Wilson, Senior Advisor at the Centre on Wellbeing, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE), OECD, Paris, France; Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, U.K.
o Prof. Sigrid Hemels, State Councillor at the Dutch Council of State; Professor of Tax Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Law, Netherlands; visiting Professor in Tax Law, Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden
o Peter Hinton, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, U.K.
o Luvuyo Rani, Co-Founder and CEO at Silulo Ulutho Technologies, South-Africa


Conclusions
- Prof. Henry Peter, Head of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy of the University of Geneva (GCP), Switzerland
- Prof. Giulia Neri-Castracane, Faculty of Law, UNIGE, Switzerland
- Vincent Pfammatter, Attorney at Law, Partner, sigma legal, Geneva; Academic fellow GCP (UNIGE), Switzerland
- Dr. Livia Ventura, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), U.K.; Academic Fellow GCP (UNIGE), Switzerland; Adjunct Professor of Private Comparative Law, LUISS Guido Carli Law Department, Rome, Italy
- Dr. François Bonnici, Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Head of Social Innovation, World Economic Forum
- Dr. Giedre Lideikyte Huber
- Philipp Fischer