The Ashoka Visionary Alumnae*i Network provides alumni with the opportunity to stay connected, to contribute to the program and to deepen their experience in follow-up events and projects.
Alumnae/i
Vadim is an Information Engineering Incubator for young people from the age of 12, aimed at solving knowledge-intensive and technological challenges from customers from the real sector of the economy.
Vadim Poluga
Christoph, who is a business economist by profession, is the Founder & Director of Steinbeis Consulting Center Circular Economy and materialkreislauf.
Christoph Soukup
Jose is the Founder and Director of Lincoln Island Initiatives.
Jose Morales
Violeta Philippitsch joined Umweltbundesamt (Environment Agency Austria) in 2005.
Violeta Philippitsch
Ole Kassow, Founder of Cycling Without Age, is a changemaker and a social entrepreneur.
Ole Kassow
Simona is Vice President, Founder, Communication and Growth Director NEVER GIVE UP Onlus (NPO) for beating Feeding and Eating Disorders.
Simona Sinesi
Claudia has been managing the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft since 2001. She implemented a reform and a new strategy process for the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and is responsible for its strategic direction.
Claudia Lingner
Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
In 2014, Katharina joined the European Forum Alpbach (EFA) Foundation as Head of scholarship programme.
Katharina Okulski
Born and raised in Vienna, Christina has an academic background in economics as well as international relations with a focus on cross border environmental topics. She values interdisciplinary and is convinced that this is a key approach to work on current and future complex issues.
Christina Kauer
Michael is currently establishing a global information hub for people with disabilities by utilizing a social franchise system. He is also Managing Director of the Foundation MyHandicap which is serving about 10 Mio. people annually with information about disability related topics in the German speaking areas.
Michael Lorz
Elisabeth Pipic currently works for the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF), a public fund and partner of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.
Elisabeth Pipic
OIF
Emilie is the Co-Director of Ashoka Switzerland. She is responsible for building and managing international partnerships to support social entrepreneurs in scaling up their impact globally, and co-leads the Ashoka Support Network, a global community of committed leaders who stand by and advance Ashoka’s vision.
Emilie Romon
Zeina is an Education and Youth Empowerment-ish social entrepreneur.
Zeina Awaydate
Anna is the assistant to VIP & Exhibitor Relations in the Vienna Contemporary Artfair.
Agnes Schillhuber
Katerina is the Executive director of Embassy of Sustainable Thinking, a Hub and Coworking Snemovni 7 in the center of Prague, where individuals and businesses network, educate and co-work and where a new community of social innovators has been arising.
Katerina Bursikova Jacques
Mustapha Jazar is a professor in the mathematics department at Lebanese University in Tripoli, Lebanon. In 2008 he founded the Lebanese Association for Scientific Research (LASeR), and in 2013 LASeR created an academic programme for refugees in Lebanon.
Mustapha Jazar
LASeR
Harald is designer, design theorist and curator. He is partner at the design studio EOOS and director and founder of the IDRV - Institute of Design Research Vienna. He is specialized in the research and application of social and sustainable design strategies.
Harald Gründl
Andrea works as an independent artist, thus initiating creative collaboration since 2012. She has been leading workshops in Berlin, the North Sea, Jerusalem, Kathmandu, Madrid and the South Caucasus. In 2016, she co-founded the TRANSCULTURAL ART LAB (T.A.L.) – an annual artistic future laboratory, connecting creators from the South Caucasus and Germany.
Andrea Martens
Andreas Papp is an aid worker who began his professional engagement in humanitarian assistance in 2004 as Logistic Administrator with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in West Darfur. After this initial assignment, he continued coordinating missions on project or country level in Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq. He is the Director and Founder of Andreas Papp Consulting e.U.
Andreas Papp
Helmut is part of the Management Board of ÖCZ and therein responsible for the areas of Controlling, Accounting, Human Resources, Institutional Partnership, Quality Management and Organization.
Helmut Rauth
Caritas Austria
Jindra is a director of the Albatros Foundation founded by the largest publishing house in Czechia. They work with Romani children and with children from poor families and help them to access quality kindergartens or to study at secondary schools.
Jindra Marešová
From mid-May 2018, Magdalena is the CEE Director for Climate-KIC, a European leading climate innovation organization. She is a professional manager with diversified experience in leading and developing organizations.
Magdalena Dul-Komosińska
Climate-KIC
Christian is working as head of the project department of the association in support of the blind and visually impaired in Austria (HGBS).
Christian Vogelauer
Heidrun is a marketing expert. In 2013, she founded her own consulting company called Gruber-Grösswang Consulting to support companies and regions in their marketing, product development, innovation strategies and brand positioning.
Heidrun Gruber-Grösswang
Gruber-Grösswang Consulting
Since 2019 Natalia has been chairwoman of the Expert Council for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship under the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship in the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation.
Natalia Peryazeva
Karsten is a member of the Ashoka Support Network, member of the Singularity University community and he supports Endeavor Global for selecting and mentoring high-impact Entrepreneurs around the world.
Karsten Ottenberg
In addition to her work as chairwoman of Grow Together, Katharina works as a pediatrician at the "Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital" in Vienna as the head of the child protection group and the "Baby Care Department".
Katharina Kruppa
Responsible for regional cooperation strategies in East Africa and South Caucasus, as well as East- and Southeast Europe, he has a proven experience in Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Community- based Health and Care programs.
Eduard Trampusch
Osterreichisches Rotes Kreuz
In 2018, Ahmad was selected to be a Lazord Fellow at Jon. D Gerhart Center for philanthropy and responsible business at The American University in Cairo for his contributions to the social development field.
Ahmad Abdelgalil
Muhammad is working as CEO of Talents Academy - an educational and social enterprise that is meant to promote social change, with a vision to develop and raise talents and excellence in Arab society in Israel. He has well-grounded knowledge of many social and governmental programs.
Muhammad Farhan
Andrew manages the Greece operations of the Costas M. Lemos Foundation, a philanthropic foundation which focusses on the marine environment and unemployed youth. This involves oversight of all donations, processes and communications of the Foundation’s Greek activities.
Andrew Spyrou
Hisham is the Regional Director for the Arab World at Synergos, focusing on the promotion of social entrepreneurship, youth volunteerism and employment. Under Hisham's leadership, Synergos has built the largest network of social entrepreneurs in the region, and strengthened the skills and employability of over 5000 young people.
Hisham El Rouby
Amira believes in the power of Changemakers, she has 8 years of experience in different fields mainly Sales, Marketing and Training with a recent experience in civil development.
Amira Saber
Abla is a senior consultant of neonatal intensive care and continuing medical education, worked in Egypt and in several other countries and currently affiliated to Children and Women Specialty hospital, Al Galaa Military Complex .
Abla Alalfy
Abbass is the founder and director of Al-Manarah (Lighthouse) Association, established in 2005 to improve the lives and status of Arab persons with disabilities in Israel.
Abbass Abbass
Webpage
Adnane is an Ashoka Fellow who has committed his life to work in the MENA region, particularly Morocco, enabling creative thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation for the common good.
Adnane Addioui
Webpage
Artur Nadcrinicinii is a freelance consultant with over 15 years professional experience in international cooperation and development.
Artur Nadcrinicinii
Aziza is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of Omnis Institute, an independent organisation dedicated to amplifying the voices of marginalised and underrepresented local social leaders, particularly youth, women and minorities.
Aziza Khabbush
Omnis Institute
Elik is the Vice President social programs of Dualis fund for social investments which work with social business that employs underprivileged populations.
Elik Almog
Dualis social investment fund
Eman is currently working in Nazareth Municipality as Advisor of the general director for economic development.
Eman Bsoul
Giannis is a social entrepreneurship development officer at Athens Development and Destination Management Agency.
Giannis Vikas
Athens Development & Destination Management Agency
Gil is currently a business consultant to the company in the area of information security, as well as an investor in real estate.
Gil Tsabari
Guy is CEO of Midot, an NPO working to promote effectiveness and impact among government, social investors and NPOs.
Guy Beigel
Midot
Josep is a ‘societal’ innovator and policy maker more than anything else. He is used to working with practitioners, business, and NGO staff, in a non-profit/for profit environment, both as a facilitator and manager.
Josep Miro
JovesLab
Katja has been working for 17 years at Deloitte as a consultant, in 2018 she started a social business with the idea of building bridges between Europe and Middle Eastern countries.
Katja Teuchmann
Safa East Venture e.U.
Melek is the Founder of the Turkish Women’s International Network, a global sisterhood network for change, and BinYaprak, a digital sisterhood circle for women of Turkey to empower each other.
Melek Pulatkonak
TurkishWIN & BinYaprak
Michal is Director Employment and Economic Program in the village of Jisr al-Zarqa. She gave birth to the Zarqa Gallery, a work and creative space for the women of the community.
Michal Sadeh
In 2012, Obayda founded Sanad Youth Association, which aims to improve the well-being of Palestinian youth living in the Triangle Region.
Obayda Abo Asbeh
Sanad Yoth Association
The founder of "home ground" - an Israeli registered charity based in Tel Aviv, Israel which offer a completely unique and innovative way of supporting homeless people through the game of soccer.
Ori Shoham
atidim
Silvia cumulated professional experience around the issues of Youth, Peace and Social Finance. She is now catalyising innovation at Bottega Terzo Settore, a brand-new impact hub.
Silvia Silvozzi
Bottega Terzo Settore - Fondazione Carisap
Barbara works as Regional Manager for the Institute for Inclusive Education in Kiel, Germany. The Institute developed the first qualification for people with intellectual disabilities which enables them to work at universities.
Barbara Mayrhofer
Institute for Inclusive Education
Clarissa is Co-Leader of the EU-funded ERASMUS+-project “Society in motion” with colleagues from Norway (Bergen School of Architecture) and Austria (University of Applied Arts).
Clarissa Rhomberg
Society in motion
Claudia has been managing the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft since 2001. She implemented a reform and a new strategy process for the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and is responsible for its strategic direction.
Claudia Lingner
Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
With her organisation, dahir, Dagmar is developing a new standard for the field of property management and low-income tenants, putting the tenant’s needs at the centre and empowering them as co-creators.
Dagmar Kotzmuth
dahir
Since 2014 Tomas became Managing Director of the Karel Janecek Foundation. They have 3 main programs - Education, Social innovations and Kindness.
Tomas Reminek
Raluca is working as a Sustainability Specialist in Enel Romania, a multi-national power company and a leading integrated player in the world’s power and gas markets, with the aim of tackling business issues, creating value both for the company and its stakeholders.
Raluca Cocuz
Enel Romania
Andrea has exhaustive consulting experience, besides she was part of the Corporate Citizenship Core team Vienna for multiple years and took over the lead role in Austria about 6 months ago.
Andrea Kretschmer
Accenture
Masha has 15 years of experience in philanthropy and capacity building in democratization and development. At Open Society Initiative for Europe she leads grant support to development of policy research and think tanks in the Western Balkans
Masha Djordjevic
Open Society Foundations
Radek transforms the current unfair ecosystem of debt, spur close cooperation among key actors and bring a million of over-indebted and excluded Czech citizens back to society.
Radek Habl
Webpage
Alexandra has been working in the financing sector in Germany and Austria. She experienced a reat variety of positions, in banking, ranging from international syndicated loans, structured finance& funding and capital markets.
Alexandra Nitzlader
HYPO NOE Gruppe Bank
Stefanie´s vocation lies in maintaining and nurturing institutional networks, in building bridges and connecting people and organizations from diverging sectors.
Stefanie Kirwald
With Developing Neighborhood Institute, Michael solves the problem of dissatisfaction with the basic needs of low-income people who experience difficult life situations.
Mikhail Rodin
Stefanie has been working in the Legal Department of the OPEC Fund for International Development for the past five years. As an executive assistant she is managing the in- and outgoing workflow and communication of the department.
Stefanie Kotrba
Milica is a Head of Communications/CSR at Western Union International Bank.
Milica Akzentic
Western Union International Bank
Nicole has more than 20 years experience in the international nonprofit and social development sector with SOS Children’s Villages International. Focus: Africa, the Middle East and Gulf, Europe and Eastern Europe.
Nicole Nassar
SOS Children’s Villages International
BABYOU is for women with problems or complications during pregnancy. BABYOU provides you with information & support & community.
Mariella Gebhardt
Babyou
Since 2018, Anna has been concentrating on the internal organization and process orientation regarding legal, financial and personnel related topics at ASHOKA in Central and Eastern Europe
Anna Schaden
Ashoka CEE
Linda has been involved for more than 15 years in adult education, leadership and diversity. In 2018, she founded her own company Diversio with the aim to support women in expert functions and to connect business and academia.
Linda Štucbartová
Diversio
Ksenia is a coach, trainer in the field of social projects’ management, social innovations, leadership, manager of local and international social initiatives. Her main project is Laboratory of social initiatives / Social Lab “City for life”.
Kseniia Stepanenko
He is member of the Ashoka Support Network and runs the family-owned company Magovox whose purpose is to support local initiatives in the fields of education, psychology and democracy.
Krzysztof Rutkowski
Jeremy is the executive director of Transitions (TOL), one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading media development organizations, and editor in chief of TOL's flagship publication,Transitions Online.
Jeremy Druker
TOL
The object of the organisation “Landschaftspflegeverein Thermenlinie – Wienerwald – Wiener Becken” is to protect and maintain about 500 hectares of valuable & threatened habitats by accessing and involving local people in nature-conservation.
Irene Drodzowski
Blühendes Österreich
Since 2018, Gabriela has been aiming at building up strategic community partnerships among social entrepreneurs and business at Ashoka Czech Republic.
Gabriela Vondrusova
Ashoka Czech Republic
Florin is catalyzing a citizen-driven movement for the creation of a functional system for protected areas in Romania.
Florin Stoican
Buila Vânturarița National Park and Vacaresti Natural Park
Florian manages Ashoka's community of Fellows based, or active, in the UK. He leads on events in the UK and organises a European wide event in Germany for young social entrepreneurs. Passion: system change and impact measurement.
Florian Rutsch
Ashoka UK
Andreja has more than 14 years of experience in social finance & social enterprise in Europe, Western Balkans, Eastern Neighbourhood. She is founder of the craft for intellectual services providing mentoring, coaching, consulting and trainings.
Andreja Rosandic
Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb
Walter is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teach For Austria. He brought the model of Teach For All to Austria, which is working in 46 countries.
Walter Emberger
Teach for Austria
Oxana is director of corporate university at MTS – the leading telecom operator in Russia. She is responsible for all aspects in the appraisal, training, and leadership and culture development.
Oxana Kukharchuk
MTS University
Niki is Teach For Austria Fellow. Formerly he was Managing Director of his family’s business "Griller Kabel" supplying electrification hardware solutions to industry and car manufacturing.
Niki Griller
Teach for Austria
Kerstin is a passionate bridgebuilder between cultures. As founder and CEO of destination:development she designs tourism destinations worth living in, creating spaces forauthentic and pleasant encounters between locals and visitors.
Kerstin Dohnal
destination:development
As European Integrator at Ashoka, Karin aims to strengthen the collaboration between the 18 European Ashoka offices. As trainer and facilitator she supports companies in the public/private sector.
Karin Haselböck
Ashoka
Klara is the chairwoman of the Czech Expert Society for Inclusive Education, the leader of the Czech Government Committee on the Rights of the Child and also the Minister of Social Affairs advisor. She is also an Ashoka Fellow.
Klara Laurencikova
Klara is a Yoga Teacher, Coach, Health Guide and Entrepreneur.
Klara Michel
Elisabeth heads Julius Raab Stiftung. Formerly, she has been working experience in fields such as renewable energy, communication and strategic consultancy and political organisations.
Elisabeth Mayerhofer
Julius Raab Foundation
Julia is an executive coach and management consultant. Her work area is Cultural Transformation in combination with Leadership Development.
Julia Culen
Culen Mayhofer Partner
Beata is Executive Director of International Visegrad Fund, former Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Poland, lawyer, negotiator and long-term civil servant.
Beata Jaczewska
Visegrad Fund
Formerly Communications Manager at Ashoka Austria/CEE and organizer of the Visionary Program in Vienna, Carina is currently working for SwissProsthetics as Marketing Manager
Carina Linzer
Through Jambo Bukoba, Clemens uses the power of sports to improve education, health and gender equality in Tanzania.
Clemens Mulokozi
Jambo Bukoba
Karin is a facilitator and activist who focuses on bridging the gap between NGO needs and political and structural requirements – in the field of services for persons with disabilities.
Karin Ondas
Sozialwirtschaft Steiermark
Manuela is working at the nonprofit foundation Blühendes Österreich that helps maintain naturally sensitive habitats. She heads Austria’s only NPO women‘s network based in Vienna.
Manuela Achitz
Blühendes Österreich
Andrea is Chief of Staff of International Visegrad Fund, leading the ongoing reform aiming at achieving higher impact via Fund´s main tools.
Andrea Babcanova
Visegrad Fund
Livio founded Venture4Impact, a network of advisors with the mission of reinforcing the bridge between finance and philanthropy.
Livio Scalvini
Venture4Impact
Andrea has 20 years of broad international experience as sales executive and business developer in the IT sector. Andrea is enthusiastic about bringing her skills to projects that foster disruptive social innovation to make this world a better place.
Andrea Mörike
Mörike Consultant
Gernot is the founder of Zeitpolster. He is an Ashoka Fellow and a member of the Make moore health network.
Gernot Jochum-Müller
Zeitpolster
Andra is a social entrepreneur having founded Younited Cultures. She also works for the Hil Foundation as project manager and is a mentor for im/migrants in various programs.
Andra Slaats
Younited Cultures
Matthias is expert for software projects in the industrial environment and social innovation in the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.
Matthias Weichhart
Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Alexander is co-founder of Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania, and NGO which currently employs 50 staff. His entrepreneurial spirit is reflected in running a financial self-sufficient training centre for farmers.
Alexander Wostry
Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania
Ondřej is building an impact investing and venture philanthropy ecosystem in the Czech Republic. He heads the Ceska sporitelna Foundation and the Depositum Bonum Foundation.
Ondrej Zapletal
Depositum Bonum Foundation
Abu is the co-founderof Village Energy Limited a social enterprise that runs franchised solar shops that deliver quality products and ensure effective access to skilled solar technicians.
Abu Musuuza
Village Energy Uganda
Sheila is a social entrepreneur, a lawyer by training and a passionate advocate for progressive rural community development at grass root level.
Sheila Alumo
Sonja is member of an expert team in the European Commission (DG NEAR) where she provides strategic guidance on strengthening the enabling environment for civil society in the countries pursuing EU accession.
Sonja Nita
European Commission
Armand has the vision to make investments transparent for everyone and to help private investors align their personal values with investment decisions. He worked at WWF Austria for 10 years before founding ESG Plus in 2015.
Armand Colard
ESG PLUS
Christoph has a strong interest in environmental issues, especially climate change mitigation. Since 2008 he works for the Climate and Energy Fund of the Austrian Government.
Christoph Wolfsegger
Klimafonds
Andras is the Executive Director of Justice Rapid Response. He is a Canadian diplomat, who was selected to this position by JRR’s Executive Board.
Andras Vamos-Goldman
Justice Rapid Response
Kataryna is co-founder/president of Panoptykon Foundation, vice-president of European Digital Rights, board member of Tactical Technology Collective and Amnesty International (Poland).
Kataryna Szymielewicz
Fundacja Panoptykon
Dieter has experience as senior executive in the Consumer Goods industry. He has a big passion for developing sustainable consumer businesses.
Dieter Schulz
Danone Central and Southern Europe
Elisabeth has been working in international aid with different NGOs for 15 years. Since then, she has worked in Austria, Eastern Europe, Africa, and with Brussels, the Middle East and Asia.
Elisabeth Schreiber
CARE
Georg is CFO of AGES - the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety - one of Europe's leading organisations in risk minimisation in health, food safety and consumer protection.
Georg Schönberger
AGES
Edit is a social scientist and founder of Women without Borders, an NGO based in Vienna, Austria. She strengthens women’s capabilities through education, collaboration and self-confidence.
Edit Schlaffer
Women without Borders
Doris works as a curator, art manager, consultant and author focussing on the intersection between art, creativity, economy & society.
Doris Rothauer
Büro für Transfer
A lawyer by training and a care-giver by calling, Samira works through her PeopleShare Foundation to mobilize people around the world to empower echildren.
Samira Rauter
People Share Foundation
Gebhard is co-CEO of Teach For Austria, where he is in charge of the areas of Program, HR, Finance, Marketing, Legal and Leadership Development.
Gebhard Ottacher
Teach for Austria
Matthias is the founder of interprAID. He has a background in Development Studies, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing.
Matthias Monreal
interprAID
Jozef’s interest in the field of abandoned children and children’s rights has a long history. He designed and manages a new family-centered model and push for reforms
Jozef Miklosko
Úsmev ako dar/Smile as a Gift
Noa is founder of several initiatives. Driven by her conviction that the world urgently needed to rethink its definition of juvenile justice, she founded the NGO Young in Prison in 2002.
Noa Lodeizen
Young In Prison
Marie is a psychologist and coach with a major in educational and organizational psychology. She was also working for Teach for Austria, an education initiative.
Marie Langer
Teach for Austria
Elisabeth managed the organization Specialisterne Austria. She is specialized in teaching integrated museum methods and improvisation theater skills.
Elisabteh Krön
Specialsterne
Aleksandra works as an independent expert for Brussels-based non-profit organisation – AEIDL – facilitating transnational cooperation between Member States.
Aleksandra Kowalska
AEIDL
David has worked in IT-trading , formed a trading company and another one in telecoms before joining the social sector with SOS-Children’s Villages about 11 years ago.
David Katzlinger
SOS KINDERDORF
Hannes is the managing director of the Tobacco Monopoly Agency. He also gives strategic guidance to the ministry of finance.
Hannes Hofer
Monopolverwaltung
Reinhard worked 5 years as a development worker in Ecuador. Coming back to Austria, he co-founded the NGO JUGEND EINE WELT.
Reinhard Heiserer
Jugend eine Welt
After working for the ministry of finance in Vienna and other ministries Nina started to work for NGOs in the develpment aid field.
Nina Hechenberger
Volkshilfe
Helga is Head of Care and Specialist Counselling at HABIT with responsibility for managing and coordinating nursing care and the multidisciplinary specialist counselling team.
Helga Haselmayer
Haus der Barmherzigkeit
Alexander is enthusiastic about bringing his years of consulting expertise in business development and strategy to projects that can change the world.
Alexander Ertler
Ashod is a business and project development executive, offering 10+ years proven success in achieving goals in the NGO sphere.
Ashod Derandonyan
Union of the deaf in Bulgaria
Alice is working for the Essl Foundation. Other occupations: Co-founder of the NGO Echo100 Plus, co-founder of the Social Kitchen Club, Board-Member of the Kahane Foundation.
Alice Kahane
Essl Foundation
Christoph was born and raised in Vienna and has been active in municipal politics for 25 years.
Christoph Chorherr
Die Grünen
Iva works in NGO FOKUS České Budějovice as project manager and as an evaluator. FOKUS České Budějovice provide social, health and job services for people with mental illness.
Iva Černá
FOKUS České Budějovice
Flaviano is an Italian environmentalist and activist. He he founded Source International, a non-profit organization that deals with human rights abuses caused by extractive industries.
Flaviano Bianchini
Source International
Stefan is a business coach, consulting and coaching assignments and an investor in worldwide business development projects.
Stephan Dertnig
DD Management & Advisory
As Federal Rescue Commander, Gerry is responsible for deployment, innovation and investments in the Austrian Red Cross, General Secretariat.
Gerry Foitik
Red Cross Austria
Georg Schön
Michael Hagelmüller
Raphaela Toncic-Sorinj
Sandy Croatto
Currently active in Venice, Italy the mission of Venezia Autentica is to increase the retention of tourism revenue in the destination by empowering both travelers and local businesses.