Participants

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.

Christian is working as head of the project department of the association in support of the blind and visually impaired in Austria (HGBS).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When she joined Ashoka in Summer 2019, Agnes did Communications at Ashoka Austria and Program Management of the Visionary Program.

Zeina is an Education and Youth Empowerment-ish social entrepreneur.

Emilie is a Partnership Manager at Ashoka, based in Geneva. 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.

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.

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.

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.

In 2014, Katharina joined the European Forum Alpbach (EFA) Foundation as Head of scholarship programme.

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.

Simona is Vice President, Founder, Communication and Growth Director NEVER GIVE UP Onlus (NPO) for beating Feeding and Eating Disorders.

Ole Kassow, Founder of Cycling Without Age, is a changemaker and a social entrepreneur.

Violeta Philippitsch joined Umweltbundesamt (Environment Agency Austria) in 2005.

Stefan Lilischkis is a senior researcher and consultant at empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH in Bonn, Germany.

After six years of experience talking, mentoring, coaching persons from more than 10 countries, Jose wishes to go on!

Christoph, who is a business economist by profession, strives for a role where he can reconcile commercial with social and ecological paradigms.