Visiting Scholars

Lucy Bernholz

Lucy Bernholz is the Founder and President of Blueprint Research & Design Inc., which she recently sold to Arabella Philanthropic Advisors. She has worked as a program officer and consultant to foundations since 1990. Bernholz founded Blueprint Research & Design, Inc in 1997 as a means of pursuing a lifelong interest in the shifting relationships between society's definitions of public and private and to help grant makers make better use of applied research. Bernholz will be joining PACS for a two year research sabbatical through the 2012-2013 academic year.

Susan Liautaud

She is the Founder and Director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, a UK-based advisory f irm on ethics matters internationally. She also founded Imaginer Consulting Limited, a non-profit consulting firm (UK registered charity) advising non-profit organisations internationally on strategy, governance and accountability, ethics, and management/board relations, now the pro bono division of SLAL. Her prior professional experience includes international corporate and financial law at Sullivan & Cromwell and serving as Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs and Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science; a JD from Columbia University Law School; a M.A. in Chinese Studies from University of London School of Oriental and African Studies; and a M.A. and two B.A.s from Stanford University.

Johanna Mair

Johanna Mair is the Hewlett Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). She served on the faculty at IESE Business School from 2001 to 2011 and is currently at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin as a Professor of Management, Organization and Leadership. She is also a Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. Johanna has held a visiting positions at the Harvard Business School, was recognized as a "Faculty Pioneer" for Social Entrepreneurship Education by the Aspen Institute. She is the co-editor of three books on social entrepreneurship and has published in leading academic journals. Before earning her Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD (France), Johanna was directly involved in executive decision-making in international banking. Today, alongside her academic responsibilities, she chairs the Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation of the World Economic Forum, carries out consultancy and board work for multinational companies, the United Nations, foundations and social venture funds.

Christian Seelos

Christian Seelos is a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Most recently he served as the Director of the IESE Platform for Strategy and Sustainability and a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School. He teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Global Strategic Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Sustainability. Christian researches the interface between organizational strategy and global sustainability including social innovation, new business models for poverty alleviation, climate change and water stress. The Strategic Management Society recognized his recent research on innovative corporate strategies in emerging markets with the Best Paper Award for Practice Implications and also the Gold Price of the highly contested IFC-FT essay competition on private sector development. He has published more than 60 papers in peer-review journals in the natural- and social sciences, held managerial positions in the private industry and served as Senior Adviser to the Chairman at the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) and led inspection and disarmament efforts on biological weapons in Iraq.

Bruce Sievers

Bruce Sievers is a Senior Fellow of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Consulting Director of the Skirball Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the Haas Center for Public Service, and former Director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Sievers consults with Stanford faculty, students, and staff on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. He teaches an undergraduate course on civil society and the nonprofit sector. He is also currently writing a book, tentatively titled Between Public and Private: Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the Fate of the Commons.

Visiting Practitioners

Alexa Culwell

For nearly two decades, Alexa managed foundations and philanthropic initiatives for successful entrepreneurs who leveraged money, influence and knowledge to drive social change.  She served as the CEO of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation from then she was CEO of the Stupski Foundation.  She is also a partner of SV2 and a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley.  She has built and managed foundations and philanthropic initiatives for successful entrepreneurs that leveraged money, influence and knowledge to drive social change. Her work has been cited in Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review and by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

C.R. Hibbs

C.R. Hibbs is a Visiting Practitioner at Stanford University's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. Her current work, which includes consulting to private foundation clients, focuses on integrating organizational capacity and strategy, philanthropic training and learning, and fostering communities of practitioners for collective social impact. Before coming to PACS, C.R. served as Senior Advisor to the President of the Hewlett Foundation. She also spent ten years as a program officer and the managing director for Mexico for the Hewlett Foundation's Global Development Program. In that capacity, Ms. Hibbs established the Hewlett Foundation’s Mexico City office, and developed a portfolio of grants that contributed to significant justice reform and transparency and accountability reforms in Mexico. For a short video of her work fostering collective impact in Mexico click here.

Hideyuki Inoue

Since 2000, Hideyuki Inoue has launched many different ventures for market formation in his area of expertise, Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. At Keio University he has been involved in developing new courses in subjects like Social Entrepreneurship and also launched the Social Innovator course at graduate level. He also set up Social Venture Partners Tokyo, a place where theories can be put into practice and further research for social innovation can be explored through projects at a larger scale. As an International Fellowship fellow, he aims to contribute to the fundamental advancement of Japan’s civil sector by working on the following: disseminating information on social entrepreneurship and innovation that is happening in Japan to the global community, building an organic relationship between Japan and the global civil sector, and further strengthening relations with Asia.

Yuki Inoue

Since 2004, Yuki had been working in Caux Round Table, an international network of business leaders working to promote corporate social responsibility. In 2007, Yuki joined the Keio University Research Institute of SFC as a Senior Visiting Fellow conducting the Designing Social Innovation projects to broadly spread the concepts of "theory of change" and "scaling out"  in social entrepreneurship in Japan. Since 2007, Yuki has served as a consultant for social entrepreneurship businesses on strategic planning, program construction to increase their impact on society. Shortly after joining Keio University, Yuki became a member of Social Venture Partners Tokyo, a venture philanthropy organization which supports social entrepreneurship in Japan. Most recently, Yuki co-founded a new social enterprise, Inno-Lab International.

Jessica Jackley

Jessica Jackley is a Visiting Practitioner at Stanford University's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. She is the Co-Founder of Kiva that initiated the movement to match donors/investors with social entrepreneurs globally while she was earning her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.  She recently launched and is Founder of Profounder. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 2011 World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader, and serves as an active board member on several organizations championing women, microfinance, tech, and the arts, including Opportunity International, the International Museum of Women, and Allowance for Good.

Kim Starkey Jonker

Kim is the Director of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership and a consultant to nonprofits and foundations on topics of strategy, board governance, evaluation, and organizational effectiveness. Kim has written a number of articles for the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where her studies focused on public management. She also earned an M.Sc. in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. 

Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer is the co-founder and managing director of FSG and the author of influential publications on shared value, corporate social responsibility (CSR), catalytic philanthropy, strategic evaluation, impact investing and adaptive leadership. Mr. Kramer oversees FSG’s consulting practice and helps drive the vision and growth of the firm. He has led consulting engagements across all of FSG’s impact areas, with particular emphasis on philanthropic strategy for private and community foundations, CSR, evaluation and impact investing. He also leads the research on many of FSG’s publications and publishes regularly in Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and is a co-author of the book Do More Than Give.

Christine Sherry

Christine Sherry worked for a decade at the Hewlett Foundation as the founding Executive Director of the Philanthropy Workshop West, a program in partnership with the TOSA and Rockefeller Foundations. She taught a course, Giving Wisely, last fall in the Stanford Continuing Studies program and will teach a similar course starting this September. Since 2008, Christine has led her own philanthropic advising practice, working with a number of Stanford researchers. A distinctive focus of her work is field mapping of various philanthropic landscapes, from climate change to global development. She graduated from Stanford with a dual degree in International Relations and the Humanities Honors program.

Jenny Shilling Stein

Jenny Shilling Stein co-founded the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation in 2002 to identify and support the most talented social entrepreneurs. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation seeks to dramatically improve the lives of people and the world around us through innovative strategies, systems changing approaches, and disrupting technologies. Its goal is to find social entrepreneurs with dynamic ideas and nurture them at the early stages with maximum leverage and total commitment. Jenny currently serves on the boards of FoodCorps, Global Health Corps, Sanergy and Think Unlimited and is an Advisor to New Classrooms. Jenny received both her Master of Business Administration and her Master of Education from Stanford University. She graduated magna cum laude in Psychology and English from Amherst College. 

Peter Varga

Peter is the Fulbright Visiting Practitioner at PACS. He is currently researching impact investing and its potential uses in LGBT social enterprise development. Previously, Peter managed the world’s first LGBT venture philanthropy initiative, NESsT’s Galeforce Capital, as well as NESsT’s Central European social enterprise portfolio. He has worked with 250+ organizations in a dozen emerging countries on social enterprise development, organizational sustainability and strategic planning, and has co-authored three manuals on these topics. He is also the co-founder of the Hungarian LGBT Business Network and an active board member of various Hungarian organizations. Peter holds a BA from Yale University and an MA from Central European University.