INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme

Programme Directors

Jasjit Singh

Programme Director, Singapore and Fontainebleau

Professor of Strategy
The Paul Dubrule Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development
Academic Director, INSEAD Social Impact Initiative

Jasjit Singh has been an INSEAD professor since 2004. His teaching and research interests include Inclusive Business, Sustainable Development, Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Evaluation. He is particularly passionate about how business tools can be used as a force for good in social enterprises as well as traditional companies. He regularly advises companies, social enterprises, non-profits and impact investors on how to systematically think about their societal impact.

Filipe Santos

Programme Director, Fontainebleau

Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship

Filipe Santos' research lies at the intersection of strategy, organization theory and entrepreneurship and focus on the emerging field of social entrepreneurship and social innovation. He is particularly interested in understanding the processes through which entrepreneurs construct new firms and markets. He is also interested in the growth and scaling up processes of new ventures in order to maximize economic and social impact. Related research interests are on business model innovation, impact investing, corporate social entrepreneurship, and family business.

Faculty

Nuno Delicado

Nuno Delicado is a founding partner at Pluris and lecturer at INSEAD and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP). He conducts negotiation and conflict resolution training, facilitation, and consulting in both the private and the public sectors. At INSEAD he co-developed the negotiation module and teaches in the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme. At LKYSPP he teaches negotiation, dialogue, facilitation and consensus building, in executive courses and Master programmes. Examples of Nuno’s projects include facilitating state budget discussions in view of economic scenarios for a country in Southeast Asia, supporting a global NGO resolving conflict between member organisations, a management team negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the employees’ union, and a biotech startup merge with another company. Previously, Nuno was a management consultant with Bain & Company, and earlier with McKinsey & Company.

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Zoe Kinias

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Zoe Kinias' research focuses on how social identities and situational factors affect individuals' understanding of social and professional events and on how to improve individual and group performance. Professor Kinias' work includes investigations of how to improve individuals' decision making by reducing bias and how to bolster resiliency of individuals who may experience threatening professional situations. She publishes research in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science.

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Ilze Kivleniece

Ilze Kivleniece is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris (France), a BSc and an MSc in International Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). Prior to joining INSEAD, she was a faculty member at the Imperial College London (UK) where she taught in a number of programmes, including specialised Masters, MBA and executive MBA. Her teaching experience covers both core strategy topics as well as international strategy, cross-sector partnership and collaborative strategy areas.

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Please note programme faculty may change.

Recent Key Speakers

Proximity Designs: How Proximity Designs Serves Farmers in Myanmar?

Proximity's co-founders Debbie Aung Din and Jim Taylor visited INSEAD’s Asia campus as guest speakers at the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP).

Credit Suisse: An investment bank's model of impact investing.

How one of the world's largest asset managers makes impact investing work for clients and the organisation as a whole.

Proximity Designs: How Proximity Designs Serves Farmers in Myanmar?

Proximity's co-founders Debbie Aung Din and Jim Taylor visited INSEAD’s Asia campus as guest speakers at the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP).