14/02/2015
Announcing the newest addition to our speaker line-up: Dr. Christian Busch, named as one of Diplomatic Courier’s “Top 99 Influencers under 33”, JCI London's "Ten Outstanding Persons" and is a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Financial Times Sustainability Summit.
Don't forget to get your conference ticket here: http://www.lsesu.com/events/7047/3380/
Dr. Christian Busch is the Associate Director at the London School of Economics' (LSE) Innovation and Co-Creation Lab, where he works with governments, enterprises, and social enterprises to develop scalable inclusive business models. His related research centres on entrepreneurship, social innovation, social networks, co-creation, and business model innovation, and he teaches several MSc- and exec. ed.- courses at LSE.
He was co-founder of Sandbox, where as Head of Community Development he developed the hub-based structure and expanded it into 20 countries (2008-2012). He has been named as one of Diplomatic Courier’s “Top 99 Influencers under 33”, JCI London's "Ten Outstanding Persons", a TEDster, a Siemens 'Key Influencer', a 'Global Fellow' at the Institute for the World Economy, a fellow at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and was shortlisted for The Times Higher Education Achievement Award. He frequently attends/speaks at conferences such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), TED, and Financial Times' Sustainability Summit, and his ideas have been featured by outlets such as Harvard Business Review. A recent talk on "Integrating profit & purpose" can be found here: bit.ly/1wnypJO, and a recent interview on The Guardian here: bit.ly/1Hfr1VN.
Previously, he worked in consulting & business in Kenya, S. Africa, Mexico, Russia, Germany, the US; set up the LSE’s PhD Steering Committee; presided over the LSE CSR Society; and took on leadership & mentoring roles, incl. as Impact Advisor at the National Entrepreneurs Association and member of Ashoka's Selection Panel. He guest-lectured at ESADE (Spain), Peking University (China), and Strathmore (Kenya), and his work has been published by journals such as IJEV & featured by Le Monde, AP, Guardian, Der Spiegel, France24, WIRED. He holds a PhD (LSE: Management), MSc (LSE: Management, governance), B.A. (Hagen: Sociology, psychology) & B.B.A. (Furtwangen & Moscow Business School: Business).