SE Forum is a non-profit member organization and consists of approximately seventy members with different backgrounds and professions. SE Forum welcomes anybody who wants to work with the promotion of social entrepreneurship – you are welcome to apply for membership.
Staff
Emma Rung, Program Director
Emma Rung serves as Program Director for the SE Outreach program. Prior to joining SE Forum, Emma served as the Interim General Secretary at Fairtrade Sweden. She has also previously worked for ABF as Project Manager in various projects, including in Kosovo and Kenya. Emma received an award as one of the top Swedes affecting companies’ sustainability performance. She has also been named as one of Sweden’s “super talents”. Emma holds a Bachelors in Political Science, and has also received education in public relations and management.
Members of the Board 2011
Shawn Westcott, CEO SSD Advisers
Shawn is the current Chairman of SE Forum. Through his firm, SSDA, he works with clients across sectors to provide sustainability strategy, training, and stakeholder engagement services. He is a former US political adviser and strategist, starting with Al Gore’s campaign for president and then managing or advising several local and national initiatives. He got his start as a social entrepreneur while a student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he helped launch a national NGO, LIFT, with the mission to combat poverty and expand opportunity for all people in the US. He holds an MSc in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. Shawn is a veteran of the US Marine Corps, and is a citizen of the United States and Ireland.
Estelle Joubert Westling, Strategist, The Good Guys
Estelle holds a MS.c from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and has studied Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.Estelle currently works at The Good Guys, helping companies and organizations to create strategies, business concepts and communication to leverage on the opportunities of sustainable development.Back in 2007 Estelle started Pimp My Grades at SSE, a social venture motivating youths in school. Since then, she has been involved in the sustainability arena in various projects as holding seminars in the US and France and writing for the blog Axtalk. She has also worked with sustainability at the Swedish department store Åhléns and designed an employer engagement program on sustainability for Pernod Ricard’s 19,000 employees.
Maja Frankel, CEO Frankel & Friends, Creative Director Framtidsboxen
Maja Frankel is project leader, process manager, lecturer and motivator. She has a Bachelor degree in media and communication science and a leadership degree from Kaospiloterna. Maja is the founder and since five years back also the manager of the consulting firm Frankel & Friends Samhällsförändrande konsulter. Maja’s focus is value-driven leadership and organizational creativity. Previously Maja has worked as a Youth Ambassador for UNICEF Sweden, published the book Vår förbannade rätt and has among other things developed the concepts of Ungt Inflytande and Framtidsboxen. Maja is currently director of the Swedish Board of UNICEF.
Arne Forstenberg, Founder and Executive director GlobalFOCUS
Arne is one of the founders of GlobalFOCUS – the global project platform for climate entrepreneurs. Since 2007, GF has been running dozens of projects about solutions to climate change in Sweden, China and several other countries. Prior to starting GlobalFOCUS, he was the President of the Uppsala Association of International Affairs. In 2008, Arne received the “Future Leader of Sweden Award” from Junior Chamber International.
Sara Wallén, ManagerMjuka flytten
Currently Sara works as the manager of ‘mjuka flytten’ – the soft move – a consultancy working with and for Third Culture Kids. Sara founded mjuka flytten as a result of her anthropology thesis on third culture kids’ identity creation. The inspiration was gained from being brought up overseas – in Bangladesh, USA, and Vietnam. As an educated Kaospilot from Århus, Sara has traveled the world as an organizational consultant working in Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, the Netherlands and has now landed in Stockholm.
Karin Larsson, Trainee Stena Recycling AB
Karin has a Bachelor’s degree in International economics from the University of Linköping. In 2009 when carrying out an internship in Azerbaijan she got to know about SE FORUM which soon led to an internship at the organization. Karin has previously lived, worked and studied longer periods abroad; among other things she has worked at Securitas Direct Españaand studied development economics at ITESM in Monterrey – Mexico. Since January 2011 she works as a trainee at Stena Recycling AB in Malmö.
Alternate members of the board
Josefin Uhnbom, Food for Thought
After graduating with a Masters degree in Political Science from Uppsala University and several years working in the public sector Josefin discovered the endless possibilities of social entrepreneurship through her jobs as a Regional Manager for Oxford Language Center, an American company offering educational services to the local community in Guatemala. The experience opened her eyes to how private initiatives can provide solutions to social, economical and environmental challenges. Her main fields of interest are education, employment, integration and community development. Josefin is the Founder of Food for Thought; a start up social enterprise that uses food and culinary arts to defeat social and economical exclusion among young people and adults, through providing services within education and labour market programs.
Gayathri Rathinavelu,Founder, The Good Tribe
Gayathri Rathinavelu is one of the founders of The Good Tribethat works with sustainable events and conferences both in the private and public sector. She is also involved inSustainergies, an organization that helps students and companies work together on sustainable issues.
Hannes Dernehl, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
Hannes Dernehl fosters the next generation of successful entrepreneurs through the non-profit TiE Nordic, the Northern European chapter of TiE, which houses the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs. His goal is to provide start-ups with active business coaching in order for them to achieve fast growth and financial success, and thus create an impact at SSE Business Lab, the business incubator at SSES.
Interns
Stefan Honegger
Stefan is currently graduating from University of St. Gallen in Switzerland with a Master of International Affairs & Governance and a CEMS Master in International Management. In the last half year he studied as an exchange student at Stockholm School of Economics. Stefan’s interest and ambition for social entrepreneurship and social businesses in particular started developing after getting engaged in a practical project with the World Bank, looking at the question to what extent “Social Business” constitutes a valuable tool for the organisation to pursue its development. During one year of his Master at the University of St.Gallen, he was together with four other students in charge of the local office of AIESEC – the world’s largest student-run organisation.
Michaela Leijon
Michaela is on her final year of her masters in Human Rights at Gothenburg University with a background of a bachelor in international leadership, management and English. Michaela gained her intrest in human rights and social entrepreneurship through her studies, own experiences working with human rights abroad as well as traveling across the world. Michaela has worked for human rights from an early age and today she is a board member of FIAN’s (Foodfirst information and Action Network) local group in Gothenburg, working for human rights against hunger.
Advisory board
Harry McNeil, CEO Telge Tillväxt
Harry McNeil is co-founder of SE Forum. Harry has studied applied Engineering Physics atLunds Tekniska Högskola, has a degree from the Kaospilots and a M.Sc in International Relations from Stockholm University. Harry has worked in China, Uganda, the US and has a background as a senior risk management consultant and business developer, as well as from the Swedish Emergency Management Agency. Harry is also a co-founder of the youth camp association Protus Sverigeand Framtidsboxen.
Jonas Pinzke,Founder The Good Guys
Co-founder of SE Forum. Johanna is Head of Research and Communication at the private investment company Proventus and founder and Head of Glasshouse Forum, a network of concerned capitalists and researchers that provides an arena for critical reflection on the merits and demerits of capitalism. Before Proventus, she was Research Director and Project Manager at the Swedish think tank Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS). Prior to that she finished her Masters in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, her Bachelor in Media and Communication Studies at Lund University and worked as Arts Officer and Public Affairs Officer at The British Council in Stockholm.
Svenne Junker, EU Policy Officer, Naturskyddsföreningen
Svenne is working as EU Policy officer at Naturskyddsföreningen, the largest Green-NGO in Sweden. As an expert of public affairs, he is lobbying activities on governmental politicians and Swedish MEPs, organizing public campaigns to raise awareness on the value of nature, travelling to Brussels several times per month with the objective to influence public policy for sustainable development. Svenne has a background as PR and public affairs consultant at Burson-Marsteller. With M.Sc in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and BA in Political Philosophy from Stockholm University, he is currently enrolled as PhD candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics, studying the construction of decision-making models which influence the value of life and nature.
Carl Jonas Michanek, Founder, SE Forum
Jonas has a B.A. from Uppsala University, has attended the Kaospilot program in Aarhus and has a Global EMBA from Stockholm School of Economics financed by a scholarship from the Wallenberg foundation. He loves doing business with a good cause – good business! Besides SE Forum, Jonas has founded three companies: Idélaboratoriet, an international innovation consulting firm; 2C – producing sport journalistic content; and Innovation Circus – celebrating and promoting innovation in Europe. Jonas has also co-founded digitalbridge, a NGO that brings the knowledge of digital storytelling to Scandinavia.