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Office 11 (entrance from courtyard)
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Fax: +371 67218045
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| June 2 |
| BCCL organised lecture "Breaking Boundaries: Partnership for Change" by Mr. Marcello Palazzi |
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Date/Time: June 2, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Soros auditorium, Strelnieku iela 4a
Cost: Free for BCCL members/guests and students
The line between for-profit and social engagements becomes more and more blurred. On the one hand, traditional businesses are expected to become increasingly responsible for wider societal and environmental impact of their operations. Simultaneously, a whole new type of businesses has emerged to recognize social problems and solve them in entrepreneurial manner (e.g., social entrepreneurs). Thinking outside the box, breaking boundaries between business, third sector and government and innovatively leveraging resources and competencies from various sectors is a must to address some of the most pressing problems humanity is facing today, such as, public health, climate change, poverty, etc.
About the speaker:
Marcello Palazzi, BSc, MSc, MBA is a serial innovator and entrepreneur working in and across business, philanthropy, civil society, government and international organizations.
In his early 20s, he and his father started 2 companies in environmental diagnostics, which he grew internationally during a 10-year period and then sold. In his early 30s, he co-founded Progressio Foundation in Rotterdam with Dr Paul Kloppenborg with whom in 1989-90 he co-authored and edited 2 books pioneering the "civic economy" and "civic enterprise".
Through Progressio he has led 120 projects and ventures in 30 countries, in the pursuit of "civic and entrepreneurial" solutions to the key challenges of sustainable development, smart growth, creative societies, poverty eradication, among others (see www.progressio.org ). He has and continues to be involved in several public-benefit organizations, for profit and not-for-profit in the USA and Europe, particularly Tällberg Foundation in Sweden (see www.tallbergfoundation.org ).
Marcello operates from the Netherlands, where he is happily married and is father to 3 teenagers. By education, he is an economist (University of Buckingham), a public and foreign policy scholar (LSE) and a business manager (LBS, MIT and RSM), completing his secondary education in Italy, Switzerland and the UK. He won The Economist Prize for the Best MBA Project at LBS on strategic philanthropy and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London. He was elected President of the Students Union at the University of Buckingham in 1980 and wrote a prescient MSc Thesis at LSE on "SMEs in Europe" in 1984.
Registration: by clicking on the “BOOK NOW” tab above; e-mail info@bccl.lv ; or Tel: +371 67218042*
Sponsored by:
www.sfl.lv
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