AlumniEdin Brkovic2023-07-26T11:25:45+02:00

Our alumni

The Ashoka Visionary Alumnae*i Network provides alumni with the opportunity to stay connected, to contribute to the program and to deepen their experience in follow-up events and projects. Ultimately, our alumni expand their network within the social entrepreneurship scene and keep finding solutions. Read more at “Our network“. Also, here you can view all Ashoka Fellows (speakers & participants) at one glance.

Meet our 300 visionaries from three continents, in the regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and East Africa. Click on the photos to learn about their stories
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Communications and Marketing Expert

Humanitarian and human rights specialist

Ashoka Fellow, Founder of the Institute for Debt Prevention and Resolution in Prague

Margarita Rebetskaya

Choreographier, Ballet dancer & Performance Director

Andrea Babčanová

HR Manager, Visegrad Fund

Human Rights Lawyer

Acting Manager Livelihoods, CARE Uganda

Ashoka Fellow, Founder & Vice President NEVER GIVE UP Onlus

Flavian Majenga

Senior Project Manager CARE Tanzania

Development Specialist fpr NGOs

Gregor Ruttner-Vicht

CEO of Lower Austrian entity of Sindbad

Zahra I. Lethome

Office Manager, Ashoka East Africa

Violeta Philippitsch

Leitung Kundenbereich EU & International, Umweltbundesamt - Environment Agency Austria

Ondřej Zapletal

Executive Director, Depositum Bonum Foundation Prag

Managing Director at EnableMe Foundation

Karin Haselböck

European Integrator, Ashoka

Silvia Silvozzi

Manager Bottega Terzo Settore - Fondazione Carisap

Country Representative of Ashoka Hungary

Assistant to VIP & Exhibitor Relations

Innovation and Sustainability Coordinator, S.C.S. Armonia Work Onlus

Christophe Cuny

Individual Giving Department Lead, SOS Children's Villages International

Klára Rundová

Project Managar Česká spořitelna foundation

Changemaker from Egypt, Member of the Egyptian Parliament

Alicia Rodriguez

Youth and ICT4D Project Coordinator at SOS Children’s Villages International

Eastern Africa Managing Director of Trace

Christoph Soukup

Senior Project Manager HYPO NOE Gruppe Bank

Business Development Manager, TRACE Eastern Africa

Michael Hilbert

Partner at Roland Berger

National Director, SOS Children's Villages Jordan

Corinna Geissler

Head of Advocacy & Child Rights, UNICEF Austria

Ethiopia Program Manager at African Disability Forum

Elisabeth Campestrini

CEO of Progressive Health Consulting

Danijel Baturina

Assistant professor in University of Zagreb

Social Entrepreneurship Development Officer Athens Development and Destination Management Agency

Regional Fund Development Director, SOS Children's Villages International, Eastern & Southern Africa Region

Senior business analyst for public health

Karsten Ottenberg

Former CEO of BSH Home Appliances Group and Innovater and Purpose-driven leader by heart

Changemaker from Israel, Assistant General Director Municipality of Nazareth

Kirsten Tangemann

Managing Director of Social Business Hub Styria

Eleonora Cadone

Community Integrator, Ashoka Italy

Angelika Bartholomäi

Director of the coordination office, StartNet Italy

Charlotte Steenbergen

COO of the European Forum Alpbach

Elin Baranyai-Ulvestad

Project Manager, Austrian Red Cross

Krzsytof Rutkowski

Director Magovox

Daniela Herneth

Leadership Coach / People & Business Developer

Heidrun Gruber-Größwang

Marketing expert; Founder, Gruber-Größwang Consulting

Co-Director of Ashoka Nordics

TV host The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Grant Administrator, Porticus Nairobi

Account Director at ketchum Publico

Torsten Engelage

Risk Management and Compliance for the PwC Advisory

Katharina van Zeller

Founder & CEO DreiKreis

Lisa Binderberger

Founder of Boom Creative Lab

Franziska Wizany

Cultural advisor

Co-Founder and CEO, DreiKreis Consulting GmbH

CEO of Tec-Innovation GmbH

Cornelia Faisst

Senior lecturer and co-academic Director at the University of Liechtenstein

Monika Hrochova

Program Manager, Educhange Foundation

Managing Director, Griller Kabel

Finance Manager Ashoka Austria, Visionary Program Manager & Communication

Claudia Lingner

Managing Director Ludwing Boltzmann Gesellschaft

Josep Maria Miró Pascual

Social Innovation Consultant JovesLab (Spain)

Obayda Abo Asbeh

Founder Sanad Yoth Association (Israel)

Project Manager of Center Noordung

Barbara Mayrhofer

Regional Manager for the Institute for Inclusive Education

Abubaker Musuuza

Managing Partner, Culen Mayrhofer Partner

Agnes Schillhuber

Communications neunerhaus; formerly: Ashoka Austria

Tangaza University

Abraham Gossaye

Head of Country Office, Austrian Red Cross in Ethiopia

Birgit Radl-Wanko

Managing Director of younus

Head of Finance & Service, Österreichische Caritaszentrale

Consultant on Project Design & Project Evaluation, also: Ashoka Italy

Ahmed Abdelgalil

VP alumnus & Gender and Economic Empowerment Specialist

Milica Aksentic

Head of Communications and CSR at Western Union International Bank

Head of the department of social affairs and volunteering at the Red Cross

Account Director at Ketchum

Andrea Kretschmer

Manager Accenture

Blühendes Österreich

Regional director of the social enterprise Sindbad

Christina Purrer

Project Manager at Hil-Foundation gGmbH

Co-founder of Venezia Autentica

Jindra Marešová

Director, Albatros Foundation

Stefanie Kotrba

OPEC Fund for International Development

Peter Herreiner

Financial Advisor & Supervisory Board Member

Sozialwirtschaft Steiermark

Clemens Mulokozi

Ashoka Fellow, Founder & CEO of the NGO NGO Jambo Bukoba

Magdalena Dul-Komosinska

CEE Director, Climate KIC

Matthias Weichhart

Austrian Research Promotion Agency

formerly: Communications for Ashoka Austria

Partnership Manager Ashoka

Sabrina Stepanian

Founder, STEPANIAN CONSULTING e.U.

Changemaker from Greece, Consultant Costas M. Lemos Foundation

Business Angel & Mentor

Radoslav Pittner

Co-Country Representative Czech and Slovakia, Facilitator & coach for social impact

Managing Partner / Chairman EOOS Design, IDRV - Institute of Design Research Vienna

Andreja Rosandic

Lecturer at Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb

Founder, Fairphone

Arianna Tripodi

Child and Youth Participation Advisor, SOS Children’s Villages International

Educator and project manager, AG Di Donato

Account Manager at RxWare

Sumita Kunashakaran

Project Manager at the Zero Project

Claire de Lafarge

Founder and CEO, Dialogue Social Enterprise; Ashoka Fellow

Masha Djordjevic

Program Manager Open Society Foundations

Pascal Kayiranga MD

Rwanda Red Cross Society

CEO Midot, promoting impact (Israel)

Agnieszka Franeczek

Head of Consumer Lending Processes at UniCredit Bank Austria

Initiator, "Steady Steps";Organisational Consultant, Coach

Managing Director of the International Association of Lake Constance Universities

Founder and CEO of Raw Culture

Co-Director Ashoka Austria

Katerina Bursikova Jacques

Executive Director, Educational and business centre Sněmovní 7

Katarina Banicevic

Teamleader South East Europe, Austrian Red Cross

Founder, Think Opal

Benjamin Dragolj

Founder of Igramo Zajedno Inicijativa – IZI

Coordinator – Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), CARE International in Tanzania

Urška Starc-Peceny

Chief Innovation Officer, lead Tourism 4.0 at Arctur

Elisabeth Siencnik

Startup Coach; Co-founder & CFO reha buddy

Kristina Kroyer

Program Coordinator at HORIZONT3000

Eduard Trampusch

Head of International Programmes, Austrian Red Cross

Maurizio Bergia

President of the social & agricultural cooperative I TESORI della TERRA in Cervasca

Emergency Response Director SOS Children’s Villages International

Father Charles Chilufya

Director of the Justice and Ecology Office of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM)

Cecilia Toncic-Sorinj

Finding sustainable solutions in gastronomy.

Jihad Shoja'eyeh

Founder of “Youth without Borders Network”

Katharina Okulski

Head of scholarship program, NOW: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)

Christina Matuschka-Baumann

Head of POS Design & Digitalization in A1

Head of Knowledge Transfer & Dissemination, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (on educational leave)

Co-founder and Board Member, Klaiton; Strategic Advisor, CoachHub

Ahmad Abdelgalil

Changemaker from Egypt, Staff Ashoka Arab World

Stefan Lilischkis

Senior consultant, empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH

Head of Information & Reporting in SOS Children's Villages International

former Operations Manager Ashoka CEE

Christina Kauer

CONCORDIA Sozialprojekte

European Commission/Centre of Thematic Expertise on Civil Society Support

Raphaela Toncic-Sorinj

Co-Director Ashoka Austria and Nordics; Director Ashoka Visionary Program

Monika Ségur-Cabanac

Regional Manager Central & West Africa and Latin America at Missio Austria

Global Lead Funding Advisor at Joining Forces Initiative by World Vision

Alexandra Nitzlader

Senior Project Manager HYPO NOE Gruppe Bank

Stefan van der Swaluw

Program Director at SOS Children's Villages The Netherlands

Nicola Fraccaroli

Consultant for marketing strategies & business model changes

Selene Orellana

Communications Lead at Planeterra Foundation

Linda Stucbartova

Partner ATAIRU company, Founder Diversio

Initiator & Head of aws Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Project Lead Developing Neighborhood Institute

Special Assistant & Regional Director, Ford Foundation office, Eastern Africa

Sustainability Specialist Enel Romania

Katharina Markovics

Professor of Musicology at New England Conservatory in Boston

Gabriela Vondrusova

Change Manager and Community Mobilizer at Ashoka Czech Republic

Veronica Pistyur

Co-Founder and CEO of Bridges Budapest Ⅰ General Partner at Oktogon Ventures

Manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Public Sector Group

Head of Operations at Bethnal Green Ventures

Christiane Holzinger

Managing Partner, 360° Business Planner GmbH, Start-Up Stars GmbH

Ninon Ndayikengurkiye

CARE USA Impact and Innovation Team

Ernest Namanya Rwendeire

Executive Director, Latek Stay Alliance Uganda

Irit Zviely Efrat

Chief Operations Officer at Hillel

Beata Jaczewska

Managing Director, Visegrad Fund

Elisabeth Pipic

Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF)

Elisabeth Mayerhofer

Managing Director, Julius Raab Foundation

"i3" (I-Cube) Information Engineering Incubator

Partnership Expert at Light for the World

Municipality Director, Kajiado County Kenya

Social Business Consultant, Alumna of the Visionary Program

Project Coordinator at Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation - 'fairplay initiatve'

Co-Team Leader of the Youth&ICT4D department in SOS Children´s Villages International

Katharina Jeschke

Austria Secretary General at IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Managing Director at Viva con Agua Österreich

Stefanie Kirwald

Consultant Alumnae*I Network

CEO GTS - Technologies Ltd (Israel)

Gabriele Hampson

Managing Director at W*ORT

Project Management SOS Children’s Villages International

Jana Krajcovicova

Private Sector Development Specialist at the World Bank

Walter Odhiambo

National Director, SoS Children's Villages Kenya

Member of Ashoka's Global Leadership Group, Leading Ashoka's work in Europe

Changemaker from Israel, VP Dualis social investment fund

Project assistant & communication manager, Ashoka Italy

Br. Dr. Jonas Yawovi Dzinekou

Director, Institute for Social Transformation Tangaza University College

Charles Karimbu Kimathi

Head of Corporate Affairs & Partnerships The Standard Group PLC

Head Of Department Development at SWISSAID

Member of the board of directors, Eduzměna foundation fund