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Social Entrepreneurship: Speakers

Initiation Brainstorms #5: Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship day@FAP no Bairro
Porto - 7 June 2024
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João Cotter Salvado is currently Research Manager at IES - Social Entrepreneurship Institute. He holds an Undergraduate and Master Degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and a Master Degree in Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) Management and Development from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was Research Assistant at Autoridade da Concorrência and Teaching Assistant at Faculdade de Economia of UNL. He was co-founder of two international NGOs which work currently in Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe. His fields of interest are social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management and social business model innovation.

Dr. Scott Sherman is the executive director of an award-winning nonprofit organization, the Transformative Action Institute. The mission of TAI is to train the next generation of social entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers for the 21st century.

Sherman is an expert on the most effective ways that citizens succeed in their attempts to change the world. He is currently writing a book summarizing his research, How We Win: The Science of Solving Society’s Problems.

Over the last decade, Sherman has taught courses on social entrepreneurship and social innovation at numerous universities, including Yale, Princeton, NYU, and Johns Hopkins.

His work on nonviolent social change projects has been praised by such Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and the late Mother Teresa. He is also a nationally recognized speaker on environmental regeneration and transformative action. He has won the outstanding teaching award from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2004, he was nominated for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars’ Faculty of the Year award for the entire U.S.

Sherman earned his undergraduate and law degrees from U.C. Berkeley, as well as his Ph.D. in environmental studies from the University of Michigan. Besides his work as a grassroots community organizer, lecturer, and author, Sherman has worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Law Foundation. Since 2000, he has been an adjunct faculty member in UCLA’s School of Public Affairs.

In 2005, the global nonprofit organization Echoing Green recognized Sherman as one of the world’s “Best Emerging Social Entrepreneurs.”