The Board of Just Innovate provides strategic leadership and guidance to the organization and guarantees the overall coordination of the organization’s activities. The Board acts to provide sustainability for Just Innovate’s activities and ensures that lessons learnt are carried forward year to year. It also ratifies major expenditure decisions, approves new projects, provides fiscal oversight, and ensures the organization’s compliance with regulatory requirements.

  • Mansi is passionate about rural livelihood, agriculture, buddhist philosophy and Social innovation. You may also hear her playing the piano in the hallway, creating the best rhyme or cooking for our next meeting! Random fact? She can make her own soaps from scratch

    • Mansi Kabra 

     

  • Ph.D. candidate in Development Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. My areas of interest are Policy Evaluation, Gender, and Conflict. Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I worked for policy and research organizations like JPAL, World Bank and WIPO

    • Kritika Saxena Rohilla 

     

  • M.A. in Development Studies Experience: UNITAR, Bees in the City Sofia, Grand Aspirations, Whitman College

    • Elena Zheglova bulgaria

     

  • MA in Development Studies. Collaborator and problem solver interested in fostering social innovation communities. A natural leader and innovative thinker with experience in project management, human-centered design and innovation processes.

    • Shira Babow

     

  • Zhubin dedicates himself to becoming a Development Economist. Hopefully, he can find a satisfying Instrumental Variable on day. Taking a walk on the Camino de Santiago is his current number one priority. If you also like watching NBA, he can talk to you for ages about the GOAT in his heart, LeBron James.

    • Zhubin Chen

     

  • MA in International Relations and Political Science. In her free time, she embraces her inner bibliophile, enjoys being outdoors hiking and will travel at any opportunity.

    • Sydney Delaney

     

  • MA in International Affairs. Global security professional focused on disarmament and non-proliferation of WMDs, with experience in policy and diplomacy. Also: River Plate Football Club fan, avid reader, restless traveler and foodie (the order may vary).

    • María Garzón Maceda

    FORMER BOARD MEMBERS

  • M.A. in Development Studies Experience: The Global Fund, Tevel by Tzedek- a development NGO- Kathmandu, Israel Embassy in Nepal, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption- Jerusalem.

    • Nitzan Arny

  • M.A. in Development Studies Experience: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), swissnex India, euforia, Nuru Energy Rwanda, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy.

    • Andrina Beuggert

  • M.A. in International Affairs Experience: Justice Rapid Response, Amnesty International, Global Humanitarian Forum, Human Security Report Project, Homburger, EU Delegation to Switzerland, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).

    • Michael Bimmler

  • M.A. in International Law, B.A. in Swiss Law Experience: Canton of Geneva (Legal Aid), University of Geneva (Swiss Law), Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN (Vienna), Coordination and facilitation in the Climate Leaders Lab (2012).

    • Danaé Frangoulis

     

  • M.A. in International Affairs Experience: United Nations Office at Geneva, UNHCR Innovation, Symbiotics Microfinance, Vermeg Software, Adventures Cross Country.

    • Ashley Hartz

     

  • M.A. in International Affairs Experience: Credit Suisse, Business Model Innovations in Europe and Beyond, Palladium, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Human Rights Watch.

    • Eva Perrett

     

  • Ph.D. Candidate in International Law Experience: Herbert Smith LLP, EU Delegation to the UN (New York), Ministry of Justice of Liberia, African Prisons Project (Uganda), Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

    • Barrie Sander