Hilden Allgaier

Biography

Hildengard Allgaier works as a Social Innovation and Employer Engagement Manager at Oxford University, Saïd Business School. She has over 12 years of professional experience in global teams in Latin America, UK and Europe, including positions in the Steel and Mining, IT and Chemical sectors working across marketing, communications and sustainability. Hildengard holds an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University and sits on the Board of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR).

From her background as a corporate intrapreneur she has supported start-ups, foundations, multinational organisations and boutique firms to reach their full-potential by designing educational programmes that help business to connect with their customers and wider stakeholders considering sustainability factors.

She also has extensive experience fostering long-term cross-sector partnerships with universities, NGOs, media organisations and think tanks. She is currently working on implementing workshops in Rio de Janeiro (BR) and London (UK) that inspire, engage and equip young people with relevant content and local role models for them to be able to be more resilient and committed when choosing a career path.

Previously to Saïd Business School, Hilden worked as a Senior Sustainability and Innovation Specialist for Dow Chemical in São Paulo, Brazil and coordinated communications strategies and stakeholder engagement initiatives for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Before working at Dow, she concluded a Research Fellowship at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), an incubator of academic projects specialising in research and teaching on issues of social inequity, based in Boston, US.