Christian Seelos

Biography

Christian is a Director at Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at Stanford University. Previous positions include Director of Social Innovation Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, Academic Visitor at Oxford University’s Skoll Center, Leo Tindemans Chair for Business Model Innovation at KU Leuven, and Director of IESE’s Platform for Strategy and Sustainability. Christian's research has been recognized by the Strategic Management Society (Best Paper Award for Practice Implications, 2007), the IFC and FT (2008 Gold Price), the 2017 Terry McAdam book prize for “the most inspirational and useful new book contributing to nonprofit management“, the 2018 ONE award for best book 2015-2017 by the Academy of Management, and the 2019 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize by ARNOVA and Independent Sector. In 2019, Christian was awarded Outstanding Social Innovation Thought Leader by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation.