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Paulo Savaget

Associate ProfessorSkoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

Biography

Paulo Savaget is an associate professor at the University of Oxford’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. He is the author of The Four Workarounds and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar. The emphasis of his research is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. His work unpacks the mechanics of entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on large-scale sustainability challenges (e.g. poverty, climate change, circular economy). Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, governments, and intergovernmental organizations.