Alex Nicholls

Biography

Alex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford.

He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - for which he helped raise the core funding - as well as the co-founder of the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.

To date, Alex has published over a hundred papers, working papers, book chapters and articles, and six books. Most appear in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals and books, including eight papers in Financial Times top 30 journals. Alex’s papers have more than 11,500 academic citations. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, which he founded in 2010.