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Alex Nicholls

Professor of Social EntrepreneurshipSkoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

Biography

Professor Alex Nicholls MBA is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: social and impact investment; the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; and Fair Trade.

To date Alex has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and six books. He has over twelve thousand citations of his work. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Regional Focus

Europe, North America, Southeast Asia