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Panel Speakers Antonio Dávila – Professor of Entrepreneurship and Accounting & Control – IESE Antonio Dávila is professor of entrepreneurship and accounting and control. Furthermore, he is the head of IESE’s Department of Entrepreneurship. From 1999 to 2006, he was part of the faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he still teaches periodically. Prof. Dávila earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Business School and his MBA from IESE. His teaching and research interests focus on management systems in entrepreneurial firms, new product development and innovation management, and performance measurement. In 2005, he was awarded IESE’s Research Excellence Award. He was also granted the Ramón y Cajal Scholarship awarded by the Spanish government (2004). Other prizes and awards he has received include the Carlos Cubillo Valverde Accounting Research Paper Award (2003), the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association Best Dissertation Runner-Up Award (1999) and the McKinsey Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society (1998). Prof. Dávila is co-author of Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It (2006) and Performance Measurement and Management Control Systems to Implement Strategy (2000). He has also edited a third book, The Creative Enterprise (2007). He has contributed several book chapters and published various research articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Research Policy, and Harvard Business Review. Teshome Dayesso – Founder and CEO, Buusaa Gonofaa MFI Teshome Dayesso is the founder and CEO of Buusaa Gonofaa MFI in Ethiopia, where he has spearheaded the designing and implementation of a social performance management system for which he was awarded the European Microfinance Award in 2008. Teshome has also worked with rural communities on-the-field and holds a degree in Business Management from Addis Ababa University. 56 IESE Business School

Panel Speakers Maarten de Jong – Head of Investor Matchmaking Department, Business in Development Network Maarten de Jong heads the investor matchmaking department of Business in Development Network. This Dutch organization works with local partners in 17 emerging economies to assist entrepreneurs in starting and growing their small and medium sized enterprises. Entrepreneurs make themselves visible at an online platform, they receive constructive feedback on their business plan and they can get individual business coaching. BiD Network’s most qualified entrepreneurs are actively matched to investors. Maarten de Jong built up an international network of investors specifically targeting these SMEs and he works closely with the local partners in setting up and running their own investor matchmaking activities. Miquel de Paladella – Executive Coordinator, Global Movement for Children& Co-Fouder 1x1 Microcredit Miquel de Paladella, (Barcelona, Spain) is the executive coordinator of the Global Movement for Children (GMC). Launched by Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel in 2000, the GMC brings together some of the world’s largest child-focused organizations in an informal and action-oriented partnership to advocate and lobby for children. Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF and World Vision among others are leading the GMC campaigns focused at reducing child mortality, promoting quality education for all or protecting children affected by AIDS. Previously, Miquel worked for the Society for International Development (SID) based in Rome, initially as Regional Director for Latin America, and as Director for External Relations and Communications later on. He was one of the leaders of youth and student movements involved in sustainable development and social justice. Miquel is an active advocate for social justice and community-led development and has written extensively on development, civil society, education and citizenship. He is also the cofounder of an innovative microfinance NGO, 1x1microcredit.org. 2011 Doing Good and Doing Well 57

<strong>Panel</strong> <strong>Speakers</strong><br />

Maarten de Jong – Head of Investor Matchmaking Department, <strong>Business</strong> in Development Network<br />

Maarten de Jong heads the investor matchmaking department of <strong>Business</strong> in<br />

Development Network. This Dutch organization works with local partners in 17<br />

emerging economies to assist entrepreneurs in starting and growing their small<br />

and medium sized enterprises. Entrepreneurs make themselves visible at an online platform, they receive<br />

constructive feedback on their business plan and they can get individual business coaching. BiD Network’s<br />

most qualified entrepreneurs are actively matched to investors. Maarten de Jong built up an international<br />

network of investors specifically targeting these SMEs and he works closely with the local partners in setting<br />

up and running their own investor matchmaking activities.<br />

Miquel de Paladella – Executive Coordinator, Global Movement for Children& Co-Fouder 1x1 Microcredit<br />

Miquel de Paladella, (Barcelona, Spain) is the executive coordinator of the Global<br />

Movement for Children (GMC). Launched by Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel<br />

in 2000, the GMC brings together some of the world’s largest child-focused organizations<br />

in an informal and action-oriented partnership to advocate and lobby for<br />

children. Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF and World Vision among others are leading the<br />

GMC campaigns focused at reducing child mortality, promoting quality education for all or protecting children<br />

affected by AIDS. Previously, Miquel worked for the Society for International Development (SID) based<br />

in Rome, initially as Regional Director for Latin America, and as Director for External Relations and Communications<br />

later on. He was one of the leaders of youth and student movements involved in sustainable<br />

development and social justice. Miquel is an active advocate for social justice and community-led development<br />

and has written extensively on development, civil society, education and citizenship. He is also the cofounder<br />

of an innovative microfinance NGO, 1x1microcredit.org.<br />

2011 Doing Good and Doing Well<br />

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