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Panel Speakers
Tobias Lorenz – Founder and Managing Director, Glovico
Tobias Lorenz (29) is founder and managing director of Glovico.org while also
working part-time for the Hamburg Foundation of Business Ethics. Having studied
business administration, linguistics and philosophy in Stuttgart, Bergen and
INSEAD he has gained both the know-how of the social sector and the managing skills necessary to run a
social business. In the course of his dissertation on market-based poverty reduction at the university of Witten/
Herdecke he has built the extensive network into developing countries which is crucial for Glovico. Before
turning to the social business sector he has been with Daimler-Chrysler, a foundation working on digital
inclusion and in technology consultancy. It is his mission to prove that social business can be harnessed to
alleviate poverty.
Jan Lübbering – Partnership Development, streetfootballworld
Jan is passionate about the power of football as a catalyst for change.
At streetfootballworld - a global network of 84 social organizations using football as
a tool for social change - Jan is responsible for partnership development. His previous
responsibilities included “20 Centres for 2010”, the Football for Hope Festival and UNITED – the Social
Football Club (www.justunited.com).
Together with relevant actors from the private, public and civic sector, streetfootballworld and its partners
use the power of football to showcase how collaborative action works towards systemic change.
Prior to streetfootballworld, Jan worked for Ashoka and researched in Social Entrepreneurship.
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