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  Ivana Gazibara

  Director of Prototyping

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  A futures and systems change expert with more than 15 years of experience in sustainability strategy and innovation, Ivana oversees prototyping at the TransCap Initiative. She has previously led Forum for the Future’s futures practice, overseeing thought leadership projects, strategic foresight work with partners, and internal and external horizon scanning networks. Ivana has also incubated and led The Futures Centre, the only open, participatory futures platform focused on tracking and making sense of change with the purpose of advancing a sustainable future. Prior to that, she was part of SustainAbility’s emerging economies team, working to build the organisation’s practice in India and Brazil. Ivana has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto.

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  Dr Jess Daggers

  Head of Research

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  Jess has developed a career at the intersection of practice and academia. She holds a PhD in political sociology from the University of London, and was previously the Impact Director in Nesta’s Impact Investments team. Jess has a decade of experience as an independent impact measurement consultant and researcher, completing projects for clients including Fair for All Finance, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, the Nesta Future News Fund, and the Equality Impact Investing Project. She is the author of numerous papers and articles, including a paper in the British Journal of Sociology, and a foundational landscaping study of research into impact investing, published with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. She recently co-authored an article for SSIR on Systemic Investing for Social Change.

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  Andre Ticoulat

  Research & Investment Associate

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  Andre Ticoulat is a Research & Investment Associate at the TransCap Initiative and works across a number of diverse projects - from research to client-facing asset advisory and methodological development. He is driven to work for a more equitable, sustainable and humane world. Andre works from the assumption that humanity is facing unprecedented, complex challenges and believes a fundamental mindset and behavioural shift is required to nudge systems toward positive transformations. Academically, he has dedicated his research to behavioural economics, through studies that investigate the impact of economic policy on social dynamics. Andre has a BA in Economics and International Relations from the University of British Columbia and holds certificates in Circular Economy and Bio-Economy from Delft and Wageningen Universities. He has previous work experience as an investment advisor, public equities trader and in venture capital.

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  Hannah Paterson

  Head of Community Activation

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  Hannah brings 8 years of experience in philanthropy, community activation, field building, and social impact work to the TransCap Initiative in order to support the growth of a community of practice around systemic investing. Across a variety of roles in philanthropy, most recently at the UK National Lottery Community Fund, she has designed and developed a wide range of funding programmes and managed an extensive portfolio of complex and systemic grants. Hannah is also the founder of the Participatory Grantmaking Community, which has grown to include over 1,500 funders seeking to understand and embed approaches to grantmaking that devolve decision-making power to the communities they aim to serve. She started her career in the social sector, with a particular focus on disabled people's rights and psychological support for students. Hannah holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Manchester.

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  Magdalena J. Schneider

  Head of Finance & Operations

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  Magdalena leads TransCap Initiative’s finances and operations and is dedicated to changing systems by forging alliances for impact at the intersection of society, business, academia, and public institutions. Her role as Director for Strategy & Multi-Stakeholder Alliances at European Commons saw her exploring key success factors for, and significant risks emerging from, the implementation of the European Green Deal. Until 2019, she co-led the strategy, fundraising, and communications efforts of euforia, a Swiss NGO for youth mobilization with a community of volunteers in over 20 countries across three continents. Magdalena’s nearly decade-long experience in the European banking sector, as an Investment Consultant at Credit Suisse in Zurich and an Analyst at BNP Paribas in Paris, has honed her financial expertise. She has also co-founded several companies (KiddieLand AG, Ars Vinum GmbH) and associations (surf your life Institute, Refugee Led Organisations Network Switzerland) and is on the Board of Capacity, a start-up incubator for refugee and migrant entrepreneurs. Magdalena holds a BSc from Italy’s Bocconi University and an MBA from Switzerland’s St. Gallen University (HSG).

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  Johannes Tschiderer

  Research & Investment Associate

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  Johannes is a Research & Investment Associate at the TCI and works across a number of diverse projects, from managing and delivering some of our prototyping activities to contributing to TCI's original innovation work and methodological development. Prior to joining the TCI out of university, Johannes had led the student-run sustainability consultancy Student Impact, which works with impact-oriented start-ups and SMEs. He's also actively engaged in the design and facilitation of innovative education programs at the nexus of business and sustainability at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he also holds a position as lecturer. Johannes obtained a BA in Business Administration and an MA in Banking and Finance, both from the University of St. Gallen, and he completed programs related to systems change at Climate-KIC and Collaboratio Helvetica.

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  Dominic Hofstetter

  Executive Director

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  Dominic Hofstetter is the Executive Director of the TransCap Initiative. He initiated and incubated the TransCap Initiative when he was the Director of Capital and Investments at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative, where he was responsible for building the organization’s nascent investment function. Before joining EIT Climate-KIC in 2015, Dominic had worked as an entrepreneur at the renewable energy start-up Electrochaea, as a private equity investor at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and as a finance professional in the institutional asset management division of Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an MSc from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

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  Madeleine Lewis

  Head of Communications

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  Madeleine has worked in sustainability communications for over 15 years. With a background in journalism and programme making at the BBC, she went on to do a Masters in Sustainable Development Advocacy before using her skills to support pioneering organizations including Forum for the Future, Unilever and Virgin.

TransCap Fellows

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  Dr Anna Stünzi

  Research Fellow, University of St. Gallen

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  Anna Stünzi, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen. Her research centers around the green transformation of the economy. She explores the role of finance and policy to transform and develop new businesses and behaviors aligned with climate and wider sustainability goals. One important part of her research analyzes international climate finance flows to support developing countries in building resilient and sustainable economic systems. Anna has a background in psychology and economics, and she received her doctorate at the Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich. Over the past 10 years, she has been engaged in translating scientific findings and recommendations to policymakers, in particular in her role as the president of the Swiss think tank foraus (2019-2023). At the TransCap Initiative, Anna is exploring how to leverage the principles of systemic investing for more strategically coordinating capital flows across different societal actors at the national level in Switzerland.

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  Alex Hannant

  Pocketknife

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  Alex has extensive and varied experience in the fields of sustainable development, enterprise, and innovation. He is now focused on bringing a systems lens to the design of governance, financing, and other enabling and organisational infrastructures. Alex is a Director of Pocketknife—a small advisory and contracting firm—and serves on the Boards of B Lab Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (Co-Chair) and Social Enterprise Australia. Previous roles include: Co-Director and Professor of Practice at The Griffith Centre of Systems Innovation (formerly The Yunus Centre) (AUS), CEO of the Ākina Foundation (NZ), Director of Programmes at LEAD International (UK), and Head of Partnerships at the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (UK). Alex lives near Wakatu (Nelson) at the top of Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island. He is motivated by doing things better and fairer.