Ana Sáenz de Miera is leading Next Now: Ashoka´s initiative to build new emerging fields in social entrepreneurship and organize the whole Ashoka global community around them. Previously, Ana served as Ashoka Spain Country Representative for 7 years, creating a movement in Spain that brings together social entrepreneurs, companies, public administration, youth and schools to work towards a society where everyone realizes their changemaking potential.

Ana’s leadership started young. As a scout member from the age of 8, she was taught early what it means to see a problem, have an idea, and to make it happen. Since then she has never stopped leading towards social change in a way that inspires many others to be changemakers. 

She was born in Spain and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, diploma in Social Sciences, Master in Humanities and Master in Clinical Psychology, and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Female Leaders in Spain for a number of years.
 
Ana has held a number of board positions. Amongst others, she was vice-president of Fundación Cotec (the Spanish institution that promotes innovation as the driver for social and economic, of which King Felipe VI is Honorary President), and member of the Board of Directors for Spanish Association of Foundations.

Konstanze is a member of the Leadership Group and leads Ashoka’s new global initiative on Tech & Humanity. She’s also the head of Ashoka in North America. A social anthropologist and journalist by background, she founded Ashoka in her native Germany in 2003 and co-led Ashoka’s emergence and growth in Western Europe, introducing the then radically new concept of social entrepreneurship to the continent. She also co-founded the Globalizer, an initiative re-defining what we mean by scale. She worked for CNN and FAZ and was a board member for GLS Bank, Germany’s leading ethical financial institution, before moving to the US in 2015. She is on the advisory board of CASE at Duke University.

Corina Murafa is leading Next Now/Planet & Climate and is also the Director of Ashoka Romania. Prior to joining Ashoka, she advanced long-lasting positive change in Eastern Europe as a public policy expert on energy and sustainability. She has worked for the World Bank, OMV Petrom, Deloitte, national governments and think tanks.

Pip is the Country Director of Ashoka in the UK. Australian by birth, she has spent the majority of her career in South Africa. Prior to moving to the UK, Pip founded a youth development organisation in South Africa, enke: Make Your Mark. In early 2015, after six years as enke’s CEO, she handed over the reigns to study an MBA at Saïd Business School, Oxford. In addition, she has also consulted on innovative finance at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship; mapped the entrepreneurial support landscape across Africa for the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading; and facilitated strategy development. For her work in social innovation she’s been awarded a Skoll Scholarship, an Ashoka Fellowship; and she was a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She currently still serves on the board of enke as a non-executive director.

Zeynep has been building capacity over the period of ten years for the development of civil society and philanthropy in Turkey, working in the fields of infrastructure to create and implement innovative models. Zeynep created the first comprehensive research study on civil society in Turkey, advocacy activities for a more favorable legal and property infrastructure, donors, foundations (community foundations), social enterprise and social finance; She has experience with innovative approaches to the above, and has written many publications and articles to this end. Before joining Ashoka Turkey, Zeynep was with the Third Sector Foundation (European Foundation) serving as Program Director. She also participates actively in the women's movement. She was a member of KA-DER, where she was on the board between 2009-2012, Mor Çatı and KAMER volunteer. Zeynep is a member of the Board of the Support Foundation for Civil Society. She received her BA in Political Science and Cultural Studies from McGill University in Canada, and she is still continuing her thesis study in the Human Rights Law program of Bilgi University.