Flavio Bassi

Ashoka Staff
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Leadership Group Member / Vice President Latin America

Flavio Bassi is a Global Leadership Group Member of Ashoka and Vice President of Ashoka in Latin America. Since 2015, Flavio leads Ashoka’s Empathy and Education strategy by establishing and co-leading key partnerships with government, faculties of education, publishers, education unions and the media in Brazil, towards a movement that inspires and enables young people to feel and act as changemakers. Flavio also designed and leads the Global Excellence Team, which enables Ashoka to be home to the world’s leading entrepreneurs across all stakeholder groups. He is also a founding member of Ashoka’s Indigenous Peoples Reflection Team. Previously, Flavio served as regional director of Ashoka in Southern Africa. He started his career as a social educator working with traditional communities in Brazil, then completed degrees in Biology (BSc), Social Sciences (BA) and a Master’s in Social Anthropology. He is the founder and served as executive director of Ocareté, a citizen-sector organization active in the social-environmental field with indigenous and other traditional communities in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic Rainforest. In 2012, Flavio was recognized as “Europe-Africa Young Leader” by BMW Stiftung and in 2013 received the prize “Top 35 Under 35 Young Foreigners Making an Impact in Africa” awarded by Young People in International Affairs (YPIA).