Perrine de le Court joined Ashoka Belgium as Co-Director in September 2018. Together with Elena Arène she will lead the Belgian Ashoka office by sharing responsibilities among Ashoka Belgium's different programmes. Perrine has professional experience, both in the private sector (5 years at Regus...
Clémentine van Hamme joined Ashoka in August 2016 and is the Fellowship programme manager in Belgium. She is also coordinating operations and finance for the Belgian office. She is graduated in Business Administration from Management School ICHEC with a master degree in Finance and Marketing...
Clara Bräuer supports the coordination of the selection process for new Ashoka Fellows in Germany and works on the implementation and further development of the offers in the Fellowship program.
Before Ashoka, she completed her Master in Public Policy with a focus on Social Policy and Social...
Shrushti is a trained psychologist and comes with an unconventional mix of private and public sector experience. In her most recent role, she is working with Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the organization that pioneered the sector of social entrepreneurship 30+ years ago. She is building the...
Kelsey Sakumoto
Global Venture Coordinator
Kelsey joined Ashoka in 2017, with a passion for examining how economic development can be sustainable and locally relevant. As Global Venture Coordinator, she supports country offices with the Ashoka Fellowship selection process and builds a larger development strategy for the global program. Prior...
Elina joined Ashoka as an early stage researcher of the Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) H2020 program and is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on young people's participation and explores its links to inclusive memory-making in school...
Michael Gallagher
Leader for Southeast Asia
Michael joined Ashoka as one of its earliest staff in 1986. During three years he helped build the early Ashoka in Mexico, Nigeria, and Pakistan. 30 years later Michael rejoined Ashoka to build an Everyone A Changemaker movement with partners in Southeast Asia. Before rejoining Ashoka, Michael was...
Nikki is Co-Director of Ashoka UK with a core focus on partnerships to embed radical collaboration and changemaking for a better world into the corporate landscape. Before joining Ashoka, Nikki successfully led the Social Innovation Strategy for New Zealand’s National Innovation Agency to change the...
Anu Bhatnagar joined the Ashoka UK team in May 2019 - as Partnerships and Support Network Manager - after having volunteered, and loved working with the team earlier. She is an On Purpose Fellow, and recently worked in social investment in the UK, including at Big Society Capital. In a previous life...