Fellows

Adalbert Evers, Dr. rer. pol., was professor at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen from 1993 to 2013. His professorship for comparative health and social policy was also associated at the department of social and cultural sciences and at the department of agricultural sciences, ecotrophology and environmental management. Prior to this, he received his doctorate in 1977 at the University of Bremen (summa cum laude). He was habilitated in 1988 at the Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis on the "handling of uncertainty". From 1983-1993 he worked at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna (Austria). He has also conducted research at the School of Social Policy at the University of Manchester, the Institute of Social Sciences (Goethe University Frankfurt), the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham. He also worked as an appointed expert in the Enquete Commission "Future of Civic Engagement" of the German Bundestag (2002). Adalbert Evers' work focuses on social services in the field of health and social policy, in particular in the field of care for the elderly, day care for children and labour market integration.

Andreas Schröer was a member of the founding team of the CSI and was head of the research department (2006-2009) and acting head of the teaching department (2006-2008).

Andreas Schröer has been Professor of Organizational Pedagogy at the University of Trier since 2017. Previously, he worked as Professor of Nonprofit Management at the Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt from 2012 to 2017. There he was, among other things, Director of the Institute for Future Issues in Health and Social Economy (04/2013 - 03/2017); Executive Professor of the Department of Continuing and Professional Education (10/2013-03/2017) and Dean of the Department of Scientific Continuing Education/School of Professional Studies (04/2014-01/2017). Prior to his time in Darmstadt, Andreas Schröer researched and taught at Portland State University. First as Assistant Professor of Public Administration (09/2009-06/2012), then as Associate Director at the Institute for Nonprofit Management (02/2012-06/2012) and as Associate Director at the Center for Public Service (06/2011-06/2012) and from 07/2012 to 06/2014 as Associate Professor of Public Administration. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Education at the University of Erlangen. From 2004 to 2005, he was also a Visiting Fellow at the Center on Adolescence (PI: Bill Damon) at Stanford University. There he conducted research on Good Work in the nonprofit sector. Andreas Schröer's work focuses on issues of leadership and organizational development in the nonprofit sector, evaluation and impact measurement, and education in civil society. He is a member of various scientific organizations (German, European and American Society for Education).

He was project director at CSI (2008-2016).

Ekkehard Thümler is the founder and managing director of the EdTech company Tutoring for All gUG (www.tutoringforall.de). He has held executive and management positions at the Joachim Herz Foundation, Bertelsmann Foundation, Baden-Württemberg Foundation as well as the Vodafone Foundation. At the CSI, he directed an international research program on social innovation strategies of philanthropic organizations.

His research focuses on social impact and social innovation as well as system transformation, with a focus on education and school development. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on impact and innovation strategies of philanthropic organisations.

Jed is a widely recognized, international thought leader on impact investing, performance metrics and sustainable finance. As originator of the term "blended value," he has spent over two decades exploring how capital investment strategies may be executed to create multiple returns. He has held appointments at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford business schools and has written extensively on impact investing, social return on investment, and related areas. He is co-author of the book, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making A Difference, the first book published on the topic of impact investing. Jed’s latest book, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being, is an exploration of our historic journey to understand the purpose of capital and meaning of money. Copies of the e-Book are offered for free with hard/paperback copies priced at cost (i.e. waiving royalties) in order to help promote a new, deeper conversation in the field of impact investing with regard to how we approach both wealth management and our understanding of the value we create over the course of our lives.