Directors

Maurizio Zollo,
Scientific Director
Maurizio Zollo is Professor of Strategy & Sustainability at Imperial College Business School. His research looks at how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence, and how managers can guide these evolutionary processes through the combined use of strategic growth initiatives and organisational change, innovation and learning processes. Before joining Imperial he held professorial posts at Bocconi University and INSEAD. He is a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management and at Bocconi University, and has published over 50 academic papers, the findings from which have been featured in The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times.

Livio Scalvini,
Executive Director
Livio Scalvini is Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre and CEO and Co-founder of Golden for Impact, an international organisation developing alternative models of enterprise for economic and human value creation. Before joining Imperial College Business School, he was Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance at East Piedmont University. He was Global Director of Corporate Innovation for Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s leading banking group, and has held leadership roles in international financial institutions, with a focus on innovation, strategy and venture capital. He is author of publications on strategic planning and the dynamics of markets.
Core team

Yvonne Aftyka
Centre Coordinator


Valeria Berchicci
Researcher, Leadership Lab




Marina Gadkary
Strategic Development Manager

Esther Hennchen
Senior Researcher

Charlotte Kincaid
Development Officer

Lucas Stocco
Visiting Researcher




Priyal Singh
PhD Candidate

Antigoni Theocharidouu
Research Assistant

Jarunee Wonglimpiyarat
Senior Researcher

Yvonne Zhang
Strategic Development Lead
Research committee

Claire Adjiman
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College
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Eduardo B. Andrade
Professor of Marketing and Academic Director, MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance
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Marco Aurisicchio
Reader in Engineering Design, Dyson School of Design Engineering
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Rafael Calvo
Chair in Engineering Design and Director for Research, Dyson School of Design Engineering
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Kevin Corley
Professor of Management; Co-Director, Centre for Responsible Leadership
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Mark Kennedy
Associate Professor and Director of Imperial Business Analytics
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Jem Woods
Reader in Sustainable Development, Centre for Environmental Policy
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Sankalp Chaturvedi
Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Leadership
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Erik Chavez
Research Fellow, Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis
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Pelin Demirel
Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College
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Aldo Faisal
Reader in Neurotechnology, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Department of Computing
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Adam Hampshire
Reader, Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College
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Yiannis Kountouris
Lecturer in Economics and the Environment, Centre for Environmental Policy
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Michelle Rogan
Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management
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Joeri Rogelj
Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment, The Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Aruna Sivakumar
Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Lucia Specia
Chair in Natural Language Processing, Department of Computing
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Principal Teaching Fellow, Sustainability, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College
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Wolfram Wiesemann
Professor of Analytics & Operations and Head of the Department of Analytics, Marketing & Operations
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