Alejandro Litovsky

Alejandro is Head of the Pathways to Scale program at Volans, and works with a range of foundations and partners, including the Tällberg Foundation in Sweden and the AVINA Foundation, on strategic initiatives to scale the impact of social and environmental innovations.

He has worked as a strategy consultant for development investors such as the World Bank Group, the Shell Foundation, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); and has led activities on collaborative innovation in Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines and South Africa with the support of institutions such as the Ford Foundation and Club of Madrid. From 2004-2008, Alejandro was a senior advisor at AccountAbility in London, and a founding partner of Keystone, which works with philanthropic foundations to increase their impact and effectiveness.

He has authored and co-authored publications, research reports and featured media articles on scaling the impact of solutions to energy poverty, security and climate change.

Before moving to London in 2003, Alejandro worked in Latin America as an investment manager for the AVINA Foundation. From 2000-2003 he was responsible for developing and managing a portfolio of social investments based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including global projects such as Advertisers Without Borders and the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) and led partnerships between private foundations and social entrepreneurs.

In 2004 he obtained an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize for achieving the highest performance. During his studies, he worked with Shell International’s Future Scenarios team in London. He holds a BA in International Relations from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was awarded the gold medal for highest performance and his research of the role of economic and political incentives in the collapse of Argentine fisheries in 1999.

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