Alejandro Litovsky
Alejandro has joined Volans to lead the Pathways to Scale programme, which aims to accelerate innovative solutions to social and environmental problems and to develop innovation-related client services.
He is also an international advisor for public-private partnerships and global networks on strategy, governance, and change management. His clients include the Global Water Partnership and the Tällberg Foundation in Sweden, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the AVINA Foundation in Latin America.
Prior to joining Volans, from 2004-2008 Alejandro was a senior advisor to the Collaborative Governance Programme at AccountAbility in London. In this role, he has driven advisory services to improve the strategies and organisational systems of public-private partnerships, working through the politics of change management processes, for institutions such as the Forest Stewardship Council, the World Bank Group and the Shell Foundation. He has also led a number of global initiatives to advance practical applications of collaborative governance, funded by international donors such as the Ford Foundation, where he brokered activities, connections and partnerships between social innovators, government agencies and corporate business in countries like Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines and South Africa.
Based on the outcomes achieved through these activities, such as brokering new cooperation agreements between Russian energy companies and environmental NGOs, he has authored and co-authored a number of publications, research reports and featured media articles on harnessing social innovation and collaborative partnerships to improve markets and regulation in areas such as energy poverty, security and climate change.
Alejandro is an experienced facilitator and has, over the last ten years, designed and led multi-stakeholder working sessions to tackle a number of sustainability challenges. He has worked in partnership with renowned institutions such as the Club of Madrid, bringing together former Presidents and Prime Ministers with energy experts to discuss the scaling up of energy poverty solutions, and with the Tällberg Forum in Sweden.
Before moving to London in 2003, Alejandro worked throughout Latin America as a manager for the philanthropic, Swiss-based AVINA Foundation. From 2000-2003 he was responsible for managing a portfolio of social investments based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including, in 2001, the local development of the hemispheric Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN). In this role, he championed and implemented creative collaborations between social entrepreneurs, business leaders, and private foundations.
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 that year. 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 in 1999.
Alejandro has a passion for music, ranging from a long-standing affair with the piano and an amateur incursion into bossa nova guitar, to organizing percussion jam sessions in parks. He performed as a professional hip-hop rapper for four years in the mid 90s and occasionally goes on stage for a live reprise.
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