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

Hana Amer
Sustainable Fashion Lab Lead


Valeria Berchicci
Researcher, Leadership Lab

Greg Brina
Communications Manager

Frank Brueck
Leadership Lab Lead


Ibrat Djabbarov
Research Fellow

Marina Gadkary
Strategic Development Manager



Noah Maurer
Research Consultant



Priyal Singh
PhD Candidate

Yvonne Zhang
Strategic Development Lead
Affiliates



Sankalp Chaturvedi
Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Leadership, Vice Dean (EDI)
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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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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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