Andrew Kassoy

Co-Founder,

B Lab

Andrew Kassoy, Co-Founder of B Lab

Prior to co-founding B Lab, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity business; as a principal at MSD Capital, the $12 billion investment vehicle for Michael Dell, and as Managing Director in Credit Suisse First Boston's Private Equity Department, and a founding partner of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners. He is a Board Member of Echoing Green, was a member of the G8 Social Impact Investing Task Force, and a winner of the McNulty Prize and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Andrew was raised in Boulder, Colorado and graduated with Distinction from Stanford University where he was a Truman Scholar. Andrew lives in New York City with his wife, Margot Brandenburg, and four children, Max, Jed, Etta, and Xavier. Andrew is a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Bonnie Chiu

Managing Director,

The Social Investment Consultancy

Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director, The Social Investment Consultancy

Bonnie Chiu is the Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy, a global network of consultants specialised in impact measurement, social investment and diversity and inclusion strategies. Since joining in 2014, Bonnie has supported over 70 clients including charities, social enterprises, corporates and foundations, such as UNICEF, Tata Consultancy Services and British Council. TSIC has also incubated and accelerated many social innovations, including the Diversity Forum in the UK to achieve inclusive social investment, and Women in Social Finance to elevate the role of women in social finance.

Bonnie’s background is in social entrepreneurship - she is the Founder of an award-winning social enterprise which empowers marginalised women and girls in 23 countries through photography and digital skills. She has received multiple accolades for her work, including winning the Humanitarian Grand Challenge, Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award in 2019 and Hivos Social Innovation Award 2015. She is named Asia21 Young Leader and Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and writes on Forbes as a Senior Contributor.

Bonnie also serves strategic governance roles. She is a member of the Flexible Finance Committee of the Access Foundation for Social Investment, a member of the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Gender Benchmark and sits on several Boards. Bonnie holds a Master in International Relations at the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Business Administration with First Honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Carolina Freire

President,

Voluntarios de Panamá

Carolina Freire, President of Voluntarios de Panamá

Panama's national volunteer centre that inspires and mobilizes citizens to transform lives and communities through service. She is a Senior Specialist in Social Protection and Health for the Inter-American Development Bank. She attended Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, majoring in international politics. She earned her master's degree in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Fellow of the sixth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Peter Tufano

Peter Moores Dean and
Professor of Finance
Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford

Peter Tufano, 
Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Panama's national volunteer centre that inspires and mobilizes citizens to transform lives and communities through service. She is a Senior Specialist i

Peter is a prolific scholar and course developer, a seasoned academic leader, a social entrepreneur, and an advisor to business and government leaders. His ongoing work focuses on household finance, financial innovation, and fintech.

As Dean, Peter has championed the concept of a 'business school embedded within the University'. While this connection begins with the membership of all business school students in Oxford Colleges, it is embodied in a number of initiatives that differentiate the School from other business schools: our joint degree programmes including our 1+1 MBA programme, whereby students can combine an MBA with scores of other Masters Programmes at Oxford; our Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO) programme, whereby students and alumni study disruptive global phenomena and their impact on business over the next quarter century; our Engaging with the Humanities Programme, whereby our students learn from humanities scholars and teachers primarily about leadership and values; our Oxford Foundry, a facility opened in 2017 to support all 23,000 Oxford students interested in entrepreneurship; and the extensive research conducted by the faculty with colleagues around Oxford. All of these activities produce a richer and more effective business school and university.

Peter is also a social entrepreneur. In 2000, he founded, and now chairs, a non-profit called Commonwealth (formally Doorways to Dreams Fund). This organisation works with partners to help low income households successfully manage their financial needs. Peter’s research on consumer finance, and the work of Commonwealth, contributed to the passage of the American Savings Promotion Act in December 2014, which removed federal barriers to sale of prize linked savings products in the US.

Peter earned his AB in economics (summa cum laude), MBA (with high distinction) and PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University. 

Todd Breyfogle

Managing Director, Seminars,

The Aspen Institute

Todd Breyfogle
Managing Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute

Overseeing a number of seminar offerings, including the Aspen Executive Seminar on leadership, values and the good society—since 1950 the heart of the Aspen Institute’s humanities-based executive leadership development programs.

Todd moderates seminars for the Aspen Institute and has published and lectured widely on the great books, political philosophy, theology, literature, and liberal education. He serves on several non-profit boards, is a recipient of research and curriculum grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), and the Templeton Foundation, and is editor emeritus of The American Oxonian, the quarterly publication of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press) and Philosophy, Politics, and the Conversation of Mankind (Colorado College Press). Before joining the Aspen Institute, Todd was a Fellow and Program Officer at Liberty Fund (where he gained extensive experience organizing and facilitating great books discussions) and taught in and directed the Honors Program at the University of Denver. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the Iliff School of Theology and as a visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Tulsa. He has lectured at universities in the US, UK, Canada, Romania, and India, including Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Dartmouth, Concordia, Wesleyan, and the University of Chicago. He currently chairs the board of the American Academy for Liberal Education and in 2012 was elected to the Senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 2015 Todd was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to the Order of St. John, an 11th century Order of Chivalry of the British Crown. His most recent book, On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law (Bloomsbury) appeared in 2017.

Watanan Petersik 

Board Director

PTT Global Chemical Thailand

Watanan Petersik 
Board Director, PTT Global Chemical Thailand

Watanan Petersik is a senior advisor for TPG Capital and has been in the financial industry for over 30 years. During her banking career, she held senior management positions in research and banking for a series of European and American banking firms in Bangkok and Hong Kong. Her last positions before leaving full-time banking in 2006 were managing director of investment banking and chief of staff/COO Asia ex-Japan for Goldman Sachs. Watanan  sits on the boards of CIMB Thai Bank and PTT Global Chemical in Thailand, and CIMB Group Holdings in Malaysia, She is also on the board of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at Singapore Management University. Watanan is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa as well as a member of and senior moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.