Alberto Cremonesi

Alberto has over 20 years of global experience in sustainability strategy design and implementation; social impact; impact measurement; ESG and innovation management. A highly creative individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a bias towards action, Alberto is an entrepreneur at heart. After starting his professional life at United Nations in New York, Alberto joined a philanthropic foundation in India; started an organization addressing the needs of vulnerable children in South India; developed an incubation and investment initiative focused on environmental issues in Cambodia; co-founded Impact Hub Phnom Penh in 2013 and served as a Board of Directors of Impact Hub Global Network, one of the world’s largest networks for entrepreneurial communities striving to achieve impact at scale.

Alberto has been leading numerous activities around sustainable development; public policy; entrepreneurship, ESG practice and access to education with international institutions such as UNDP, UNESCO, ILO, and the European Commission; as well as international foundations and organizations (WWF, ACRA, ICS Driver for Change).

He holds a Global Executive MBA degree from IE Business School and a MSc degree in Economics and International Relations from the Postgraduate Schools of Economics and International Affairs. Since 2018 he teaches on topics of sustainability; leadership; social impact; social entrepreneurship, system thinking and innovation at IE University as well as serving as Academic Director for the IE Sustainability Bootcamp.