At P4NE, we fund innovative projects and build communities that bring new thinking and approaches to traditional economics.
These “change catalysts” play a pivotal role in helping to repurpose our economic system, and together they’re helping to build a movement for an economic system that’s fit for the challenges of the 21st Century.
We mutualize our risk and support novel ideas and models to increase the likelihood of real change.
We encourage innovative and scalable solutions to deeply rooted problems.
We support collaboration across communities and sectors to foster learning and experimentation.
We bring diverse people together to share their thinking and experiences, building understanding, optimism and trust.
Board member of P4NE, Lynda Mansson is the Director General of the MAVA Foundation, which she joined in 2010. Lynda leads the MAVA team in implementing the foundation’s strategy. She spearheaded the development of the foundation’s work on sustainable economy.
Board member of P4NE, Herbert Bedolfe is Executive Director of the Marisla Foundation, where he has overseen the foundation’s work on international biodiversity conservation, protection of the marine environment and environmental health since 1992.
President of the P4NE Partners Board, and descendant of Villum Kann Rasmussen, Astrid Kann-Rasmussen is Vice-Chair and co-founder of KR Foundation, Chair of V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and Observer in the VELUX Foundation.
Board member of P4NE, Vinit Rishi oversees operations at Oak Foundation and serves as Secretary. He also represents Oak Foundation on the governing council of the European Foundation Centre and is a co-founder of OPN, the Operations Professionals Network.
Director of Partners for a New Economy, Jo Swinson is the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. From 2012-2015, she served as Business Minister in the UK, and in 2009, she co-founded a cross-party group of MPs to work collaboratively on new economic thinking and well-being economics.
Senior Advisor of Partners for a New Economy, Leslie Harroun comes to the organization from the Oak Foundation, where she developed and managed its North American, European and select global climate change portfolios, as well as its early marine conservation portfolio.
Grants and Community Coordinator. Anna Luiza recently earned her M.A. in Development Studies at IHEID in Geneva, after having worked for five years in Brazil for Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a leading think tank where she contributed to FGV’s expansion throughout Latin America.
Partners for a New Economy is a philanthropic fund hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that promotes the development of philanthropy by managing funds and providing grant management services and council for charitable ventures. Etienne Eichenberger, Chairman of SPF, acts as Treasurer of Partners for a New Economy.
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Partners for a New Economy is a philanthropic fund hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation.