Stephan Schwahlen
Stephan Schwahlen
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- Non-executive Director & Co-Founder
- biography
Stephan is a strategy consultant, entrepreneur, and investor with nearly forty years of experience in the commercial and non-profit worlds. In recent years, he has focused on advising high net worth individuals and families on how to give most effectively to address humanity's most pressing problems. He strongly believes that global democratic backsliding is the 'mother of all risks' to human flourishing. Stephan currently works as a senior philanthropic advisor at Effektiv Spenden, the leading non-profit donation and advice platform for effective giving in the D-A-CH region. He is also a co-founder of the social impact holding company gut.org and the associated non-profit organisations betterplace.org and betterplace-lab.org, as well as a board member of the non-profit organisation Future Cleantech Architects. Stephan holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Cologne and a Master of International Management from CEMS.