Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Education in Brazil

Denis Mizne
Executive Director, Lemann Foundation

Thursday, April 18th, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Aldrich 10, Harvard Business School

Denis Mizne is the Executive Director of the Lemann Foundation, an organization founded by Jorge Paulo Lemann to improve the quality of education in Brazil.  Before joining the Foundation, Mizne founded and led Instituto Sou da Paz, the leading Brazilian NGO focused on crime prevention.  Mizne has a law degree from the University of São Paulo and was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Center for the Study on Human Rights and a 2007 Yale World Fellow.  He is an Ashoka Fellow and has received several awards recognizing his work in Brazilian civil society, including the 2005 UNESCO Human Security Award, the 2008 Transformadores Award, and, more recently, the 2012 Gus Hart Fellowship from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

This event is co-sponsored by the Club Latinoamericano at HBS and by the Lemann Foundation.