Reinhard Millner

Reinhard Millner is senior researcher and lecturer at WU Vienna, co-founder and director of the WU Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. He has a background in business administration as well as in economics from studying at WU Vienna, University of St.Gallen and London School of Economics. Since 2013 he also serves as Academic Director for the ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy, offering a range of capacity building programmes to NGOs and social enterprises in 14 countries in Central and Southeast Europe and to which he contributes in the areas of programme development, curriculum design and programme implementation. Furthermore, he is also academic director for the Executive Master Program on Social Innovation and Management at WU Executive Academy.

He was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics and visiting lecturer at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen as well as at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies of the University of Basel among others.

Reinhard Millner was a member of the GECES subgroup on social impact measurement, a group of experts of the European Commission developing the methodology to measure the socio-economic benefits created by social enterprises. Moreover, he serves on the advisory boards of several non-profit organisation and is a jury member and project evaluator in several award schemes,

His research interests center around Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Philanthropy and Foundations, Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship as well asSocial Impact Assessment.