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Speaker biography

Diane Holt (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Professor of Management and joined Essex Business School in November 2013. She has published over 70 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers in areas such as green supply chain management, sustainability discourse, ecopreneuring, and the role of business in development. Diane has had many successes in large grant applications. She was the principal investigator on the ESRC funded Trickle Out Africa Project which considers the impact of social and environmental enterprises on poverty alleviation and sustainable development across the 19 countries of Southern and Eastern Africa. She is currently leading the ESRC-NRF South Africa PhD partnering programme SASIE (2015-2018) on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in association with Universities of Wits, Pretoria and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan. She also won a Newton Advanced Fellowship with Dr Silvia Pinheiro from Brazil on "Inclusion and formalization of Amazonian informal entrepreneurs into MNC value chains - mechanisms, partnerships and impacts".