Speaker: Chao WANG, Peking University

Time: 10:30-12:00 am, March 24, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: Chengze Garden (承泽园) 333

Abstract:

The landscape of philanthropy has been experiencing a significant revolution during the last two decades. New frontiers of philanthropy have surfaced dramatically, tapping not only traditional philanthropy but also private and governmental sectors, by blurring the boundaries and engaging multiple actors and tools. While social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and social innovation are gaining their space in mainstream discourse in management realm, impact investment, ESG, and other financial and non-financial investment are glowing and getting increasingly active along with nonprofits and foundations, tackling emerging and growing grand challenges in our society, such as poverty, carbon issues and climate change, aging and health, and rural revitalization and common prosperity in Chinese context. The sharing here aims to map the numerous points of light that emerged and surrounded the philanthropy in the recent years, with attempt to unpack the underlying logics and to reveal their implications to today's research on modern global philanthropy. Based on these implications, the emerging response paradigm, co-creation, is further explored in theoretical and practical terms through action research methodology.

Biography:

Chao WANG is a professor at National School of Development of Peking University. He is currently in charge of newly established Social Action and Innovation Lab (SAIL) initiative. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Philanthropy from School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) of Tsinghua University; formerly he was the Executive Dean of Institute for Philanthropy of Tsinghua University, adjunct Professor of School of Urban Planning and Design of Peking University, member of Editorial Board of China Nonprofit Review, and the Deputy Chief Editor of the Nonprofit Management Branch, China Encyclopedia of Business Administration, and Chief Professor of Tsinghua-MIT IDEAS Leadership Program, and founder of a social innovation lab (Ci-Lab) at Tsinghua University. Aside from his academic background, he has years of progressive and extensive experience working with different international NGOs in China in capacities of COO, Chief Rep and CEO. He is an alumnus of Montreal and Peking universities with expertise in geography, urbanization, land use and planning.

Source: National School of Development