Hannah works behind the scenes of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship - creating, developing and strengthening emerging ventures.

Over eight years experience with enterprising charities, social businesses and leading social entrepreneurs has given her rich insight into the realities of ‘changing the world’. She has a curious mind, a warm, reflective approach and a fondness for fostering fresh connections that lead to brilliant social impact.

She has developed ventures with a range of progressive organisations, including dynamic start-ups Spark+Mettle and Urbivore, and world-renowned centre for social innovation, the Young Foundation.  Previously, she worked with leading American social business Better World Books, to develop the UK division of their operation and spent several years in the charity retail sector, managing teams at Oxfam and the Charities’ Advisory Trust.

She has a keen interest in the role of networks and collaboration in social change, and is a founding Director of the Point People.  For a recent MA in Social Entrepreneurship she wrote a thesis entitled Conceptualising social entrepreneurship for the 21st century: is it time to end our fascination with heroes?  In 2013 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to explore the practice of social entrepreneurship in New Zealand and the South Pacific. 

She is currently based in Edinburgh but is equally at home in London and Wellington, New Zealand.