Marcello Palazzi

• 35+ year global focus on good Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Economies as the drivers of human progress through 30+ ventures. Economist by training, Entrepreneur by vocation, 'Engineer' by practice and family history. Experience in and across business, civil society, philanthropy, public sector, academia. Civic (Citizens, 'Oikos') is my purpose, entrepreneurship my means.

• Began as owner-entrepreneur at age 23 in family firm (Marton Diagnostics, UK; deneb laboratori chimici, Italy, producing Diagnostic Equipment for Water & Soil), which I expanded globally & helped to sell, one of the 1st such firms in Europe, '81-'93.

• Founder, Progressio Foundation, 300+ projects in 33 countries, involving 50,000 leaders, continuing its work to date. Founded it with Dr P Kloppenborg, '89, Rotterdam. Co-founder of Progressio Consultancy Ltd, UK '89, Progressio Botswana '90.

• Other roles / ventures: entrepreneur (For Good Leaders COOP & Foundation, NOW Partners, Future Economy Forum, B Lab Europe, Andromeda Fund, ResponsAbility Verein (now AG), Rabo-Robeco Sustainability Fund, Tällberg Forum, Springtij, SVN Europe, etc.), policy-maker (Copenhagen Centre 4 Responsible Business, Bremen Initiative 4 city-business partnerships, SIX), educator (Buckingham Uni, Erasmus Rotterdam, New Academy of Business), investor (Humanica PLC, B Lab Europe, B for Good Leaders), diplomat (partner: UN HABITAT, UNEP, UNDP, UNESCO, UNOPS, ILO), fund-procurer (State of the World Forum, Tällberg Foundation), strategist (SNV, Enterprise Stiftung, FMO, FSG Social Impact, Danone North America), ethicist (Spirit in Business with HH The Dalai Lama, Pope Francis' Laudato Sí Action Network), convenor (Bioneers Europe, Authentic Leadership Europe, Regenerative Alliance, Regeneration2030, Business for Good Leaders Summit, 2022/23/24), property developer (London & A'dam), 'politician' (President of Student Union).

• Coined the terms "civic" economy and "civic" enterprise, written/edited 'Towards the civic economy' + 'Economy as the Good Ordering of Interests : The Quest for Utilization Value', '90 & '92. Co-authored "CSR and Business Success", '98. Originated & inspired the book "Enterprising Europe", by Nick Iles, '02. Featured in Better Business, by Chris Marquis, '20.

• Economist (BSc, MSc), strategist (MBA): Buckingham, LSE, LBS, Erasmus, MIT, Oxford Säid, '13 Harvard ALI Fellow, '14 MIT Visiting Scholar, '15 Stanford DCI Fellow. '84 MSc Thesis on SMEs in Europe and '87 MBA Project on Strategic Philanthropy (The Economist Prize), were years ahead of the mainstream.