New SEED Leadership & Additions to Advisory Board

April 2015

The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) is pleased to announce that effective immediately, Jesper Sørensen, the Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Faculty Director for SEED is assuming the additional role of Executive Director for the Institute.

Raj Chellaraj, CFO and Associate Dean for Finance and Administration for the Stanford Graduate School of Business is taking on the additional role of Chief Operating Officer for SEED. Sørensen and Chellaraj are replacing Tralance Addy and Christian Loucq respectively.

SEED is very grateful for the energy, dedication, and expertise that Dr. Addy and Dr. Loucq provided during their tenure, and the instrumental roles they played in advancing SEED's mission. 

ADDITIONS TO SEED ADVISORY BOARD

SEED also welcomes two new members to its Advisory Board: 

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (widely known as “Tino”) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Prior to his court appointment, Cuéllar was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, as well as a Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and the Director of Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, which partnered with SEED to launch the Stanford Global Development and Poverty Initiative (GDP). Cuéllar holds a BA from Harvard, JD from Yale, and received his PhD in political science from Stanford.

Fred Swaniker is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the African Leadership Academy in South Africa, which seeks to enable lasting peace and prosperity in Africa by developing and connecting the continent’s future leaders. Swaniker graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was honored as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is also a TED Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. 

SEED extends a warm welcome to Jesper, Raj, Tino, and Fred and is looking forward to continuing to transform the lives of people in poverty—on a massive scale—through innovation, entrepreneurship, and the scaling of businesses.