Recent advances and challenges in social impact measurement

David Hoyos is a Full Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Since 2021 he is also director of EHUgune – Commitment and Social Impact of the UPV / EHU. He has a European PhD in Economics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) and M.A. (econ) in Development Economics from the University of Manchester (UK). He has been a researcher hired between 2002 and 2010 and since 2010 he has been a professor of econometrics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU). He has also been a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast (UK) in 2009. He is an associate researcher at EKOPOL (Research Group on Ecological Economy and Political Ecology), BC3 (Basque Center on Climate Change) and HEGOA (Institute for Climate Change Studies). Development and International Cooperation). He is a collaborator and member of the Committee of Experts of the UNESCO Chair on sustainable development and environmental education of the UPV / EHU.

Doctor en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales y Master en Gestión Avanzada por la Universidad de Deusto, donde trabajó durante 14 años como profesor, investigador y director del Máster Europeo en Ayuda Internacional Humanitaria. Participante en el Global Civil Society Seminar de la Harvard Kennedy School. Durante más de 30 años ha desarrollado una sólida experiencia en la gestión de entidades no lucrativas. De 2008 a 2017, fue Director General de la Fundación Anesvad. Durante 9 años trabajó como consultor internacional para diferentes programas e iniciativas de Naciones Unidas, otros organismos internacionales, ONGs, centros de investigación, y empresas. Consultor senior en Stone Soup Consulting (B Corp), evaluador de impacto social acreditado por Social Value International, evaluador de Euskalit en gestión de la calidad, y Diplomado como Coach Ontológico por la Universidad del Desarrollo (Santiago de Chile). Miembro fundador y vocal en la Junta Directiva de la Asociación española para la medición del impacto social, ESIMPACT. Consultor y coordinador de la medición de impacto social del Vicerrectorado de Desarrollo Científico-Social y Transferencia de la UPV-EHU. Formador en medición de impacto en diversos cursos y talleres.

Charlotte Partner of Pax Tecum Global Consultancy Believing in the power of people, practice and principles to change how society accounts for value, Charlotte is an expert in social value and Social Return on Investment (SROI) supporting organisations understanding their impact. As the Private Sector Lead for Social Value UK, Charlotte provides support and technical expertise to members on their social value journey. She also serves as Director of Sustainable Development for Pax Tecum Global Consultancy, integrating sustainability into strategy, project execution and evaluation. Her background in construction and facilities management has equipped her to drive change in corporate environments and across industries. In the NGO sector, she led efforts to deliver Raleigh’s Emprende program to young entrepreneurs in poverty-stricken rural Nicaragua. A career highlight was the launch of an accredited SROI report in the UK House of Commons, investigating the value generated by UK charity shops. Charlotte is an Accredited Practitioner of Social Value & SROI, Practitioner Member of IEMA, Trustee of the Infinity Branch, and a newly trained Trainer of the UNDP SDG Impact Standards. She’s Swedish born, UK based and lives i A Coruña.

Profesor de Economía de la Deusto Business School, especializado en Contabilidad Social. Doctor en Economía, Licenciado Filosofía, y en Psicología Clínica e Industrial. Master (DEA) en Finanzas y Experto en Métodos Avanzados de Estadística Aplicada. Participa en los Grupos de Investigación HUME (Universidad de Deusto), ECRI (UPV/EHU) y MGCF (Sorbona-París 1). Presidente de Eben (European Business Ethics Network) España, Director Científico de GEAccounting (Global Economic Accounting), Vicepresidente de Aurkilan, y miembro del Comité Científico y Editorial de CIRIEC. Cuenta con más de 50 publicaciones indexadas, y ha participado en múltiples Congresos, Seminarios, Workshops y Conferencias. Con anterioridad a la etapa universitaria ha sido director de varias empresas de consultoría (TECA, OPE, Bultz-Lan), Director de Formación y Empleo de Cáritas y Presidente de REAS Euskalherria.

Audrey holds a MSc in Anthropology and International Development from the London School of Economics (London, UK). She also holds a BS in Economics from Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). Her undergraduate and postgraduate research are both centered on Appalachia, USA, and the unique socio-economic circumstances in the region. Although, she tends to focus on coal mining and the impacts that this industry has had on the region. In her role as MEL Officer at Circle U., she is in charge of creating and implementing the monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategy of the alliance. This includes building a logic model, results framework, and indicators that are used to measure and evaluate the progress and impact of Circle U. in the short-, medium- and long-term.