Director, Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Matthew T.A. Nash is the director of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he educates insightful leaders for social and environmental change. Previously, he was a professor of the practice at Duke University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in social innovation and human-centered design. Nash also served as executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke’s Fuqua School of business and co-founded the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator as well as the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke, a USAID-funded capacity-building program for global health innovators. A former organizational change strategy consultant with IBM, Nash is a graduate of Yale School of Management and Yale College. A recipient of Al Gore’s Hammer Award for reinventing government, Nash has received two awards for innovation in social entrepreneurship education from Ashoka, the global network of leading social entrepreneurs.