1x1M Team: Members on board

Laia Oto Llorens
Laia is an economist with intense professional experience in finance. She has worked in banking industry when working for La Caixa, and in the audit business at Arthur Andersen. She also worked for the United Nations Development Programme’s project titled Technological Information Promotion System (TIPS), based in Rome, as finance manager. Then she was hired by the Society for International Development, an international non-governmental organisation headquartered in Rome as finance manager. She then moved to the U.K. where she created her own start-up, Key Events and Meetings Management.

Elisabet Juan
Elisabet is Senior Innovation Lead at Esade Creapolis, a revolutionary business park devoted to open innovation based in Sant Cugat, Barcelona. An BSc and MBA at EASDE, Elisabet has helped companies innovate by guiding them in strategic decisions and providing the tools that will facilitate change. Throughout the years she have helped more than 300 companies from over 20 sectors innovate and define visionary strategies individually and by working in cluster projects. She has worked in several European and Latin American countries to define policies and schemes that will create an innovation climate in their territory. She was Advisor & Partner at Competitiveness and a consultant at Cluster Consulting.

Miquel de Paladella
Miquel is an economist with a career of 18 years working on development. He started the university student association AIESEC as President for AIESEC Spain and Vicepresident for AIESEC International. He worked for eight years at the Society for International Development, moving from a position of Regional Director and External Relations Director, to dealing with marketing, resource development and finance. He then moved to lead the Global Movement for Children, where he currently works as Executive Co-ordinator since 2003, having been employed by Plan International and UNICEF.
Miquel was chosen the first Youth Ambassador for Sustainable Human Development by UNDP in 1994. He has written extensively on development, education and child rights.

Arthur Muliro
Arthur Muliro is Deputy Managing Director at the Society for International Development (SID) in Rome. Amongst other responsibilities, Arthur leads SID’s Futures programme that works closely with diverse development stakeholders to develop future-oriented public-interest scenarios that are focused on the challenges of institutional transition and transformation. He has successfully managed large-scale public interest scenario projects in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and regionally
Prior to joining SID, Arthur worked for the Centre for Innovative Leadership, a Johannesburg-based consulting firm specializing in organizational learning and scenario thinking. He also worked for several years in student leadership at various levels regionally and internationally. A graduate of the United States International University – Africa, Arthur holds a degree in Management Information Systems.

Jean Claude Rodríguez-Ferrera
Jean Claude is an economist and currently the Director of ACAF, organisation that develops the “Self Financed Communities” model in Europe.
He was chosen social entrepreneur of Ashoka in 2006 and was awarded with the World’s Creative Young Entrepreneur Award, CYEA, in 2007. He studied World Economy and has a PhD in Microfinance.
He worked 4 years in indigenous communities in Guatemala, where he founded and directed “Mayan Treasures” (Best Latinamerican Indigenous Project Award in 2001).
He teaches at the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona and in different MBAs.